OK, there is a reason for me doing this. You'll just have to trust me. I am looking into blogging for our company as a form of marketing. I know nothing about this subject, but a lack of knowledge hasn't affected me in the first 4 plus decades of my life so I don't think it'll bother me now. As far as I understand, this is a place I can dump every thought in my head and have it picked over like crows eating a deer on the side of the highway. A very familiar site to those who live in Wisconsin and Northern Michigan.
Anyway, I was on the NFL boards tonight - I normally hang around them during the day, but was working from home so got to things a little later and posts on politics, favorite colors, movies and a whole host of other things not necessarily football related. Also there was a thread about some people who were banned today. I got to wondering about the NFL network and how they can have 365/24 coverage of football, while we, the sports fans run out of things to say after about 4 weeks. Yet this week, we had a monumental retirement, a host of free agency moves and yet more news about the draft - which I do confess is one of my favorite days of the year. During the season, there are passionate posts and replies on a whole host of subjects which leads me to believe that there are people passionate about the game, their team and follow football in great detail, yet now the same boards are filled with some very strange topics. Now admittedly, we can't rerun games or repost threads, but if we're still all active on these boards during the close season, why aren't we just talking about football?
I don't have the answer (a recurrent theme from the age of about 11 to the present day) but personally enjoy the chance to discuss broader issues on these boards. In these diverse threads you get the opportunity to hopefully learn something, laugh and add something to the conversation. I am not convinced that every thread needs to be football related and wouldn't think that CBS would want them to be. I doubt that CBS wants nothing but sports on here. If they did, these boards would be pretty empty this time of year.
In my opinion, the more diverse the subject matter, the more opportunity there is to get people involved. I have no memory of why I got started on these boards - but have enjoyed a lot of laughs and learned some things. To all of you, including those that were banned - Thanks.
I have no plan for my next blog, it will appear when I resurface from another closet cleaning.