A friendly p.r. firm sent me the results of a Sporting News poll called "Fandemonium," in which the magazine asked sports fans various questions about various things.
One finding: 77 percent of males who are heavy sports enthusiasts responded affirmatively to the statement: "If I could have any job I wanted, it would be in sports."
It was unclear whether this meant playing centerfield for the Yankees, blogging for Newsday or cleaning the rest rooms at Nassau Coliseum.
I used to be a correspondent for the Sporting News, back in the day when I covered the Giants. Now I am not.
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Either Completely/Mostly Agree :
(All Males, Males who are Heavy Sports Enthusiasts, All Females):
"I often talk about last night's games with co-workers:"
All Males Males who are Heavy Sports Enthusiasts All Females
55% 80% 40%
"If I could have any job I wanted, it would be in sports:"
All Males Males who are Heavy Sports Enthusiasts All Females
52%, 77% 29%
"I often TIVO or DVR a sporting event so I can watch it later:"
All Males Males who are Heavy Sports Enthusiasts All Females
33% 55% 23%
"I relate better to people who understand sports:"
All Males Males who are Heavy Sports Enthusiasts All Females
50% 72% 36%
"Before going to sleep at night I like to know if my favorite team won or lost:"
All Males Males who are Heavy Sports Enthusiasts All Females
60% 84% 46%
"I'm very loyal to my favorite teams, I never think of rooting for another team:"
All Males Males who are Heavy Sports Enthusiasts All Females
66% 80% 59%
"I will travel long distances to see my favorite team play:"
All Males Males who are Heavy Sports Enthusiasts All Females
37% 63% 28%
"Nothing matches the excitement and intensity of a live sporting event:"
All Males Males who are Heavy Sports Enthusiasts All Females
67% 81% 66%
“% who use electronic devices (PDA's, cell phones) to get scores and sports information:”
All Males Males who are Heavy Sports Enthusiasts All Females
38% 62% 24%
Comments (10)
Ha, people dont know what they are in for. If you wish, you may just get it. Having worked for ESPN, Fox Sports and CNN/Si I know personally that sports is A LOT of HARD work. It seems fun but it is a job just like any other. It requires long hours, mostly nights and weekends and not a lot of pay. Also not a lot of praise. Sure you get to see your highlight on SportsCenter. Cool for the first few times. After that it loses its luster when you realize you are working til 330AM on the 4th of July and you have no life. And you are making $7 an hour with no benefits. So while it seems great, and it can be, unless you're at the very top of the ladder, the bottom sucks!
Neil,
Have you read Richard Ford's "The Sportswriter" or are you just using the book cover?
One of my favorite books of all time. I'd like to say it made me want to be a sportswriter. But it didn't. I remember someone once said the main character was a sportswriter the way the salesman in "Death of a Salesman" was a salesman. I guess meaning the profession didn't matter. I don't know. I didn't read "Death of a Salesman."
Why hasn't "The Sportswriter" been made into a major motion picture yet? Especially since there have been two sequels? Couldn't Tom Hanks play Frank Bascombe?
Who would play you in the movie of your life, Neil?
"Who would play you in the movie of your life, Neil?"
It would have to be a true bon vivant, one who can capture Neil's joie de vivre....a person who can portray Neil as a man of letters, while simultaneously demonstrating him to be an artisan of life's panorama.....someone who can reach into Neil's inner soul and radiate it out to the starving masses yearning for his wisdom.
A thespian that James Lipton might someday say...
"It was your finest role".
I dunno, I'm torn between Jason Alexander and Goldie Hawn.
Anthony: A girlfriend at the time gave me "The Sportswriter" as a gift sometime in the late 1980s but I never got around to reading it.
I guess Jonah Hill could play me in my movie.
Saw "Juno" with Mrs. WatchDog last night while not watching the Mets game. A cute movie.
Did you know my cat is named "Juno"?
I don't know who Jonah Hill is.
Just an observation about the picture on the cover of Ford's book.
Kournikova's legs, with a Sharapova skirt, highlighted by Dorothy Gale's shoes.
"Saw "Juno" with Mrs. WatchDog last night while not watching the Mets game. A cute movie"
Checkout "Smart People".
Critics ripped it....
I loved it.
Shows ya what I know.
Thomas Haden Church reprises the character of an "Intelligent
Lowell" from Wings. Good enough for me.
Anytime Richard Ford can be mentioned via The Sportswriter and/or his Pulitzer's winning follow-up Independence Day I'm sold.
"I don't know who Jonah Hill is"
"I didn't read "Death of a Salesman."
Woe is Rieber...
Destined to be a "40 Year Old Virgin" and to never be "Knocked Up".
Such is the life of the Loman of the Newspaper Industry.
Time to start taking donations for a Christmas lay-away program at Barnes and Noble and/or Blockbuster for the guy.
Islander505: My wife saw "Smart People" last weekend. I did not. She liked it, but not a lot.