NASCAR driver who unintentionally sparked
‘Let’s Go Brandon’ chant says corporations
don’t want to sponsor him
Fox News,
by
Emma Colton
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
12/26/2021 4:08:42 PM
The NASCAR driver who recently rose in fame after unintentionally sparking the "Let’s Go Brandon!" phrase says he’s had a hard time finding corporate sponsors following the chant going viral. "It got extremely difficult for us. … If you’re a national corporation, that means you sell to all consumers… and unfortunately, when you get dragged into the political arena, people want you to take a side,’" Brown told Sports Business Journal in a recent interview. "It's hard for a brand to want to attach to somebody who might be kind of divisive in their consumer base. If I'm going to divide Coca-Cola, why would they want to talk to me?”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
ldb51 12/26/2021 4:19:51 PM (No. 1019343)
Maybe an opportunity for Elon to step up...?
34 people like this.
A shame that he's being punished when all he did was win a race.
That NBC sports reporter needs to own this; she started it.
109 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Birddog 12/26/2021 4:28:52 PM (No. 1019352)
Gee...Biden pulled all of the Military money from sponsoring drivers, and is even shutting down the flyby's during the Nat. Anthem at races.(Bubba Wallace had a Military sponsor for several races, swapped it for a BLM paint scheme. Not sure what happened during negotiations, but several months before the "Noose thing" Trump had talked to Bubba's team about being a major sponsor, they eventually decided on LaJoi instead)
7 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
marbles 12/26/2021 4:30:17 PM (No. 1019355)
Goes to show ya that the corporations are all about perception, not truth. And they frighten easy.
59 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 12/26/2021 4:35:52 PM (No. 1019361)
sue the reporter-girl
for 100 million...
66 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rich323 12/26/2021 4:40:26 PM (No. 1019365)
How about MAGA sponsors as America first across the finish line! We could probably raise a bunch of cash and maybe get some big time donors too.
17 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ribicon 12/26/2021 4:48:21 PM (No. 1019369)
NASCAR deserves to go broke. Cola-Cola, too.
50 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 12/26/2021 4:56:55 PM (No. 1019376)
So what, is everyone named Brandon going to be fired from their jobs? Why would a sponsor blame him for what happened, it was the reporterette who started the whole thing.
75 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 12/26/2021 5:08:35 PM (No. 1019392)
That is a real shame. He did absolutely NOTHING wrong, nothing divisive, nothing political.
55 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Submariner 12/26/2021 5:22:36 PM (No. 1019411)
Agree with #s 2 & 5. He should have a chat with the Covington Catholic Kid's lawyers. The video shows that what the "reporter" did was fraud.
47 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Birddog 12/26/2021 5:27:20 PM (No. 1019416)
Sponsors are avoiding ALL of Nascar, no one wants a "Tar Baby". Unless/until viewer numbers get back up near where they used to be...Nascar posted Superbowl Numbers every single Sunday for decades. Nowhere near that today.
13 people like this.
They should do go fund me campaign.
They’d probably raise more than their sponsorships would.
12 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 12/26/2021 5:40:37 PM (No. 1019430)
Of course, had he been championing BLM, these corporations would be falling all over themselves trying to sponsor him. Effing hypocrites!
36 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
idahoskook 12/26/2021 6:04:17 PM (No. 1019444)
TRUMP
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rich323 12/26/2021 6:13:22 PM (No. 1019452)
Don’t mess with NASCAR fans they are big MAGA supporters and we don’t need to splinter support over this issue. The easy and correct fix is to say it like it is F Joe Biden! Those fans will gladly oblige. We can use the Brandon thing elsewhere NFL NBA you know the kneelers.
16 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jesse Jenkem 12/26/2021 6:18:23 PM (No. 1019455)
Trump supports should sponsor him. He could drive a TRUMP 2024 Decorated car.
20 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Mr C 12/26/2021 6:38:00 PM (No. 1019468)
NOT TO WORRY....Coke is already WOKE and hopefully going BROKE: Let's go Brandon,Have a beer!
17 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 12/26/2021 6:39:00 PM (No. 1019471)
He's overthinking it. the coastal elites don't give a damn and the nascar crowd loves him.
18 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
red1066 12/26/2021 6:40:52 PM (No. 1019473)
Here's an idea. How about offering shares like the Green Bay Packers do for their football team. Buy shares to sponsor Brandon. I'll bet he gets more money than he knows what to do with.
15 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/26/2021 7:35:58 PM (No. 1019507)
#11 makes the important point, NASCAR is losing big sponsors across the board.
17 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/26/2021 7:38:36 PM (No. 1019510)
RNC, DJT, MAGA, My Pillow - all sorts of possibilities.
9 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 12/26/2021 7:49:10 PM (No. 1019516)
There’s a war brewing in Nascar with “Mr Noose” spewing BLM rhetoric and activist BS.
14 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/26/2021 8:08:23 PM (No. 1019531)
Coca Cola is already divided between woke and white supremacists, cut this slice crosswise. The company selling all the "Lets go Brandon" Merchandise surely has a commission or a job for Brandon.
6 people like this.
Hey! Let that Brandon ride become the "people's" entry at all NASCAR events. Assign the car with the letter P without any numerals so we can all pick it out of the BS And just watch the money flow in. Those loudmouths with no substance just love to put down everyone that they don't agree with. But here comes the truth, on the race track this time, with very loud headers and smokey tires, blasting the truth and overwhelming the dark side. Onward!!!!
3 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 12/26/2021 10:17:50 PM (No. 1019602)
Re 311. I years gone past the cars on the track were literally the same car body, frame, engine, transmission and rear axle as you could go down and buy at the dealer. Gutted interior, massive safety cage welded in, and motor souped up.
Today....bodies have literally not one panel that came from the factory that "makes" the car. There are three engines...Ford, Chevy and Toyota....but have to be made to VERY similar design requirements from NASCAR...so effectively the same engines. Tires, suspension, fuel and fuel systems, electronics and transmission are, however, absolutely identical on all the cars. Bodies have to meet VERY narrow shape and size specs...set by NASCAR, and have SLIGHT similarities to the street cars, but ZERO parts from the street "version" will fit.
And....the difference in speed and handling between these essentially identical cars is.....essentially zero. So, they all run around at the same speed within about 1/2 mph and drafting and luck have more much to do with which of the top ten or so drivers wins on a given day than any "engineering advancements" that the car makers put into the cars. Because the car makers put almost nothing into the cars.
So, the cars aren't remotely "stock cars" and the races are pretty boring and more like a raffle than a race.
If they required the cars be a literal street car body shell with specific safety cage improvements and HAD to use the stock suspension, engine and transmission.....UNMODIFIED, that might be an interesting race, and the car makers would sell some interesting cars again.
NASCAR has painted itself into a corner. A boring corner.
15 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
PChristopher 12/27/2021 12:08:30 AM (No. 1019638)
He didn't spark anything; it was that hack reporter that did it. Maybe drivers should stop giving interviews.
9 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/27/2021 12:44:42 AM (No. 1019646)
See this? A winning race driver taking the blame for something the stupid sports woman did to him! She's the one that started the stupid substitute change. She should be pilloried.
10 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/27/2021 4:56:10 AM (No. 1019684)
To hell with big business. All they do anyway is to sing Joey's tune. Plus they love communism, the song for the demorats.
4 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
NamVet70 12/27/2021 7:52:33 AM (No. 1019764)
There are so many woke corporations it is really hard to boycott all of them. We need to start a campaign where you pick the woke company of the month and start a boycott movement by conservatives. I think Coca Cola has already been hit and so has Gillette because those two have been so obvious. On the other side we need to uplift some unwoke companies. The left started it and we need to make the corporations that play along start to pay for it.
8 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
TCloud 12/27/2021 8:13:24 AM (No. 1019782)
A mature way of thinking is that we are defined by our politics, right Vern? Vern says riding the fence is not too mature!
1 person likes this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 12/27/2021 8:52:39 AM (No. 1019834)
Anyone with active neurons, obviously not Biden, knows a trained narrative teleprompter reader Kelli Stavast started this. (Give some credit to the decline in the economy because of FJB) And Fox News mentions her in the article how many times? ZERO!
7 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 12/27/2021 9:14:09 AM (No. 1019854)
Everything today is politized and one has to pick a side. If you sponsored by a woke company expect this to happen.
Frankly I don't watch NASCAR or do I care, they are leftist that's right they drive fast and make all left turns, so they are leftist.
MAGA
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This whole thing started thanks to that idiot infobabe claiming that the crowd at an event was not chanting FJB for real. That they were chanting Let's go Brandon. She started it, and the media just ignores it.
6 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 12/27/2021 10:17:14 AM (No. 1019920)
This is why I almost always use 'F Joe Biden' instead of 'Let's Go Brandon'. It removes any ambiguity and takes Brandon Brown out of the middle of something he never started.
NASCAR has been having trouble finding sponsors for quite some time especially in the trucks.
Hope somebody has the courage to stand up and sponsor Brandon Brown. Wonder if he could start a GoFundMe account. Can see him getting a bundle, and at that point, who needs sponsors. There was a driver in the past that would put your name on his car if you sent him a donation. He did it for a year.
2 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
Zigrid 12/27/2021 10:42:49 AM (No. 1019940)
Coca-cola is in trouble...WE Americans walked with our wallets...and no matter how much they advertise on the tele they can't get US to support them...it's like Starbucks never recovered and Dunkin Doughnuts took off...woke action have consequences...and WE Americans don't need to be told how to think or act or talk...I think Salvation Army learned that the hard way....my bucket money went into my church basket this Christmas ...in Cash...so the archdiocese can't report to the government what I'm spending or where my money will end up...I made a deal with my parish priest and he smiled and promised to follow through...
3 people like this.
Conservative companies should step up and sponsor this guy. Goya? GETTR? Black Rifle Coffee? Let's go guys, and let's go Brandon.
5 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
little guy 12/27/2021 11:23:05 AM (No. 1020008)
All part of the Great Reset. The "Progressives" hate anything that is toxic male ... so NASCAR, Football, Boxing, etc. has come into their cross hairs and will have to go. Soon there won't be any of these sports left. They'll be replaced by Woman's Field Hockey, Water Polo, Badminton, etc.
BTW --- Nice new picture of Ms. Lucianne in the upper left!
5 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/27/2021 11:47:27 AM (No. 1020040)
He didn't spark "Let's go Brandon"; Brandon did!
1 person likes this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 12/27/2021 11:51:20 AM (No. 1020052)
More proof that anything the left does, intentionally or not, is destructive. I feel so bad for this guy... winning his first race and then having this lefty cant using him to shove her agenda and also ruin his life.
4 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
starboard 12/27/2021 12:34:07 PM (No. 1020119)
Auto Racing, including NASCAR has the greatest number of live spectators, more than any other sport. That's a fact. Racing teams and advertising is a big part of the race. Think about what a smart move it will be for an advertiser to be associated with Brandon. If I were a burgeoning company with a brain, I would jump in and make Brandon an offer. I remember decades ago, I saw Al Unser win the Indy 500 in the Johnny Lightening Special. Why not a Let's Go Special. or a LGB Special. Hey this is still the USA where we have free enterprise. Don't mess with racing fans, they are the salt of this country.
3 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
leonardo 12/27/2021 5:15:30 PM (No. 1020313)
Support American corporations that support what's best for America.
BOYCOTT those anti-American, Pro-Chinese corporations.
Check every internet order for a Chinese origin. China is America's enemy.
If that internet source also genuflects to the Chinese, buy elsewhere.
"Let's GO Brandon" reflects FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
Boycott those who would GAG YOU.
2 people like this.
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