Who are you guys?
This site is designed and maintained by Tim and Brian, pro-active Cleveland Cavalier fans who are managing partners of their own media design company, The Banbury Group LLC.

Tim is a lifelong diehard Cavs fan from Cleveland and Brian, originally from NY but never really a Knicks fan, was won over after he relocated to Cleveland and started going to all the games (Lebron has a way of doing that to people). They met when they attended the same University in New York City and have remained friends and played together as musicians through the years (American Idol's Randy Jackson enjoyed our CD enough to say "DAWG" a full five times while he listened to it).

They hope fans of carlosloozer.com who meet us aren't disillusioned when two artist/musician types show up instead of a couple of heavy guys with mustaches and oversize jerseys, bratwursts in tow and wearing oversized sneakers ...Huffing and puffing like the sportsradio guys.

Why did you create this site?
We created carlosloozer.com because of our disappointment at the turn of events between Carlos and the Cavaliers. Our extensive web & graphic design knowledge led to us actually having the gumption to work till 4am over a few nights, completing the site in record time. It was up and running mere days after the details of Carlos' Utah deal went public. The news of the Cavs losing Carlos the way they did genuinely ruined our day, and we felt that we, as two of the millions of sports fans who love our team & ultimately pay the bills for pro athletes, would use our skills as site designers and promoters to offer a comically different perspective. This website is meant to be more satirical than malicious, and hopefully we're making a point in an eloquently silly way. We spend a lot of money going to games, on hot dogs and dippin' dots, stuffed Moondogs, etc. - so we felt like we have a small say in things. A Cavs game is what we do to have fun after working hard all day. Anything that interferes with that fun is fair game to us.

We had a lot of faith in the team that started coming together last year, and with Lebron playing here for his hometown it's simply an amazing phenomenon, like the birth of the Beatles or something... Backroom big money deals gone wrong were rain on that parade. The potential we saw in this team at the end of the '03-'04 season magnified our disappointment in the offseason shenanigans, but with the team the Cavaliers have NOW, we're happy it turned out the way it did. GO CAVS!

What has fan reaction been like?
Fan response has been HUGE, and we've been swamped with e-mails that range in opinion from the amazingly to the point "YOU'RE the loozer!" to he more casual "DUDE! This site is HILARIOUS!". The amount of traffic we received in the first month nearly caused us to run out of bandwidth, even though we had maxed out with a major site hosting company. We received close to 100,000 hits just in the first week the site was up, and we've added nearly 1,750,000 visitors since then... as well as people posting links to our images on hundreds of sports message boards across the net, and trading pictures in e-mails and blogs. The day we finished the design we posted a polite link to the site on 2 NBA message boards and when we went to post to a 3rd one, someone had already posted about it. It spread like wildfire. Brian's cartoons and photoshop pictures in the gallery page proved to be a huge hit and people kept coming back to see the newest ones.

We think people were fed up with a lot of star athletes' behavior, and since Carlos did something easily lampooned and laughable, it just exploded. You can't lampoon shooting your chauffeur or raping someone on a silly website... but lying to a blind NBA team owner and skipping out, that's just ridiculous. The court of public opinion had to have a laugh at that.

We have appeared nationally on Fox Sports Radio as well as Cleveland's Kenny Roda Show, Mark Stein of ESPN has championed our site on NBA NATION, and have been featured in major newspapers, magazines, and websites all around the world, in several languages. Most of the major English language articles and site mentions are detailed on our home page. Thanks to everyone who linked to our site!

Has CARLOS contacted you?
No. We've received e-mails from people that claim to know him – including someone who claimed to be his cousin, as well as one that seemed to legitimately come from his wife, who is rumored to scour the Internet for news of her husband daily. He's vaguely referenced the site in published interviews.

Most emails that come from people who claim to be close to Carlos start out with "you dont even know him as a person like i do", and make an attempt to defend his integrity, but the emails usually end with the writer calling us a "damn faggot" or something, so there goes that credibility.

What happens when the Carlos furor goes away?
The site and the character Carlos Loozer lampoon the spirit of over-inflated self importance and greed that many sports stars seem to evidence, so we'll keep going. Carlos' career continues to show signs of absolute ridiculousness, so there's plenty to find humor in. As time goes by, it just seems funnier.

...And for Cavs fans, Carlos joined the ranks of Art Model and the Steelers as a super-villain for the Cleveland team to go up against. That's what rooting for a team is all about! We're fans and love having someone to root against, it's part of the entertainment. GO CAVS!

Are you guys making more T-shirts?
YES. We're introducing more shirts all the time and have plans to expand the online store, shelflifeclothing.com – to include other cool sports items.

Feel free to contact us, we try to respond to every e-mail: