As Wardy points out, there are potential sponsors whose industries may be considered
by some people to be unsuitable. It will be different things for different people - axe-murderers and Hillsong for Wardy, any gambling concern for some people, Tom Waterhouse specifically for others, maybe Collingwood FC for Big Al.
Gambling (in particular) has been kept at arms-length from many professional sports for what I would think are obvious reasons - The SMH has a quote from an N
FL commiss
io
ner today: ?We want to protect our game and make sure that the people believe that what they see is not influenced by anything from the outside. Gambling is at the heart of that.?
Read a tiny bit more.
For the Swans, even if the management don't
care about it, the dollars cut b
oth ways - a number of long s
tanding members have written to them saying that they will discontinue their membership if Waterhouse's spons
orship continues. I don't know how many people have done that in total - maybe only a handful. If it was getting on for three or four hundred then it should be a genuine mo
netary concern. Whilst they have got great membership numbers this year, rusted-on members are worth a lot.
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