1999 Women's World Cup

In class we discussed how the 1999 Women's World Cup made a mark in history for women in sport. I feel that this mark is just a small view for where women sport could go if it was promoted correctly. Take a look back in history the WNBA is still fairly new with the first game played in 1997. When the was NBA founded in 1946 no one had a clue that one day it would be a WNBA. As times change the sport world changes and different sports become popular. The reasons I feel that the 1999 Women's World Cup was so huge was because the U.S were competing, and it was in the U.S. The success of a team plays a huge role of people tuning in and following that team. For example I play football for BGSU when we win more fans come to the games but when we have a hard year a lot fans stop supporting.The video we watched in class showed how sex sells for women in sport and agree that this should be used as a marketing tool for women sports. The key is to draw people to the sport no matter the reason why they watch the sport, they key is their watching it. Women are beautiful and displaying their beauty while also displaying great athletic ability is a great for women sports. Brandi Chastain took some heat for removing her shirt but I feel because she did that awareness of the sport grew. Brandi Chastain showed that women have emotions on the field like men and it should be acceptable to display it, the removal of her shirt is one of the main events that people remember from that game. I would love to see all women sports just as successful as men sports it would open up more opportunity for every one in the sport world.