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Small markets, holiday spending issues, surprise home games, viewing enhancements, fan apathy, weather, elite opponents. All factored into the firestorm the NFL came under for three of its four wild card home games this weekend as teams rallied to hit sellout modes and avoid being blacked out. Only better prepared, large market Philadelphia avoided the …
It hasn’t been the brightest of falls for football in the tri-state area, or even down the Turnpike to Philadelphia, but this year’s Super Bowl has certainly generated more buzz, brand activation and long-term talk than probably any other, and for a league that seems like it’s under constant siege these days that’s good news …
Unless you are a restaurant owner, special events vendors, advertising partner or hotel manager, you may have been wondering what, other than lots of traffic and crowded cold weather events, the 2014 Super bowl means to your community. Well this week some of that came to shape when the National Football League and NY/NJ Super …
There will be many big sporting events in New Jersey in the next year. NHL Draft, Jets and Giants regular season (including a Tebow to Met Life return in Sept.), Guinness International Champions Cup Soccer, maybe a Red Bulls MLS playoff run, the return to the playoffs for the New Jersey Devils, the last run …
There was probably a time when the NFL would have shied away from seeing the WWE as anything but an encumbrance to business. After all for at least part of its history, the publicly trade company has been awash in misogyny, steroid use, violence and controversy. But today the WWE is a thriving entertainment vehicle …
This coming March the Orleans Casino in Las Vegas will host two men’s basketball post-season conference tournaments. Other casinos, including Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, have hosted men’s basketball games a stone’s throw from the slot machines and craps tables. All of that activity is OK if you are the NCAA. But if you are the …
Late during the bye week officials from New York and New Jersey joined NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to give an update on the plans that will immediately surround the 2014 Super Bowl, to be held at Met Life Stadium in New Jersey, the first time the sports and entertainment spectacle will not be held in …
There is perhaps no more costly undertaking that the traveling sports “circuit,” which needs to recreate infrastructure wherever it goes. Those huge out of pocket costs are what do in event the biggest of events…from the defunct AVP to tennis tournaments to even large scale events like the Ironman or the X Games and the …
The cynical will look at the announcement of the new stadium naming rights deal for the Meadowlands with Met Life and wonder when their premiums will go up. Competitors in the insurance field will look at it and wonder what it will cost them in exposure. Sports marketers will look at the name looming over …
