Eventually The Bean Counters Will Overcome The Marketing Pukes

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It will be very, very, soon at this rate.

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It’s just like how do you become a Millionaire?

Be a Billionaire and get a crazy, high maintenance girlfriend.

It’s the same principal.

16 thoughts on “Eventually The Bean Counters Will Overcome The Marketing Pukes”

    • Yes, yes they did.

      Remember, this is the same NASCAR that had a hissy-fit over a garage door pull. Who’d NASCAR punish over it? Not the bullshit artist who screamed “Noose” but the fans who didn’t give a shit.

      • Here, copy/pasted it.

        Talladega track did not hold Pride event, low-attendance claim is satirical
        By Reuters Fact Check
        June 23, 202311:45 AM PDTUpdated 6 months ago

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        No LGBTQ+ Pride-themed race was held at the Talladega Superspeedway, contrary to online claims that the fabricated event set a record for the lowest attendance in the track’s history.

        An image of empty stands miscaptioned as showing the NASCAR track in Alabama originated on satirical websites, but the photo was altered from a 2017 image of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway unrelated to Pride events.

        Online posts sharing the image featuring a large rainbow-colored banner, however, included comments such as, “What genius thought this was a good idea?” and garnered responses suggesting that some users thought the story was authentic (here).

        The altered image and headline first appeared in a June 2 article on satirical news website Dunning-Kruger Times headlined: “Talladega ‘Pride Day’ Achieves Lowest Attendance in Track History, Setting a Record.” The same article was later published by the website Sportal X, and shared online (here) and (here).

        The image purporting to show a Pride event at the Talladega racetrack is originally an Associated Press file photo of a NASCAR Brickyard 400 race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis in 2017 (bit.ly/44fpcqZ). The photograph has been altered to add the Pride banner, and a Dunning-Kruger logo on a balloon-like structure behind the stands. The original photo’s caption notes the poor attendance at the stadium but makes no mention of a Pride event: “From tens of thousands of empty seats at the tracks to dwindling ratings for those watching at home, NASCAR has a popularity problem.”

        The Talladega Superspeedway’s official website also makes no mention of a “Pride Day” event having taken place there (shorturl.ac/7aipg).

        Organizer NASCAR and representatives of Talladega Superspeedway did not respond to a request for comment.

        Both Dunning-Kruger Times and Sportal X offer the disclaimer that their websites publish satirical content (dunning-kruger-times.com/29-2/) and (sportalix.com/about/). Reuters has previously fact-checked several claims made by Dunning-Kruger Times (here), (here) and (here).

        VERDICT

        False. The Talladega Superspeedway did not host a Pride event that set a record for lowest attendance. The claim stems from a satirical website.

        This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts .

  6. Meh! I’ll go back to NASCAR when they return to racing. I stopped watching when they had WWF wrestlers perform.

    • For me, it was watching three hours of advertisements occasionally interrupted by cars going in a circle.

  7. I was a hardcore race fan, long before NASCAR got popular. Then when they did, I was glad my sport finally made it. Then they decided that a champion wasn’t the guy who was the best all year, but the team which got lucky at the end. When they started emulating stick&ball sports and eschewing the Southern heritage that was Stock Car Racing, I stopped watching all together.
    Social justice, the Bubba Wallace farce, and pride? Bill France Sr is flopping end for end in his grave.

    Leigh
    Whitehall, NY

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