Seriously, I understand where everyone stands on this fence sitting. We've seen other contests fold in the last week. We saw a similar multi-city event (Fantasy Four Sports) fold last year. Even online contests are struggling to reach their stated payouts. So why should the average fantasy football fan who doesn't know Greg Ambrosius from a hole in the ground or Krause Publications from FHM trust in us holding up our end of the bargain? I understand the pessimism and certainly understand why everyone is waiting until the last minute to commit to us.
It's giving me high blood pressure, but I understand.
The best show of support is all the NFBC guys re-upping for football and there'd be more but that is a very die-hard group of fantasy baseball players. If we had done them wrong the first time, they wouldn't be back the second time. And as Nathan and everyone else can tell you, we ran a first-rate event, gave away first-rate goodies and are still running a first-rate online contest. And they are lucky to playing in a contest that paid back 90 percent of the entry fees because we wanted to guarantee the prize structure the first year.
Tom and I will work late every night from here until Aug. 30th to answer any questions you guys have about the NFFC. Call us at 715-445-4612 (ext. 284# for me, ext. 653# for Tom) and we'll gladly ease your fears. Thanks everyone.
[ August 20, 2004, 04:27 PM: Message edited by: Greg Ambrosius ]
