One of the most important things in my life is sports, and especially Pittsburgh sports. Whether it's watching the Steelers or the Penguins (or sometimes the pirates, shhh) there is nothing i enjoy more than sports. Especially football, and this is my favorite season, football season. As i was sitting around watching the Colts come from behind and beat the Minnesota Vikings, it got me thinking about this class.
When you turn my television on, you can usually bet that ESPN will come up. Sportscenter, Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn, I love to watch "Experts" discuss, argue, and spread information about athletes and teams. With how far we have come on the Internet, cell phones, computers, T.V.'s and broadcasts, it makes consuming this information easier and quicker.
Which got me thinking about the data plan that Verizon has, ESPN MVP. Keeps people on the go in the know about scores, stats and updates in the sports world. Now, i have thought about getting it, but for some reason, i just cant seem to reason enough with myself to spend fifteen bucks a month on it. Either way, it's an ingenious invention to help lure sports fans to certain cell phone companies. Even sprint has made a partnership with the NFL and created NFL Mobile. It just shows how important professional sports is to many people, that they have become a marketing group.
How it relates to the class is how addicted we have become to our electronic conveniences. There is no need, outside of sports agents and other officials in sports, for a person to have full access to sports information at 4 in the morning while they're laying on their couch in their underwear watching some crappy made-for-T.V. movie. Personally, I've heard it isnt even that good to begin with, but i wouldnt personally know untill i finally one day break down and buy it. It's still not as bad as the mother arguing with her six year old daughter's cell phone, but it just seems a little over the top to me. I just hope in a few years, it will become cheap enough for me to afford...
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I totally agree with what you said. Cell phone companies will take music, games, and sporting events and put them out there for people to download on thier phones and charge an arm and a leg for them. When simply all you have to do is go to your computer and check up on the scores of the games, who got injured and who rushed for a 100 yards. They just want to get more money out of people then they already do. By the way, I like the pirates, even though they never seem to do good.
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