For Shame Disney! Shame on You!

This is a must read article about how Disney milks the dreams of young Pop Warner players to the tune of millions of dollars.

In order to participate in the Pop Warner national football and cheerleading championships in December, children on teams nationwide were required to stay at Disney hotels and buy tickets to other parks within Walt Disney World. Pop Warner stands all but alone among organizations that impose such requirements on teams competing for national titles at the Disney complex. The vast majority of other child athletes travel there either to participate in invitational events with much less at stake than a national championship, or in competitive tournaments in which they face less restrictive requirements for lodging and amusement passes.

Disney is usually so PR conscious that I can't believe that they would reveal such a crass money-grubbing face to the public. If they donated the hotels and the tickets to the participating teams - the goodwill and PR would make great commercials along the lines of "I'm going to Disney World" commercials showing the winning QB of the Super Bowl. Instead Disney comes off looking like a company of blood suckers. Shame on you Disney. Shame on you.