[Zakeet]

Sports teams still leave sizable environmental footprints ... Fans usually drive to stadiums or arenas that use large amounts of power, water and other resources. Once there, they generate enormous amounts of waste ... Add in vehicle and aircraft emissions from the teams' long-distance travel, plus pollution related to the materials that go into building and maintaining the sports facilities.

Nevertheless, we're still going to do our part to help by using recycled paper for tickets, and recycled threads for our carpets, and handing out lots of environmental awareness promotional material which will promptly wind up in landfills.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Good points. If sports wanted to really reduce their carbon footprints, they would do a number of things, such as:

1. realign the divisions and schedules in sports so that teams don’t have to travel as much to other parts of the country for their games.

2. play more day games in baseball.

3. play more football games on Sunday afternoons rather than nights during the week or even Sunday nights.

4. play more double-headers in baseball. They used to have double-headers on many Sundays during baseball season.

Yep it seems like such a silly symbolic gesture for them to do all this to raise environmental awareness among the fans.

I wonder how big the carbon footprint was on that Al Gore concert last summer, held to raise environmental awareness?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Coordinators are doing things such as ordering a giant red carpet made of recycled fibers....

Which they're laying down in mid-town Manhattan in the middle of the day...thus causing massive traffic problems.

[rexgrossmansonlyfan]

I think idiotic things like this are more likely to turn off fans. I go to a baseball or football game to enjoy my Cubs or Bears and forget about the world for a few hours.

I want to enjoy a baseball game tonight not be preached to.

[toddlintown]

I’ve been doing my part at U.S. Cellular Field. Just last week, I kissed my girlfriend between the strikes, and she kissed me between the balls.

[Dixie Yooper]

Maybe they need to play the All Star game without the lights on tonight. Maybe MLB, the NFL and NCAA need to go back to day time games and events. How green can they go if they really care?

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !