Thursday, February 7, 2008

Utah Flash assessment

My perspective of the Utah Flash:

I think that the Utah Flash are losers. They send out losers to try and sell season tickets to a public that doesn't care. Why insult my intelligence trying to get me to shell out over a hundred bucks to see every game when I would be hesitant to go to just one game for free.

Here's my chain of basketball watchability (Note: the same may be true for skill level as well)

1. Olympic basketball tournament
2. NBA
3. NCAA Men's Basketball
4. WNBA
5. NAIA Division 2 Men's basketball
6. County school district Donkey Basketball fundraiser
7. YMCA kids division 8-10 year olds.
8. Whatever league the Utah Flash plays in.
9. Def Leppard fan club actually trying to win.
10. Wheelchair basketball.

So you see, I do grant you that the Flash are better than me and the wheelchair players, but the but the Flash aren't nearly as cute to watch as the amputees on wheels.

It's like going to a high school game except you don't know any of the players, none of them are even your friend's little brother. So why go? You shouldn't.

Stop trying to put the JV team on a pedestal. The NBA has already proven to the world that Americans are content with fancy mediocrity. To validate the Utah Flash in their attempts to be a professional team worth paying to watch is to just promote straight up, un-fancy sub-mediocrity.

It's almost like the XFL. Remember watching them? These were all the players who weren't even good enough to get into college football teams. The Utah Flash can do no better for they are no better.

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