Happy Nye Lavalle Day!

My guess is that this person still has a high paying job in sports marketing.

 

He turned his attention to investigating mortgage fraud. His Wikipedia entry is fascinating.

 

"Lavalle was born in Detroit, Michigan and later raised in Grosse Pointe during his formative years." That explains a lot. Good at banking, clueless about sports.

 

Are you forcing me to go head-over-heels for Marcelo Balboa?

 

"Sometimes right. Sometimes wrong. Always certain."

 

My dad grew up in Grosse Pointe!

 

I probably would have said the same thing. You'd have been brave to predict the scenario of 2012. One thing that was difficult to predict in 1994 was the rise of the internet and its influence on soccer.

 

Seems like a reason for a wikipedia update.

 

Already done earlier today.

 

What a tool.

In other news, today (or yesterday, since it's past midnight now) is also that day in the future from Back to the Future

 

No, it isn't. You've been fooled by a faulty internet meme. The date in Back to the Future II was October 21, 2015.

 

Glad there is still time. I was worried that my car wasn't flying and my skateboard doesn't hover.

 

I should have known.

 

Damn. I was fooled.

 

lol, someone from bigsoccer must've updated the wikipage to include his Nostradamus prophecy on MLS.

As a side note, he did predict Nascar would enjoy popularity, but anyone could see that coming. It was talked about here in the South from mid/late 80's on... Why he predicted figure skating would be popular, I have no idea.

His list of "most hated sports" is stupid. While soccer and dogfighting are listed, the rest make a crapload of money, and aren't exactly unpopular ( PGA, Nascar, pro wrestling, Boxing)

 

Nobody has ever done that.

Wait, what?

 

So i just noticed that 52 billion were expected to watch the 94 World Cup, according to one of the linked articles. How in the world did they come up with that number?

 

Must be the same math that reports 1 billion people watching the Super Bowl.

The '94 WC had 52 games. A billion a game seems a bit optimistic. From wikipedia "The 2006 FIFA World Cup Final was watched by 715 million people, as estimated by FIFA. IPG independent media agency Initiative Worldwide estimated an average of 260 million, with 600 million who tuned for some part of the game. The independent firm Initiative Futures Sport + Entertainment estimate a reach of 638 million and an average of 322 million viewers." And that the Final, not, let's say, Tunisia vs Saudi Arabia.

 

You'd have said "absolutely no chance whatsoever" that MLS could even survive? I could understand saying the chances were small. That might have even been the most reasonable assessment at the time. But this guy's phrasing (admittedly without much context) sounds a lot like what he wants to think, as opposed to any kind of analysis.

 

When is Jim Alexander and Dean Howe Day?

From Dan Courtemanche's May 12 twitter post:
http://twitter.com/courtemancheMLS/status/197372969562017793/photo/1/large