For whatever reason, I was watching the late local news on CBS. Sports came on, and they talked about the men's NCAA tournament and the NBA before going to commercial break. Then they came back from commercial and said, "Who says there's no local teams dancing?" (Aviva, etc.: "dancing" is the term they use for what you do in the NCAA tournament)
Then the local New Jersey station proceeded to give 1.5 seconds to the Rutgers women, one of the top teams in the nation. The extent of the coverage was something along the lines of, "Rutgers beat VCU in the first round today."
And that was it.
Now I understand that the women's tournament isn't as insanely popular as the men's tournament. But, seriously? We're in New Jersey, this is the only team this entire state has in the tournament, Rutgers recently beat UConn, a No. 1 seed, and people actually do give half a shit about the Rutgers women. So you bury it at the end of the newscast and devote less time to that than the news side gives to lookit-the-cute-doggy stories? Seriously????
2 comments:
lol, thanks. (though why in the world do they call it that?)
as for the time allotments: cause people like me will watch the cute puppy stories cause they're cute. and people who like sports tend not to be into women's sports. it's a problem of no audience, not no importance.
There is an audience. I went to a Rutgers women's game a couple of weeks ago and it was sold out. We're in NJ with one of the top teams in the country in our backyard -- people care more than two seconds worth.
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