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| The show will come to an end Sunday for another four years |
I
wonder how many people don’t have a clue where to find the channel (I didn’t
until I looked it up, and figured out it was one of those channels I usually
fly right by while trying to find something worthwhile to watch).
BUT
THAT IS the reality, where the women’s national teams from the United States
and Japan will play against each other this Sunday, and Trump will give us a
girlie show (in the name of scholarship) on July 12.
The
Miss USA pageant lost its spot on the NBC network because of the fact that
Trump engaged in stupid comments about Mexico – as though someone as gauche as
he has any right thinking himself superior to anything on Planet Earth!
That
caused NBC, whose holdings also include the Spanish-language Telemundo network,
to drop the program, and also for the Univision network that would have carried
the pageant into Latin American countries to drop it as well.
There
also are a lot of business entities, including the one-time Marshal Field’s now
known as Macy’s, who are refusing to be connected to Trump anymore. No more “Trump,
the Cologne,” or any other products with his brand name.
HIS
GARISH BEHAVIOR for all these decades has always been embarrassing. But now,
his tacky mouth may wind up harming him.
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| Miss USA winds up on a channel people will have to hunt for |
Which
makes me think, “It’s about time!” The reason I haven’t felt compelled to write
anything trashing Trump for his latest Mexico rant is that it doesn’t strike me
as being any more stupid than anything else he has ever said or done. I never
paid any attention to him, then or now.
So
Trump’s program (he owns the pageant) will not draw the kind of television
attention it usually gets. Although I suspect enough people will hunt for the
program next weekend that it will be rhetorically spun into some sort of “historic”
event – for the Reelz network, at least.
Instead,
the big event may turn out to be the Women’s World Cup – which has been ongoing
for the past month and comes to its conclusion this weekend.
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| Mexico won't participate this year |
THAT
GERMANY VS. England matchup that I’m sure some people were desperately hoping
would be the championship final will wind up being the consolation match on
Saturday.
Instead,
we’re going to get that rematch of the 2011 Women’s World Cup, when a 2-2 tie
turned into a Japan victory on a shootout. The U.S. revenge comes Sunday? Or
will the ideologues be ranting on Monday about the “shame” of losing to Japan
in anything?
This
may wind up getting decent television ratings because it reflects the reality
of the U.S. sporting mentality – U.S. fans will watch soccer if they feel the
U.S. team has a good chance of winning the whole thing and dominating everyone they
play.
Anything
else is considered downright dull. As though the U.S. men’s basketball Olympic
Team is the way all sports are intended to be. They’ll watch if they think the
United States will get its first Women’s World Cup victory since 1999.
IF
ANYTHING, IT will be interesting to see just how much better soccer does than
the pageant in the ratings. Although I can already hear the rants claiming that
any ratings won’t reflect the reality that some people want to perceive.
What
really is more intriguing: 90-plus
minutes of the “beautiful game” or learning who will represent the United
States at the Miss Universe pageant come early next year?
Considering
how Mexico and other Latin American nations are considering not even
participating (and the number of pageant winners that usually come from Latin
America), could this become the Miss Universe equivalent of the 1984 Summer
Olympics – remember all the Soviet bloc nations that dropped out; weakening the
overall competition level?
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| Chastain's moment lives on |
Why
do I suspect that the upcoming star or personality of Sunday’s Women's World Cup match (remember Brandi Chastain from 1999?) will have
longer staying power in our society’s collective memory than whichever bathing
suit-clad woman wins the Miss USA pageant the following week?
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