The Bobcats Got Their Website. Finally
It's no lie, I don't have a lot of faith in the brain power of women when it comes to...well, anything, really - but especially sports and business. So you can imagine my shock when I learned that some woman, from rural Montana no less (they have the Internet already?), was able to fool the Charlotte Bobcats into giving her upwards of $50,000 for the rights to www.bobcats.com.
"It's called business," said Barbara Roe, owner of Bitterroot Bobcat and Lynx in Stevensville, a town of 1,500 people located in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana. "It's what you do. If you have a business somebody wants, you capitalize on it."
Roe said her business had used Bobcats.com for 10 years. She started receiving e-mails from Bobcats team officials in 2004 -- the team's first season -- about purchasing the name.
"They began at a couple of thousand dollars, but they wouldn't meet my price," said Roe.
It took the collective minds at an NBA franchise three years to come to terms with a woman who breeds large cats for a living. They don't deserve a website.
Via The Fanhouse.
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2 comments:
I couldn't believe that it took them so long to give her the money. It's only $50000--that's pennies for a domain name, compared to what many of them cost. The Bobcats got that name cheap.
It's all worth it for a name like the Bobcats
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