This is what needs to happen:
We need a couple of our young single studs to date some HOT celebrity chicks. This is what I see...
Evan Jager dates someone like Ke$ha.
Will Leer dates someone like Jessica Alba.
This list could go on for a while, and you get the picture.
Look at how much more well-known Lance Armstrong became after he started making his way into the celeb world.
People get interested and want to follow these celebs racing careers.
BOOM! Track is back!
I'd like to help out (even though I'm not one of the young, fast, single studs)! Can you get me started with the third Kardashian girl or maybe Rhianna?
If you're talking about real distance running, they should put ultra running in the Olympics.
wow...great idea wrote:
Look at how much more well-known Lance Armstrong became after he started making his way into the celeb world.
Lance Armstrong became well-known because he WON something...big. He doesn't look any more or less "muscular/anorexic" to the public than a typical elite distance runner, but he went over to Europe and became THE MAN. Not any different from Usain Bolt...or Tom Brady or Drew Brees.
The catch is that there aren't any US distance runners like that. They don't win: The make excuses, and that doesn't cut it in a nation that can't remember who finished second in the Super Bowl of the NBA Finals last year.
TRACK is back--thanks to Usain Bolt.
Distance Running? Nobody cares (compared to Bolt in particular). Even Kenny B gets that.
Just WIN baby...and look cool doing it (see Bolt).
What the hell is the Super Bowl of the NBA Finals?
If there was a totally off the heezy, baller-esque distance running American who could destroy everyone they raced and run a 1:37.2 800, 3:19.99 1500, 7:42 steeple, and 12:20 5000 nearly everyone would care a hell of a lot more about distance running, trust me.
Coach D wrote:
wow...great idea wrote:Look at how much more well-known Lance Armstrong became after he started making his way into the celeb world.
Lance Armstrong became well-known because he WON something...big. He doesn't look any more or less "muscular/anorexic" to the public than a typical elite distance runner, but he went over to Europe and became THE MAN. Not any different from Usain Bolt...or Tom Brady or Drew Brees.
The catch is that there aren't any US distance runners like that. They don't win: The make excuses, and that doesn't cut it in a nation that can't remember who finished second in the Super Bowl of the NBA Finals last year.
TRACK is back--thanks to Usain Bolt.
Distance Running? Nobody cares (compared to Bolt in particular). Even Kenny B gets that.
Just WIN baby...and look cool doing it (see Bolt).
Quite right. Lance became well known when he won the most famous bike race in the world At that point, he was welcomed into the celebrity world because if there is one thing celebrities love it is hanging out and being seen with other celebrities who are the 'hot' thing to be seen with.
So, when Ritz wins an Olympic gold medal and his picture is on the cover of SI crossing the finish line in London with a bunch of skinny Africans chasing him, then he too might be someone celebrities want to be seen with. Then again, that might not even do it.
The original poster is, in fact, Evan Jager.
It is obvious to me that he just wants to date KeSha.
Speaking of obvious.................
Pics?
I like this idea. Why stop there? I suggest setting up Galen Rupp with Lance Bass.
POD!! I just about peed myself reading that
[quote]Coach D wrote:
[quote]wow...great idea wrote:
TRACK is back--thanks to Usain Bolt.
track was never in, so it can't be back. No one talks about track like other popular sports, eg basketball football, etc.
the only time people talked about track was in 2008 when usain bolt shattered the world record, and that was only news for 3-4 days.
The only way to make distance running popular is if the women all started skankin' it up (toplessness, frequent pantyless crotch shots, etc.). AND then the distance ladies would all need to for a pact with the sprinters that ONLY the distance ladies would do this skankdom.
Short of that, the general population in the US will NEVER care about distance running ever again.
And yet there is thread after thread on here about how to keep the common person out of running and keep it to the true hard core runners.
Using sex is the easy way out. Perhaps we can instead incorporate some talking babies and/or animals.
people love to think of themselves as tough, and endurancey types. The 'problem' isnt that the guys are skinny (look at lance fer chrissakes) but that they don't win.
We love winners - get guys winning like Lance (domination) and we will see lots of coverage.
Very funny. But in all seriousness the fact that track, including distance running, is well below the average sports fan's radar is pathetic.
In order for track to become more popular it must build a larger base of fans. If more people went to track meets the fan base would grow. One way to get more people to attend college and pro meets is to make them free to all high school kids. There is so much empty space in the stands at most meets, that giving a few hundred free seats away would not cost the promoter anything.
More is Better wrote:
One way to get more people to attend college and pro meets is to make them free to all high school kids. There is so much empty space in the stands at most meets, that giving a few hundred free seats away would not cost the promoter anything.
Yeah, it's the $5 entry fee that's keeping the teenagers away.
More interest? Move all major meets to Las Vegas and allow live betting, just like the horses. Probably very bad for the sport, but that's a surefire way to increase interest and salaries 10x overnight.
I've been to loads of hs and college meets as my sister was a great runner. Track meets are way, way, way too long. They're the lovechild of baseball and golf. There should be 5 running events with no more than 2 prelim heats of the sprints: 100m, 100m hurdles, 400m, 800m, 1500m and steeple chase with 2x the jumps. 3 minutes between events. Add in the field events running concurrently with 3 tries max and you have something watchable.
And how do you work the LRC dreaded 5 hour marathoners into this love-fest? They cant possibly be a real fan if they are slow...right?
The only time track is back is when you distance twigs include sprinters as part of track, and that only happens once every four years and only marginally. But to suggest that there is some formula for making distance running popular is just stupid. Might as well brainstorm about how to make racewalking popular.
Lance Armstrong is a doper. That makes money. The NFL, MLB, NHL, PGA, are doped too. The point is dope makes money. Runners should all dope like Lance does.