Portnoy ups the towels to 70000

[DarrylS]

Great gesture by Portnoy, even though I thought a "go fund me" effort to rent a blimp would be more effective..

Meanwhile Barstool is getting a lot of publicity... enough said, win win for all.

NBC may be reluctant to focus on the towels though, do not want to offend the Commish...

 

[The Gr8est]

Free to everyone that isn't a Jets fan.

Rats fans would try and use them as ID cards.

 

[BlacknGold77]

Great gesture by Portnoy, even though I thought a "go fund me" effort to rent a blimp would be more effective..

Meanwhile Barstool is getting a lot of publicity... enough said, win win for all.

NBC may be reluctant to focus on the towels though, do not want to offend the Commish...

problem with that or renting a plane to tow a banner is it would never be seen by anyone in the stadium.

Every professional sporting event has a large no fly zone around the stadium, which is large enough that anyone in the stadium only would see a dot in the sky. Said no fly zone is also strictly enforced by F-16s who quickly and sternly escort any offenders out of the zone.

in term of the towels, no way they wont be seen. He'll have enough volunteers walking around the parking lots handing them out and you cant not show the crowd.

what we need is those in the 1st row of the endzone to pony up and buy the Clown Face 3'x5' flag and hang it on the railing

 

[patfanken]

Great Job by Portnoy.

No, 13, a GOOD job by Portnoy. A great job would have been to get 60000 of the Clown shirts to the opening night crowd. And the more I read this, it would have been easier to ship them to the individual fans than to try and distribute them like they are proposing to do. PLUS the Clown shirts would have been a more continual and lasting image than the flags.

However, that being said, it sure beats the alternative of laying down and doing nothing. If flags are the thing, then I would suggest some sort of an agreed upon signal where 60000 fans would hold their flags open and in the air so we get the image on the TV of a SEA of clown faces (like the soccer picture in this thread). Simply waving them around will be meaningless.

For example, after every Pats first down and score, fans would hold their flags open for 10-20 seconds. The effect would be like back in the day when fans were asked to hold individual cards that created a large image. Only this time it wouldn't be just one section of stands but the ENTIRE building and it would all be a sea of that blue punctuated by that red nose and the visage of Fraudger Goodell. It would be EPIC.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Thanks for the insight, care to share a link now?

Sorry. Kind of assumed folks out here knew about the company. If you google "Barstool Sports" you get about 6,000,000 hits, the first of which is a Paid Ad: Barstool Sports Store

I haven't been there for a while, but, if he's as smart as I think he is, he'll wait until a few days before the game before he puts the towels up for sale and, instead, feature the T-shirts, which would be more expensive...he's a great Pats fan, but he's also in this to make money.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

No, 13, a GOOD job by Portnoy. A great job would have been to get 60000 of the Clown shirts to the opening night crowd. And the more I read this, it would have been easier to ship them to the individual fans than to try and distribute them like they are proposing to do. PLUS the Clown shirts would have been a more continual and lasting image than the flags.
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Love the sentiment, but you're spending a lot of this dude's money there. The towels probably cost him less than 25% of what he has to put out for the T-shirts...and there are those shipping costs...

 

[denverpatsfan]

I'll be at the opener for the first time since 2005. Wow that's been a long time. I really don't care about the towels either way. It would make a nice souvenir if I can get one. They won't be showing us in Section 336 on the TV however.

 

[BlacknGold77]

Love the sentiment, but you're spending a lot of this dude's money there. The towels probably cost him less than 25% of what he has to put out for the T-shirts...and there are those shipping costs...

this

Figure on the low end its $5 per shirt to produce = $350,000
Figure on the low end its $2 per shirt to ship = $140,000

Just to produce and ship the shirts (nevermind the impossible task of getting addresses for all 70k attendees) would cost him $490,000 (on the low end).

Figure at a minimum 10% would've bought the shirt @ $25 a piece. That's another $175,000 of unrealized revenue out of his pocket.

Giving away 70,000 towels is a huge gesture in itself, he's looking at around $150,000 to get them made.

 

[Bruins29]

No, 13, a GOOD job by Portnoy. A great job would have been to get 60000 of the Clown shirts to the opening night crowd. And the more I read this, it would have been easier to ship them to the individual fans than to try and distribute them like they are proposing to do. .

He is doing more than enough.

 

[pats4life12]

Needless to say, there will be zero shots of the crowd on the TV Broadcast that night.

 

[fourhour]

Needless to say, there will be zero shots of the crowd on the TV Broadcast that night.

How can they not show the crowd? Every view for the entire tv production is being filmed from all angles, including overhead. This can't be ignored or blocked out and would be EPIC news as well!

 

[pats4life12]

How can they not show the crowd? Every view for the entire tv production is being filmed from all angles, including overhead. This can't be ignored or blocked out and would be EPIC news as well!

I totally agree! It going to be awesome but I remember 2 years ago I was at the Monday night game vs the Ravens and there were so many anti-ESPN signs there that they did everything they could not to show the crowd.

But I think you are right there are going to be so many towels that there it will be almost impossible to not show them, it's going to be awesome!

 

[reflexblue]

Great gesture by Portnoy, even though I thought a "go fund me" effort to rent a blimp would be more effective..

Meanwhile Barstool is getting a lot of publicity... enough said, win win for all.

NBC may be reluctant to focus on the towels though, do not want to offend the Commish...

I was jsut about to post this, there won't be any crowd shots that night.

 

[Wheelman]

Giving away 70,000 towels is a huge gesture in itself, he's looking at around $150,000 to get them made.

Draft Kings advertisement is paying for some of that, no? In that video posted?

 

[BlacknGold77]

Draft Kings advertisement is paying for some of that, no? In that video posted?

ok, say they're covering half. that's still a $70k expense assuming $2 per to produce

 

[PatsFanSince74]

this

Figure on the low end its $5 per shirt to produce = $350,000
Figure on the low end its $2 per shirt to ship = $140,000

Just to produce and ship the shirts (nevermind the impossible task of getting addresses for all 70k attendees) would cost him $490,000 (on the low end).

Figure at a minimum 10% would've bought the shirt @ $25 a piece. That's another $175,000 of unrealized revenue out of his pocket.

Giving away 70,000 towels is a huge gesture in itself, he's looking at around $150,000 to get them made.

Yeah, I'm always amazed at how fast folks are to give away other people's money, especially players' at contract time.

 

[neuronet]

No, 13, a GOOD job by Portnoy. A great job would have been to get 60000 of the Clown shirts to the opening night crowd. And the more I read this, it would have been easier to ship them to the individual fans than to try and distribute them like they are proposing to do. PLUS the Clown shirts would have been a more continual and lasting image than the flags.

However, that being said, it sure beats the alternative of laying down and doing nothing. If flags are the thing, then I would suggest some sort of an agreed upon signal where 60000 fans would hold their flags open and in the air so we get the image on the TV of a SEA of clown faces (like the soccer picture in this thread). Simply waving them around will be meaningless.

For example, after every Pats first down and score, fans would hold their flags open for 10-20 seconds. The effect would be like back in the day when fans were asked to hold individual cards that created a large image. Only this time it wouldn't be just one section of stands but the ENTIRE building and it would all be a sea of that blue punctuated by that red nose and the visage of Fraudger Goodell. It would be EPIC.

Nothing is enough for you is it?

 

[Ring 6]

Draft Kings advertisement is paying for some of that, no? In that video posted?

If you are talking about Portnoys video, no. The reference to Draft Kings was that they have created a billion dollar 'bracket' contest. If you play draft kings and draft the perfect team, most points possible, you win a billion. (since there is a salary cap its more than impossible)
Portnoy announced the increase to 70k by saying he is going to win that and be a billionaire, so he can afford it.
Draft Kings has nothing at all to do with #Clownout

 

[Froob]

Love the sentiment, but you're spending a lot of this dude's money there. The towels probably cost him less than 25% of what he has to put out for the T-shirts...and there are those shipping costs...

Yeah really, how loaded do they think Portnoy is lol? That's hella expensive. It was a great job.

 

[1960Pats]

Wow. Man, I've got to find a way to be there.

Where there'$ a will there'$ a way.

I'm so excited. I just started receiving all of my tee shirts. I bought clown shirts, 28-3 SB scoreboard shirts and GOAT shirts. I also have backups, just in case.