"Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female, but not the male."
- Alfred Kinsey
There's a fun little experiment for my men readers. Lay out some cheese tonight and see what happens. I'd try it myself, but I don't have any ... cheese. Right.I was having lunch with a co-worker today, and as we were walking out he told me, "That woman was totally checking you out." I didn't correct his syntax, but I did check to see if my fly was open. I might also have wanted to have either his or her eyesight checked.
By the way, if you're in or near a Wendy's, try the Southwest Taco salad. It's a party for your mouth and only $4.79. Partner it up with the Light Lemonade (large because it's spicy) and you have a nice lunch-time meal.
Comedian Robert Klein used to do a bit where he said that, if Neil Armstrong wanted to set himself up for life financially, instead of that "one small step for a man..." stuff, all he needed to do when he stepped off the LEM onto the surface of the moon was yell out, "Coca-Cola!" Free advertising, and Neil is a millionaire. It's funny, and I'm sure the boys at NASA had some discussions over Neil's first words.
Well, it seems that "this economy" is forcing pro sports to whore-it-up, and one wonders if NASA would have sold out to big money if Neil was landing on the moon today?
The WNBA's Phoenix Mercury has decided to stop putting "Phoenix" and "Mercury" on its jerseys and start putting "LifeLock." The Arizona-based company will pay the Mercury at least $1 million a year to have its name on the Phoenix uniform.
OK, so it's only the WNBA, but it's still a million bucks, but aren't you supposed to have the name of your team on your uniform somewhere? I guess Penn State is as guilty as anyone, since their football uniforms have been sporting the Nike swoosh for years, sans any mention of the Nittany Lions.
What is that teaching the kids?
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for my Nike Lunar boots."
Now, go find some cheese and get to work. Report back.
3 comments:
I'm surprised more teams aren't going the way of jerseys covered in advertisements. The biggest variance is watching the NHL here and then watching teams in Europe. The European jerseys are so plastered with ads it's almost impossible to see the name of the team.
European soccer too, and cycling. Cyclists ride for teams, but they're corporate sponsored.
Pro sports teams in America prefer to slather the stadiums with ads, to the point of naming the stadium after a product.
The Eagles radio broadcasts are a mess of sponsored plays. Kick returns, touchdowns, sacks and big plays are all sponsored.
Like anything else, once they exhaust the revenue stream for that stuff, the uniforms will be sacrificed.
If you lay out cheese, Kitty will eat it.
;-)
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