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What is Next Instead of the AFC and NFC are we going to have Taco Bell Conference and the KFC Conference culminating in the Pizza Hut Championship game? ]]>Jun 18th 2007 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/

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And don't get me started on the idiots still trying to claim this is a "sport." I'd even be willing to concede badminton a sport before I would somebody sitting in a car driving around a circle while other people sit there and watch!]]>Jun 18th 2007 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 19th 2007 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/
Either way ... NASCAR is all about sponsorship dollars. It's a little ironic they would boot out a sponsor in favor of another ... but I guess they're making enough money now, they can protect whatever sponsor they feel like these days.]]>Jun 18th 2007 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/
* note - I corrected my error in the first post and made sure to put "sport" in quotes. If this is a sport then the bowling/badmitton/shuffleboard people will start chiming in.]]>Jun 18th 2007 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/
Don't you hate when you have to call someone who's using a Nextel phone (I have to do this all the time) and you get that moronic message "Please wait while the Nextel subscriber you are trying to reach is located"? (Yes, I can quote it from memory. I've heard it THAT many times.) How advanced can their system be if it can't keep a constant connection with every phone? Each time I hear the message, I can't help but think of Lily Tomlin's operator character Ernestine plugging a wire into a socket in order to establish the connection to their phone.]]>Jun 18th 2007 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/
Not to mention all the idiots that think it's ok to talk like that in a restaurant.]]>Jun 18th 2007 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/]]>Jun 18th 2007 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/

In America: Redneck drivers racing around a track driving high-performance cars. Their fans drinking beer and eating barbecue.


Europe (and here in the UK): No-brained soccer players kicking a little leather ball and their drunk hooligan fans beating the crap out of each other and anyone else that gets in their way.


Hmm....I'll take the Rednecks anyday!

Cheers!



]]>Jun 18th 2007 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/nascar does not own the sponsorship the teams that run the cars do so this suit is kinda w/o merit.

in the last few years they loosened restrictions on liquor sponsorship thats why Jack Daniels is a sponsor.
cell phone sponsorship wont send a bad message to children and minors.

does anyone really care about cell phone sponsorship in nascar not really , except for nascar ]]>Jun 18th 2007 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 20th 2007 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/
And how is this issue not covered in the sponsorship contract? Surely there's a provision allowing (or not allowing, as the case may be) a logo change in the event the sponsor changes the name, right?]]>Jun 18th 2007 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/
Nascar has a contract with Nextel as their primary advertising patron. Cingular is the new ATT, since Cingular is no longer being used, ATT is probably arguing that the Cingular contract is still enforceable through agency and acquisition. Since it was grandfathered in originally, it shouldn't matter if its Cingular or ATT, what they should have done was simply paint over Cingular with a big ATT without removing the Cingular logo. :)

[I haven't RTF history and case actually, but logically, thats what I would do if I was hell bent on getting my face in Nascar and was generally an ass, which I try not to be.]

I would think that this case will end up with ATT still on the car until the terms of the Contract are completed {the original Cingular contract}
]]>Jun 23rd 2007 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Typing a paragraph like that makes it hard to read. Y0u m16h7 45 w3|| 7yp3 7h3 3n71r3 fr34k1n6 7h1n6 1n |3375(r1p7... be znlor ebg13.
Well, maybe it's not that extreme, but still, please don't do that again.

As for cell carriers, I think there should be mandated standard protocols used by all, and weird long term agreements should be outlawed. Seriously. What if qwest refused to use tcp/ip? Oh, sorry. You're in a two year contract. Came with the Dell you bought. Cox? Ok, now they're gonna sue.

I think lawsuits should be outlawed for corporations and such, directly. You show me the people. Not the ugly face of the riaa. um..]]>Jun 18th 2007 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/
That was "I think you mean (carrot)accent=whatever(carrot)text(carrot)(slash)accent(carrot)"

At the end was a (carrot)(slash)rant(carrot)

grr...]]>Jun 18th 2007 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 18th 2007 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 19th 2007 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/nascar-countersues-atandt-for-100-million-moves-to-ban-future-te/Jun 19th 2007 4:37AM