Marketing overblown people
It would help if motorcycle racing was more popular in the states. I don't get it, why the addiction to cars running around in circles? I attended an Indy Nascar event and except for the start, I got so bored I left the stands and went for a walk. A lot of that has turned into a sideshow reality presentations of the drivers where many of them make more marketing their celebrity status than proving themselves on the race track. I saw another TV advertisement last night, non-other than the most overblown NASCAR driver in recent history, Danika Patrick. Living proof you don't have to be good to make riches in shallow land. The same goes for woman's golf, if you have the long skinny legs and show some silicon, you don't have to win a tournament to make big money. Just scanning some of their websites tell you that. We lived in the same area where Natalie Gulbis went to school. She lived outside the school district but through politics and her golf skills was allowed to attend an upper-income school in Granite Bay, Ca. I saw her a few times and saw some of her photo shoots and she used this angle to it's fullest potential even though many people I know when I used to play golf thought she was "goofy" looking. I never knew what the appeal was all about, pancake makeup and silicon boobs, that's all I saw. But, I guess more power to her even though she has only won one golf tournament in her 20 years on the Tour. In sports sometimes you don't have to be good to make money. Music has it's own way as well to con people into liking "artists", even many who can't sing worth a crap live. Hell, even I can get behind an electronically enhanced studio mike and sound like I have talent. Rant closed, I'm still upset about loosing Motogp and it happened as well last year with Pro Cycling a couple years back when I was really getting into it. My wife canceled the program because to have the Pro Cycling channel you had to buy a package that included 95% BS programming I would never use.