NASCAR's Amazing Screwup

At some point college business courses need to use NASCAR as an example of how to destroy a business.

The downfall of NASCAR from a National Sport that was close to rivaling the NFL in popularity to essentially nothing is pretty amazing.

With the Coronavirus NASCAR was given an amazing opportunity to resurrect itself. NASCAR was the first "semi-major" sport back doing live events during a time when sports fans are starved for any type of content. NASCAR had the sports world to itself and you had people staying at home more with no sports to watch. Never mind you had fans straying away from the NFL due to all the politics that have infiltrated the league. NASCAR could've picked up some of those fans just by staying non-political.

So what does NASCAR do? They go political and go down the same path as the NFL.

Back in the day I was a NASCAR fan. I was a big fan of Bobby Labonte and later Tony Stewart. Even in Stewart's later years I didn't follow NASCAR nearly as much and once Smoke retired I essentially retired.

With the NFL sucking the life out of my fandom with the politics I was one of those who started watching NASCAR again. I decided to give it another chance when it resumed. Part of me had even thought about trying to seriously get back into NASCAR again. Any chance of that is gone now, they are as dead to me as the NFL and the Saints.

So once again NASCAR screws up a golden opportunity. I don't know any other organization that has screwed up as much as NASCAR has. NASCAR is never going to get the LGBT, Hollywood or even Millennial/Gen Z crowd. All they did was just turn away the few diehard and potential fans they had left. Good job NASCAR.