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Originally Posted by ThrobProng
The root of the problem is that women's sports...especially team sports...generally aren't as entertaining as men's sports. If there was money to be made, people would invest in them, including plenty of men.
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That’s bullshit. Women’s tennis is arguably just as popular as men’s despite way less marketing, or at least it was when Serena was around.
Women’s soccer, last years debacle aside, is extremely popular. It was underinvested for decades and I’m guessing when Nike started raking in billions they realized how damn stupid they were for not promoting it sooner.
And women’s pro volleyball is only just now getting started.
There was money to be made but no one with the proactive foresight to realize it. It’s chicken or the egg because you are assuming that without world class facilities, marketing, mega media deals some of these sports wouldn’t take off.