Blog #2

Hello class mates! Today I will be talking about the franchise most of us have heard of and or played for known as I9 sports. I9, for those of you that don’t know, is a sports franchise that allows kids (ages 8-16) to play one of a variety of sports such as football, flag football, baseball, basketball, among others for a very low cost and it could even be free. To start up on of these sports franchises all you need is the tiny sum of $28,405 - $39,900. Cheap I know. The i9 Sports Association is actually celebrating the 500^th grant awarded to a deserving family. A pretty good reason to be in the news if you ask me. You see, I9 is a non profit organization dedicated to letting every child have an opportunity to participate in youth sports. For me to do this I would have to pay a total of 7.5% royalty fee. The franchisor would not help me at all. No financing and no training. Yup that’s right, they will not offer me any support with ANYTHING. Kind of messed up if you ask me. I think that this type of franchise is publicly owned since when I used to play for them, they were usually being run by someone locally. Originally I never thought that one of these things would be so expensive. Like I understood that the cost of flags and cones and shirts and stuff would cost something but I never thought that the total investment would run me about $45,900 - $86,900. And all the equipment doesn’t even come from I9 themselves. It comes from some third party like donations or one of the parents has to go pick them up from another retail store. I personally think that the I9 franchise should at least have the flags and footballs on hand so they can be delivered to the various locations of their games. And there is a ton of these things around the country. That’s right, I9 is a nationwide sports franchise so now every kid has the option to play their favorite sports.

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