Posted on 12/31/2021 4:50:55 AM PST by Libloather
Link only - https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2021/12/31/nascar-driver-brandon-browns-new-anti-biden-paint-scheme-limbo/9059843002/
Brandon Brown had a problem. Nobody wanted to sponsor him, because of the slogan. So, eventually, he accepted the only possible option! The cancel culture got him there.
Let’s go Brandon!
Drop in attendance and tv viewing
Once nascar went woke nascar started on the path to broke
But, but but.... I thought “LGB” stood for “lesbian, gay, bisexual” !
Mars joins major companies and brands like Lowe’s, Home Depot, 5-Hour Energy, Target, Dollar General and Sprint that have exited or are exiting NASCAR entirely over the past decade. The United States’ largest auto racing sanctioning body has seen fans gradually leave over the past 15 years while team costs have only gotten more and more expensive. The addition of Mars to the list above is a body blow to a series that is still trying to figure out where it now fits on the sports landscape after an early and mid-2000s boom.
Yes....viewership down 50% over 10 years.
Viewership was building until 2014.
Collapsed in 2018.
I posit with 100% confidence it was the Confederate flag propaganda attack.
Owners, teams, sponsors, drivers all folded nearly 100%.
NASCAR originated from a strong, masculine, Southern, rural sub-culture married to American industrial and automotive power/dominance.
The Big City metro-sexual money boys got involved as a cash cow, held their customers in condescending contempt...and crapped in their own coffeepot.
A gladiatorial sport extolling American manhood that thumbs its nose at the gay, urban, effeminate rich boy overlords who have limo’s and drivers just cannot be allowed to live.
Just my opinion and I do not feel strongly about it.
https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/daytona-500-ratings-viewership-history/
BUT! The bastards defiled the General Lee.
I hope they all smoke pig wieners in Hades.
What's the problem?
I assume NASCAR has to approve sponsors and car paint schemes.
I agree with your observations.
The other odd thing they did was to reduce the stand size dramatically in some locations. Some thought they didn’t want to show empty stands but maybe they were making it difficult for the fans to ever come back. Sort of scorched earth.
Trump should pick a running mate with the first or last name ‘Brandon’. Liberal heads would explode
So it really boils down to this: Does Brandon think he can take the heat?
Like you I would love to see Brandon Brown press ahead with the sponsorship. And if it were ‘just him’ he might want to do that. But what will happen is that his agent, team owner, crew chief, family members will all collectively get ‘cold feet’ and begin to pressure him. These people are the most important people in his life and career. This is why it’s exceptional to see a person stick to a decision like this that cuts against the media consensus.
The blm thing almost drove me away.
But the thing I hate even worse are the damn commercials.
Instead of going to them during cautions , they increase more as the race progresses
And the whole screen inside screen. Where Im squinting at a 12 inch picture on my 40 inch tv seriously torqes my jaws.
We get to see lots of laps in the first laps, and maybe 1/4 of the laps at the end of the race.
And going to commercials in the last 30 or 20 laps is about to be the final straw.
Any more woke crap or commercials crap or tiny screen in big screen and I’ll be done with it.
Oh, marketing guys, I actively DONT and WONT buy any product I see advertised on tv, cuz your products commercials irritate me so much . when I’m in the store and I see your product I get irritated all over again and think” screw that brand” and by the off label brand.
You guys live in an echo chamber of fake data and are just scamming each other imho.
This is why your viewing numbers are talking.
It’s not racing with some commercials
It’s commercials with very little racing.
This is why your viewing numbers are t a n k I n g.
IIRC they banned the Confederate flag years ago. They alienated their Southern base. The "Woke" is spreading and fans are responding in kind.
You are so right, Pig. The irony is just too good ... a panicky attempt by the servant class to cover up for their guy, hilariously results in a joyful slogan for the opposition. The state of journalism today encapsulated and illuminated in a three-word sentence.
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He needs sponsors and most are woke. He is trying to be non-political and open to all, which is a good place to be as a businessman.
The woketards won’t let him be, so he is forced to embrace what he can.
WOKENESS
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