Posts Tagged ‘NFL’

Reversal of (Fine) Fortunes

In a very surprising move on Wednesday, the NFL announced harsh penalties against the New Orleans Saints over the now infamous bounty scandal. Coach Sean Payton was suspended without pay for the upcoming season, GM Mickey Loomis was suspended without pay for the first eight games of the season and assistant head coach Joe Vitt [...]

Is NASCAR Missing the Mark with Social Media?

Do you follow NASCAR on Twitter? I noticed this week, in comparison to other sports sanctioning bodies, NASCAR’s Twitter following is pitiful (TC and I would take in a second though). Consider this: NASCAR has 31,708 followers The NFL has 1,839,492 followers The NBA has 2,204, 132 followers MLB has 1,055,408 followers The NHL has [...]

NASCAR Perception and the Media

Following Talladega and comments by NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston on his blog, there has been a lot of discussion of the coverage of NASCAR races; more importantly how that coverage is shaping the audience’s perception of what they’re seeing. All I can say is, it’s about time. Earlier this year I took up the topic [...]

Ask The Insiders Wednesday #42

One Chase race down, nine to go.  It’s Wednesday again, so if you’ve got questions, we try really hard to have answers.  If you don’t know what this post is, until further notice, we will be answering any and all reader questions every Wednesday, right here.  So if you’ve got one, click on the ”Ask the [...]

2011 Could Be A Good Year For NASCAR

In the name of transparency I’ll tell you I’m kind of borrowing this idea from a piece Art Weinstein at Scene Daily wrote addressing how NASCAR can’t match the success of the NFL. Namely I pulled this idea from his comment about the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) being up in 2011. Well the NFL [...]

NASCAR’s Perception Problem

I think I should probably just start a problem series. I have been writing about it a lot lately. But I digress… At the beginning of the season many in the media would have had you believing the world was crashing in on us. They were predicting empty race tracks, fleeing sponsors and failing teams. [...]

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