(01-31-2015, 07:20 PM)shelbysaleen Wrote: [ -> ]NASCAR will not make cards because NASCAR doesnt really make or do anything. they just let people pay them for the right to make/sell stuff.
Ya, that's sort of the conclusion I got to as I was writing that "idea" down...there is no easier money to be made than selling the licensing rights and letting somebody else do all the work and take all of the risk...
But the sport, while popular, is not the marketing machine that it once was (or ever really was...a lot of rose tinted glasses in the world)...TV ratings are down over the past five years. So sell out the tracks each week (I am guessing this happens still), but there comes a time when the realization that the old guard is getting left in the dust by the world it is trying to collect from.
So, the point is, creating a marketing device, expanding the marketing opportunities, and selling races for a TV market that is dwindling as it finds better things to do than sit and watch a 3.5 hours race (that will proably end with half the field at least a lap down and one the same six or ten guys winning) should be the NASCAR goal...but, Michael, you are right...it just is not...
Ha, is it any wonder that the one company that had all of its eggs (essentially) in the NASCAR basket could not make money making a NASCAR product?
And as the weeks pass and no one is stepping up to manufacture trading cards, it is obviously a loser business...and the whole NASCAR model is starting to look like a loser business, ready to be relegated to the second tier of sports...again...
Daytona vewers over the last five years:
2014: 3.526 million
2013: 5.722 million
2012: 7.467 million
2011: 7.847 million
2010: 8.187 million
Super Bowl viewers, last five years:
2015: not announced yet (but probably over 113 million)
2014: 112.2 million
2013: 108.4 million
2012: 111.3 million
2011: 111.0 million
Forget about the orders of magnitude difference (although that is hard to miss, too), but look at the trend.
OK, unfair to compare to the NFL? Maybe...so how about a comparison to MLB, which has certainly seen its numbers dwindle since the mid 80s-90s.
World Series average viewers:
2014 13.8M
2013 14.9M
2012 12.7M
2011 16.6M
2010 14.3M
Looks fairly consistent, at least, and that is that many viewers over at least four games...
NASCAR is trending down...although I will say that Homestead has been pretty decent over the last five years:
2014 5.223 millon
2013 5.118 million
2012 4.769 million
2011 6.799 million
2010 5.605 million
Well, whatever...I will watch, I will try to finish the sets/PC stuff I have, and let NASCAR do what it wants...