Who brings more eyes to NASCAR? Cleetus or MJ?

I'm a big fan of Michael Jordan, but Cleetus definitely brings more eyes. As others have said, his followers already have an appreciation for cars/racing, so it's logical for a lot of them to show interest in NASCAR. If Jeff Gordon buys a soccer team, I'm not going to start watching soccer.

As far as the O'Reilly Series, I called it Busch (or BGN) for the longest time, because that's what I grew up with. By the time it became Xfinity, I had just started calling it Nationwide. So of course as soon as I get used to calling it Xfinity, the name changes again.

I still call Sonoma "Sears Point" just out of habit. I never called Rockingham "North Carolina Speedway" or Charlotte "Lowes" or California/Fontana "Auto Club" etc. And I really don't care what anyone calls anything, as long as I can understand what they are referring to.
 
Cleetus seems to bring eyes that are already here. Isn’t that just preaching to the choir? I think the question needs to be who brings the most NEW fans to the sport. I don’t have that answer but I think that is the necessary qualifier to the question. Because we need new fans. Someone who was watching football or soccer or the Fake Housewives of Idiotville last week and not watching racing to start watching racing. Just a thought so we don’t just base it on YouTube clicks or shoe sales.
 
RaceCritter said:
Cleetus seems to bring eyes that are already here. Isn’t that just preaching to the choir? I think the question needs to be who brings the most NEW fans to the sport. I don’t have that answer but I think that is the necessary qualifier to the question. Because we need new fans. Someone who was watching football or soccer or the Fake Housewives of Idiotville last week and not watching racing to start watching racing. Just a thought so we don’t just base it on YouTube clicks or shoe sales.
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IMO, NASCAR made a huge mistake by alienating their hardcore fanbase for so many years. When longtime fans got fed up and quit watching, that means their kids don't watch either, so they don't become fans.

They should focus on making another Netflix "behind the scenes" show, promote the races through people like Cleetus, ticket promos to get new fans to the track, hell, just getting some NASCAR apparel into Walmart would be a start
 
I would like to see a lot more of these docuseries about all aspects of the sport. Feature the drivers and those who contribute in other ways.
 
2 Sweet said:
When longtime fans got fed up and quit watching, that means their kids don't watch either, so they don't become fans. ... ticket promos to get new fans to the track,
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I think free O'Reilly and Truck tickets for kids does more to build new fans than any other single factor.
 
I think Nascar needs to bring in a promoter like Cleetus to bring in the pre race show entertainment myself. Pretty lame to have some lightly known band as your idea of a pre race show. They need things jumping and blowing up to bring the youngsters in. Monster trucks, motorcycles, drift cars, and never forget explosions and fire.
 
StandOnIt said:
I think Nascar needs to bring in a promoter like Cleetus to bring in the pre race show entertainment myself. Pretty lame to have some lightly known band as your idea of a pre race show. They need things jumping and blowing up to bring the youngsters in. Monster trucks, motorcycles, drift cars, and never forget explosions and fire.
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Didn't Monster try those things? I recall reading about several promo activities early in their tenure. I don't remember exact details since I wasn't going to check them out when I was at the track. People who viewed other events under its sponsorship umbrella were supposed to flock to NASCAR because of the name association. Then those promos stopped.

I'm a lousy judge of the value of promotions or sponsorship 'lifestyle' since I'm going for the racing itself. Anything else just causes more knots of people I have to push through.
 
I thought we were talking about bringing young people to the sport?

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2 Sweet said:
IMO, NASCAR made a huge mistake by alienating their hardcore fanbase for so many years. When longtime fans got fed up and quit watching, that means their kids don't watch either, so they don't become fans.

They should focus on making another Netflix "behind the scenes" show, promote the races through people like Cleetus, ticket promos to get new fans to the track, hell, just getting some NASCAR apparel into Walmart would be a start
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Yea I agree with your point that when the old fans went away, their kids did too. I became a racing fan because of my dad. My soon to be 5 year old son will be going to his first race because he discovered the sport though me. While I don’t think the generational fandom is the whole puzzle it’s a big piece and that wasn’t cultivated when NASCAR honchos were trying to push the quintessential NASCAR narrative.
 
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