Well, you have professional sports who say, “Hey, we’re selling tickets! Great!” And then you have the religious who say, “We’re bringing our message to a boatload of people! Great!”
A couple of things happen down the line:
A)The religious groups begin making demands that prove less than beneficial to the bottomline and the sports guys drop them like a bad habit.
B)The religious folks keep pandering via pop culture to what they perceive as an increasingly wider audience and in the process somehow forget the original message.
Just my opinion, but linking a “for profit” organizations with religion doesn’t seem a great strategy.
Just my opinion, but linking a “for profit” organizations with religion doesn’t seem a great strategy.
It cheapens the religious faith to allow oneself to be used in this way, IMHO.