The Power Of Sports Blog Nation at the Super Bowl:
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Feb 7, 2010 9:37 AM PST
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Sports Blog Nation, the Mothership of Silver and Black Pride, has made incredible strides with the NFL and has gained acceptance from the top as being an actual news outlet, from a fan's perspective.
In an effort to get our communities more interlinked we are trying a blogging experiment. SBN has created a site for sports in general and has an open Super Bowl Thread for fans of any team to come together and share their ideas. This is a SBN First and I encourage all of you to check it out.
Of Course we also have Rated R's outstanding write-up for our own Open Thread, so do not ignore that!!! Good job rated R, it is a great read!
Here is a break-down of what happened over Super Bowl Week: There is NO coverage like this anywhere on the web.
(From Trei Brundrett)
HAPPY SUPER BOWL SUNDAY EVERYONE! I hope you followed Jon's advice and
got started on your guacamole early:
http://www.sbnation.com/2010/
1) SB Nation Colts blogger, BigBlueShoe from Stampede Blue, was
credentialed by the NFL and has been on the ground in Miami for the
media days providing incredible coverage and interviews from a Colts
fan perspective. He has setup a special section on his blog that
gathers all his reports together:
http://www.stampedeblue.com/
2) SB Nation Saints blogger, Saintsational at Canal Street Chronicles,
was also credentialed by the NFL and just landed in Miami to cover the
Super Bowl for the Who Dat Nation. Check out his coverage:
http://www.
3) For you stat heads, mgrex03 on Stampede Blue has a stats preview
series:
I: http://www.stampedeblue.com/
II: http://www.stampedeblue.com/
III: http://www.stampedeblue.com/
4) BigBlueShoe got a really interesting interview with Peter King
including some back + forth about sports blogs:
Part I: http://www.stampedeblue.com/
Part II: http://www.stampedeblue.com/
5) We also have Joel Thorman from Arrowhead Pride credentialed at the
Super Bowl and covering it for SBNation.com. He has been updating an
epic Super Bowl StoryStream from the ground + Dave Halprin has been
adding the best content from around network. This is an excellent
single big PREVIEW link that pulls everything together:
http://www.sbnation.com/2010/
8) As an experiment SBNation.com as a big central community gathering
spot, they will be opening a big SUPER BOWL OPEN THREAD for all SB
Nation communities to participate in together. I don't have a link
yet, but remember that it's one click for your community to join
SBNation.com and start commenting. It will be a fun place for them to
follow and join the chatter during the game. I don't have the link
yet, but watch SBNation.com and I'll post it here as well.
9) Here is the basic SB Nation event page for the Super Bowl that
automatically pulls together all posts that are tagged with the Super
Bowl event:
http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/
10) If you have interesting, unique Super Bowl related posts that
you're making, why not drop those links into this thread.
Now it's me again,
So, you can see that SBN is growing by leaps and bounds and soon we will be the new media, but from a fan's perspective. I mean, who wants to sit next to Art Spander and Nancy Gay all game, when you can be drinking beer in the stands and posting from your PDA of choice and be as loud as you want!?!?!?
Cheers and MANY Beers on this Super Sunday,
Saint
P.S. Do NOT drink and Drive!!!
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While this blog is great and all
calling it a news outlet site is quite misleading. Aside from the occasional interviews, it’s no more a news site than Google News it. Its a news aggregator. No real original news comes forth from this site.
Win, Lose, or Tie, Raiders til I die!
by mikesd1981 on Feb 7, 2010 10:11 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I was referencing the interviews that the writers in Miami are Conducting:
This site is growing into a fan’s news site. Interviews and news from a fan’s perspective. It has a ways to go, but 4,700 people a day read this site and we have some more Tyvon’ish things cooking, which I won’t go into right now. This Network has opened the door for things like that to happen here.
It is all about coming together as a team. At the end of the day, the team is all we have. - T. Branch 10-14-09
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Feb 7, 2010 11:28 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I tell you the #1 thing that pisses me off the most
is how shroud everything in mystery and don’t communicate.
First the Gannon interview where all you had to say was that the parent company asked it be pulled for further clarification. Then the whole mess up w/ Sons post where all you had to say was it was glitch and you’re working on it and now things you won’t get into right now.
Are you sure you don’t work for the Raiders with your mysterious ways?
Win, Lose, or Tie, Raiders til I die!
by mikesd1981 on Feb 7, 2010 11:57 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
HAHAHA!!!!!
I’ll have to leave the mystery to you!
It is all about coming together as a team. At the end of the day, the team is all we have. - T. Branch 10-14-09
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Feb 7, 2010 12:04 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Saint is a sweet and non-mysterious guy
in e-person.
by Spirals galore on Feb 7, 2010 1:07 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
yeah?
how come he didn’t explain what happened w/ Sons post right away? Or explain the Gannon removal right away? Or what exactly is “in the works?”
Bull.
Win, Lose, or Tie, Raiders til I die!
by mikesd1981 on Feb 7, 2010 4:54 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I said, "in e-person"
The situation being as it is, I found out that the best way to deal with it is to email the editors and ask questions. Not all editors have their emails listed, and not all respond. Saint is not listed as an editor but I went to his profile and found his email on the site he has there. We echanged several emails. He was as frank with me as I was with him, which I appreciated.
I didn’t learn all the details about all issues you mention, but I am sure that the recent upheavals will lead to greater transparency. As you said in the removed post—communication is key.
by Spirals galore on Feb 7, 2010 8:24 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
First off:
I did explain it right away. As soon as I saw it. What you don’t seem to understand is that I have about 15 minutes in the morning to check in on the site. By the time I got out of a meeting on Friday it was 11:30 and that is when I had a chance to respond.
I don’t have to explain everything and I am NOT saying what is in the works because I don’t want to steal another person’s thunder.
The Gannon things was pretty simple really. He wrote that this was for us only and that was ambiguous at best. Without clarification it was not cool to keep it up. It is basic when doing an interview. That is why e-mail interviews are the worst. I love the work that Bryhnno did, I just coudln’t keep it up.
Why, with all of the good that happens here to you focus so hard on the drama?
It is all about coming together as a team. At the end of the day, the team is all we have. - T. Branch 10-14-09
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Feb 8, 2010 3:30 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Because you cause it
and you upset a lot of people by being vague and not even throwing a comment out there to tell people that’s work in progress. You wouldn’t have sent Blanda running away crying had you just said “Sons, format got fucked up while trying to promote it. Working on a fix.”
and bryhnno was starting to think he did something wrong because instead of saying that the upper management changed something, you made a vague statement that no one understood and your editor buddies from other sites came in they couldn’t explain anything either.
The drama YOU cause disrupts the good that happens on here. I’m not asking you to explain shit. I’m saying stop calling this such an important and big blog if you’re gonna run it half ass.
Win, Lose, or Tie, Raiders til I die!
by mikesd1981 on Feb 8, 2010 5:30 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
This was a soap opera of epic proportions,
and it is over, hopefully.
I don’t know if this is an important or big blog, but I researched other Raiders blogs and didn’t find any other like this.
by Spirals galore on Feb 8, 2010 6:09 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Give me a break:
Cry me a freaking river. The drama that I create? Why are you so obsessed with what I say about this blog becoming a vessle for many?
It is all about coming together as a team. At the end of the day, the team is all we have. - T. Branch 10-14-09
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Feb 8, 2010 6:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
and important. You,ve put me down for that continually.
and I find it odd that someone who contributes cut and pasted work from David White would attack anyone.
It is all about coming together as a team. At the end of the day, the team is all we have. - T. Branch 10-14-09
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Feb 8, 2010 6:19 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
you're saying I don't check stuff before I post.
But you’ll call it a freaking fact that Al Davis went after Warner and Rodgers and there is no evidence of that?
You believed a parody someone posted about Kiffin commenting the Raiders break the rules by scouting college schools. Please. I forgot you’re the Al Davis of this site. I’m sooo sorry. Don’t strike me dead.
Win, Lose, or Tie, Raiders til I die!
by mikesd1981 on Feb 8, 2010 6:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Still not addressing the issues:
It is all about coming together as a team. At the end of the day, the team is all we have. - T. Branch 10-14-09
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Feb 8, 2010 6:45 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I did NOT believe any such parody...Where do you come up with this stuff?
Al Davis DID go after them, it was reported. I also said that he hired Sean Payton, only to have him wiggle out of it.
It is all about coming together as a team. At the end of the day, the team is all we have. - T. Branch 10-14-09
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Feb 8, 2010 6:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I object to calling any other fanbase
A nation.
There’s only been the Raider nation. And that’s all there should be.
"..what you mean? I'm a legend like Kareem!"
by CommittedToExcellence on Feb 7, 2010 11:20 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
amen.
Andy Lee for MVP! Hey, that rhymes...
by Ramah71 on Feb 7, 2010 11:26 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
+1
Good call, everyone seems to forget where it started, freaking posers.
Woohoo, I get to look forward to another 7-6 season ("at best") in 2010! There's nothing like going to Idaho for a bowl game.
by S Jay Bruin on Feb 7, 2010 12:56 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
It was my buddy, Raider Rob, who started it on KNBR 680:
he called us the Raider Nation on Live Radio and it stuck.
It is all about coming together as a team. At the end of the day, the team is all we have. - T. Branch 10-14-09
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Feb 7, 2010 1:05 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I miss when the Ticket 1050
was our Radio station in the Bay Area, before they went back to being KNBR 1050 and just became KNBR jr. I know the A’s have 860 now, but I miss there being Raiders radio without political commentary or having to take a backseat to the Frisco teams.
Woohoo, I get to look forward to another 7-6 season ("at best") in 2010! There's nothing like going to Idaho for a bowl game.
by S Jay Bruin on Feb 8, 2010 10:43 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
remember Bob Franz
It is all about coming together as a team. At the end of the day, the team is all we have. - T. Branch 10-14-09
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Feb 8, 2010 6:22 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I look forward to an amazing game, pull for Brees and New Orleans to get their first
but know they’ll have their hands full doing it. Madden picked New Orleans, and he’s rarely been wrong in the last six years; I believe only once (haven’t researched this, so don’t jump on me too hard, gotta go to the game party soon!).
I’ve been letting my Madden play out the scenario (PS 3) time and time again, with both NO and IND at home, and the Saints have come out on top every time, with a few coming down to the final drive, though Indy falls quickly behind. As if the scenario of Peyton leading a heroic two minute drill was something of a surprise…
May the better team win, and everyone be safe! I heard the other night my friend’s brother called a taxi cab because they were too drunk to drive, and the cab driver picking them up turned out to be more drunk than they were, even sideswiping a car after dropping them off short of their destination! Needless to say, he’ll not only not be driving a cab anymore after the proper investigation, and will probably be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Absolutely no excuse for that, and I’m confident we here that represent the Raider Nation are smarter than that!
Keep up the good work, Saint.
"If your only ambition in life, is to be a better person; well, that's just the best ambition you can have..." Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew
by brhynno on Feb 7, 2010 1:27 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
We ARE smarter than that:
And some of us have the scars to prove it!?!?!
Have a Happy Sunday Brhynno…This is out Holiday with ties to nothing but a game. Not religion or Nationalism, just a day of friendship, food and libation.
I have the chicken wings on, the guacamole prepped and the rack of lamb being seasoned, all while typing with my toes!?!?!
Cheers!!!
It is all about coming together as a team. At the end of the day, the team is all we have. - T. Branch 10-14-09
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Feb 7, 2010 1:31 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
This OUR Holiday, it should say:
It is just that after three makers manhattans the keyboard starts moving on my unsuspecting fingers!?!?!
It is all about coming together as a team. At the end of the day, the team is all we have. - T. Branch 10-14-09
by Raymond St. Martin (Saint) on Feb 7, 2010 1:33 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, "out" holiday, could have an entirely different connotation, no?
Interestingly enough, the Madden PS3 predictions of the game turned out uncanny, yet again. I believe I’ll be posting on the subject in the offseason, and am sure to get some ringing reactions from our contributors.
Have you ever heard how upset players get when their rankings drop(or rise) every August, when the new year’s edition is released?
"If your only ambition in life, is to be a better person; well, that's just the best ambition you can have..." Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew
by brhynno on Feb 8, 2010 1:47 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
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