...Blake Feldmann Orlet English 101-OL01D 16 June 2010 Types of Sports Fans Professional sports has become one of the most popular industries in the world today. The media spends billions of dollars on advertisements and teams spend millions of dollars on professional athletes all for one reason, the fans. The fans ticket sales and merchandise purchases are what keeps all the sport teams around and prevents professional athletes from losing their jobs. There are three types of fans in the sports world, average fans, fanatics, and fair-weather fans. Fans that are fanatics are the ones who are diehard and will put their favorite team before almost all other priorities. Their lives revolve around their favorite team and they will do anything for their team. Fans who are like this go to every sporting event possible that their favorite team is in and many are season ticket holders. Fanatics are usually not much fun to sit by at games because they get easily irritated or believe they know more about the game than everyone else. If they are not at the game, you can usually find them watching the game somewhere else on TV. People who are fanatics also spend much of their free time researching their team and will know almost every aspect of every player on their team as well as their opponents so they know how they match up with the other teams. No matter how bad the season is going for their favorite team, fanatics will always stick with them and will continue to go to the games...
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...Mylon Richard Mr. Joubert English 101G1 16 October 2012 Fans in the Stands Professional sports have become one of the most popular industries in the world today. The media spends billions of dollars on advertisements with billboards, commercial, and merchandise. Teams spend millions of dollars on professional athletes all for one reason, the fans because if the fans are happy then the owners are happy. The fans ticket sales and merchandise purchases are what keeps all the sport teams around and prevents professional athletes from losing their jobs. Fans are the most crucial part of any franchise. There are three types of fans in the sports world, average fans, fanatics, and fair-weather fans. A diehard’s favorite team is basically their second religion. The diehard fan would be the one who knows the team like the back of their hand. They are the persons that know the name, number, position, and maybe the height and weight of every play on the field for their team. They could win an argument against the world’s greatest lawyer, being that the argument is about their team. They will wear their team’s colors with great pride whether the team is winning or losing. They are so dedicated to their team to point of sitting through a hurricane, blizzard, or the blazing heat just because of their love for the team. Diehards are the one fan that bought their season ticket passes for the next season five years in advance to make sure they get seats with the best view. They make time...
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...Deliverable Team D MKT/571 October 20, 2015 Don Braunstein Identify the Target Markets for Your Sport and Your Team The NFL has been a thriving business for over 50 years, and the main target market has been male athletes and males from the ages ten years of age to 65 years of age. Since recent years, the NFL has observed female fans it has become a target market for the NFL they have seen an increase from 44 percent of base fans to a 60 percent of female fans over the age of 12 which identifying themselves as NFL fans. Last year, 80 million women watched NFL games, and around 310,000 women attended NFL games. The NFL has now recognized women’s interest in the league, and they have now sought out to find out new ways to cultivate the female fans passion for the league. The NFL has come up with a new strategy by focusing on women’s apparel. Since the NFL knows women enjoy looking good, they have developed a women's apparel line that features items like Victoria Secret loungewear as well as Nike active wear and couture Marchesa tops. Each piece of team apparel has team colors and is tailored to fit a women's body. The league has also included different accessories to the women's apparel like watches boots and other jewelry items. The NFL has strategized women's apparel to grow its business and revolutionize the sport and help women define themselves as fans and providing them with apparel that will suit their personalities as well as the teams they love which is...
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...There are three types of sports fans — which one are you? THE CASUAL FAN: Casual-Fans are fans who aren't particularly into their fandom. They enjoy it, know some trivia, see some movies, have some stuff. Casual-Fans are more laid back. This is probably most of my friends. They have their favorite sports teams but they don’t make the effort to watch every game. They know the name of the key players on the roster but that’s it. When the game is on, they’ll watch it but if something else is interesting on TV, they’ll go to that channel instead. These kinds of fans won’t know every single rule for the game but they understand how the sport is played. These fans aren’t bandwagoners because they actually know things about the team and go to games. Sports is great to them, but there are other things that occupy their free times most often. THE REAL FAN I would say this fits me perfectly. I am all of the above except I do make an effort to watch all the games and I do know what’s going on around the league. I have an extensive knowledge of the team roster and standings. The team and league history can be filed in my memory bank without any problem. I spend money on merchandise, tickets often and when friends want to talk sports, they usually come to me. There is a part of my life that is about the sport and when given the option to do something, sports usually is my first choice. THE CRAZY FAN This is the fan that I don’t think I can ever be. They go to almost every game...
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...Types of Fans A fan is a person who is fond of a certain thing, person, food, sports or any such things. N my opinion a fan is divided in three categories: - part time fans, die hard fans and optimistic fan. Let me explain this concept using a soccer match. A part time fan is one who does not have any particular team as his favorite, but he just enjoys watching the game as he is more overwhelmed by the sport than the players. Part time fans could also be people who follow a sport they like based on their availability. In the sense they follow a team or a sport based on their availability and convenience and don’t necessarily go to the stadium to watch their team play. Also, they might watch soccer if there’s nothing else that is interesting being played on television. Die-hard fans are like patriots and they patronize associating with a team. They believe their loyalties lie in speaking only good about a team and they would go against any person who badmouths a team they support. These die hard fans wear the sports jerseys of their favorite teams, make time to watch their favorite match at any cost, even if it means watching the match at late night and odd hours. A die-hard fan feels like the world is over when he sees his team loosing or not performing well. A die-hard fan is aggressive about the reputation of his team and can go to great lengths to support and defend the team he likes gravely. An optimistic fan is one who always speaks well about his team, even the team...
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...full service restaurant and a sport bar that deliverer’s a safe and fun environment for sports fans and family dinning. Our restaurant will provide Authentic Mexican Cuisine. Ay-Ay-Aye Chiquita has the opportunity to expand the sports bar/restaurant service industry by offering Authentic Mexican Cuisine in a fun energetic environment that all customers will enjoy. With a large Hispanic population and we are excited for this great opportunity. Visiting our competition, speaking with sports fans, restaurant owner, wait staff and management we have a well though plan ready for execution. The customers experience is our top priority. In order to deliver on that promise we plan to run our business efficiently by partnering with some of the business vendors both locally and nationally such as Cisco and the local farmers markets Greens Produce and Cow Towns Farmers Market. We believe these partnerships make the difference in delivering the value that we have promised to our clients. Our business will provide a wide array of activities that our customers and team members will enjoy participating in: Weekly activities at the restaurant during our peak sporting season, opportunity to give back to the community by donating time and money. Ay-Ay-Aye Chiquita sets itself apart from other sports bars in the area by serving authentic Mexican food. Right now, sports bars offer a variety of American Fare like burgers and wings, but there is not a sports bar in the area right now that...
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...Punishment for Players Athletes are people who are looked up to all across the world. They play sports that many people watch and enjoy. Athletes are role models for many people. Sometimes athletes take actions in their personal life that hurt their team and fans and get away with it because they are famous. Many people have different viewpoints on this discussion. Sometimes some athletes are punished while others who do the same crime are not. All Athletes’ actions off the field should affect their position within a sports team. Athletes represent a team. Their actions off the field may make the team look bad if they do not suspend or drop the player. Also sponsors do not want athletes who commit crimes like domestic violence, assault, and rape represent them and drop the players or the team as a sponsor. Fans may boo the team if they see that punishments did not go through after the player committed these types of crimes crime....
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...It has been a constant debate recently whether steroids and performance enhances should be allowed in sports today. This topic usually occurs in baseball but in recent discoveries, many football players are condemned for doping. Vast names in sports such as: Ray Lewis, Alex Rodriguez, and Christian Laettner were all suspended by their respected leagues for doping. Steroids should be banned in professional sports today because they give athletes unfair advantages, they’re horrible to the athletes’ body, and there can be severe side effects. There are copious types of steroids that athletes use. “The most common type of steroids that athletes use are anabolic steroids, or synthetic versions of the male hormone, testosterone” (Quinn). This particular...
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...who range from ages twenty-seven and up. Using these age categories will help to find the true feelings when it comes to this protest. I will also ask whether they believe he should be chastised for his actions—whether by the team, his agent or the fans. I will randomly choose different people: males and female, nationalities, athletic or non-athletic, and sports fans or not. These diverse and broad ranges will help to conclude my research into whether or not one believes the organizations can reprimand their players for protesting this anthem. I will personally interview all the participants to...
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...But depending on peoples types of personality they would react in their own way. My family and I did not start a fight between any of them but we also did not just sit there and take the rude comments, so we would say our piece of mind sometimes and now that may have not been the smartest thing but that is how we act in situations like this and that relates to our personality. Sporting events will bring a lot of people together but will also cause feuds between others that are not the fans of the same sports team as them and again which brings me back to personality. My experience at the hockey game made me come to realize that with reading this chapter in the text book, people will act in different ways based on the contribute factors and also with the “feeling, thinking, and behaving” because the way peoples personalities are depend on their mental life, emotional experiences, and social...
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...Football fans The person who thinks, talks about and is oriented towards sports even when [the fan] is not actually observing, or reading, or listening to an account of a specific sports event.(Spinrad ,1981) A fan is a person who is passionately devoted to something such as a sports-team, band or entertainer. Fans of a sport or thing constitute a fan-base or fandom (Wiki-Answers). Most of us enjoys going to sporting events and no matter what the event is, there are excitements associated with these events and more so thinking that our team will win and if they win we go home happily and if it loses we get somehow upset or sad. Despite all this, we have different categories of sports fan in our societies and everyone who follows sports falls in one of these categories. The categories include: Diehard fans - no matter how the team that they are supporting does, they will always support it and won’t miss any game or news at all about their team. They knows every player on the roster, position they play, and uniform number. Casual fans – these are averaged or below average followers of their team. They stick and follow their teams, but not to the extent of following every game. Mostly they know a few star players. Fair-weather fans – these are the one that follow and cheer for their teams only when they become successful. They have no loyalty to their teams when they are in down period experience. The Pessimist - They talk only during commercial breaks. Pessimist might...
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...brainchild of William France, which he started in 1948. Remaining under the control of the France family, NASCAR has since grown to become multibillion dollar business and one of the premier sports in America today. NASCAR sanctions over 1500 races at over 100 tracks in the US and Canada. NASCAR’s business model and success is heavily dependent on its relationship with big name sponsors. NASCAR strives to be the recognized leader in motorsports entertainment by improving distinctive environments for customers, participants and employees. NASCAR foresees strategic global expansion specifically in mature markets such as Europe, where Formula 1 racing has a dominant foothold. NASCAR is particularly sensitive to recessions. To combat this issue, strategic pricing will be used along with the support of loyal sponsors. To continue growing the NASCAR brand in the US we plan leverage our high profile drivers to appeal young folks. NASCAR is also cognizant of the untapped market with minorities and is committed to attracting this diverse group through target marketing and the implementation of special programs. To promote safety within professional racing NASCAR has invested in new technology and is stringent on safety procedure. NASCAR plans continue emphasizing safety and research to make the sport safer than ever. The company also plans to pursue more green initiatives to reduce its carbon footprint. As the economy improves the company will to aggressively address these topics...
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...promotion company in the world. Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport. It allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques. There are numerous types of mixed martial arts including boxing, wrestling, kickboxing, karate, and taekwondo. II. General Environmental Analysis a. Technology Mixed martial arts have been around for a long time. It was first introduced in the original Olympic Games in Athens. In the beginning, fighters used a combination of Hellenic boxing a wrestling to fight. They could use any of their abilities until they had the other opponent knocked unconscious or surrender. There were no rules or guidelines to the fighting; it was all or nothing. Different combat sports evolved over the years into different areas of the world. This made the popularity of pakration decline. As time went on, rules and regulations were developed for the fighters and the technological advances helped this sport take off. b. Demographics This industry is mainly viewed by males, although some females are also interested in the industry. From personal experience, males enjoy watching a fight more than females do. The industry attracts an age group mainly between 18 and 36. No matter what race or ethnicity we are, fighting is in our DNA. This is not intended as a racial sport against another race or kind. Many young children and adults are taking classes in this type of industry to have a better understanding of personal protection. I will admit...
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...Football in America by Jeannie Ray SPM/210 - SOCIO-CULTURAL ELMNTS OF SPORT: PLAYING WELL W/OTHERS DR DION DALY August 6, 2011 Football In America American football has a long legacy in American History. It can be traced back centuries to early European cutures, influenced through the years by multiple people, changed the rules and has become a National phenomenon for Americans. American football is over 100 years old and still going strong. It has inspired songs, movies and motivated individuals to great heights in their careers and lives. American football originated with its earlier form of play that derived from a variation of the sport Rugby in 1892. There are mentions of Native Americans playing ball games but, modern American football originates in traditional ball games played at villages and schools in Europe dating many centuries before America was settled by Europeans. Reports of early settlers at Jamestown, Virginia playing games with inflated balls in the early 17th century have been noted in history also. American football is the result of several major divergences from its earlier form of rugby. The introduction of the line of scrimmage and down-and- distance are among the first major changes of the game Rugby to its conversion to American football by Walter Camp. Walter Camp is considered as the father of football. The changes that he incorporated into collegiate football became dominant in the United...
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...resort to using it without getting caught. It’s helped the game develop into the game we see today, with players breaking home run records and pitchers pitching Cy Young worthy numbers. Steroids have caused a rift between who should or shouldn’t be in the Hall of Fame because it helped them get a competitive boost with the use of an injection or cream, while others played naturally and legally. While I believe that steroids have its advantages in athletes, it is just another way athletes can gain a competitive boost. If steroids were to be legalized, all athletes would have the chance to compete at the same level, but in a much higher and competitive environment. The stadiums would be more electric and games would be more exciting for the fans to enjoy....
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