Here’s a bargain for a frustrated Duke football fan. For $50, you can own the Web site where the name says it all — FireTedRoof.com.
That’s a steal, because similar sites calling for the dismissals of Bill Callahan at Nebraska or Sylvester Croom at Mississippi State are five times as expensive.
But for most coaches, job security is no joke. With another season kicking off, an online cottage industry has emerged with Internet vendors copying football’s most famous anti-coach Web site–fireronzook.com.
Gripe sessions formerly reserved for bars and barbershops now also take place anonymously in cyberspace, where, with a few keystrokes and a credit card, a disgruntled fan can set up a Web site and launch a grass roots campaign to have a coach canned.
And now, one mysterious fan is trying to cash in on fans’ frustrations. He obtained the rights to nearly 30 fire-the-coach Web pages over the years and under the Redshirted.com banner is selling them for up to $250 apiece.
The owner of Redshirted would identify himself only as a technology worker from Austin, Texas, named Doug.
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Tim on September 2nd, 2006 at 3:50 pm
Interesting niche. Was there any indication as to how popular this kind of site is? The only problem I guess is that the traffic/popularity is likely short term since it’s hard to complain about a coach after they really have been fired.
Leon on September 2nd, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Interesting. I’d be more intrigued if I watched American football.
mo on September 2nd, 2006 at 7:15 pm
very interesting, but after a month or two, this website won’t be popular anymore!