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 Post subject: Yeah,smart move HUB!
PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 7:19 pm 
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http://www.chicagofootball.com/magazine/


I was going to give Hub and his new venture my business.


26 issues for 79 bucks??????????????????? BLOW ME!

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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 7:52 pm 
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That's $3 for a biweekly magazine. That's not unreasonable if the content and presentation are any good, though the horrible design work on the website is a reason to be skeptical of the latter. What do those draftnik magazines usually go for at a Walgreens newsstand? Usually at least $4, right?

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Why are the C and H and L and L kerned so tight as to be fake ligatures? Why are there six stars inside the LL ligature? Why is Hub gazing to his right while pretending to toss a football that might be out of proportion to his hand?

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 Post subject: Re: Yeah,smart move HUB!
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Oh shit Rizzo homered while I wrote this Jimmy :D


I THINK I can't afford 79 bucks for a football publication.


La Hair would have hit it farther. :x

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 Post subject: Re: Yeah,smart move HUB!
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http://www.shermanreport.com/qa-with-hub-arkush-on-what-happened-to-pro-football-weekly-and-how-brand-still-might-return-in-some-form/
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In this marketplace, I don’t see how you can make it as a magazine.


So, he seems to have put Pro Football Weekly in bankruptcy to lose the $8.5 million in debt and then recreated a very similar product.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/31/46-year-run-ends-for-pro-football-weekly/

I wouldn't be too happy if I was one of those guys on the hook for the $8.5 million.

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 Post subject: Re: Yeah,smart move HUB!
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 Post subject: Re: Yeah,smart move HUB!
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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
http://www.shermanreport.com/qa-with-hub-arkush-on-what-happened-to-pro-football-weekly-and-how-brand-still-might-return-in-some-form/
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In this marketplace, I don’t see how you can make it as a magazine.


So, he seems to have put Pro Football Weekly in bankruptcy to lose the $8.5 million in debt and then recreated a very similar product.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/31/46-year-run-ends-for-pro-football-weekly/

I wouldn't be too happy if I was one of those guys on the hook for the $8.5 million.


Not the first time he has done this. Seacrest already went to the mat to defend this guy for making the effort and I am all for giving someone credit for going for any business venture on their own, nothing is tougher, but Hub took over an existing business and ran it into the ground a few times, with numerous investors giving him money a number of times until the debt just got too big.

Such choices as "not going to the internet" until like 2013, might not have been such a great business move.

Some think Hub is a good reporter, writer, commentator, etc and maybe he is if you like him, but you would think at this point he has learned he is a bad businessman and he cant do both.

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I met Hub at a fundraiser years ago, and he said their 1-800-FOOTBALL phone number (which the company had acquired decades earlier) was worth $50k. I assumed he would have had to relinquish it during the bankruptcy, but I just called the number to check it out and it's disconnected. I would think someone would find value in that number.

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