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Posted on 10/22/2008 5:37:30 PM PDT by glock rocks
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Please pray on this day, and every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return.
>John Zogby told me today that 50% of NASCAR fans support the One.<
When you are out in public, remember that 50% of the people around you support a Communist. Some of us will understand if you can’t control yourself and start shooting. Also remember that others in that crowd may also be armed so your moment of glory could be very short lived!
I suggest that you avoid crowds.
Pretty good chance of rain on friday so I geuss practice will get whipped out. I believe sunday should be sunny and in the 60’s.
Do you have a source for that...
Shoot a mo’ humpin’ moose 8 days of the week.
The singular most funny line of that SNL rap. I’m still laughing my arse off watching it!
The "Manny, Moe and Jack" portion of the name was added after Manny and Moe visited California and saw a dress shop called "Minnie, Maude and Mabel's." Manny and Moe's visit to California also started a new market for the company. Manny's brother Murray Rosenfeld opened the West Coast operation in 1933 and Pep Boys began to grow on both sides of the country. The company reached about 159 stores around 1986.
I know there was a Pep Boys in FResno in 1951 because I bought a spot light from them for my 38 Chevy...
Good shot! I have hardly been on the ‘thon thead at all. Looks like it’s trudging along a little better than last time.
OORAH!
I'm ready!
A tad late, but I got it. Thanks!
Thanks for the ping. How great would it be if Awesome Bill had an awesome day. That’s about as likely as the 43 doing so I guess. Oh, well. Does anyone know how many chasers have been mathematically eliminated?
As Detroit struggles, stock-car racing sponsorship gets scaled back
By Liz Clarke
updated 1:22 a.m. ET, Thurs., Oct. 23, 2008
For decades, the success of NASCAR’s brand of high-octane, fender-banging stock-car racing has been intertwined with the fortunes of the U.S. automotive industry. NASCAR victories represented a nod to Detroit’s ingenuity. And showroom sales, in turn, were credited to the exploits on race day. As the marketing adage went: “What wins on Sunday, sells on Monday!”
But with the Big Three U.S. automakers struggling to survive, they have begun to dramatically scale back their financial involvement in NASCAR, threatening the economic model that has driven the sport’s popularity. Other corporate sponsors that helped transform stock-car racing from a workingman’s pastime into the country’s dominant form of auto racing also are scaling back their investment as a result of the sagging economy. Some companies may not renew their commitments — many of which run more than $10 million — when current contracts expire.
“The U.S. enjoyed a pretty robust economy that enabled the sport to grow, but that has changed significantly in the last six months,” said Terry Dolan, manager of Chevy Racing. “And it’s probably going to drastically affect what the sport may look like 12 months from now.”
Sports of all stripes are feeling the brunt of the global economic crisis. With season-ticket renewals lagging in the National Basketball Association, Commissioner David Stern has announced cuts in staffing at league offices. The National Football League is revisiting its labor agreement with players as a potential way of paring expenses. The Washington Nationals still haven’t found a buyer for naming rights to their new baseball stadium, while Philadelphia’s NBA arena is bracing for another name change now that its rights holder, Wachovia Bank, has been gobbled up by Wells Fargo.
Individual and Olympic sports, which rely on corporate money more heavily, are feeling the squeeze as well. The U.S. Olympic Committee lost its $1 billion sponsorship from General Motors following the Beijing Games. In January, golf’s hallowed Masters tournament lost its sponsorship from Cadillac. And insurance giant AIG, which averted collapse only after the federal government bought 80 percent of the company, is bowing out of its long-standing sponsorship of the U.S. Davis Cup tennis team, the Associated Press reported last week.
But NASCAR is expected to get hit harder than traditional stick-and-ball sports because of its overwhelming dependence on corporate dollars. The 43 cars that start every race are essentially 200-mph billboards, advertising Miller beer, M&Ms, Office Depot — virtually every product in the basket of American consumer goods — not to mention the U.S. Army and, as of last Sunday, the Federal Communications Commission, which is using the No. 38 Ford to publicize next year’s conversion to digital broadcasting.
Corporate sponsors account for roughly 80 percent of the typical NASCAR team’s budget — roughly four times the percentage of an NFL team, which gets the majority of its revenue from the league’s lucrative TV contracts and ticket sales.
But just four months before the 2009 season-opening Daytona 500, two of NASCAR’s most revered teams, Petty Enterprises and Dale Earnhardt Inc., are searching for sponsors to bankroll four of the six racecars they intend to field between them.
To stay marginally competitive, seven-time NASCAR champion Richard Petty sold a controlling interest in his family’s race team to an investment firm, Boston Ventures, earlier this year. Three other NASCAR teams have raised capital in the same manner. Now Petty Enterprises is entertaining three proposals to merge with a rival team — among them, the one founded by the late Dale Earnhardt — to remain viable.
“Nothing could stay as hot as NASCAR was,” said Peter DeLorenzo, a former automotive advertising executive and editor of the Autoextremist.com blog. “It had to have some sort of a correction.”
More at WAPO, Someone sent this to me and I can’t find the link sorry,
link (and the second half of the article):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27331838/
Thanks for the link.
This will definitely hurt Nascar.
If 0 is elected it may kill Nascar, after all we’re all a bunch of rednecks.
Can you pleasego out and close the gate, it’s getting cold down here.
Can you pleasego out and close the gate, it’s getting cold down here.
I guess with the lack of posts here we should tap twice. :-)
It was darn cold here last night as well. I have a bit of a cold virus I picked up from somewhere, so not feeling great. Hot toddy should be in order.
I guess with the lack of posts here we should tap twice. :-)
It was darn cold here last night as well. I have a bit of a cold virus I picked up from somewhere, so not feeling great. Hot toddy should be in order.
LOL, I’m still on a laptop, so I have an excuse! :)
It was OK last night, but tonight it’s supposed to be 45 tonight.
Hope you get to feeling better, think whatever you have is already making the rounds down here.
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