Earth Hour Could Mess Up Basketball Watching

By Will Brinson
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Not to be insensitive to the horrible perils that are facing our sweet, sweet Mother Urf, but is it really such a good idea to have “Earth Hour” during March Madness? Earth Hour, of course, being an hour in which the WWF (yes, the same ones that ruined wrestling) is trying to get people to have less fun. Er, help save the environment.
[quote="M-Live"]Earth Hour is similar to Earth Day, only 1/24th the duration.
At 8 p.m., organizers from the World Wildlife Fund are asking everyone to turn off nonessential lights to call attention to climate change. They hope a symbolic wave of darkness sweeps across the world, time zone by time zone.
More than 30 major cities around the world have signed up. Coca-Cola Co. will turn off its Times Square billboard in New York City. Niagara Falls will go dark. Three hours later, lights will go out on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. [/quote]
I figured I’d give the ESPN Zone in New York a shout about this little planned blackout and got the response I expected from the woman that answered the phone: “I have no idea about that,” and “I highly doubt we’ll be shutting anything down.”
Whether that ignorance is accidental or just “convenient” (and note I’m not taking a shot at EPSN here, they just have a ton of televisions in downtown New York) it doesn’t really matter -- places interested in generating revenue while getting people drunk are at the very least going to consider their televisions to be pretty freaking essential.
HT: Awful Announcing↵