We’ve been very happy during our seven-plus-month relationship with NBC. Traffic continues to climb, I’ve accumulated a room full of NBC Sports swag, and I’ve been to New York City like eight times.
The relationship apparently is working well for NBC, given the decision of NBCSports.com to apply our formula to the other major sports. (And to baseball.)
John Ourand of SportsBusiness Journal recently reported that NBCSports.com will apply the PFT approach to its coverage of the NBA and MLB. On Monday, ProBasketballTalk.com launched under the NBC Sports umbrella (I’ve got two of those already), and Circling the Bases was renamed HardballTalk.com.
Kurt Helin will handling the hoops blog, and Craig Calcaterra is the captain of the baseball ship.
“We need to be different from the ESPNs and Foxes of the world,” our good friend Rick Cordella, General Manager of NBC Sports Digital, told Ourand. “We want to develop the model of using a high-personality guy to create a one-stop shop for an individual sport.”
Translation: “We want an asshole with OCD and no life who’ll work like a malnourished Doberman and piss everyone off in the process.”
OK, maybe that’s not exactly what Cordella is looking for. But that’s what he’s got, at least as it relates to pro football.
And he’ll be getting a little more of it. Starting soon, yours truly will be pitching in with the online coverage of the Olympic hockey tournament. I’m officially rooting for Italy, since I might have a relative or two on the team.
That should be good for a couple hundred extra comments per day.
They like you because you try to extend their liberal agenda into football, instead of just giving the facts… Have fun being owned by Comcast…
Florio, I don’t always agree with the things come out of your mouth but you are a genius. You get people like me to visit your site, daily, several times per day and comment on everything. I say good work my friend.
Well, i don’t always agree with you, but it’s been cool watching the site grow. congrats.
Or we want to hire a bunch of wannabe amatuers to make things up and post them online.
Florio, whatever model you’ve created is the best ever, buddy. Hopefully whoever this other joker is can apply it as well to baseball (which I love, but has never received anything but mockery on this site) as you have to football.
You make me jealous and optimistic at the same time. You’re just like the rest of us — except with wit, football connections, a wide-reaching audience, press access and a law degree. Oh wait, I’ve got that last one. When can I get the other stuff?!
“And he’ll be getting a lot more of it.”
That’s what she said!
That is all.
wow…olbermann, chris matthews, and our lil’ ambulance chaser…what a trifecta!
And the quality of “journalism” continues to plummet.
Jesus…what a world we live in.
I don’t think I really have enough time to go around for all these sites. Is there any talk about a ProGolferTalk.com site ? This way we could get the real scoop on Tiger’s movements maybe.
Its all good Florio, I won’t be hater even though your gonna wind up all crazy rich and in hollywoooood.
Florio = meatball, a loud & boisterous one
Wear those tube socks good n’ proud at the beach this spring.
Christ….Wait until Mark Cuban gets ahold of ProBasketBallTalk.com. He’ll be posting every 30 seconds, just like the other bozo who posts anything and everything Dallas, except Cuban actually has a stake in what he is saying, and isn’t just another unemployed,lonely, Magic: The Gathering playing internet troll…..
They need one for the NHL so we can all take a huge dump on that whiner crosby. Can’t stand that MFer.
“High-personality guy”? Well, I guess if you’re rolling in a VW bus like a hippie, you’ve got to smoke what they smoke.
Congrats, Mike!
I’m a one-sport girl–although I will be watching the Winter Games–but I think you should get a piece of the action from those new sites. Hope that’s in your contract. Good luck w/the hockey coverage. If you were blogging on the Flying Tomato or Colbert’s speed skaters, I might have dropped by.
Hope things keep looking up for you.
Sincerely,
Conan O’Brien
Hey Florio, you provide us with up to the minute football insight. I don’t always agree with all of your opinions (I’m a Browns fan and you can sometimes be ruthless on the Browns) but you at least provide us with good entertainment every evening. Keep it up and forget about all the haters.
Florio, you’re gay. The only way to set yourself apart from the ESPNs and Fox’s is to actually have real sports programming. As far as your Internet traffic; that’s nothing more than 36 year old losers who live with their moms and Favre fans defending Favre. When you decide to leave the rookie league of sports boadcasting, maybe then you’ll understand. NBC didn’t get the memo: No one cares about the Olympics, especially the Winter Olympics.
I’d rather watch Deion, Faulk, Marriocci, Sapp, and Irvin on NFLN than to listen to Olbermann, Patrick, Dungy, King, and Harrison. Olbermann/Patrick was so 1995.
It has been fun watching the site grow. I know you have to turn into a puppet on some things to a certain degree, but I guess that’s the way life goes. Still, good job.
hmmmmmmmmmmm….
Why hasn’t anyone followed your PFT formula for those sports previously????? ????
they have! it’s called the daily police blotter …
other than that, no one cares ….
Obj my god! The baseball and basketball sites are just as worse! CBSSportsline stuff, 30 minutes later!
Congrats – so I guess now you’re the Sally Field of NBC. Guess that’s impressive to certain types of people.
congrats
The headline should be “For some reason, Florio seems to like bragging.”
No, but seriously, this is my favorite website in the world. Copycat league, copycat life. Keep it up.