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TheNoNamedOne
02-04-2008, 02:32 PM
w00t!

KFC thought they could bribe players into giving them a little extra bang for their advertising buck. KFC hatched this plan a few weeks ago announcing they would donate $260,000 to a charity in the name of whoever did a Chicken Dance in the end zone after making a touchdown.

Looks like no one took them up on their offer! w00t!!

And to think that a charity had a chance to gain from it if they would have, if just a player would have put unfortunate kids or other people ahead of their selfish selves for a mere three seconds to placate the colonel; and a player doing it in the end zone would give that worthy cause a big boost in noriety.

Turns out the colonel's marketing department got egg all over their face. Ha!

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
KFC challenges Super Bowl players to chicken dance for charity (http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/stories/2008/01/21/daily10.html)
Business First of Louisville

If a player or celebrity performer does an impromptu chicken dance in the end zone or on stage during the Super Bowl on Feb. 3, KFC will donate $260,000 to a charity in the name of that person.

The person must perform at least three seconds of the "wing flapping" portion of the chicken dance,...


But don't despair boys and girls, if a celebrity had broke out into an impromptu chicken dance on the stage, then that would have triggered the donation too.

But so funny how the players all snubbed the Colonel!

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/brandnewday/archives/egg20on20face.jpg
KFC marketing executive
atb35
02-04-2008, 02:54 PM
wonder if all the players even knew about this....I never heard anything about it, so maybe they should have done a better job promoting it.
socalheart
02-04-2008, 03:06 PM
I doubt that any player would risk a penalty during a Superbowl game to do that. I never heard about it, but am not into that sort of news. Doing it on the stage would've been funny. That no one did it on stage after the game, makes me think no one knew about it.
DoctorP
02-04-2008, 03:47 PM
Exactly...looks like they didn't do a very good job of getting the word out. Besides...the guys that do the scoring make more money than that anyway...why even do it?

lol...I can't believe you kept acting like such a kid in chat over that. Good job TP.
socalheart
02-04-2008, 03:54 PM
I was wondering why tP was so gahgah about them doing the chicken dance. I thought he'd gone more insane than usual. He sorta reminds me of my mother when it comes to driving home her point or when she's right about something. heh.
TheNoNamedOne
02-04-2008, 06:03 PM
Exactly...looks like they didn't do a very good job of getting the word out. Besides...the guys that do the scoring make more money than that anyway...why even do it?

Well, the marketing execs at KFC thought an extra $260,000 to a charity would be reason enough to do it. Looks like some in the meat restaurant industry just didn't see it from your perspective, DrP.

lol...I can't believe you kept acting like such a kid in chat over that. Good job TP.

Now, if I only had the time to point out all the times you've acted childish here too, DrP. lol.

What happened...did lil' poor ol' DrP get bothered by the comments on it in the chat? Took away from enjoying your game? Awwwwwwwww....
P_chan
02-04-2008, 07:44 PM
Now now children, act your age.
Asshat
02-05-2008, 08:17 AM
I was wondering why tP was so gahgah about them doing the chicken dance. I thought he'd gone more insane than usual. He sorta reminds me of my mother when it comes to driving home her point or when she's right about something. heh.

I've found that when internet personalities continually come up with some quote or snippet in support of their general soap box, it comes from some other site of blog in which they are a member of.

That's why those little news bytes seem so far-fetched when they are posted. No-one outside of the blog/freak site have heard them.

Ah, the power of the internet.
TheNoNamedOne
02-05-2008, 08:57 PM
Umi, the snipped quote I have used here for this thread (you are making a relevant point to this thread topic referring to that, aren't you?) is reported without any anti KFC message in the piece. I don't think it is a blog either.

Actually, I first got wind of it from Paul Harvey... Stand by for news!

A lot have heard of Paul Harvey. Ah, the power of radio.

Nice try, though.