Re: OT: Sports (Was: Amazon to take over James Bond)

Daniel70 wrote:
 

On 28/02/2025 3:01 am, Blueshirt wrote:

The Doctor wrote:

In article <xn0p2iloz1ercc4006@post.eweka.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

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I don't know enough about the financial side of it, but
every business is about making money. The NHL like FIFA,
UEFA, the NFL, MLB (etc.) is geared to maximising its
profits. With football [soccer] I think it has gone
beyond that to the stage where the large amounts of
money is destroying the game. FIFA are more corrupt than
the Mafia.

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As for the BBC ...

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The BBC are worse than the mafia! As they have a law in the
UK that means everyone with a TV has to pay the BBC money
each year regardless of whether they watch a BBC channel or
not...
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In regards to sport, the BBC can barely afford to show the
top sports live anymore as they squander a lot of their
money on big name presenters and bureaucracy.

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Blueshirt, as you don't actually live on Britain (or even the
U.K.!!), YOU don't actually pay the BBC money each year, do
you??

 If you can follow the thread, Dave brought up the BBC and I
replied... it's kind of how Usenet works.
 Whilst Dave throwing a tangent in to the discussion is usually
how RADW works!
 :-)