Alabama football fans who were interested in partying before the Chick-fil-A College Kickoff can now proceed with the knowledge that they won’t be forced to congregate with the Clemson contingent.
As reported earlier, there was a mistake on the website which listed the officially-sanctioned tailgate event as follows:
As any Bama fan will tell you, a mistake over the mascot might be forgivable, but not one involving Tigers. (Particularly ones wearing some shade of orange.) Without a peep or a mention, the graphic now shows a proper title — “Bama Bash” along the left margin:
I only wish I had been less busy and more vigilant monitoring my server logs… I’d love to know if they found the site and made the fix. But the larger question is ‘should they have acknowledged the correction?’
[tags]Ike Pigott, Occam’s RazR, college football, marketing, Alabama, Clemson, Chick-fil-a[/tags]
Should they mention in the correction?
Nope.
They aren’t journalists with a need to establish a track record of accuracy or a company that caused a gap in services. It was a typo and not one that would cause confusion in the general public.
It’s better to just ignore it and let it ride. If anyone addressed it with them, sure, those people need follow-up, but drawing more attention to a technical error is unnecessary.
Ike, maybe this is just me — since I really enjoy the feedback loops — but my silly question: why don’t you just get in touch with the PR company that designed ’em (or the teams in question), and see what they say? I mean, in true SocMed fashion, they might like that one of their local fans is actually as vigilant of these things as you have been, brother.