There was some concern that the recent photo featuring a bong and Michael Phelps doing the half-meter breath toke might cause him to lose a number of his endorsement deals, but after a public apology from Aqua Man it looks like Kellogg’s will be the only smoke-out fallout casualty. (The cereal giant has chosen not to renew it’s contract with Phelps after it runs out at the end of this month) Other companies have decided to stick with the eight-time gold medalist, including Speedo, Omega watches, Visa and PureSports athletic drink.
The Subway sandwich chain is not only sticking by its man, but is reportedly working on a brand new marketing campaign that will use the incident to their advantage in an attempt to expand into the paraphernalia market. Starcasm investigators turned up this exclusive ad with Subway’s new promotion:
Everyone sing:
One dollar.
One dollar.
One dollar five foot bongs!
I wouldn’t know, but that sure sounds like a good deal.
A source close to a SubWay restaurant location tells us there are also plans in the works to start selling brownies. Can you say, “recession-proof?”
Ah, what the heck! I decided to do it in…ummm, I mean we also found a color version:
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I expect Phelps will now be getting some endorsement deals from Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, as well.
yeah, because when I think of the MUNCHIES Subway is my first thought…though the brownies might be.
Michael Phelps is an American Hero. He stood tall and made America proud at the Beijing Olympics. This is how America treats its heroes, we forget all of the hard work Michael Phelps did to achieve his task, we forget the pride we felt with the each gold medal, we forget how Phelps helped America to be competitive against a Chinese when they planned on winning all of the gold’s, we forget all of those things and hang a man for smoking a glass pipe at a college party. It is time that we as a country stand up for the rights of the individual, it’s time we stand together with our neighbors and take collective control of our destinies. Write a congressman or a senator any of them; imagine the weight of millions of emails calling for a change in policy. In this moment in America anything is possible just Google the email address of you’re representative and send him or her short email. It will take 10 minutes but then you have taken responsibility for change. A senator considers each email as representative of 2 thousand voters.
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Maybe Michael can get Jared to mellow out a little.
No more Quiznos!
I have to laugh at all the ruckus this has caused. Jebus, so the guy smoked some pot, so what? It’s not like they found him passed out in an alley with a heroin needle sticking out of his arm. Get over it already.
Raven – It seems Subway agrees! We’re guessing Doritos won’t be far behind