at Serv's PSA. Hilarious and true. Snyder is throwing feces on the field for the fans so I think it's only fair that we should throw some back at him....'er his car.
If you want to know what our team is focused on, just visit the
official site. The only ****ing thing on the homepage that doesn't have an ad slapped on it is the Redskins helmet. And they probably thought about putting one there.
It's obscene.
It's embarrassing to be a fan of this team.
You know, I hadn't noticed that before. It's a rarity that I ever go to team sites anyway but when I'd seen ours in the past I always assumed that the ridiculously large number of ads was pretty much par for the course in the Niffle. Turns out that's not the case. I picked several teams at random and found that the number of ads on these team home pages ranged anywhere from 0-3.
http://www.steelers.com/
http://www.buccaneers.com/splash.aspx
http://www.patriots.com/
http://prod.www.cardinals.clubs.nfl.com/index2.html
http://www.titansonline.com/
Now, look at our team site one more time:
http://www.redskins.com
Obviously that last was just an attempt at humor on my part.
Back to the point, it's certainly not a scientific study by any means, but it sure seems to support your point Boone.
I thought I knew at the time why Snyder wanted to get his hooks into ES. I figured he wanted access to potential customers to increase sales of team merchandise. Obviously that was one goal, but in retrospect I think it was much more about the potential for online ad sales, which not coincidentally are not subject to the NFL's revenue sharing agreement.
The traffic that place gets is probably the best leaguewide and I'm sure all those clicks bring in a buch of dough. Seeing all those ads on the site and knowing how much uncompensated time and effort the founders put into it (and still do) makes it feel well, dirty somehow. Thinking about it, obscene was the perfect choice of words Boone.
At heart I'm a staunch capitalist and a business owner myself so I certainly don't have a problem with Snyder making money. However, I'd like to see a better balance struck between making a few bucks and totally whoring out the team name and fanbase. And yes, I chose the phrase "whoring out" intentionally.
As if I needed yet another reason to be embarrassed about my team right about now.