F*** Espn and Mute grabs

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i dont think i have ever heard of anyone who has only been on ns long enough to post 3 times and hates mutes. but i agree it nice to see other grabs, a little variety eh?
 
I suggest you get a new email adress, make a new NS name and start slower, try not making a thread for a while. Or just leave completely.
 
ESPN does a pretty terrible job of covering action sports, but considering theyve had decades of experience with traditional sports, they treat action sports the same. It doesnt really work.

and I love mute grabs. Stop hating.
 
becaus of your icon i just picture dwight from the office posting your posts and it makes them at least 9 or 10 times funnier
 
and fuck mute grabs because no skiing person can do them correctly they must always try to break their knees for more of the bonus points
 
ESPN didn't kill rollerblading. Skateboarding did. ESPN doesn't cover rollerblading in North America anymore because North American skateboard marketing successfully convinced teenagers that rollerblading was gay. Worldwide, ESPN still covers a shitload of rollerblading at X Games Asia, for example.

Killed vert skateboarding? You must be referring to the controversy over ESPN's short-lived decision to eliminate skateboard vert from Summer X 14. Skateboard vert has been reinstated to Summer X 14 however. If your interest in the information went beyond a desire to impress your friends with a sure-to-be-popular dissing of ESPN, you might have already known that.

They bastardize every sport they touch. If by "bastardize" you mean, "bring sports to an audience that otherwise would never have seen them," you're absolutely right.

ESPN's target market might be "toolbags, rednecks, and jocks." I don't know, I haven't seen their press kit. Regardless, thanks to ESPN, those toolbags, jocks, and rednecks think that skiing is cool now, and love people like Simon Dumont and Tanner Hall because they're sick skiers.

If Sportscenter makes you want to chop your balls off, do yourself, everybody around you, and especially those who will exist in the future a favor and do it already.

Who doesn't hate hockey?

 
Dear Mr. Symms,

I find you to be incredibly eloquent, wildly humorous, brutally honest, and insightful.  I heart you.
 
You could be right. Obviously, ESPN's decision to cut rollerblading from the American X Games was a big hit to the sport. Now that it's out of X, rollerblading in the US has a much smaller competition scene and viewership.

You must keep in mind though that ESPN didn't make the decision to cut rollerblading arbitrarily. Rollerblading was on the outs in the US long before ESPN cut it. It sucks that they did, because I think that rollerblading is very sick, and I always loved watching it. But there has to be a participant and viewer base for ESPN to justify keeping a sport. And by the time ESPN cut blades, that base had been dwindling for years.

So I guess you could say, based on its decision to cut rollerblading from X, that ESPN had a hand in the destruction of American rollerblading. But that decision wasn't a cause. It was just an effect of rollerblading's already rapid decline in the US.
 
ESPN is trying to make money. The soul, heart, truth behind the sports they cover is not important, it is how much viewership they get, and how many ads they can sell. It wouldn't be done if they couldn't make money off it. Expecting anything else from them is unrealistic and only shows an ignorance of their purpose.

Mr. Symms, I have a very high regard for your skiing as well as your general persona as expressed here on NS and on your blog. However, I still don't see how increased exposure for the sport will directly affect how I ski, or necessarily change the essence of what skiing is.

For a professional like yourself, increased exposure means more involvement, and thus more money flowing in, more opportunity for new companies, and more money for sponsorship through existing companies. This may mean that one day, you and the other pro skiers out there will actually get paid what you deserve for the risks you take.

For silly kids like me, who have dreams of being paid to ski, but lack the talent or connections or bouncy youthful body necessary, the face of what skiing is for me won't change that much when the average redneck decides he likes Tanner, Simon, or skiing altogether. The amount of random people who would need to buy skis from a company like Salomon to actually have that wave of cash flow over into the freestyle side of things and then be used to actually make things better for our side of this sport would need to be huge, and I don't see that kind of exposure generating such responses from the public.
 
At the risk of hijcking a bit, I am wondering if ESPN was largely blameless in inline's demise and it was clever marketing by the skateboard companies, why did inline screw up so badly in defending their niche.  I am a bit older than average on this sight and come from a small hockey town in northern Canada.  I remember inline's rise in popularity being associated with road hockey and was threatening indoor lacrosse as the jock summer sport of choice.  Indeed, because it was associated with hockey, inline threatened to make skateboarding look like a kiddy sport or gay.  Then I leave Canada for asia and a couple years later I found out that inline is considered either for girls or homos even back in small town Canada.  How did the inline companies allow this to happen?  Did they not sponsor the right people or throw down the right events?  Did they not embrace "freeride" fast enough?  Why was there not a breakaway movement in inline that nurtured a counter culture like freeskiing did in skiing and thus rescue the sport's credibility and if there was one, why did it lose momentum and fail?  
 
if espn is so great than they should treat x-games athletes like other athletes. they should dish out way more prize money. they should be paying out enough prize money to make every other comp feel bad or appearance fees. and should cover other events in some way. if they didn't think the x-games was some backwater market they wouldn't runaway after 4 days of coverage. yes they've tried other events, but they were gimmicks. some cursory coverage on other major events on sportcenter or a weekly show would be well deserved.
 
hahaha yes!! isnt it like 1/10 of a penny or something?

dwight schrute is the reason the world goes around
 
yeah but Creed printed out 2.1 million couterfeit schrute bucks...so he got like 10,000 minutes of extra lunch break
 
Creed is the man! I like his little pyramid scheme when he messes up on quality control and the lady gets fired at the factory.
 
i have been printing and passing these out all day, since i saw your version and it sparked my memory. i am anxious to see what my boss says about them when she finds out. my company is stingy with breaks

also, don't forget that a schrute buck is not equal to the ration of unicorns to leprechauns.

 
X Games prize purse is more than double the next largest prize purse in freestyle skiing. And the payout goes all the way to last place at the X Games. So you get money even if you are the shittiest guy at the contest (I should know). Some might call that an appearance fee.
 
update. busted by the boss, all my schrute bucks have been confiscated.

apparently where i work it is "favoritism" and "harassment" to pass out schrute dollars at my discression.

sounds like some toby bullshit to me.

 
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