Golf is pushing out of it's tight-buttoned self. Golf is looking for international direction.
Enter the vuvuzela.
How great would it be if golf fans adopted this instrument as golf's vocal chord?
Soccer fans have been using this horn for years to provide a rallying cry for their homeland. Some love it...mostly the media hates it...but one thing is for certain...passionate fans love it.
I think the golf gods should try it at the Phoenix Open this year as a pilot. Then, introduce it to The Ryder Cup, and all International events.
Want golf to be as popular as soccer? Get passionate fans of whole countries involved. This goes way beyond a stuffy Cutter & Buck polo shirt with a country flag on it. I'm talking boistrous-ness.
Then, when a Graeham McDowell comes out of nowhere to win the US Open...it makes more than front-page news...
...It invigorates a whole country overseas, as well as a country of our nation's immigrants.
And that's how to create passion.
Thanks for reading. Keep it in the short-grass,
JFB
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
History of a decade
10 years ago Tiger Woods won The US Open by an astounding 15 golf shots. A feat that would become his springboard to the infamous "Tiger Slam" and the pinnacle of his career.
Looking back, there were a few pinnacle's that defined the decade. Let's take a look back 10 years ago to see what else was at the top:
The Dot-com bubble was about to burst...the Nasdaq peaked above 5000 for the first time...and the last.
AOL bought Time Warner for over 160 billion...marking the peak of the Dot-com greed that pervaded Wall Street.
George Bush accepted the Republican nomination. The peak of Republican popularity.
Roger Clemens throws the jagged bat of Mike Piazza's at him as he runs to first. The peak of one of the greatest pitchers of all time.
Reliever John Rocker disparaged himself on a subway train at the peak of his career.
Olympic wrestling peaked with an astounding triumph of Gold for heavyweight Rulon Gardner.
Quite a lot did happen in the last decade that, have redefined sports and Capitalism. This year should mark another start of a 10-year span that will be equally impressing...we just won't know it until 2020.
But, nothing earthshaking could happen...and it could be a boring 10 years...crazier things have happened...10 years ago, the planets aligned...and we all thought "how could it get any crazier than that"?
...maybe in this decade pigs will fly. That would be something...
...the peak of pork.
Thanks for reading. Keep it in the short-grass,
JFB
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Looking back, there were a few pinnacle's that defined the decade. Let's take a look back 10 years ago to see what else was at the top:
The Dot-com bubble was about to burst...the Nasdaq peaked above 5000 for the first time...and the last.
AOL bought Time Warner for over 160 billion...marking the peak of the Dot-com greed that pervaded Wall Street.
George Bush accepted the Republican nomination. The peak of Republican popularity.
Roger Clemens throws the jagged bat of Mike Piazza's at him as he runs to first. The peak of one of the greatest pitchers of all time.
Reliever John Rocker disparaged himself on a subway train at the peak of his career.
Olympic wrestling peaked with an astounding triumph of Gold for heavyweight Rulon Gardner.
Quite a lot did happen in the last decade that, have redefined sports and Capitalism. This year should mark another start of a 10-year span that will be equally impressing...we just won't know it until 2020.
But, nothing earthshaking could happen...and it could be a boring 10 years...crazier things have happened...10 years ago, the planets aligned...and we all thought "how could it get any crazier than that"?
...maybe in this decade pigs will fly. That would be something...
...the peak of pork.
Thanks for reading. Keep it in the short-grass,
JFB
Looking for Ottawa golf courses?
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