What those who are upset don't seem to understand or believe is, the fortunes that they are amassing playing a game comes from a very wide variety of demographics. If you make a decision to alienate any of those, you need to be prepared to deal with the reduced revenues, which also means reduced profits/incomes. I would be a lot more impressed if they stood for their causes regardless of the financial impact on themselves. That is a true commitment. Anything else is fake protest/outrage. Just like the boycott games during the playoffs - they actually were rescheduled and the league and players still got their money. Fake boycott. All the boycott ended up being was just a night off.Anyone remember this story about the "racist" Atlanta Hawks owner forced to sell his minority ownership, because he was upset at team profits and cited that Hawks games had higher attendance but produced less revenue than the hockey team in the same arena had, the Atlanta Thrashers (Winnipeg Jets)? He then used demographics to determine the difference and got lambasted for just pointing out the elephant in the room like any good businessman would do? If the demographical difference had been anything else, OK. He made the one big no-no possible.
Bruce Levenson will sell Atlanta Hawks after releasing racist e-mail
Bruce Levenson said bringing in more white fans was crucial for his team's business.www.usatoday.com
Profits should never be the reason a businessman makes decisions. Expect similar "racist" calls on Silver. I mean, he DOES have a skinned head.
Same era for me, only it was when The Doctor hung ‘em up.
