Biffle Will Soon Need A New Sponsor
Greg Biffle’s new primary sponsor this year, replacing the National Guard, is subprime lender Ameriquest Mortgage. But in the past three weeks the subprime mortgage business has imploded, and lenders like Ameriquest are finding themselves hard pressed to maintain enough credit to stay in business. Ameriquest just bailed out of its 30-year naming rights deal for the Texas Rangers’ stadium, and they were only paying around $2.5 million per year for that. Primary sponsorship of a Nextel Cup team runs about 10 times that figure, so its hard to believe their NASCAR deal will long outlive their MLB deal. The bright side, such as it is, is that this is happening to a driver for Jack Roush, who of course is now a partner of the Boston Red Sox ownership, so their misfortune pleases me mightily. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA
March 20th, 2007 at 8:01 am
Yup - that’s gotta hurt the Sox… a lot. Indeed the only thing I could think of that could possibly hurt more is if they were, say, the *only* team in over 100 years of MLB to blow a 3-0 postseason series lead… hypothetically speaking of course. I mean, how bad does a team have to be to be the first and *only* one in baseball’s long history to, er… accomplish that?!
March 20th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Is this more of that “2004″ flim flammery? Good grief, get over it man.
March 24th, 2007 at 1:10 am
Not only will I gladly let you borrow the DVDs - as I have the seven-disc set, that even shows some of the games that that the Yankees actually won in that series… but I’ll even burn a copy for you to keep in your library for all-time. That way, you can relive that historical series with the rest of us… forever.