Please send me $25,000 from the petty cash fund. I have found a new promotional opportunity that we must immediately pursue. Dick Vitale has arranged a fundraising auction for cancer research that includes the chance to play a round of golf with Bob Knight. When we win this auction, I will endeavor to recreate this video.
(Warning: Don’t watch this video at work, Brooks, because the language is naughty and will get you in trouble with your boss.)
The increase in traffic from having video of Bob Knight strangle a blogger should increase ad revenue 14% month over month. Heck, my enemies list should take care of half that number.
Dickie V’s tears came on his recent nomination into the Basketball Hall of Fame. After an eloquent introduction by Jim Nantz, Vitale was given his own “08″ jersey, and when it was his turn to talk, we almost witnessed the impossible - Dick going speechless.
THE SPORTS HERNIA bring us this screengrab of Bob Knight looking like he’s about to keel over and go all Charlton Heston on us following the Tar Heels’ defeat at the hands of the Jayhawks last night.
I can imagine Dick Vitale, recently at death’s door himself with a cancer diagnosis, trying to revive Knight. “Hey, Bobby, baby! It’s not check-out time yet! I know! I know! Psycho T and North Carolina aren’t going to the title game! I need an ACC team to overhype! Stay away from the light! It’s not really that awesome!“
Sure, the NCAA will gladly grab money from any corporate entity willing to fork over the dough. Even ads for Hooters (starring college b-ball’s favorite son Dick Vitale) have made a good run during March Madness coverage.
But when it comes to the buxom restaurant chain & the NCAA, what’s good for the tube apparently isn’t fit for print.
PR NEWS WIRE reports that on Thursday the NCAA decided to remove a full-page Hooters ad from the official Final Four program. What was the shocking image that cause such consternation that it had to be cut?
