As WNBA expansion continues, ownership of the NWSL's KC Current — which includes Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany — has met with the WNBA and is in contention to bring the league's next franchise to Kansas City. Mahomes also co-owns the KC Royals and Sporting KC. pic.twitter.com/9kd2VXzWR3
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
Women's basketball is absolutely thriving. The year before Caitlin Clark came in the WNBA had there highest revenue ever and doubled it from $100 mil to $200 mil. I have no desire to watch it, but that doesn't mean other people don't.
It absolutely isn't look at the attendance of games that she wasn't playing in [Reply]
Originally Posted by jd1020:
It's fine to have goals. At some point reality comes knocking, however. WNBA will never be as successful as NBA because the majority of people that watch sports want to watch the absolute best at it and that doesn't involve women.
I think Alex Morgan, Serena and Caitlin clark buck that. With women’s sport it isn’t about being the best in the world, it’s about being the best relative to your competition. Of course all these athletes would get smoked playing against men but they’ve had enormous viewership anyway. [Reply]
Originally Posted by sedated:
Since its women's sport related, a bar is opening in KC that will cater to women's sports. I don't see this turning out well.
Originally Posted by sedated:
Since its women's sport related, a bar is opening in KC that will cater to women's sports. I don't see this turning out well.
They’ve had proofs of concepts in other markets that have apparently done very well and it’s an untapped niche since you’ll never find a sports bar with women’s games on. As I’ve said before I think people continue to think of this as grown ass adults and haven’t considered that the target is more like the kids softball team. [Reply]
Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501:
They’ve had proofs of concepts in other markets that have apparently done very well and it’s an untapped niche since you’ll never find a sports bar with women’s games on. As I’ve said before I think people continue to think of this as grown ass adults and haven’t considered that the target is more like the kids softball team.
If its a kids market then why make it into a bar, where kids can't go? [Reply]
Originally Posted by sedated:
If its a kids market then why make it into a bar, where kids can't go?
I have no idea how those places work or plan to work. But I always see little league teams at our sports bars during the day. They get to heat pizza and fries while adults have a beer and some wings. Why wouldn’t a kid love that while you have all kinds of sports on tv [Reply]