Re: Racing Don't Need This! (660 Views)
Posted by:
ringato3 (IP Logged)
Date: September 11, 2015 10:53AM
Joe B,
Horribly misguided post.
Would actually argue the EXACT OPPOSITE. Playing into a game with a 15 to 25% takeout, with obvious and wide drug problems which at times make the takeout seem like the SMALLER problem, is something our youth are too smart to do.
I have two "kids" in their early 20's, who at times have dropped me off at the local betting establishment or even had a meal with me there. And they have often looked around at the people that frequent the place and said "Dad, really? this is your peer group that you hang out with?".
Our kids are not the problem.
The game has the problem. Nothing about this game attracts the next generation. Don't kid yourself, the next generation is more computer literate, more math oriented, and can look at what this game offers and see that there are MUCH BETTER WAYS to try and beat another game than there is at horse racing.
Sorry Joe B, but your short sighted post is EXACTLY the reason the game is dying and will die. What you wrote is sort of the approach that the racing authorities are taking. They don't think THEY are the problem.
Anyway, no offense is meant, but this is a sensitive subject for me as i do love the game as I am guessing you do as well. But without making changes and increasing appeal, the game will die. I have no doubts about it. I am late 40's. When I go to a racing establishment is the ONLY TIME I feel young. The demographic has a median age in the 60's. There are very very few people younger than my age that go to the track.
Rob