I have no real feeling for this sport, other than I really have no clue what they are talking about. I guess its like hockey when they try to tell me what icing is, but MMA is entertaining. Honestly, the fights Saturday night were really the first time I watched it all completely thru. I do not think MMA will gather very much fan support long-term. I could be wrong, but to me MMA is complete streetfighting in a cage. That is why Kimbo Slice is such a popular figure because of his brawling skills on the streets. He is enormous and has fists that can just bust thru a wall, but come for MMA to tell me he is the next big thing? I read reports comparing this guy to Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan who dominated their sport. Kimbo Slice was a homeless man who fought on the streets. Youtube has a bunch of his street fights if you want to check them out. I do not have a Youtube account that allows me to do that. Regardless, I think its fun to watch MMA and stars like Kimbo Slice, but I really do not think the general public will treat the MMA as a bigtime sport. Hell Kimbo Slice is a smoker. Who in their right mind is a big time athlete who smokes? Do not say John Daly! Kimbo Slice did say he needs to train a lot more, "I’m still a baby at the game, I’ve got a lot of room to grow. I won’t be smoking as much, because I’ve got a lot of training to do." MMA is like Professional Wrestling. It will attract a certain niche market, but not nearly the market of a real olympic sport like Boxing. Boxing still reigns supreme in my book.
Oh and I just finished watching Game 5 of the NHL Stanley Cup. 3 Overtime game! Amazing. I do not even need to know what icing is to love this sport. I could google "icing" to find out, but you get my point. Hockey rules! Just imagine Kansas City could have had the Pittsburgh Penguins. That was so close to becoming reality had the Pens and Mario Lemieux not struck a deal for a new arena in Pittsburgh.
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The Penguins were never coming. The same way that Bombardier is never coming. KC had just the right kind of statistics to show that teams *could* be successful, but not the statistics that larger cities have that guarantee lots of money to be made. As an investor, what do you care about more, KC or guaranteed return? KC is about 15-20 years from another major franchise in my opinion. Btw, the easiest team to build and make money at in KC, baseball, aka the T-Bones. Why? Because you can populate the field all the time without the home team using it, unlike a hockey arena.
Icing - the puck crosses two blue lines and no one touches it, I think.
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