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Jul 27, 2007
sports and movies During a 15 hour bus trip yesterday, my ipod was constantly working. Fortunately for me, I discovered podcasts recently, and had several hours news, sermons, and sports to entertain me. One of the podcasts I had was espn radio's "The Big Show," which normally is hosted by Dan Patrick and Keith Olberman, but instead this edition had a guest host, Eric Concillias. His opening segment was quite brilliant. He was talking about how the various professional sports leagues are like movements, and how he can instantly tell what genre of movie a sports league is. Those his analogies aren't perfect (though a few were), I found myself quite impressed. His analysis is as follows: NFL: A blockbuster. Extremely popular, a lot of action, lots of big stars, and the opening of the season is highly anticipated with a lot of fanfare. NBA: A slaphappy comedy with Lindsay Lohan. "It's the trainwreck off the set that gets all of the attention." Really, the movie isn't all of that good, but it's the stories off of the set that get the most attention. Golf: A documentary. You watch to learn. People who watch golf are the same people who play golf. MMA (UFC). A hot indy film. It has a large following, but is not mainstream. It will never make a lot of money, but it will have a lot of loyal fans. X-games-- A teen movie that nobody over 30 gets, aka Beerfest. Boxing--Silent movie. Years ago, it was the biggest thing, people would come in droves to watch. Now, nobody really watches anymore, except on occasion they will check it out for nostalgia. Soccer--A foreign film, with subtitles. They aren't bad, but they don't hold our interest, except a really big one comes out about every 4 years. WNBA--Chick flick Wrestling--Porn. At first, you don't want to get into it, but once you start you get hooked. Then, you buy the pay-per-views, and then hope that nobody sees your cable bill, or if they do, then you hope it's vauge enough that they don't know what it actually is. Baseball--Romantic comedy. There are really only two or three possible endings, and usually you can tell what's going to happen in the first 15 minutes. **NOTE: Thanks to Total Nonstop Action wrestlings initials, TNA, it makes their paper views look, at worst, like a porn film, and at best like a women in prison movie, such as TNA: Hard Justice and TNA: Lockdown. posted
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