jimi18
10-25-2005, 11:09 PM
Link:http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1600706,00.html
Whether as a gesture of Yankee humility or plain contest-rigging, the World Series of Darts will award the champion $100,000 (£56,000) if he's British, and $1m if he's American.
One might well ask why televised darts has drawn such a large audience in Britain, though at least it's a home-grown weakness. Besides, terrestrially bound Britons have an excuse. Stuck with five increasingly desperate channels, what else can they watch? But American cable subscribers have at least 300 channels to choose from. How seriously south do their marriages need to have plunged that they might select, of all things, darts?
Whether as a gesture of Yankee humility or plain contest-rigging, the World Series of Darts will award the champion $100,000 (£56,000) if he's British, and $1m if he's American.
One might well ask why televised darts has drawn such a large audience in Britain, though at least it's a home-grown weakness. Besides, terrestrially bound Britons have an excuse. Stuck with five increasingly desperate channels, what else can they watch? But American cable subscribers have at least 300 channels to choose from. How seriously south do their marriages need to have plunged that they might select, of all things, darts?