Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site tellab1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!tellab1!heahd From: heahd@tellab1.UUCP (Dan Wood) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: American sportscasting sucks! Message-ID: <358@tellab1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 10:02:28 EDT Article-I.D.: tellab1.358 Posted: Thu Aug 2 10:02:28 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 02:25:42 EDT References: <361@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, Ill. Lines: 31 If you don't like America then get the hell out! Not all Americans are hypocrits. I for one don't buy the nonpolitical or amature status of the olympics. The super powers have been using the olympics as a political arena for years. We have the Carter (remember Jimmy "Too little too late " Carter) administration to thank for the absence of the estern block this year. It appears to me that even though the athletes don't receive direct compensation for their efforts, they certinly make their living at it. I get around ABC's coverage of the games by simply not watching them. There are other channels on the dial you know. What kind of coverage do you think some other nation's network would give the olympics if they were held on home territory? Don't you think their coverage would be biased toward the home team? Maybe the reason that ABC (which by the way is using Tellabs equipment in their communications system) is not covering events in which Americans don't compete is that the American audience for the most part is not interested in those events? Maybe we have enough pride in our country to be interested in how many Gold medals Americans have won. Maybe we shouldn't let jerks like you into this country to work or study! You certainly seem willing enough to take advantage of the benefits of this country. And then you turn around and slam the entire population because of one network's coverage of the stupid olympics! And to top it off you don't even have the guts to indicate your place of origin (except by your joy at Canada's win and America's loss, but I refuse to hold Canada or any other country responsible for one lunitic that escaped to spread ill will in a foreign land). Sorry spots fans. I know this belongs in net.flame, but I just couldn't let this idiot's remarks go by unnoticed. America Love it or leave it! DW @ ...!ihnp4!tellab1!heahd