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At least your work wasn’t this bad in 2007
What were the biggest marketing blunders of 2007? I’m too buzzed on eggnog to compile my own list, but both Fortune and Collateral Damage have amusing roundups. The former (which we Twittered earlier in the week) selects Procter & Gamble at No. 1 for putting kids’ pictures on a diaper boxes without forking over the big bucks, or even informing their parents. (Hey, I was at that casting call. I really should’ve shaved.) Topping the Collateral Damage chart: Take Two Software’s inclusion of O.J. Simpson as a player for a team called the Assassins in its All Pro Football game. I’m not sure that’s a blunder, since O.J.’s inclusion makes me want to check out a product I’d normally have zero interest in. Go, Juice! Cartoon Network’s outdoor push for its Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie placed high on both lists. Parent company Turner Broadcasting shelled out $2 million to the city of Boston after the campaign ignited ... sorry, strike that ... I mean, set off ... sigh, just forget it ... a bomb scare in Boston. Given the quality of the film in question, I’d say a bomb scare was pretty much inevitable.
—Posted by David Gianatasio
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December 20, 2007 | Permalink
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OJ is just a player that you can choose for any team. The dumb bitch that wrote the first article was wrong with this and now you look foolish too.
Take Two could not use any real football team names due to EA owning everything on earth so it was pretty clever they were able to pull all the old guys off the shelf for another run at being heroes.
If you ever played the game, which you didn't you can make your team any way you want, so what if there is a team called the Assassins, have you ever tried to create a ton of team names? it sucks.
part deux- Those stupid little brite-lite toys that Boston creamed over were also in NY, LA Chicago-- without a twitter from cops or terrorist freaks. Shocking that the retards in Boston cant handle it. I mean really its a brite-lite for christ's sake.
Posted by: david cant pick em | Jan 3, 2008 4:19:12 PM
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