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re: Look at the huge turnout for the WNBA championship parade
Posted on 10/20/21 at 9:23 pm to Dances with Beagles
Posted on 10/20/21 at 9:23 pm to Dances with Beagles
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No one wants to pay to watch inferior athletes play sports.
Actually, once upon a time in America, there were excellent athletes who played in front of reasonably large crowds, yet who played in leagues that just couldn't quite make it work. I'm talking USFL, ABA, NASL, etc...
Yet, the WNBA has lasted 25 years.
This post was edited on 10/20/21 at 9:38 pm
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Posted on 10/20/21 at 9:23 pm to AlonsoWDC
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Show me where I'm wrong here, dipshit.
Easy. SVD was referring to the Twitter thread in my OP
Posted on 10/20/21 at 9:24 pm to HabaneroBuck
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Yet, the WNBA has lasted 25 years.
Because it is literally subsidized, unlike the leagues you mentioned.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 9:26 pm to SDVTiger
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The soy board is melting claiming this was fake news and the real parade hadn't started yet
Wait. Can you remind us again who you are a faithful NBA fan of and regularly post about?
For years?
Posted on 10/20/21 at 9:33 pm to Sao
I’d be happy to field any NBA trivia questions you have.
favorite team: Pelicans
favorite player: Kobe Bryant
favorite team: Pelicans
favorite player: Kobe Bryant
Posted on 10/20/21 at 9:37 pm to stout
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Because it is literally subsidized, unlike the leagues you mentioned.
Sorry for the misinterpretation...I was being sarcastic. The WNBA should have folded 20 years ago, at least. That was my point.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 9:53 pm to HabaneroBuck
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Yet, the WNBA has lasted 25 years.
Welfare league....subsidized by the men's league.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 9:59 pm to HabaneroBuck
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Yet, the WNBA has lasted 25 years.
You can’t be serious. I’m sure they have lost money for 25 years.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 10:06 pm to HabaneroBuck
Damn it we need a sarcasm font.
This post was edited on 10/20/21 at 10:07 pm
Posted on 10/20/21 at 10:15 pm to stout
Where are all the feminist supporting their role models?
Posted on 10/20/21 at 10:20 pm to gadknot
They should be paid based on how much money they generate. However, I don't imagine women's pro sports generate even 1/4 as much as men.
I am all for women's equality but this is business. They are being treated as equals they just don't like it.
I am all for women's equality but this is business. They are being treated as equals they just don't like it.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 10:21 pm to stout
I’m shocked the WNBA is afloat. Just looked at stats and ratings are in the dirt, no one watches or attends games. How does this survive when the XFL and other football leagues crumbled without finishing their first years?
Posted on 10/20/21 at 10:22 pm to GB1017LSU
quote:it only is because the nba pays to keep it afloat. NBA probably uses it as a tax write off to charity
Didn’t know this was still a professional sport
Posted on 10/20/21 at 10:31 pm to Sun God
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Look at the huge turnout for the WNBA championship parade
Goddamn I just upvoted an Oweo post
I mean its pretty fricking simple. It has nothing to do with "just because they are women". Why do people like the NBA?
There are a lot of people tied to a team through family. They grandpa might have been a huge... IDK Boston fan then their daddy and then its something they all share together.. Its a tradition thing. Its an established league
Then.. If you watch the NBA, it really is amazing how good some of the players are and it seems like there are more and more players coming into the league who are really good. The average NBA player today is much better than the average player 20 years ago. Players are becoming more committed to keeping up with their body, eating right, etc.
The WNBA is like watching a pickup game in PE. You are a few people who are obviously much better than all of the other players who suck.
And I am not saying the women suck because they obviously have to have true athletic ability, but I don't know if they commit themselves the way a lot of NBA players do. And you can't just force shite on people. Its the real world. If people don't enjoy the product you can't make them. And the owners have no interest in operating in the red.
There was a time, when the NBA first started, when the players didn't get paid much at all, but then as it became more popular and it appealed to advertisers it grew.
Back then players made a decision to play because they liked the game. They worked during the off season, but they made a decision to play. If you don't like what they job is paying then.. Go into another industry where you can make more money. But the only way to get paid more is to make the product better.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 11:09 pm to gadknot
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Don’t the WNBA players just want higher pay? Pretty sure they aren’t asking for $100m contracts
Read up on fair market value value. They literally have boys high school teams that would absolutely destroy the best WNBA team. In soccer the women's national champions FAFO from a U-15 boys soccer team. Same thing happened to the women's Australian olympic team. That may change with tranny's in the future but I doubt it.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 11:19 pm to NPComb
Time for Lingerie Basketball League
Posted on 10/20/21 at 11:21 pm to stout
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Well, that and being a creep that stalks people IRL
I want to hear this story
Posted on 10/20/21 at 11:34 pm to HabaneroBuck
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Yet, the WNBA has lasted 25 years.
Female privilege. If it was a male league it would have been shut down due to terrible ratings and attendance. It loses money every year but it’s subsidized by the N.B.A. to keep it going.
You were being sarcastic. It’s hard to tell around here these days because people here think like that.
This post was edited on 10/20/21 at 11:36 pm
Posted on 10/20/21 at 11:39 pm to stout
Women’s sports suck. At this point I barely care about men’s sports. It was once a fun passionate hobby but a huge waste of time that could be spent doing other things more important or mentally stimulating.
Posted on 10/20/21 at 11:55 pm to Dances with Beagles
quote:I've always thought this seemed incomplete. People love to watch high school football and college football. But why? They are inferior to the NFL. etc
No one wants to pay to watch inferior athletes play sports.
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