Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Advertising In Sports #2

On a previous blog post, I wrote about how the Reese's sticker on the basketball court made a player slip, turnover the ball, almost hurt himself, and almost lose the game.  The other night I was watching a Red Sox and Blue Jays baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston.  The first baseman on the Blue Jays Adam Linn hit a shot down the right field line and it was heading towards "Pesky Pole," the right field foul pole, and it was ruled a home run, three-run homerun.  After later review, the call was reversed.  There are three yellow foul lines in different positions because of a Scotts lawn care advertisement on the padded wall.

Are companies and/or sport organizations going too far in letting companies advertise in a stadium or coliseum that change the aspects of how the game is played?


Here is a link to an article written on this dilemma.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110415&content_id=17815384&vkey=news_bos&c_id=bos

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