Those $#%@^&& commercials!
Monday, September 26, 2011
You can't get any more exciting than the finishes we witnessed yesterday in the Solheim Cup and then Tour Championship. Amazing, improbable outcomes, wonderful drama. And if you stayed with both finishes, you had probably memorized some of the commercials that ran over and over again. It's wearing some of you out.
People tune in to watch golf not commercials. Three shots of players, go to commercial. Maybe the network should stop paying 6 or7 figures to these announcers, they are not worth the price. They should follow the Masters in limiting commercials and show golf. That's why we tune in.
Earl Stevenson, San Antonio, TX
It's interesting that the better the golf, the more exciting the competition, the less we notice the commercials. (You'd think it would be the opposite). It's almost as though you need a break from the tension and the ads provide that. But we get your angst, Mr. Stevenson.
Bob Carney
