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Post by rmcalhoun on Aug 30, 2017 5:00:24 GMT -6
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Post by DickHunsaker on Aug 30, 2017 6:07:58 GMT -6
Hilarious! I never knew this even happened!
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Post by cardfan on Aug 30, 2017 6:31:52 GMT -6
I had forgotten about that.
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Post by bsutony on Aug 30, 2017 7:25:16 GMT -6
I was lucky enough to make it out alive. Scary times.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2017 8:15:25 GMT -6
A Marketing Plan to top all Marketing Plans!
The following home game, local Muncie dentists offered ticket holders 33% off all reconstructive dental work as a result of the Pepsi promotion.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Aug 30, 2017 8:21:29 GMT -6
I just stumbled across this.. I do not really remember it happening
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2017 8:25:56 GMT -6
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Post by realitycheck on Aug 30, 2017 8:32:29 GMT -6
This was a time when many universities and companies were pairing up to give away product samples at football games in their desire to attract the coveted 18-24 demo. Louisville may have had the topper to this and I gotta believe someone lost their job over it. They passed out small, sample-size cans of Gillette or Mennen shaving cream at a home game. Not only were they handy projectiles but with the added benefit of mass quantities of shaving cream everywhere in the student section. The band, the opposing team, cheerleaders, other students were all fair game. It was chaos.
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Post by frozenbaugh on Aug 30, 2017 8:58:40 GMT -6
Yeah, I remember it being mentioned maybe on here but that's about it. I love Pepsi Max but I don't know how someone (anyone?) thought this was a good idea.
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Post by cardfan on Aug 30, 2017 9:19:26 GMT -6
Not product placement, but there was a time bringing marshmallows to the games and pelting people with them was a thing. Back when the student section was in the west grandstand. Seeing who could get one inside a sousaphone become a competition. Wet / frozen marshmallows came into play and that was the end of those being allowed it. (It didn't help that prominent season ticket holders were getting pelted)
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Aug 30, 2017 9:21:45 GMT -6
I think it was clearly a decision made by someone who wasn't an 18-22 year old male. I remember being in the student section that day thinking "what the **** were they thinking?" It seemed obvious to me at the time that if you handed out a bunch of full pepsi cans they would immediately be projectiles, but reflecting now in my 30's I understand why they failed to anticipate the savagery of the average 18-22 year old.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Aug 30, 2017 12:45:56 GMT -6
It should have been Keystone light then at least the cans would have emptied first... Now thats a winning promotion
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Post by universityjim on Aug 30, 2017 13:11:31 GMT -6
Not product placement, but there was a time bringing marshmallows to the games and pelting people with them was a thing. Back when the student section was in the west grandstand. Seeing who could get one inside a sousaphone become a competition. Wet / frozen marshmallows came into play and that was the end of those being allowed it. (It didn't help that prominent season ticket holders were getting pelted) Yup. We'd pelt the cheerleaders. On hot days the marshmallows melted and made the grass around the cheerleaders a gooey mess. I remember the Pepsi Max Massacre. The cheerleaders used to get crazy with those slingshot shirt launchers too. I saw a guy get his nose broken by a shirt with no arch on it's flight path in Worthen. Then there was the time Charlie Cardinal got tossed out of a game for hitting a ref in the eye with a Nerf missile. Now that's some pretty good entertainment for under $10.
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Post by JacksonStreetElite on Aug 30, 2017 13:13:26 GMT -6
It should have been Keystone light then at least the cans would have emptied first... Now thats a winning promotion Not light, I want that ICE. Always smooth - says so right on the box.
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Post by rmcalhoun on Aug 30, 2017 13:14:34 GMT -6
Oh my god that stuff did the job but it was brutal
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