5 Things We Know On A Sunday – Pho Marketing, What’s The Deal With Seinfeld Tickets, The Alamo & Tumbleweeds, Party Like It’s 1976, Broken News

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5 Things We Know On A Sunday

1. I’m no marketing genius but I bet they’d sell a lot more pho if they called it, ‘awesome soups with great noodles”…. The reverse of French restaurants selling “snail” instead of escargot…Either way, we are a fan of the awesome soup with great noodles no matter what they call it.
2. Proof that some folks are just smarter and better than others. What’s the deal with folks paying hundreds of dollars to see comedian Jerry Seinfeld perform his stand-up act in Lubbock? I mean the guy is literally on TV for hours at a stretch every day. For free. And folks are lining up like it’s a rent-car place at Thanksgiving to get into the show. Brilliant. I don’t begrudge Seinfeld and think he’s great. Proof that there’s no such thing as overexposure if you’re the best. And Seinfeld is. He should be the Super Bowl Half-Time Show next year.
3. If a major sporting event is taking place in San Antonio and the network doesn’t start the broadcast showing The Alamo, can we really be sure the game is going on in San Antonio? It would be like the networks doing a game from Lubbock and not starting off with Buddy Holly’s statue or glasses, a pump jack or a tumbleweed. It must be an FCC regulation or something.
4. If movie theaters want to make a little money off the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence…they should show movies from 1976. I’d get out and celebrate America’s birthday at the theater if they gave us Rocky, The Bad News Bears, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and King Kong. Drop concession prices down to 1976 for the matinees and call it good. You’d actually get me out to your theater. Now, do we have time to rebuild the Winchester Twin for this????
5. If the TV Networks really want their news product to matter, they should try something new. Just give folks the news. No more, no less. No analysis and breakdowns and 7-person panels. Just give folks the news. If someone came up with the idea to invent CNN circa-June 1980; they’d make millions of dollars today. By the way, the same goes for ESPN and SportsCenter. Imagine a thirty minute show that showed nothing but highlights of all the sports of the day… Sometimes, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. It’s sitting right there in front of you.

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