"mens sports are the only thing worth watching on tv"
whoa.
this was posted on doubleazone.com
"I’ve been to a sold-out women’s [basketball] game at the University of Connecticut. I have never seen more painted faces in my life. Don’t tell me Gampel Pavilion was full of passive, disinterested patrons.
[A colleague of mine] assures us that he’s “110% behind supporting and growing women's sports at the professional, college, high school, and youth league levels. It's important, and pretty much nothing bad comes from anyone playing sports. But that doesn't mean that it should be televised, have entire shows devoted to it on ESPN, and generally continue to be forced upon a public which has shown time and again it's not interested.”
Having been at the Women’s Final Four a few weeks back, I can attest to the fact that the public seemed quite interested in the three games. After returning to Indianapolis and speaking to individuals who were fortunate enough to attend the Men’s Final Four, many would have traded places with me in a second to have been just a small part of the action in Boston. Witnessing a buzzer beater and an overtime victory in an NCAA championship game is a memory I will never forget. It doesn’t matter who was on the court. Exciting is exciting.
While television ratings for women’s basketball don’t approach the level of the men’s games, it’s not a competition. These are different sports and they have different fan bases. But rest assured, women’s basketball has a lively and devoted fan base, and to call us uninterested is a slap in the face. To suggest the game “sucks” and doesn’t belong on television or in newspapers is utterly misguided and disrespectful."
