February 5, 2007
The Rex-O-Meter Receives Nearly One Million Page Views on Super Bowl Sunday, Appears in Print Editions of Los Angeles Times and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Rex-O-Meter, the gauge that tracked the highs and lows of Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman during Super Bowl XLI, gained nationwide attention Super Bowl Sunday. According to data from Google Analytics and server log files, the Rex-O-Meter was viewed over 912,000 times on February 4, with traffic peaking during the 3rd quarter of the NFL's annual championship game. |
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A story on the Rex-O-Meter appeared in the Sunday morning sports section of the Los Angeles Times. Mike Penner examined it in his Morning Briefing. On February 5, St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Jeff Gordon recapped Rex Grossman's final score on the meter in the wake of the Colts' triumph over the Bears. |
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| In addition to numerous fan forums from Gainesville to Chicago, the Rex-O-Meter appeared in AOL Sports' in-game Super Bowl blog, the blog of Portland's Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly newspaper, the Willamette Week, and a post-Super Bowl mention in the San Jose Mercury News' Morning Buzz blog. |
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