Darkness07
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Don't let the helmets fool you. It's only rough if you're used to badmitton.
Womens lacrosse doesn't allow contact. Mens is pretty contact heavy.
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Don't let the helmets fool you. It's only rough if you're used to badmitton.
Yes.... excellent move to America's prisoner colony!
Great point about lacrosse vs disc golf. Lacrosse is infinitely more popularly played than DG, and a far greater reach in the sports world. All that exposure doesn't mean $$$.
In the end, it's a life choice to play a game/sport for a living, and the financial aspects are something you need to walk into deliberately. That's the way it is with any profession/job/business.
news to me... my bad! Excellent move
What separates these "sports" from disc golf? Is it the look of the sport? Is it the setting? Is it the appearance of the players?
Just curious if anyone had some thoughts on this.
I think that was Georgia, and it was prisoners from debtor's prison. So they are deadbeats, not violent criminals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Georgia_(U.S._state) said:English settlement began in the early 1730s after James Oglethorpe, a Member of Parliament, proposed that the area be colonized with the worthy poor of England, to provide an alternative to the overcrowded debtors' prisons. Oglethorpe and other English philanthropists secured a royal charter as the Trustees of the colony of Georgia on June 9, 1732.[6] The misconception of Georgia's having been founded as a debtor or penal colony persists due to the numerous English convicts who were sentenced to transportation to Georgia. With the motto, "Not for ourselves, but for others," the Trustees selected colonists for Georgia.
I believe the difference is whether or not the sport is a good spectator sport. The more fun it is to watch, the more money there will be for the people who are putting on the show.
Womens lacrosse doesn't allow contact. Mens is pretty contact heavy.
how do you know this,about lacrosse being more popular than dg.
Too many folks who don't get out much beyond their local area think the way things are done in their back yard are the way they're done everywhere, even when talking to people from other places.It's fun how out of whack DG'ers can be.
I commented on a FB graph last night that showed % of sale for each DG company, with Innova at about 74% (which sounds about right to me). One of the comments below it stated that the graph was completely off, because everyone he knows throws Prodigy, so it's probably more like 60% Prodigy in all disc sales. I mean...seriously??
Professional Dart throwers, how much do they make a year?
How did bowling go from recreational sport to "professional" sport?
If we look at another sport that started around the same time as Disc Golf; how did Skateboarding go from renegade sport to "X games" level?
How did Bass fishing become a multi-million dollar a year sport?
What separates these "sports" from disc golf? Is it the look of the sport? Is it the setting? Is it the appearance of the players?
Just curious if anyone had some thoughts on this.
Dart earnings. This is a game played in smoky bars, by beer swilling guys. Getting most to wear a collared shirt is a challenge. I dabbled in this as a younger man back in the 80's. Not quite as lucrative here as overseas, but the advent of electronic darts has opened up some additional cash revenue streams for players.
1 Michael van Gerwen Holland £770,535 = $1,280,706.22
2 Phil Taylor England £599,522 = $996,225.71
3 Adrian Lewis England £364,622 = $ 606,366.39
4 Simon Whitlock Australia £228,922 = $380,790.80
5 Peter Wright Scotland £225,950 = $375,800.04
Is that a year of earnings, or lifetime?
I believe the difference is whether or not the sport is a good spectator sport. The more fun it is to watch, the more money there will be for the people who are putting on the show.