This feels like it's the perfect time to hit the reset button on this whole thing, It seems like what we originally started this for was lost somewhere down the line. A lot of that is me and instead of trying to fix the broken pieces I just kept slapping a bandaid on a bullet wound and that shit won't last long.
Not too long after Covid was ripping through the world and shut down everything including all sports... Joe, Ray, Billy, and Myself decided to start our own thing and do it our way. We wanted to have a place to talk ALL SPORTS and not to handcuff ourselves to just 1 market of teams, so Fire'd Up Sports Network was born. Our first show was Super Bowl Sunday, it was the Chiefs vs Bucs and we had a few guests on to talk about the game and had a decent amount of views so we were off and running!!!
Being a huge fan of Barstool Sports since 2007, I felt like this was a chance to redeem myself for not pressing send on the email in 2009 when they were looking to start a NY branch. Maybe I would have gotten the job, maybe I wouldn't have, but I'll never know, and that will always bother me. But for now I had a chance to start something and just have fun talking sports with the boys (and ladies of course lol). We started this thing to have fun, then we started getting a little bit of a following and I feel like that's when we started going in the wrong direction. Thinking we could monetize from it, we started expanding ideas to other places, and although I don't think it was a bad idea, I just think we were rushing it. Me thinking I was some sort of a temu Dave Portnoy, I feel was the absolute downfall. Doing more bits without anyone really knowing me, and everyone taking anything I said or wrote too seriously. But that's not anyone's fault but my own for thinking I was already a made character, I wasn't... I was just Jeff, I was forcing something instead of letting it come naturally. So it's time for a do over, I'm hoping this time instead of friends shitting on us and pushing us down because they think it's funny to do that, I'm hoping to get support from friends and let the outsiders be the real trolls. You'll always see me wearing our merch everywhere I go because I'm proud of our logo, and I love our new look!!!! And I'm hoping eventually our Fire'd Up Sports members will feel the same.
Complete reset for us!!!! One of the other mistakes I made was making our Facebook group Private. That was my decision and I convinced the other guys that we shouldn't have (for example) 3000 people commenting and seeing our content without joining the group. All I saw were numbers not the activity on the page and that was 100% all me, So I will be creating a new Facebook group that is public and hope we can just have a complete reboot.
I won't be the character I've been and let it come more natural and not forced (but I will still troll at times), but I want everyone to know I do know ball, Baseball, Football......I'm not as good with Basketball or Hockeyball but I also never claimed that.
This was long, but I felt it was necessary, and hopefully we can put out a product and put out a platform were we can shit talk and talk sports and bring out new shows, blogs, and content that everyone can get behind and one day walk around places and see people wearing our logo on a shirt, hoodie, hat, stickers, etc.
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