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Topic: What if their is no NFL this fall.
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April 07, 2011 at
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I am not a football fan. I do know which teams are doing well. But that is about it. This is a link to an article about what to do if the NFL does not have a season.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/NFL-fans-say-they-8217-ll-do-more-yard-work-if-?urn=nfl-wp791
Lots of stadiums are going to have open dates. Are their any promoters that are bold enough to risk a pile of money to rent any of those venues, bring in some clay and promote some midget racing. Remember this, ESPN will have open dates also and they used to put on Thursday Night Thunder. The people that put on the Monster Jam Trucks have the know how to quickly convert a football field into a dirt venue.
Can anybody else envision midgets pushing off at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego this fall?
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April 07, 2011 at
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Stadiums could do this in the NFL off-season now. If they could make money off of it, they would be doing regardless of an NFL work stoppage. The logistics involved, along with the staffing required, insurance and other factors, mean that you would need to sell tens of thousands of tickets in order to break a profit - in most cases in cities where sprint car/midget racing is a non-factor.
A better option would be indoor races at venues that used to house major league teams but don't anymore. Because of the scale of economy, you'd have a better chance breaking even/making a profit with a midget race at the Los Angeles Sports Arena (or the San Diego Sports Arena) than an NFL stadium.
National Sprint Car & Midget Examiner
http://tinyurl.com/r4opgk
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April 08, 2011 at
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lol.
You have a better chance of Barack Obama resigning as president to buy a sprint car team.
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April 08, 2011 at
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the NMRA TQ's have been doing this as a side show for the monster trucks for about 4 years now.
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April 08, 2011 at
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Way back around 1976 a promoter named Christopher Pook put together an event that no one had tried before. Next weekend they will hold this event for the 37th time. It is called the Long Beach Grand Prix. To say that this event is successful is an understatement. It was also ballsy to put on an event that was so far outside of the box. The only way that Long Beach resembled
Monaco was that it is a waterfront city. Ocean blvd at that time was lined with theaters that showed X
rated movies. And at that time it was the front straightaway. Chris Pook took a sows ear of a downtown area and turned it in to a silk purse. (But don't wander too far from there after dark.)
What I have proposed is not that far from what Chris did and what the highly revered Emmet Hahn is doing every January in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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April 08, 2011 at
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There's no comparison. Pook contracted with the city to run the event (no rent) and Emmet's rent for the QT Center is a tenth of what it would cost to rent a NFL stadium for one night. This is a pipe dream unless the actual stadium wants to do it.
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