"Jockey"

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by dean smith

At any rate, I think showing horses wiping out, and thus, showing how perilous and exciting the life of a jockey can be will only assure more people tuning in to see the show. And whether people are interested or disgusted by what they see, their thoughts will be on it, and at least the game will be promoted. There is no such thing as bad publicity. Besides, people want to see that sort of thing anyway. NASCAR has done an amazing job over the years getting people to watch and become fans with the promise that there will be crashes. .

Yeah people love seeing athletes/animals break down ,suffer and die on the track. I remeber how ecstatic everyone was when Earnhardt died at the end of the Daytona 500. In fact I think Nascar tried to promte the sport that year by running ad with the slogan "Come see who dies this week".