@@hunterpro_1 why are you convinced NASCAR has it out for him and it wasn't just Brandon screwing himself over? If you follow the events that happened which @EllyProdcutions49 didn't cover very well it's more Brandon shooting himself in the foot. In November that year after Dibenedetto tried a pandering stunt NASCAR told everyone clearly nothing LGB/FJB related would be allowed in the sport. In December Brandon gave a widely covered interview about struggling to find sponsors and wanted to make LGB his own thing. The next week LGB coin was announced as sponsor. It gave the perception he did the interview to soften public opinion of him using it. Then we find out his sponsors didn't leave him, he quit answering their calls trying to renew for the next year. Then theres the paint scheme vs. sponsor approval from NASCAR drama. The week of Christmas Brandon's team submitted the paint scheme for eye test approval which it cleared. That process is seperate from actual sponsor approval teams go through. Brandon's team though took a paint scheme approval and decided that was good enough to announce their new sponsor. Of course NASCAR came out and said that's not allowed with the LGB coin owner trying to claim paint scheme approval meant NASCAR already cleared them. They were informed that not how it works but Brandon can work with his sponsor all he wants outside track property. It sucks something outside his control took off but the way he handled it trying to garner sympathy while using the phrase wasn't smart.
I'm convinced he's blacklisted. Dude has his best season as an owner driver, yet no part time starts open in Xfinity or Trucks, even accounting sponsorship this makes no sense
@@arwyss exactly. Embracing the meme, that had a dirty word in it, was the biggest factor in his downfall. He could have pieced together some sponsors but instead he chose to go with the sponsor that would have never paid him a damn dime. The fact that NASCAR rejected his sponsor, is meaningless. A meme coin would have never sustained the team in any way.
This has to be one of the most tragic nascar stories in the past few years. imagine building your career for all those years and you finally win win and it’s the reason your career fall apart. My heart goes out to Brandon brown such a shame politics ruined someone job.
@@slowturtle11fan7 the crypto sponsor, the new york times article. Noone knew outside of NASCAR who the Brandon in Lets go Brandon was really. He should have distanced himself from it. He didnt and tried to brand it as his thing and failed badly
There’s a parallel universe where Brandon Jones wins that Talladega race and everything plays out the same expect for Brandon Brown still has his car and sponsorships 😔
That would be a world where everyone knows that wokism is a destructive virus, and those who practice it are spreading it. Therefore they must be punished for pushing for pushing ideas that are subversive, which could foster civil war.
This hurts. Getting to see Brandon Brown become so well-liked in NASCAR in 2020-2021 was a great thing to see; and seeing him win was great. It’s just tough to see how much that win hurt him in retrospect.
Tbh, Nascar is partially responsible for the fiasco that ended Brandon Brown's career, none of this woulda happened had Talladega had lights and even if he still found a way to win they coulda stuck with the longtime practice of doing the winner interviews in victory lane to ensure that chant wouldn't have been heard in the background.
What? It was NASCAR's fault because the track didn't have lights? It was because they didn't go to victory lane? You have NASCAR confused with the track owner and the broadcaster. NASCAR doesn't make those decisions.
@@Aiophgy NASCAR can't give every track lights. More importantly, NASCAR does not decide when races take place. The broadcast networks have too.much control.
I feel bad for Brandon he was a good driver and overall a great team owner but one chant ended his carriers for now who knows we may see him back in the future
@@FlyingAces i don't think if you've been in front of an audience of tens of thousands in open air before, but it's entirely possible she misheard them. the ambient microphones placed in the stands to pick up audience audio hears the audience more clearly over the broadcast, but they don't sound anywhere nearly as clear if you're more than a couple dozen feet away from em. There are dozens of people to blame here. The reporter who *misheard* the audience, the audience making a political chant at a sporting event while the event's winner was celebrating, the mainstream media who sensationalized this story, the vendors who sold merchandise to make easy cash off of the controversy yet never once approached the victim of the controversy to support him, the sponsor companies who didn't want to get swept up into the controversy.... take your pick. the point is, Brandon's career was ended because of circumstances entirely beyond his control, and it's not fair given how much the guy obviously cared about racing. you can blame whoever the hell you want, but it's not gonna bring Brandon back. You're just pointing fingers to find easy explanations and closure for a tremendously complex, confusing and chaotic situation, and it don't help anybody.
@@HOOTwheelz I know you definitely haven't because I have. I work in the sport, know Brandon personally and can tell you that it's clear as day when they're all chanting like that. And it is an easy explanation to point out where the snowball started rolling. Had she just been truthful or just simply ignored it and not felt the need to say anything about it, none of this would have happened to begin with.
@@FlyingAces None of this would have happened if the crowd wasn’t chanting something political during a driver’s first NASCAR win. These are supposed to be racing fans. The fact that this was Brandon‘s very first NASCAR win should have meant something to real fans. He was so excited! Shame on those people in the stands for disrespecting him during his interview. Put the blame where it belongs. On the people who started this.
Well done. This should be a 30/30 on ESPN. Done by you. Really bs that this happen to him. I like Brandon. Even before the chant. Always root for the little teams!
All we need now is a RWR top 5, The #91 Trackhouse charter car to win another race (Most likely Van Gisbergen) and BJ to score a top 15... then boom, we would all be happy.
Kudos to you for tackling this subject, though I feel there's so many more details that needed to be included. The fact alone that someone at NASCAR had approved LGBCoin, but reportedly did not have authority to do so, raised interesting legal questions.
That never mattered. That meme coin was always going to be worthless. His sponsor would have never paid him. NASCAR did him a favor by rejecting the sponsor.
@rocksreviewsreactions337 I mean either way he still chose to take a path not everyone else would have. I don't get these "he had no choice" people when other drivers wouldn't get someone to make them a shit sponsor.
Pretty much everyone involved has been "canceled" by this controversy: not only Brandon himself, but the pit reporter (NBC quietly sent her packing at the end of the 2021 season), Brandon's team (basically shut down with the remnants being formed into a new part-time team running #96)... even the race itself has been "canceled" as the Xfinity Series has reverted back to only running Talladega in the spring as in the pre-pandemic years...
Another great video. It really does suck what happened to him. Hearing him so happy after he won is so eerie considering it essentially ended his career. I also think it's interesting that Brandon JONES finished second. Would the same thing have happened with Brandon Jones ending up as the face of Let's Go Brandon? Would it have had as much of an impact on him as it did on Brandon Brown? We'll never know.
i was there, and was part of the crowd right at the start finish line. the vast majority of us were actually chanting “let’s go brandon.” unfortunately, the people chanting “fjb” were sitting right behind the flag stand, which is where the crowd microphone generally is.
It was a shame that some people said that Brandon Brown should have given in and not picked up LGBCoin as a sponsorship. His career was in jeopardy and it was a last ditch move to keep racing, essentially pinning the blame of the movement on him.
Except he gave a big interview claiming sponsors left him the week before he announced LGB coin. Then his old sponsors said hold on we didn't leave, you quit answering the phone.
@@XanderH4W6which is he said she said lmao, you can either believe the sponsors who pull out all the time at the slightest bit of controversy and will lie to cover their asses or believe the lifelong racer who already had to take various sponsors constantly then all of a sudden he has none.
...and honestly, there are A LOT of toxic "fans" out there that would ruin other drivers if they had the chance. It's sad, but as all things, it's not exclusive to Nascar. All sports suffer from this.
It really was some bs what happened to Brandon Brown. He had nothing to do with the whole situation besides just winning the race. Winning that race should've propelled his career and team with more sponsorships, but now he can't even race for his own family team (much less any team it seems like, I haven't seen him in awhile). I hope he gets back to racing again.
I did a pick for who would win in each series Saturday morning, the same day of the truck and Xfinity race at talladega. I picked Stewart Friesen for trucks, Elliott for cup, and, Brandon Brown for Xfinity. I went nuts after the race when he won.
I blame the reporter. Without her action of paying any attention to the crows, this chain of events would have never happened. Also the sponsors pulling out, fцск them.
Brandon absolutely has to take some blame. There's nothing political about saying, "I don't like people using my name as an immature way to insult someone else. That's disrespectful to me." But instead he leaned into the phrase with the attempted LGBcoin sponsorship. 🤷♂
It’s that final sentence you said that everyone seems to forget. BB shot himself in the foot by doing that, but yeah let’s blame the reporter. Shouldn’t have took a genius to realize half the citizens of the US would end up getting pissed regardless of what happened
The phrase was already ruining his career. The sponsors had already left. In order to be able to race, he needed a sponsor, and LGB Coin was pretty much the only one willing. So, while yes, he could have said no to the sponsorship, it likely would've been the end of his career. Which is exactly what happened in actuality, as he didn't end up getting this sponsor. Had nascar approved the sponsorship, the story would be completely different, and we could be saying that the LGB chant helped his career by giving him a full season sponsor. But even then, the sponsor was likely a scam that would leave after a few races. So it was a blunder either way.
...this is what I think of when I hear "Let's go Brandon." Not the memes, not the politics, not Joe Biden himself...this. I think of how a completely innocent racing driver got screwed out of sponsorships, and ultimately, his career. All because this incident was the epicenter of the "Let's go Brandon" craze. If that isn't damning evidence of the state of politics on a global scale these days, I don't know what is.
@lagniappe3654 Some people would like to police what you say in private, that's case over in the UK, Scotland to precise. So no even that is political, everything is. I would assume everyone over the age of 12 sadly knows that.
@@Megalaglagdepends on if you mean actually private or “if they don’t hear about it, it didn’t happen, but if they did you’re in jail” like being lgbtq+ in Qatar (or other similar theocratic/religious nations)
@@Megalaglag guess who enforces your right to privacy and ensures your property stays private? That's right, the government. Without the state, you don't have private property. Politics touches everything you do, choosing to abstain is a political choice and a cowardly one at that. Eat or be eaten.
@@ZexellGamingas everyone with a brain says, honestly. The cry of "let's not be political!" is usually code for "I don't want my specific politics to be looked at"
@@MarkPentlerfor some yes. For most it's "we don't wanna hear you only talk about politics for 30 minutes, you're ruining the conversation by turning it to politics at every moment." At least that's how I am as a 20 year old.
People really bending over backwards and twisting themselves into knots with the amount of mental gymnastics to say this wasn't the fault of those fans that were chanting it in the first place, and then the subsequent political dinguses that thought they were being coy by using it and spreading it as a political meme. All the reporter did in that brief moment was just try to keep the situation apolitical and pretend the word, "Fuck," wasn't being said on live television; that's it.
For real lol. She tried to keep the situation neutral and non-political but everyone blames her. Literally she did the right thing. Seems like nobody blamed the inbred rednecks in the stands and the right wing cult for exaggerating it.
This is coming from the same people who said if you disagree with whatever Obama says you are racist. That was the political discussion for 8 years. You all reap what you sow. Never forget it.
The reporter gaslighted the audience. She didn't need to say or address it at all. This is 100% the fault of the reporter, and the Let's Go Brandon movement literally is because everyone is sick and tired of legacy media on BOTH SIDES of the political aisle literally lying directly to everyone when the truth is right behind them. It's a protest about the media, the over reach of government in censorship, not the president. Stop trying to create and control the narrative. This country was founded on the right to protest.
I always say that Brandon Brown's win was completely overshadowed by the LGB/FJB confusion It was the reporter that tried to do damage control by saying "Let's Go Brandon" But then again, you know what they say: the rest became history. It wasn't his fault that it happened, and he never asked for it to happen To those that are still using his name for the slogan: You should be ashamed of yourself
My name is Brandon, and ANY time I hear Mets go Brandon come up, it just pisses me off to no end. The fact that not only does it not congratulate me for doing something, but is also tied to politics just hits so wrong on so many levels. I feel insulted every single time I hear it, and I’m just a Brandon tgat nobody knows. I can’t imagine how it made Brandon Brown feel, or even Brandon jones for that matter
its a dumb chant if you ask me. Really sucks that he can't get work now and I do feel bad for the reporter that she tried her best to ignore what the fans were chanting but it unfortunately backfired and now Brandon's only win will go down in infamy because of that
This is why I hate politics, and companies trying to seem politically correct and not sponsoring someone because of fans, something the driver couldn’t control.
@@redbullsauberpetronas not really. If one of my friends started putting “FDT” signs in his lawn and screaming “Fuck Trump” randomly at sporting events I would tell him to chill out and Id be generally worried that he was becoming obsessed and politically cultist.
@@historybuff1483 you really gonna ignore how it's perfectly acceptable to say literally whatever you want about quite a few "right wing" (I wouldn't consider trump and republicans right wing but people who don't know any better do) and it's celebrated. Everything is political now welcome to America
@@redbullsauberpetronas Thats a strawman fallacy. No one is saying anything about whether it was right or wrong. That’s called morality. We were discussing whether it was MATURE or not. Keep up.
If Brandon is not racing in xfinity anymore, I wish he'd give Smooge Racing a call. They may have a place in their lineup for him. Now granted, its a sportcar programme, and he'll be driving Toyota Supra gt4s instead of Chevy Camaros. But if he still wants to race, then something is better than nothing. Plus the team is co-founded by Kevin Conway, and their driver lineup also supports dirt oval racing, so Brandon should feel more comfortable with that sorta crowd.
We share the same hometown and that made me a fan of his. Was so excited to see him get that first win and hoped it would have started his climb into something bigger. Really is a shame that such a great moment was tarnished by a stupid slogan.
As bad as I do feel for Brandon, he kind of DID mess up after the fact. He had some legit sponsors lined up but played the whole "Oh no one wants to sponsor us." leading his ACTUAL sponsors to be like okay, we out then. I really wanted him to succeed but then he leaned fully into this sponsor which, who in their right mind would believe that Nascar would EVER sign off on something like that? Cause if you believe that, I got some high quality, breathable moon air to sell to you.
I just gotta say man, all these videos you do are absolutely fantastic. They make my day and they’re so intriguing and even strike the curiosity of people who don’t care for the sport of NASCAR or Indycar. I play your videos and they give me serious emplemon vibes which are incredible stories. True stories but with a passionate teller, with a passion for the sport. Keep up the good work my man
This story is why I hate the phrase, not for political reasons. I feel so bad for Brandon Brown, as he was trying his best to get sponsors and the phrase taking off killed his career. So depressing...
I think the commenters are missing the most important point for the most part. It's proof how the reporters deliberately skew the news. That reporter didn't have to say anything at all about the chant. Brandon Brown isn't the only casualty from such reporting, either.
It's insane that literally no one will give him a chance .....something he had no control over completely ruined his career and put his family's team out of business
Brandon has been active on twitter again and it's made this situation even more complicated. Sucks because as he says it, he had no hand in the LGB coin stuff.
The announcer tried her best to take a very loud hard R rated very stupid political chant and turn it into something positive for NBC, NASCAR and of course Brandon Brown.
I was at Disney World recently and at the Hall of Presidents someone shouted “Let’s go Brandon” when Biden came out. I saw who it was and after the show and I thanked them for contributing towards the death of Brandon Brown’s career.
I can't begin to feel sorry for Brandon Brown. He just happened to get lucky and he won a race. Good for him for being in the right place at the right time. There are lessons to be learned here. Having a meme coin as a full time sponsor was never going to work! The crypto market took a dive in early 2022. NASCAR rejecting his sponsor, saved him from having a sponsor that would have never paid him. He was lucky that NASCAR gave him a reason to move on to find a different sponsor. The real lesson is, don't embrace bad stuff. He became a meme that was associated with politics, a dirty word and denigrating the President of the USA. That is not marketable. Sure, he was in a bad spot because of that but he didn't run away from it. He embraced it. He put his name back in the news by accepting that sponsor and made it worse by feuding with NASCAR over it. He ruined his marketability and any chances of future sponsorship deals. Honestly, this guy deserved his downfall.
What I don't understand is, why were all the fans chanting something political after a victory that had NOTHING to do with politics? Brandon Brown deserved better.
Flame rock refuge music just took me wayyyyy back to afternoons spent grinding the erideruim slots in the bar. Thank you for reminding me of some memories I hold very dear. Music rarely makes me cry but it’s even rarer for music with no lyrics to do so.
As if I needed another reason to dislike that chant. Brandon Brown didn't deserve the hand he was dealt, he seems like a genuinely good person who's just trying to live his racing dreams. I hope he can find some way to return.
in my opinion the point of no return came a day after the race when a political influencer (who i won't name here) picked up the phrase and started aggressively pushing it for some reason
@@YankeeDoodle2 exactly! thats why i support the people who kneeled during the anthem, its their freedom to choose. dude that is awesome that you agree thank you brother
It’s so interesting, I’ve been binging a bunch of videos and you and others often talk about the fan base not connecting with drivers because they were born into racing and not a working man. Brandon was a working man and the last of the “garage built” generation yet nobody can look past politics to see it.
I believe the network were trying to keep their show PG by not aknowledging the language used. Of course we all seen how some turned it into a political statement. What’s really a shame is sports should be a release from our daily life and some of the fans had to bring politics to the race.
"The days of the bootlegger are long over" is a statement that realistically cant be any more false, tbf. I know about 6 guys in a little nook in a place called Snake Hollow that would beg to differ, and even more of my neighbors
I hope Brandon Brown will bounces back. When a first victory come his way to set up a chance bigger success, then political moment enter the scene and made he irrelevant.
@@greebmcsnuffles9933 Weak shit Though the fans have nothing to do with it. NBC tried to pretend viewers were stupid/deaf and instead of ignoring the chant/apologizing for the language they created that chant that Brandon could never escape.
@@greebmcsnuffles9933 or breaking into the Capital they claim to respect and threatening to hang somebody if their whiny President didn't get "reinstated".
@@greebmcsnuffles9933 What cities were burned down? I'd love to know that information, because as far as I'm aware....no such "burning cities" ever happened. Small fires don't count as burning a city to the ground.
I didn't know the story behind this. I thought the LGB chant was funny, and never associated it with the driver. Didn't even know who he was, or how awesome he is, until now. Hope he makes it back
Thank you for this video. I loved Brandon's story, he was always an underdog I rooted for. It was so shameful to see a certain sect of political activist monetizing his downfall. Brandon just wanted to race but LGB merch was too easy for grifters to make merch for.
I actually think Brandon Brown should start suing for defamation because he really didn't do anything wrong, nor did he want this. He got a win, the in-bred trump supporters made it political (Something they accuse lefties like me of doing a lot), and because of that, they put him in the crosshairs of businesses wanting to save face. It's not cancel culture, it's slander and defamation and I don't blame the sponsors if they didn't want to be associated with someone that might be problematic, even if he actually wasn't
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A rare instance where a win actually cut someone's career short. Really hope he can get another shot.
He won't, and nascar is going to make damn sure of it.
@@hunterpro_1 why are you convinced NASCAR has it out for him and it wasn't just Brandon screwing himself over? If you follow the events that happened which @EllyProdcutions49 didn't cover very well it's more Brandon shooting himself in the foot.
In November that year after Dibenedetto tried a pandering stunt NASCAR told everyone clearly nothing LGB/FJB related would be allowed in the sport. In December Brandon gave a widely covered interview about struggling to find sponsors and wanted to make LGB his own thing. The next week LGB coin was announced as sponsor. It gave the perception he did the interview to soften public opinion of him using it. Then we find out his sponsors didn't leave him, he quit answering their calls trying to renew for the next year.
Then theres the paint scheme vs. sponsor approval from NASCAR drama. The week of Christmas Brandon's team submitted the paint scheme for eye test approval which it cleared. That process is seperate from actual sponsor approval teams go through. Brandon's team though took a paint scheme approval and decided that was good enough to announce their new sponsor. Of course NASCAR came out and said that's not allowed with the LGB coin owner trying to claim paint scheme approval meant NASCAR already cleared them. They were informed that not how it works but Brandon can work with his sponsor all he wants outside track property.
It sucks something outside his control took off but the way he handled it trying to garner sympathy while using the phrase wasn't smart.
@@hunterpro_1 f nascar
@@hunterpro_1 let's hope for some GT racing
The win wasn’t the problem, his embrace of the chant was.
It's a shame his only win will always be shadowed by LGB.
I still hold out hope he'll return someday!
I wish he will return too but the chances are very slim
I'm convinced he's blacklisted. Dude has his best season as an owner driver, yet no part time starts open in Xfinity or Trucks, even accounting sponsorship this makes no sense
@@Landmasters he had like three sponsored races, they just ran out of money
If he can win in his underfunded car. Imagine what he could do in a good ride
Podcast Party Bus sponsorship?!
"The driver only has to touch two things, the wheel and the pedals"
The shifter: "am I a joke to you?"
Just learn how to telekinetically shift gears like a real man
tfw the shifter is on the wheel
NASCAR automatic now right?
@@DorianDavisdddno they use sequential
I want Brandon to come back. He's a good kid, who never deserved any of this. Brandon if you see this, come back lad, we miss ya.
He embraced it. He deserved what he got.
@@arwysshe had like no other choice he wasn’t getting sponsorship.
@@arwyssYeah, that didn’t happen.
@@arwyss exactly. Embracing the meme, that had a dirty word in it, was the biggest factor in his downfall. He could have pieced together some sponsors but instead he chose to go with the sponsor that would have never paid him a damn dime. The fact that NASCAR rejected his sponsor, is meaningless. A meme coin would have never sustained the team in any way.
This has to be one of the most tragic nascar stories in the past few years. imagine building your career for all those years and you finally win win and it’s the reason your career fall apart.
My heart goes out to Brandon brown such a shame politics ruined someone job.
he didnt help himself
@@JRVideo22 Wdym?
@@slowturtle11fan7 he took the let’s go Brandon chant and made it his brand sort of
@@slowturtle11fan7 the crypto sponsor, the new york times article. Noone knew outside of NASCAR who the Brandon in Lets go Brandon was really. He should have distanced himself from it. He didnt and tried to brand it as his thing and failed badly
@@JRVideo22 true I think he thought there was no getting out of The whole LGB so he tried to market it
There’s a parallel universe where Brandon Jones wins that Talladega race and everything plays out the same expect for Brandon Brown still has his car and sponsorships 😔
That would be a world where everyone knows that wokism is a destructive virus, and those who practice it are spreading it. Therefore they must be punished for pushing for pushing ideas that are subversive, which could foster civil war.
*except for NBC doesn't point out the chant in the stands
Many don’t remember that it was a rained out race and when they froze the field, it was a 3 wide photo finish with Jones and Allgaier
@@RacingWorldTV202it wouldn't matter in Jones case because Jones' dad is a multimillionaire
Some guy like Denny Hamlin or Justin Marks could bring this guy back somewhere
Yes project 91. Come on justin!!!
Cup wise. Trackhouse would be a great landing spot. Xfinity wise. I say JRM Jr has a decent track record with discovering talent and growing them
This hurts. Getting to see Brandon Brown become so well-liked in NASCAR in 2020-2021 was a great thing to see; and seeing him win was great. It’s just tough to see how much that win hurt him in retrospect.
Tbh, Nascar is partially responsible for the fiasco that ended Brandon Brown's career, none of this woulda happened had Talladega had lights and even if he still found a way to win they coulda stuck with the longtime practice of doing the winner interviews in victory lane to ensure that chant wouldn't have been heard in the background.
What? It was NASCAR's fault because the track didn't have lights? It was because they didn't go to victory lane?
You have NASCAR confused with the track owner and the broadcaster. NASCAR doesn't make those decisions.
NASCAR owns talledega
@@Aiophgy NASCAR can't give every track lights. More importantly, NASCAR does not decide when races take place. The broadcast networks have too.much control.
I feel bad for Brandon he was a good driver and overall a great team owner but one chant ended his carriers for now who knows we may see him back in the future
The chant didn't end his career. The reporter who lied about what was being said is what carried the torch.
@@FlyingAces i don't think if you've been in front of an audience of tens of thousands in open air before, but it's entirely possible she misheard them. the ambient microphones placed in the stands to pick up audience audio hears the audience more clearly over the broadcast, but they don't sound anywhere nearly as clear if you're more than a couple dozen feet away from em.
There are dozens of people to blame here. The reporter who *misheard* the audience, the audience making a political chant at a sporting event while the event's winner was celebrating, the mainstream media who sensationalized this story, the vendors who sold merchandise to make easy cash off of the controversy yet never once approached the victim of the controversy to support him, the sponsor companies who didn't want to get swept up into the controversy.... take your pick. the point is, Brandon's career was ended because of circumstances entirely beyond his control, and it's not fair given how much the guy obviously cared about racing. you can blame whoever the hell you want, but it's not gonna bring Brandon back. You're just pointing fingers to find easy explanations and closure for a tremendously complex, confusing and chaotic situation, and it don't help anybody.
@@HOOTwheelz I know you definitely haven't because I have. I work in the sport, know Brandon personally and can tell you that it's clear as day when they're all chanting like that.
And it is an easy explanation to point out where the snowball started rolling. Had she just been truthful or just simply ignored it and not felt the need to say anything about it, none of this would have happened to begin with.
@@FlyingAces alright, whatever. the random dude on the internet who says his uncle works at nintendo is right
@@FlyingAces None of this would have happened if the crowd wasn’t chanting something political during a driver’s first NASCAR win. These are supposed to be racing fans. The fact that this was Brandon‘s very first NASCAR win should have meant something to real fans. He was so excited! Shame on those people in the stands for disrespecting him during his interview. Put the blame where it belongs. On the people who started this.
Well done. This should be a 30/30 on ESPN. Done by you. Really bs that this happen to him. I like Brandon. Even before the chant. Always root for the little teams!
All we need now is a RWR top 5, The #91 Trackhouse charter car to win another race (Most likely Van Gisbergen) and BJ to score a top 15... then boom, we would all be happy.
Kudos to you for tackling this subject, though I feel there's so many more details that needed to be included.
The fact alone that someone at NASCAR had approved LGBCoin, but reportedly did not have authority to do so, raised interesting legal questions.
That never mattered. That meme coin was always going to be worthless. His sponsor would have never paid him. NASCAR did him a favor by rejecting the sponsor.
Poor Brandon Brown. He didn't ask for this.
But he got it anyway
He did. When he embraced the LGB stuff
@@arwyss
Only because no sponsor would sign up with him. He had no choice, get your facts right dude.
@@rocksreviewsreactions337Get your facts right he was still sponsored he dropped the phone on the sponsors not the other way around.
@rocksreviewsreactions337 I mean either way he still chose to take a path not everyone else would have. I don't get these "he had no choice" people when other drivers wouldn't get someone to make them a shit sponsor.
Brandon Brown is proof that politics ruin everything.
Sadly, this is the best obituary to a career that ended way to soon. Sorry Brandon, hope you make it back to the track.
Pretty much everyone involved has been "canceled" by this controversy: not only Brandon himself, but the pit reporter (NBC quietly sent her packing at the end of the 2021 season), Brandon's team (basically shut down with the remnants being formed into a new part-time team running #96)... even the race itself has been "canceled" as the Xfinity Series has reverted back to only running Talladega in the spring as in the pre-pandemic years...
Another great video. It really does suck what happened to him. Hearing him so happy after he won is so eerie considering it essentially ended his career. I also think it's interesting that Brandon JONES finished second. Would the same thing have happened with Brandon Jones ending up as the face of Let's Go Brandon? Would it have had as much of an impact on him as it did on Brandon Brown? We'll never know.
Wow! As a non-American I didn't know what the chant actually meant. It's such a sad story for Brandon!
“About as rare as an amorolla win” = xfinity Sonoma happens
i was there, and was part of the crowd right at the start finish line. the vast majority of us were actually chanting “let’s go brandon.” unfortunately, the people chanting “fjb” were sitting right behind the flag stand, which is where the crowd microphone generally is.
It was a shame that some people said that Brandon Brown should have given in and not picked up LGBCoin as a sponsorship. His career was in jeopardy and it was a last ditch move to keep racing, essentially pinning the blame of the movement on him.
Except he gave a big interview claiming sponsors left him the week before he announced LGB coin. Then his old sponsors said hold on we didn't leave, you quit answering the phone.
@@XanderH4W6which is he said she said lmao, you can either believe the sponsors who pull out all the time at the slightest bit of controversy and will lie to cover their asses or believe the lifelong racer who already had to take various sponsors constantly then all of a sudden he has none.
Its truly a shame how fans literally ruined a young driver's career
It also kinda funny in a way. Dark humor stuff
...and honestly, there are A LOT of toxic "fans" out there that would ruin other drivers if they had the chance. It's sad, but as all things, it's not exclusive to Nascar. All sports suffer from this.
Marks not fans.
@@namemcnamerton4249 fans started it and continued the meme knowing the effect on Brandon
The worst part is that it wasn’t even his fault it was the fans
"You can sponsor my-" *screen cuts black*
My favorite ad that actually got him sponsors.
And all he did was just win one race. Dare I say it, that win was a cursed one.
The Talladega Curse
EmpLemon batting a thousand
Wait, did the "Let's Go Brandon" chant exist before his win, or did it become a thing after people heard the interview?
It wasn't a thing until that frontstretch interview.
Man, that just makes it more sad... Thanks for letting me know, though
after the interview
It really was some bs what happened to Brandon Brown. He had nothing to do with the whole situation besides just winning the race. Winning that race should've propelled his career and team with more sponsorships, but now he can't even race for his own family team (much less any team it seems like, I haven't seen him in awhile). I hope he gets back to racing again.
I did a pick for who would win in each series Saturday morning, the same day of the truck and Xfinity race at talladega. I picked Stewart Friesen for trucks, Elliott for cup, and, Brandon Brown for Xfinity. I went nuts after the race when he won.
Honestly whoever tried to play the chants off just made the situation so much worse
I blame the reporter. Without her action of paying any attention to the crows, this chain of events would have never happened.
Also the sponsors pulling out, fцск them.
aint no way i just watch 2 ellyproductions videos back to back and then immediately he posts a new one...
Brandon absolutely has to take some blame. There's nothing political about saying, "I don't like people using my name as an immature way to insult someone else. That's disrespectful to me."
But instead he leaned into the phrase with the attempted LGBcoin sponsorship. 🤷♂
It’s that final sentence you said that everyone seems to forget. BB shot himself in the foot by doing that, but yeah let’s blame the reporter. Shouldn’t have took a genius to realize half the citizens of the US would end up getting pissed regardless of what happened
The phrase was already ruining his career. The sponsors had already left. In order to be able to race, he needed a sponsor, and LGB Coin was pretty much the only one willing. So, while yes, he could have said no to the sponsorship, it likely would've been the end of his career. Which is exactly what happened in actuality, as he didn't end up getting this sponsor. Had nascar approved the sponsorship, the story would be completely different, and we could be saying that the LGB chant helped his career by giving him a full season sponsor. But even then, the sponsor was likely a scam that would leave after a few races. So it was a blunder either way.
There's literally nothing wrong with insulting politicians, everyone does it
@@redbullsauberpetronas but that's wrong according to some people.
@@redbullsauberpetronasyup, but don’t do it in a wimpy fashion. If you wanna say FJB say FJB, not LGB
The reporter should have just kept her mouth shut
He deserves better. Screw the interviewer for ruining his chance
You are growing yourself to be a top tier nascar UA-camr. That was way better than most nascar videos you see. Keep up the good work!
...this is what I think of when I hear "Let's go Brandon." Not the memes, not the politics, not Joe Biden himself...this.
I think of how a completely innocent racing driver got screwed out of sponsorships, and ultimately, his career. All because this incident was the epicenter of the "Let's go Brandon" craze.
If that isn't damning evidence of the state of politics on a global scale these days, I don't know what is.
And the worse part is how I would go see comments on posts of him say that he deserves all this. Why, because of his name? Makes no sense
This is so tragic. Just leave politics out of sports please, ruined many a good stories in sport.
Everything is political, politics will be pushed into everything so it's either push yours or others will fill the void
@@redbullsauberpetronasno many things are not political. For example anything that is private and outside the purview of the state
@lagniappe3654 Some people would like to police what you say in private, that's case over in the UK, Scotland to precise. So no even that is political, everything is. I would assume everyone over the age of 12 sadly knows that.
@@Megalaglagdepends on if you mean actually private or “if they don’t hear about it, it didn’t happen, but if they did you’re in jail” like being lgbtq+ in Qatar (or other similar theocratic/religious nations)
@@Megalaglag guess who enforces your right to privacy and ensures your property stays private? That's right, the government. Without the state, you don't have private property. Politics touches everything you do, choosing to abstain is a political choice and a cowardly one at that. Eat or be eaten.
I hate let's go Brandon. If you hate Joe Biden, just say it. People literally killed an entire man's career.
Welcome to American politics
As leftist or progressive say everything is political
@@ZexellGamingas everyone with a brain says, honestly. The cry of "let's not be political!" is usually code for "I don't want my specific politics to be looked at"
@@MarkPentlerfor some yes. For most it's "we don't wanna hear you only talk about politics for 30 minutes, you're ruining the conversation by turning it to politics at every moment." At least that's how I am as a 20 year old.
Man, this was almost dead. I only saw one guy wearing a Let's Go Brandon shirt at Gateway. Why?
Brandon brown acted perfectly throughout this and I hate it for him.
People really bending over backwards and twisting themselves into knots with the amount of mental gymnastics to say this wasn't the fault of those fans that were chanting it in the first place, and then the subsequent political dinguses that thought they were being coy by using it and spreading it as a political meme. All the reporter did in that brief moment was just try to keep the situation apolitical and pretend the word, "Fuck," wasn't being said on live television; that's it.
For real lol. She tried to keep the situation neutral and non-political but everyone blames her. Literally she did the right thing. Seems like nobody blamed the inbred rednecks in the stands and the right wing cult for exaggerating it.
They have cognitive dissonance
Everything is political, welcome to reality
This is coming from the same people who said if you disagree with whatever Obama says you are racist. That was the political discussion for 8 years. You all reap what you sow. Never forget it.
The reporter gaslighted the audience. She didn't need to say or address it at all. This is 100% the fault of the reporter, and the Let's Go Brandon movement literally is because everyone is sick and tired of legacy media on BOTH SIDES of the political aisle literally lying directly to everyone when the truth is right behind them. It's a protest about the media, the over reach of government in censorship, not the president. Stop trying to create and control the narrative. This country was founded on the right to protest.
I always say that Brandon Brown's win was completely overshadowed by the LGB/FJB confusion
It was the reporter that tried to do damage control by saying "Let's Go Brandon"
But then again, you know what they say: the rest became history.
It wasn't his fault that it happened, and he never asked for it to happen
To those that are still using his name for the slogan:
You should be ashamed of yourself
My name is Brandon, and ANY time I hear Mets go Brandon come up, it just pisses me off to no end. The fact that not only does it not congratulate me for doing something, but is also tied to politics just hits so wrong on so many levels. I feel insulted every single time I hear it, and I’m just a Brandon tgat nobody knows. I can’t imagine how it made Brandon Brown feel, or even Brandon jones for that matter
its a dumb chant if you ask me. Really sucks that he can't get work now and I do feel bad for the reporter that she tried her best to ignore what the fans were chanting but it unfortunately backfired and now Brandon's only win will go down in infamy because of that
This is why I hate politics, and companies trying to seem politically correct and not sponsoring someone because of fans, something the driver couldn’t control.
Blaming the PC companies instead of the immature grifting LGB brand lol, classic
@@historybuff1483bruh there's nothing immature about it lol, if it was the other way you'd do the same exact thing
@@redbullsauberpetronas not really. If one of my friends started putting “FDT” signs in his lawn and screaming “Fuck Trump” randomly at sporting events I would tell him to chill out and Id be generally worried that he was becoming obsessed and politically cultist.
@@historybuff1483 you really gonna ignore how it's perfectly acceptable to say literally whatever you want about quite a few "right wing" (I wouldn't consider trump and republicans right wing but people who don't know any better do) and it's celebrated. Everything is political now welcome to America
@@redbullsauberpetronas Thats a strawman fallacy. No one is saying anything about whether it was right or wrong. That’s called morality. We were discussing whether it was MATURE or not. Keep up.
If Brandon is not racing in xfinity anymore, I wish he'd give Smooge Racing a call. They may have a place in their lineup for him. Now granted, its a sportcar programme, and he'll be driving Toyota Supra gt4s instead of Chevy Camaros. But if he still wants to race, then something is better than nothing. Plus the team is co-founded by Kevin Conway, and their driver lineup also supports dirt oval racing, so Brandon should feel more comfortable with that sorta crowd.
We share the same hometown and that made me a fan of his. Was so excited to see him get that first win and hoped it would have started his climb into something bigger. Really is a shame that such a great moment was tarnished by a stupid slogan.
1:27 bro did my fav driver dirty
Funny how Aric Almirola won the weekend it was uploaded lol
Me and my dad wrapped the car brandon won this race in
You and your dad wrap the car with let’s go Brandon stickers
As bad as I do feel for Brandon, he kind of DID mess up after the fact. He had some legit sponsors lined up but played the whole "Oh no one wants to sponsor us." leading his ACTUAL sponsors to be like okay, we out then. I really wanted him to succeed but then he leaned fully into this sponsor which, who in their right mind would believe that Nascar would EVER sign off on something like that? Cause if you believe that, I got some high quality, breathable moon air to sell to you.
He should have communicated with them to play it up like they came to his rescue!
They signed off on iK9 and that wierd energy drink scam.
He's not at fault for the initial publicity, but he absolutely could have rejected the LGB coin sponsor.
Great Video, Fun fact. My dad actually sold brown his first truck, we ran it in '14 accouple times. Then sold it to brandon.
I just gotta say man, all these videos you do are absolutely fantastic. They make my day and they’re so intriguing and even strike the curiosity of people who don’t care for the sport of NASCAR or Indycar. I play your videos and they give me serious emplemon vibes which are incredible stories. True stories but with a passionate teller, with a passion for the sport. Keep up the good work my man
Brandon Brown did everything right and still got screwed :(
This story is why I hate the phrase, not for political reasons. I feel so bad for Brandon Brown, as he was trying his best to get sponsors and the phrase taking off killed his career. So depressing...
Lmao still makes me laugh. Still tough for him, weird how petty things can get. I love the advertisement 😂😂 that dude would be my favorite driver
I think the commenters are missing the most important point for the most part. It's proof how the reporters deliberately skew the news. That reporter didn't have to say anything at all about the chant. Brandon Brown isn't the only casualty from such reporting, either.
I've seen a train locomotive labeled "Spirit of Brandon" which might relate to Let's go Brandon.
It's called chaos. And Brandon Brown got swept up and chewed up. I hope he can return. Maybe just start over from Arca.
I just want to remind everyone that none of this ever would have happened if the TV partners continued the victory lane interviews.
Bro, is that the Cars GBA music I hear in the background at the 2:29 mark?
I never thought I’d hear that menu tune again
It's insane that literally no one will give him a chance .....something he had no control over completely ruined his career and put his family's team out of business
Politics ruins everything
I know the Brown family, and they’re very nice people. I’ll send this to them sooner or later.
Ps: They actually live very close to me!
As a person named Brandon I thank you all for the complements, even if it wasn’t intended
Brandon has been active on twitter again and it's made this situation even more complicated. Sucks because as he says it, he had no hand in the LGB coin stuff.
The textbook definition of suffering from success.
Trump would have probably sponsored him
what was the crowed chanting?
I think you can figure it out
You production quality is top notch bro 🔥
The announcer tried her best to take a very loud hard R rated very stupid political chant and turn it into something positive for NBC, NASCAR and of course Brandon Brown.
By lying. She is a hack.
I was at Disney World recently and at the Hall of Presidents someone shouted “Let’s go Brandon” when Biden came out. I saw who it was and after the show and I thanked them for contributing towards the death of Brandon Brown’s career.
Nope Brandon ended his own career by not leaning in, selling merch, and finding non-woke sponsors.
@@maxmccullough8548 😂
I can't begin to feel sorry for Brandon Brown. He just happened to get lucky and he won a race. Good for him for being in the right place at the right time.
There are lessons to be learned here. Having a meme coin as a full time sponsor was never going to work! The crypto market took a dive in early 2022. NASCAR rejecting his sponsor, saved him from having a sponsor that would have never paid him. He was lucky that NASCAR gave him a reason to move on to find a different sponsor. The real lesson is, don't embrace bad stuff. He became a meme that was associated with politics, a dirty word and denigrating the President of the USA. That is not marketable. Sure, he was in a bad spot because of that but he didn't run away from it.
He embraced it.
He put his name back in the news by accepting that sponsor and made it worse by feuding with NASCAR over it. He ruined his marketability and any chances of future sponsorship deals.
Honestly, this guy deserved his downfall.
Dude was screwed because Kelli Stavast either can't hear or tried to be slick. None of it was his fault.
Trying to sign a sponsor like LGBcoin IS taking a stance.
It's a shame how all of this killed Brandon Brown's career
I love your style of thumbnails
Amazing video as always Elly! shame to see the aftermath of this
Really one of the saddest stories surrounding politics
"Seeing an owner driver these days as rare as an aric almirola win." wins xfinity next day as video is posted
What I don't understand is, why were all the fans chanting something political after a victory that had NOTHING to do with politics?
Brandon Brown deserved better.
Because they're in a cult.
Nascar fans are mostly right wing. And have recently been starting to use left wing tactics since the left wing tactics have been effective
Brandon got caught in the middle of two opposing forces basically. The general public vs the media
His name was Brandon, so that's why, probably?
If trump can be given different nicknames, why can't biden?
Flame rock refuge music just took me wayyyyy back to afternoons spent grinding the erideruim slots in the bar. Thank you for reminding me of some memories I hold very dear. Music rarely makes me cry but it’s even rarer for music with no lyrics to do so.
As if I needed another reason to dislike that chant. Brandon Brown didn't deserve the hand he was dealt, he seems like a genuinely good person who's just trying to live his racing dreams. I hope he can find some way to return.
in my opinion the point of no return came a day after the race when a political influencer (who i won't name here) picked up the phrase and started aggressively pushing it for some reason
Was it Nick Adams or Tucker Carlson?
@@historybuff1483 I wanna say it was Jack Posobiec.
@@AuraHero i remember that now. What a douche.
God some nascar fans are annoying
6:17 I swear that’s Jeremy Clarkson
it is since he did a spoof of a nascar interview on top gear
I can guarantee the people chanting FJB were also very upset when the NFL players kneeled during the anthem
They just figured out that everything is political and that they should push their politics
Freedom of speech
@@YankeeDoodle2 exactly! thats why i support the people who kneeled during the anthem, its their freedom to choose. dude that is awesome that you agree thank you brother
It’s so interesting, I’ve been binging a bunch of videos and you and others often talk about the fan base not connecting with drivers because they were born into racing and not a working man. Brandon was a working man and the last of the “garage built” generation yet nobody can look past politics to see it.
I believe the network were trying to keep their show PG by not aknowledging the language used. Of course we all seen how some turned it into a political statement. What’s really a shame is sports should be a release from our daily life and some of the fans had to bring politics to the race.
FDT vs LGB.. Man...
This is why politics shouldn't really be mixed into sports.. It ruins careers and just causes headaches...
"The days of the bootlegger are long over" is a statement that realistically cant be any more false, tbf. I know about 6 guys in a little nook in a place called Snake Hollow that would beg to differ, and even more of my neighbors
I felt terrible for him. But when he put that stupid phony bit coin thing on the car, he went all in, and it all fell apart.
I hope Brandon Brown will bounces back. When a first victory come his way to set up a chance bigger success, then political moment enter the scene and made he irrelevant.
How did he not become the richest driver? Every texas plumber would have loved to have their sticker on the car for a small fee
That's the sad way memes work. A lot of people get made fun of for something out of their control normally.
This also killed kelli stavast's career.
If it wasn't for those clowns getting political, Brandon Brown's career never would've been on the downward spiral
FR
Better then burning down city's because a person overdosed
@@greebmcsnuffles9933 Weak shit
Though the fans have nothing to do with it. NBC tried to pretend viewers were stupid/deaf and instead of ignoring the chant/apologizing for the language they created that chant that Brandon could never escape.
@@greebmcsnuffles9933 or breaking into the Capital they claim to respect and threatening to hang somebody if their whiny President didn't get "reinstated".
@@greebmcsnuffles9933 What cities were burned down? I'd love to know that information, because as far as I'm aware....no such "burning cities" ever happened.
Small fires don't count as burning a city to the ground.
I didn't know the story behind this. I thought the LGB chant was funny, and never associated it with the driver. Didn't even know who he was, or how awesome he is, until now. Hope he makes it back
Thank you for this video. I loved Brandon's story, he was always an underdog I rooted for. It was so shameful to see a certain sect of political activist monetizing his downfall. Brandon just wanted to race but LGB merch was too easy for grifters to make merch for.
I actually think Brandon Brown should start suing for defamation because he really didn't do anything wrong, nor did he want this. He got a win, the in-bred trump supporters made it political (Something they accuse lefties like me of doing a lot), and because of that, they put him in the crosshairs of businesses wanting to save face. It's not cancel culture, it's slander and defamation and I don't blame the sponsors if they didn't want to be associated with someone that might be problematic, even if he actually wasn't
if he didnt lean into it the sponsers would hAve came back. it was his fault.
Nope. Didn’t happen.