GreenDimes- Rocks or Sox?

Here at GreenDimes, and more specifically within the marketing department, the last week has strained a relationship here and there.

Yep- one of us is a Rockies fan (albeit admittedly fair-weather) and the other is a Sox fan (shudder). We tried to keep our differences outside of the office. Oh, we tried. I even held my tongue when someone came strolling in on Saturday sporting (not rockin’, for obvious reasons) a Sox cap…

In the effort of maintaining my professional relationships, I am going to focus my poor-sportsmanship not on Sanjiv but on the sport as a whole. Call it misdirected frustration if you will. Either way, you’ll find the following stats interesting. That, my friends, I would bet on (and no, I didn’t bet any money on the Rockies and yes, for this I am glad).

• I read these today: Putting on a big-time football game ends up pumping around 47.6 metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere—or just 1.35 pounds per fan. For comparison's sake, the average American's carbon footprint is 64.81 pounds per day.
• Though football games are massive productions, at least they're infrequent—an NFL stadium hosts just eight regular-season contests a season.

·      Professional baseball is much dirtier over the long haul, with each stadium hosting 81 regular-season games a year

·     DRAws an average of 2.66 million fans (vs. about 542,000 fans per NFL stadium)

There you have it. My misdirected frustration turned into an environmental FYI. And I like football better anyway.

Kendra

Comments

[Sanjiv]

I'm glad you held your fair-weather tongue :^) - the emoticon does mean i'm kidding...boss.

[pankaj]

it's not like you can take comfort in football, either. broncos or patriots? uh, yeah, good luck w/ that one.