Jay Mohr slamdunks WNBA
I’m not a real big fan of Jay Mohr, but, hey, when the guy’s right, he’s right, and Mohr couldn’t have been more right about the woeful WNBA, the NHL of women’s sports: It’s totally pointless and nobody cares.
Do you know anybody who has ever watched a game? Have you ever spoken about the WNBA at work? At home? Anywhere? The NBA and the networks that have aired the sport have tried in vain for far too long to prop up this league as entertainment. If you are entertained by 7-foot, 225-pound women from Poland who have less basketball skills than the worst NBA D-Leaguer then I guess you are one of the few people who cares.
I can’t say I agree with Mohr at all but that is personal preference. What got to me was the mysoginy he exibits. Even as a man looking at a womens game it stuck out to me like a sore thumb. He really didn’t comment on the game but rather made insinuations about the fans. His disclaimer, meant I’m sure to be humorous, was the worst. Not all men feel the WNBA is horrible, nor should this be a men vs. women issue when it comes to fans. Check my blog for a more complete writing on my view of it.
Comment by jens — September 16, 2005 @ 11:21 am
I took his point to be that WNBA has a very narrow fan base and simply doesn’t deserve the promotion its given by the NBA and whatever network is showing the WNBA playoffs (ESPN2?).
That’s not misogynistic, but rather a level-headed realization that not all sports work as well for women as they do for men, commercially speaking. Women’s tennis and beach volleyball, on the other hand, have bested their male counter parts.
Comment by bruxander — September 16, 2005 @ 12:21 pm
[...] I recently referred to WNBA as the NHL of women’s sports, thus declaring my disdain for both NHL and WNBA in one fell swoop. Well, perhaps not so much disdain as pity. Both leagues have TV ratings that suck (and ought to suck the life out of both organizations), albeit at different levels (yes, WNBA’s ratings are that bad. But the NHL at least used to be fun, with free-flowing breakaway play and lots of scoring. Over the last several years the NHL has become a major snooze fest, a carnival of holding, hooking, high sticking and zone trapping. I didn’t miss the NHL one bit when it went on its year-long labor-conflict hiatus. Heck, I hadn’t even missed NHL when it was around. Like most people, I couldn’t care less about the league. [...]
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