On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 23:18, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 
> > >On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 16:36, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
> > >
> > >>Do you ever watch sports?  Take the US Open that just wrapped up last 
> > >>weekend.
> > >>
> > >
> > >Yeah. But for the tennis, I far prefer watching Wimbledon. They don't
> > >take adverts.
> > 
> > Someone should tell their sponsors then.
> > 
> > http://championships.wimbledon.org/en_GB/about/sponsors.html
> 
> Sponsors are not adverts. Sponsors get to say they are the "official
> supplier of X to The Championships Wimbledon" on the packaging of their
> products, and in some cases their actual *products* appear at the
> championships. There are, though, no advertisements there.

So, the few times I did manage to catch Wimbledon, the three dark green 
letters plastered over the light green wall of the court just happened to 
be the same 3 letters used in the logo of the main sponsor? Oh wait, it 
looks like it might just be a non-blue version of their logo ... well what 
do you know, isn't that a coincidence?

Regards,
Buchan

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