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Fantasy Sports Girl Is a FanHouse Mess
By Jamie Mottram | July 29, 2008
With Alana Nguyen A.K.A. Miss Gossip leaving just weeks after assuming leadership, I’m not sure who’s running the show at FanHouse, but they’re running it into the ground.
Case in point, AOL’s new partnership with Fantasy Sports Girl. The ladies of FSG are video blogging on FanHouse, delivering advice and skin free of charge. Not only is it unbelievably bad content, but it’s in unbelievably poor taste and reeks of executive ineptitude and shortsightedness.
(Update: After the backlash, AOL has deleted the original Fantasy Sports Girl post from FanHouse, but you can still see it here.)
The first post went up just last night, and Every Day Should Be Saturday is already mocking, Sports On My Mind is criticizing and FanHouse bloggers are complaining, as well they should.
Stuff like this doesn’t bode well for the site I had a hand in creating two summers ago (before leaving AOL for Yahoo! Sports last fall). The new captain, John Ness, left for NBC this month, and now the new new captain, Miss Gossip, is leaving too. With decisions like this happening against her will, who could blame her?
And it wouldn’t be surprising if some of FanHouse’s top bloggers follow her out the door, if they haven’t already. Hopefully that’s enough for AOL to recognize the error of their ways and reverse course, but I’m not expecting much. These are, after all, the same people (person?) who thought bringing Fantasy Sports Girl on board was a good idea in the first place.
Topics: Blog Stuffs, Infinite Sadness | 17 Comments »
July 29th, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Yeah…but they were smart enough to kill Sports Bloggers Live when it was making money and moving the needle. Don’t question their judgment. They’re AOL bitch!
July 29th, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Alana left already? Damn. To tell you the truth, I stopped visiting right around the time you left. The site seemed to lack focus and cohesion and there was way too much MDS.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:43 PM
The dude in the Chad Johnson jersey has YOOOGE tits.
or
It gives new meaning to the phrase – fantasy bust! AMIRITE? (wakka, wakka!)
July 29th, 2008 at 12:54 PM
@ meech.one “fantasy bust!” very nicely done.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:21 PM
WhoreHaus!
July 29th, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Thanks for this post, Jamie. The more people who are respected in the blogosphere that come out against this, the better the chances (hopefully) that this never happens again.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:32 PM
It is always said when a place you left goes down hill — it has happened to me as well.
I bet you would have loved it if you got the ad budget they seem to have for this fantasy stuff — the ads are EVERYWHERE.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:35 PM
I guess AOL has the inside track on why men 13-40 actually look on the internet. That may be true, but it is sad that it has to ruin something that had credibility.
We need to learn how to integrate women seamlessly into blogging. Like when Erin Andrews was the guest on the Blog Show. http://misterirrelevant.com/index.php/2008/06/03/blog-show-no-51-espns-erin-andrews/
Ouch! I brought up the awkwardness of the interview and the fact that Blog Show is no more. :-( That was both hurtful and unnecessary.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:37 PM
They wanted to get in on the ground floor of this whole “fantasy football” craze.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:48 PM
Lamentably bad.
Even beyond the base pandering of tits and ass, consider this: the producers of the promo were so lazy that one of the models was on-screen in a modified Jeremy Shockey Giants jersey.
I know it’s not been a week since he was dealt, but still…
July 29th, 2008 at 2:19 PM
What Brett Edwards said.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:56 PM
The next in line to run FanHouse, I’m told, is now Cleo Lemon.
July 29th, 2008 at 3:01 PM
Wow, yeah, thanks for setting women in sports back another 10 years. At least it’s not on a site I actually read (no offense, Jamie).
July 29th, 2008 at 3:45 PM
I have not read this blog long, but I knew Smurphette would not like this at all :-)
July 29th, 2008 at 4:12 PM
yes, all corners of the blogosphere must clearly reject this crap. Otherwise anyone who gave Buzz Bissinger a blog beatdown lost any last morsel of moral authority that they may have had left.
Considering your past relationship with Fanhouse, kudos for lending your weight in picking up on this story.
July 30th, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Cleo Lemon has now been replace by the hope of Brett Favre.
April 12th, 2011 at 12:27 AM
Lol, whenever I hear the name AOL I think of that buzzing, peeping old-school internet noise. AOL is for A-holes