A Comic for Gurm

[High_Jumbllama]

This is sort of how I feel ALL THE TIME.

Them: "So, didja see that game?"
Me: "Umm... game? Well I was busy playing Dark Cloud 2, see..."

*sigh*

If you aren't "into" sports, you have no value in our culture. This is my complaint. The games themselves are fine(ish). It's the mentality of virtually every member of society that's the problem.

I prefer to insult people that get too pushy or rude by calling them sports nerds. The usually leave me alone after that.

[TnT]

I prefer to insult people that get too pushy or rude by calling them sports nerds. The usually leave me alone after that.

LOL, I'm a computer and NFL nerd. But I'm only pushy about football around sports fans because they like their lame professional sports.

TV deals are the main source of income for the NFL. Each stations is paying several tens of billions for the contracts. Salary cap is based on the revenue of the league since money is shared by the teams. Team merchandise and game day money plays a less significant role. Endorsement deals are the only thing directly going to individual players.

@Jammrock

That's why I stick to NFL Network pre/post-game stuff. Way better.

The ads have sucked ever since the dotcom bust. Monster's commercials > CareerBuilder

[KvHagedorn]

You think the TV channels didn't pay the teams/NFL for the broadcast right?

Yeah, but the networks get their money from advertising. I already said I try not to buy brands that advertise there. Again, how do I contribute personally when I pull in programming off the air for free?

What I really find disgusting is how people will fork over $50 for a pay per view fight. Mike Tyson gets your money, eats the guy's ear, and gets disqualified after 3 minutes of action. Then we get to listen to an hour of pissy shit yakkity yak and wasted $50 making these guys $10,000,000.00 richer for 3 minutes work.

[RC Agent]

What I really find disgusting is how people will fork over $50 for a pay per view fight. Mike Tyson gets your money, eats the guy's ear, and gets disqualified after 3 minutes of action. Then we get to listen to an hour of pissy shit yakkity yak and wasted $50 making these guys $10,000,000.00 richer for 3 minutes work.

Why should that bother YOU? It's NOT your money. Don't bother me, and no, I dont pay for per view boxing.
I thought it was Don King that makes the money?

[KvHagedorn]

Don King is a convicted murderer, a brainless twit, and a total sleazebag. Only in America, yes, could such a man succeed so thoroughly.

By the way.. yes, it is my money in the communal sense. The people who threw it away for nothing could have done something positive with it, like start a scholarship for poor kids or anything else to actually make the world a more decent place, instead of a festering nest of rich scumbuckets like Don King.

[Jessterw]

But it's their money to do with as they see fit. Maybe instead of buying from your store people should save their money by shopping at Walmart and put what they saved towards a poor kids' scholarship.

And sorry, but history is littered with people just like Don King who have succeeded beyond what they, in a karma-sense, deserved.

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[TnT]

Yeah, but the networks get their money from advertising. I already said I try not to buy brands that advertise there. Again, how do I contribute personally when I pull in programming off the air for free?

Advertisers pay the networks a lot because they have a lot of viewers for certain programs. Since the networks are making a bunch of money they are willing to bid high on those contracts. If you didn't watch then, supposedly, people similar to you wouldn't watch either and that would be reflected in the TV ratings. TV ratings go down, advertising money goes down, contract costs go down, salary cap lowers and players would get payed less. At least that's the theory.

What I really find disgusting is how people will fork over $50 for a pay per view fight. Mike Tyson gets your money, eats the guy's ear, and gets disqualified after 3 minutes of action. Then we get to listen to an hour of pissy shit yakkity yak and wasted $50 making these guys $10,000,000.00 richer for 3 minutes work.

People that pay for the fake sport, wrestling, are assured a full show!