{"id":257,"date":"2007-01-13T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T05:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/simon-says\/la-with-beckham"},"modified":"2007-01-13T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T05:22:12","slug":"la-with-beckham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"LA with Beckham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Superstar David Beckham is coming to the Galaxy in LA.\u00a0 Here is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wboc.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=5925415&#038;nav=menu222_6\">the AP story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/356555141\/Beckhamjpg.html\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Beckham.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/146\/356555141_1b354cc8be_m.jpg?resize=180%2C135\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The analogy that this story reminds me of is in the 1960&#8217;s when Japanese car companies started selling cars in California.\u00a0 Detroit said in effect it&#8217;s only California not to worry.\u00a0 Forty years later that seems like a bad call.\u00a0 The analogy is to the NFL, which has not had a team in the second biggest market in the country for more than a decade.\u00a0 LA does have a Pro Soccer Team and now it has Beckham the biggest draw in soccer.\u00a0 Football is the most popular sport in the USA but that it will stay that way is not guaranteed.\u00a0 If the NFL doesn&#8217;t recapture this market soon soccer will gain an unassailable foothold in the USA in the same way that the Japanese car companies did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Superstar David Beckham is coming to the Galaxy in LA.\u00a0 Here is the AP story The analogy that this story reminds me of is in the 1960&#8217;s when Japanese car companies started selling cars in California.\u00a0 Detroit said in effect it&#8217;s only California not to worry.\u00a0 Forty years later that seems like a bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-49","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}