  Wilus1mj Member Username: Wilus1mj Post Number: 18 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 216.111.89.3 |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10 982457/ | ||
Njmikey Member Username: Njmikey Post Number: 15 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 168.238.128.4 |
Not cool to dog Newark like that. The future home of the devils. | ||
Detroitduo Member Username: Detroitduo Post Number: 457 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 84.156.24.120 |
Yawn, not even worth the 5 minutes of my life to read. What a whiner. *whiney voice* Both teams suck and it's cold in Detroit. whaa whaa whaa. Pathetic. | ||
Wmuchris Member Username: Wmuchris Post Number: 142 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 69.58.36.2 |
Detroit Super Bore? Not as boring as that column. Damn I think I was asleep halfway through it. I'm tired of these people. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 9798 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.226 |
Could somebody please bust a cap in this writer? | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 220 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 207.200.116.139 |
Typical Noo Yawk provincialism. Consider the source. | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 99 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.88.89.94 |
"...the Super Bowl is spring break for adults" Spring break! Get outta the school mindset dude. You're a freelance writer--your boorish term paper skills will get you nowhere now. (Message edited by xD_brklyn on January 24, 2006) | ||
Lghart Member Username: Lghart Post Number: 84 Registered: 03-2004 Posted From: 64.25.16.100 |
No references to shootings, burning cars, etc. just to cold weather, we should be somewhat happy with the article, little damage there. Most of it was about the teams anyway. | ||
3rdworldcity Member Username: 3rdworldcity Post Number: 181 Registered: 01-2005 Posted From: 68.73.196.193 |
Check the reader reviews of the article at the end of the piece. 0.5 out of 5 based on 894 reviews. Lot's of Washingtonians and Detroiters must have voted. | ||
Crash_nyc Member Username: Crash_nyc Post Number: 501 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 24.193.39.60 |
"Typical Noo Yawk provincialism. Consider the source." Definitely consider the source. MSNBC isn't even located in NYC, they're out in Secaucus, New Jersey. That's where the mother network sends their flunkies who couldn't make it in the big city. Considering their extremely dismal ratings (compared to competitors Fox News & CNN), MSNBC suffers from a severe Napoleon complex. | ||
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan Post Number: 3095 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.172.95.197 |
It wasn't all that damaging of a review. But when you consider the city the Super Bowl was held in last year, this is a huge improvement, IMO. On the actual sports angle part of the op-ed, he may be right. | ||
Audible_nectar Member Username: Audible_nectar Post Number: 44 Registered: 11-2005 Posted From: 12.214.103.152 |
**** TYPICAL CONVERSATION AT MEGACORP NEWS NETWORK REGARDING SUPER BOWL **** MNN CEO: "You know, Homer, Detroit's a real bore for Super Bowl this year. No golf courses, no sunny boat docks.......I mean, what's Detroit FOR other than cars? I think I'm going to sell my tickets." MNN Reporter: "So, Mr. Burns, you don't want me to write about how the Super Bowl is a springboard to a 'New and exiting Detroit'"? MNN CEO: "Didn't you hear me? They have no golf courses and sunny boat docks." MNN Reporter: "Then why don't you let ME use the tickets?" MNN CEO: "Because I want you to work on this article about how Detroit is so boring. And I want it on my desk yesterday". ****************************** *********** This, in a short synopsis, is the "angle" from which many reporters and news editors are working the "story" of Detroit as host for Super Bowl. Now bashing the Super Bowl host city is a seasonal sport anyway - but when one becomes aware of the corporate angst over the chosen site, it becomes more clear. It seems every year that I go to Super Bowl that the press spends seemingly endless pages telling my why I don't want to be there. I think that's because THEY ARE NOT! I'm partying, and THEY ARE NOT. I've got tickets to the Super Bowl, and THEY DON'T. And your host city is hosting the Super Bowl and THEIRS IS NOT. You see, the Super Bowl isn't just the World Championship of professional football - it is the World's largest big business and press/news meeting. Movers and shakers from the corporate world - and the press - DO use Super Bowl as thier "Spring Break" - and since it isn't their idea of utopia - or they just didn't get on the "list" to attend, they will lay it on thick this Super Bowl year. It is typical to have large quantities of angst thrown at the host city - but when you consider the "Spring Break" angle, the source of the angst becomes even more apparent. They are upset the party isn't golf and boat docks - and therefore they use thier own pages to engage in public bitching about it. If corporate america decides to stay home, that's no big deal. For every one of those who stay home, 5 Pittsburgh Steeler fans will take thier place - and bid on their tickets. There are probably more "secondary market" tickets circulating this year vs any other year because of the corporate folk staying home and declining their seats. And there are PLENTY of buyers, as evidenced by the $2500 minimum asking prices through brokers/Ebay. So when reading the stories about your fair host city, keep that background in mind. And keep those teflon suits on: Super Bowl week begins NEXT Sunday - when the articles will hit this subject that much harder. So the way to fight back is to make 'em sorry they weren't there  | ||
Genesyxx Member Username: Genesyxx Post Number: 418 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 209.69.165.10 |
Point, counterpoint. If he'd never been, then I'd criticize, but he hasn't been in awhile, so I'll just gripe. Just sounds like he wants to cover a better game than PIT-SEA and takes a couple of shots at Detroit. "If you have to go to Detroit, there’d better be something really special waiting as a reward. And Seattle and Pittsburgh doesn’t fit that description." THAT deserves some feedback. I've always liked Seattle... Pittsburgh I'm not too fond of, but I'd be lying if I didn't think it would be a good game. We're constantly let down by the BCS system (sans 05 Rose Bowl). ______________________________ __ Day After Super Bowl? Still reeling from the beers and wings? Make it a holiday! http://www.daday.com |
