QUOTE(Sir Wesley Willis @ Oct 29 2009, 04:20 PM) [snapback]421095[/snapback]
As a contributor to "that other site," I just thought it'd be in my interest to take some time and give full disclosure to the situation at hand, at least from our perspective. Yesterday, myself and a handful of others on our site had all just read Coach Patterson's address to the fans that was published in the Star Telegram- an article I have to assume most of you are quite familiar with by this time. We got to talking about our BCS chances and how attendance is going to play as big a role as any in our being selected and how pathetic it's going to be if BCS reps are to show up Saturday for the UNLV game and we have 35,000 in the stands. It's something that pains us all, but unfortunately it's not something that's all that easy to change - football success apparently hasn't equaled attendance. Purple People Seaters is run by one of my good friends and we thought that this would be a very direct way to not only boost attendance for our remaining home games, but also donate to a good cause. This is where the PayPal account idea came from, as well as the now well documented website competition. In the past, KF has been very intolerant of promotion of our site, which is fine because, when you make money from something, you obviously don't want competition cutting into your bottom line. We respect that, and are fine with it, but please don't misunderstand our motives for promotion - despite the ads on our site, we generate practically no revenue and simply wish to promote TCU athletics, just like we hope KF does as well. We obviously wish we had 36,000 members of our site and not one of us will say otherwise, but we're also 10 years younger than KF and are still trying to grow.
Anyway, back to the fundraiser, we proposed the idea of having an inter-blog competition to see which blog could raise the most money for PPS. Now, obviously we didn't think we could win the thing - we simply don't have the readership - but that wasn't remotely the point. We had just hoped to fill the stadium for this weekend's game help some kids while we were at it. needless to say, the KF ownership was not on board, and this made us angry - not because we're the jealous little brother, but because, despite our methods, we have a common interest which is to promote TCU athletics, and in turn, help a good cause. Because of this, some of us said some negative things about your site in the heat of the moment, and I'm sure we are all sorry. I'm not responsible for the other commenters on the site, but if I offended any Lettermen, I sincerely apologize because that was not my intent. In fact, you could really say we worship the Lettermen as fans, and wholeheartedly respect the groundwork you guys helped lay for our current success.
What we don't condone - and what has led to the boiling over of today - is for someone to threaten the physical well being of one of our members. Especially over something as trivial as a blog entry. That is absolutely uncalled for, and I think most of you know it. KF can discredit and bad mouth our blog all they want, but there's a line and that crossed it. Scott, I don't know you personally and I'm not here to attack you, but really dude? Among the many comments you've made that were totally out of line, the whole trust fund/scourge of TCU stuff is a bit excessive. In fact, I don't know anyone that has a trust fund - maybe I was just friends with the wrong group of people. I'd also like to know who these people are that think we're so terrible because, if you look on Saturday, we will likely have the busiest tailgate section in the entire stadium. I'm not bragging, but considering TCU has come and told us that we're overcrowding more than once, I feel correct in saying that.
If Scott or anyone else wants to hash this out face to face, we will all be in attendance Saturday and will gladly bury the hatchet, but not under the pressure of physical violence. Few us of may have played for TCU - in fact, really only about one of us - but we're as true of TCU fans as anyone else and we take great pride in that fact. We don't expect everyone to like our methods and we don't expect everyone to condone the lack of censorship our blog promotes. We don't advertise ourselves as a family friendly site and, if you take a look around most fan sites, you'll find we aren't alone. We are in a very unique situation at TCU as most major football programs with the success we have have many similar sites to compete with, so we should embrace the fact that there aren't many of us out there - outside of rivals, hornedfrogsports, us and KF, who is there? - and be tolerant of the other's presence. You don't have to like us, but you also don't have to threaten us.
Talk about a 360 in the middle of the road. You flap your mouth about the Letterman....& then come on here saying you really did not mean it?
Furthermore, no one has threatened physical violence, so you boys can can go wash pants now. I told your fearful leader, that he would not say his profane tirade to my face. He acted as if he would not only do that....but he would laugh when he saw me. I just invited him to do such.
As far as The Letterman's Smoker, I cannot control those guys. So I will not speak for them.
No one was on here posting the rude comments, that you have made about this site & it's members. We do not even waste our time.
You are free to post here....but not about your site. If you cannot handle that.....You know the door.
