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Slakemoth on Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:26 pmfrom an ESPN article...made me laugh.... this is so true.. ( ever seen a dopey looking Dutch fan?.... uh, nope!)
WHY DO TELEVISION CAMERAS INSIST ON PICKING OUT THE
WEIRDEST-LOOKING AMERICAN FANS? Pick a team --
Slovakia, Serbia or North Korea, it matters not -- when the ball bounces
out of bounds, the directors are guaranteed to turn to what pioneering
ABC television sports director Andy Sidaris called the "honey shot": a
cutaway to a stunning lady, most often a buxom blond, sure to thicken
the blood of global viewers, irrespective of their mother tongue. The
one exception is when the U.S. plays. Am I alone in believing the South
African producers seem to derive a perverse delight from closing in on
the saddest-looking American fans they can find, casting this great
country of ours as a bedraggled bunch of saddies, ginger of hair,
retainered of teeth, droopy of oversized hat, crying out for a footy-fan
extreme makeover?
WHY DO TELEVISION CAMERAS INSIST ON PICKING OUT THE
WEIRDEST-LOOKING AMERICAN FANS? Pick a team --
Slovakia, Serbia or North Korea, it matters not -- when the ball bounces
out of bounds, the directors are guaranteed to turn to what pioneering
ABC television sports director Andy Sidaris called the "honey shot": a
cutaway to a stunning lady, most often a buxom blond, sure to thicken
the blood of global viewers, irrespective of their mother tongue. The
one exception is when the U.S. plays. Am I alone in believing the South
African producers seem to derive a perverse delight from closing in on
the saddest-looking American fans they can find, casting this great
country of ours as a bedraggled bunch of saddies, ginger of hair,
retainered of teeth, droopy of oversized hat, crying out for a footy-fan
extreme makeover?
