Re: Jerry (584 Views)
Posted by:
bobphilo (IP Logged)
Date: March 20, 2006 11:36PM
Horseracing is actually the # one sport in this country in spectator attendance. That's right, more than Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, etc. it's only second to Soccer wordwide. The problem is the networks think the demogrphics of racing fans are all a bunch of old degenerates and a less lucrative market for what they try to sell in commercials.
To rank it below college wrestling in popularity, however, is really underestimating it. When I wrestled in college, half the school didn't even know we had a wrestling team and they had to gave away the tickets to the matches. Except for a few schools where wrestling is big, like Lehigh, Kansas and Oklahoma, the wrestling team is the first one cut when they trim the budget. Most people don't even know the difference between it and the absurd farce of TY professional wrestling.
Bob