Mark, how can you say bode doesn't care about his sport?! He grew up with NOTHING except skiing...the saddest part is that when he did win the world championships the US media wasn't even there for it! It never made big headlines and it went totally unnoticed...I think one of his reasons for signing with Nike was to help promote the sport! There is not near as much money in skiing as there was in the past. There is absolutely no money in snowboarding. Yeah, you can say omg there is Shawn white and Bode miller...two people in the entire sport make half what the guys in the NBA make. There are so many damn people in this sport that are in it just for the love it isn't even funny.
It seems a lot of people have read one or two articles about this and are passing judgement on a guy who is trying to push the sport along. His voice is multiplied ten-fold with his deal with Nike. Money talks and Nike has a HUGE budget. Is it blind faith for me to think that he is being totally self-less and doing this just for skiing, totally. He gets some money out of it, but he was simply a name burried within his sport and too many people had no idea who he was or what he did. I have rambled on and I don't think have made my point...oh well I have to go to calss and I will try to finish my point later...
