This is something you would expect might happen in a third-world country, still struggling to feed itself -- not in a highly tech-savvy empire such as the United States. (Although to be fair, the so-called richest country on the planet should be ashamed of itself for still having so many homeless and starving people on their streets).
Nevertheless, as this is written, the much bally-hooed "fight" between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather should have been starting any minute.
It's not like the pay-per-view cable TV folks haven't had ample time to prepare. This bout has been months in the making.
But yet on the very cusp of the main event going off, there's a problem.
The pay-per-view system has crashed, perhaps due to a lot of late, likely drunk or high suckers trying to click and cough up $100 for what one Sports Illustrated writer recently -- and rightly -- referred to as a "glorified cholera outbreak".
Thing is, both McGregor and Mayweather have been dutifully training for this spectacle. As it drew nigh, they were no doubt on very regimented schedules. Especially on the night of the actual fight.
Every minute was already planned out. Eat, rest, nap, warm up, whatever.
Then it all got put on hold because the cable folks suffered a "technical malfunction"? This is ludicrous.
These guys are sitting in their dressing rooms waiting for the tech nerds to solve a problem they should have long anticipated and been ready for?
And the ring-side audience that coughed off mega-stupid bucks to be there sit and twiddle their thumbs? They likely had flights to catch at McCarron to get out of town. Now those could go by the wayside as well? If so, these will not be happy campers waiting for the next one.
Yep, America might well be a leader in many things, but having well thought out plans -- on a lot of fronts in recent years -- doesn't appear to be one of them.
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