In the US,it’s traditionally the money men who collect their hands on the trophy. but they’re not the ones who beget put their bodies through hellNo one has ever tuned into a sporting event to watch a team’s owner. There are no kids who beget posters of their favorite owners on their bedroom walls. No one has ever dropped 200 bucks on a replica team-owner suit coat jersey. There aren’t fantasy leagues based on which owners can put up the biggest revenues.
Yet whether you see a game on TV or watch a post-championship ceremony, someone apparently thinks team owners are among the biggest superstars of all. We collect frequent shots of them high over the field in their luxury boxes, or as staffers and associates they allowed into their suite enthusiastically congratulate them after each touchdown (that they had absolutely nothing to do with scoring). And when their team wins a championship – in the US at least – the trophy goes to the owner first to ramble on approximately whatever while 100 million people at domestic wonder why a player or coach or anyone of actual consequence isn’t getting to talk. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com