The New Orleans Saints will be playing the New England Patriots tomorrow night for the game of the week. The Saints remain undefeated, but they haven’t faced a team as talented as that of the Patriots. There was a lot of hype when the New York Giants came into town, but they have shown everyone that they aren’t the team they have been in the past. This could very well be a preview of the two teams playing in this year’s Super Bowl. Expectations are high, with one of the biggest match-ups so far this season. If you enjoy football, you will not be disappointed with the game tomorrow night, and remember to root for the Saints!
This was the first year that I ever participated in what is known as Black Friday. I went to a couple of different stores and was amazed at the chaos that was presented to me. First, I went to Best Buy to see what their prices were going to be like for some new TVs. Best Buy is usually always packed no matter what time of the day you go, but I didn’t realize that people were going to be spending the night outside of its door the day after Thanksgiving. I arrived around 8 A.M and the line literally was a block long. I waited for about 30 minutes, and everything that I was thinking about buying had already been sold out 3 hours earlier. I understand that the deals are worth getting up for and waiting forever in lines, but I am certain that I will never attempt to buy my gifts on this day ever again.
Tiger Woods is arguably the best golfer of all time and one of the most famous athletes in the world today. He is also one of the most private. He is rarely in the news unless it is golf related; that all changed early Friday morning. Just two days after the National Enquirer accused Tiger of having an affair with a New York night club hostess, he wrecked his SUV outside of his Florida home around 2:25 a.m. There are many questions that haven’t been answered. Where was he going at this hour in the morning? Are the accusations of his affair true? These questions might never be answered.
Tiger didn’t release a statement until this afternoon. “The only person responsible for the accident is me,” he said on his website after days of speculation. “My wife, Elin, acted courageously when she saw I was hurt and in trouble. She was the first person to help me. Any other assertion is absolutely false.” Tiger Woods still hasn’t answered any key questions about the incident.
Is this a bad public relations move by a person who wants nothing more than to have privacy for him and his family? Should he have released a statement earlier? It will be every interesting to see how this situation plays out.
I was at work Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. I really wanted to be out shopping but had to settle for online shopping instead. For two weeks as I watched TV, how to shop Black Friday sales, who had the better sales, etc. were topics discussed. On Thanksgiving’s Day it was pushed into overdrive so that it seemed like every 30 minutes the news mentioned something about the sales and who had what on sale or a commercial was running. I think that stores like Target, Walmart and Best Buy did a great job with their coverage. When people in the news would talk about the sales they would mention these stores and how they are expecting big crowds and what they are doing to make it safer for the people shopping.
This year the stores took a new approach to shopping and making people want to spend their money. Not only did they offer sales but they also stressed the point that they would try to make shopping as safe as possible. This gives people a new perspective of what big stores are doing to meet their needs. Great PR effort!
How did wanna-be reality stars manage to sneak past the Secret Service?
The USA Today reported the Secret Service is looking at possible criminal charges against a Virginia couple who crashed the State dinner at the White House on Tuesday.
Tareq and Michaele Salahi are contenders for a role on Bravo’s new reality show, Real Housewives of D.C., according to her Facebook page.
The couple did not pose a threat to the president or other dignitaries, Donovan said. Partygoers, including the uninvited Salahis, had to pass through metal detectors, he said.
The fact that these two people were able to slip past the Secret Service makes me a little nervous, I do not care if they did go through metal detectors.
How many of you participated in a food fight while in either middle-school or high school? I know I did, in both actually, and I was not arrested either time. However at the beginning of this month, students from the middle-school campus of Perspectives Charter Schools, in Chicago, were arrested for just that, a food fight.
The New York Times reported that 25 students, ages 11 to 15, were rounded up, arrested, taken from school and put in jail on charges of reckless conduct and a misdemeanor.
The article stated that the parents were questioning what seemed to them like the criminalization of age-old adolescent pranks, and the lasting legal and psychological impact of the arrests.
“They’re all scared,” Erica Russell, the mother of two eighth-grade girls who spent eight hours in jail. “They were handcuffed, slammed in a wagon, and their mug shuts taken and treated like real criminals.”
In my opinion, the only thing missing was real criminals. What are your thoughts?
Apple comes out with snow leopard giving people another reason to buy an Apple. A few weeks ago my apple macbook pro was stolen out of my locked car at the rec center along with about everyting else. I love apple and Mac computers but they have done absolutely nothing to help me get my computer back. You would think they would have some chip or something to find the location of my computer, but they don’t as far as they have told me, and now I am going to have to buy another computer. I am not happy about the loss of my computer not to mention that I lost all the work I had on my computer along with everything that was on my jump drive. Apple/ mac computers needs to come out with something that will give customers a huge reason to buy their computers. If it gets stolen they will find it. Snow leopard is nice; it speeds up the processing, but what about when the computer is gone? Help Apple!
Well, how does public relations change society and peoples lives? It seems we are the moving force in the creation of networks such as facebook and twitter. What else are we creating for the promotion of companies? It seems that we are invading peoples lives and trying o create opinion based off of publicity, even if it is not true. What people want is customer service, good service, selection, quality and value. Is it that hard to provide what it is customers want? It would make our jobs a lot easier if companies would just do right. I wish I knew how much our creation of networks and mediums were infiltated into peoples lives.
Being on the Alabama Gymnastics team, I have experienced recruiting and have been part of the process of recuiting other athletes. Just over the last few years, recruiting has changed so much, thanks to social media, youtube and the access that cell phones can give. Coaches have to be so careful what is put out there publicly about their teams, but they also have to make sure what is put out there purposely gives the image of their team they desire. Coaches are putting up videos, podcasts, tweets, pictures and anything anyone could think of that young teenagers would look at along with their parents. Recruiting used to be about what team fits best with my personality. An athlete would learn this through a trip to the University and by spending time with the team and coaches. Now most athletes commit to a University before ever stepping foot on the campus and their decisions are being made through what they see on social networking sites and youtube. We at Alabama have pretty much documenteed anything and everything that goes on in the gym from a tour of the facilities we have at bama to a video showing our photo shoot. It a whole new world of recruiting and creating an image and a brand of who we are or want to be. Winning the SEC Championship helped our recruiting but still it seems we have to be the best entertainers via technology to get the recruits we want.
NFlrush.com sends NFL football players to different schools, encouraging kids to stay active and excersise. NFL is teamed up with United Way and what they encourage is 60 miutes of play. Pretty much every team is involved. This is an awesome way to get the news out there about the importance of physical activity. Parents and community directors talk about the importance of physical activity all day long, but when someone a kid looks up to and doing something that would be their dream job, somehow it means a little bit more. As athletes, we are a brand and an image that represents one thng or another. Kids look up to us and the simplest word or encouragement these kids will remember for the rest of their lives. I think that 60 minutes of play is an awesome way for the NFL and United Way to get involved in their community and promote healthy living and not to mention they are creating a more family-based public.
