{"id":279,"date":"2016-03-02T10:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/?p=279"},"modified":"2016-03-02T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T18:50:54","slug":"becca-pizzi-vs-peyton-manning-millennials-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/2016\/03\/02\/becca-pizzi-vs-peyton-manning-millennials-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Becca Pizzi vs. Peyton Manning, Millennials to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_284\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284\" class=\"wp-image-284 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/files\/2016\/03\/Phidippides-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Phidippides\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/files\/2016\/03\/Phidippides-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/files\/2016\/03\/Phidippides.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luc-Olivier Merson&#8217;s painting depicting Pheidippides giving word of victory at the Battle of Marathon to the people of Athens. Pheidippides, having run non-stop the distance of 26.2 miles from Marathon, delivered his message and then promptly died.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/2016\/02\/25\/mannings-public-approval-unscathed-by-recent-accusations-curry-still-well-behind-lebron-kobe-in-approval-poll\/\">the most recent edition <\/a>of the Seton Hall Sports Poll, we asked 762 people from across the nation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Which athlete&#8217;s recent sports accomplishment do you most admire?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here were the choices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peyton Manning\u2019s second Super Bowl win<\/li>\n<li>Denny Hamlin\u2019s victory driving in the Daytona 500<\/li>\n<li>Kobe Bryant appearing in his 18th and last NBA All-Star game<\/li>\n<li>Becca Pizzi completing 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given the overwhelming popularity of Peyton Manning (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/maurybrown\/2016\/02\/26\/poll-shows-rehashed-sexual-assault-story-on-peyton-manning-has-zero-impact-on-his-favorability\/#6a7709b15567\">despite recent accusations<\/a>) and the Super Bowl in this country, perhaps not surprisingly, Manning won with 37% of the vote. But he was not all that far ahead of a strong 31% for runner and runner up Becca Pizzi, who completed an astonishing <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/sports\/endurance\/story\/_\/id\/14672596\/daniel-cartica-becca-pizzi-run-7-marathons-7-days-7-continents\">seven marathons on seven continents in seven days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I just said that. She ran seven marathons on seven continents in seven days (for some historical context, <em>see\u00a0<\/em>Pheidippides above, pictured after running <em>one<\/em> Marathon).<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the pack?<br \/>\nKobe Bryant\u2019s All-Star farewell had 14% and Denny Hamlin\u2019s narrow Daytona 500 victory had 7.<\/p>\n<p>But back to Becca Pizzi. Among women polled, her accomplishment was a virtual dead heat with Manning\u2019s Super Bowl win, with Pizzi coming out on top, 34 to 33.<\/p>\n<p>And within the 18 to 29 year old demographic, men and women combined?<\/p>\n<p>Not even close, Pizzi won it, doubling Manning 42 to 21%.<\/p>\n<p>From 37-31 Manning to 42 to 21 Pizzi is a 27 point swing and switch. In polling talk, that&#8217;s big ju ju.<\/p>\n<p>Marketing professionals and sponsors take heed. It has been belabored elsewhere and I will not do so here, but there is something different about this generation we have chosen to call &#8220;millennials.&#8221; And this time, I would suggest, they got it right:<\/p>\n<p>Becca Pizzi ran seven marathons on seven continents in seven days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the most recent edition of the Seton Hall Sports Poll, we asked 762 people from across the nation: Which athlete&#8217;s recent sports accomplishment do you most admire? And here were the choices: Peyton Manning\u2019s second Super Bowl win Denny&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/2016\/03\/02\/becca-pizzi-vs-peyton-manning-millennials-to-the-rescue\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[76,71,73,72,70,46,59,77,74,17,75,69],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","category-sport","tag-7-marathons-in-7-days-on-7-continents","tag-becca-pizzi","tag-denny-hamlin","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-marathon","tag-peyton-manning","tag-poll-results","tag-runner","tag-running","tag-seton-hall-sports-poll","tag-women-athletes","tag-women-in-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/sportspoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}