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Originally Posted by Delvo
...I live in the country it's happening in (although quite far away), and I'm lost too. These articles are written so vaguely that it's as if they were trying to keep what actually happened a secret. I guess they're really just by and for locals who saw the whole thing happen in the first place and don't need to be told, and the authors either don't know or don't care about the ability of anyone more than one or two hundred miles away to figure it out...
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More like the locals get swamped with the minutiae of it, and the non-locals get the "look what those idiots there are doing" and that's news enough. They would probably lose viewers if they explained it.
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Originally Posted by Delvo
...I know they had the shirts made calling LJ a "crybaby" for his complaints about opposing players "fouling" him in a recent game and apparently not getting called for it. I don't know why a food place is in the shirt business now, but there they are...
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"they" is a single franchise owner from an opposing team's locale (DC) who did this on their own without the chain's involvment (supposedly) for thier own publicity.
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Originally Posted by Delvo
...Was it a response to popular local negative feedback about the shirts?
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I'd be touching my nose with my index finger here, but on a board, I can only say "bingo".
Any negative words about LJ around here is an automatic public stoning. After all, he is supposed to be the saviour of all Cleveland sports.
So; PJ Pizza, seeing how poorly the response of the rogue (DC) shirts was to thier Cleveland franchises felt they needed a big publicity coup.
Now; I wonder if the silliness has affected franchises in other markets.
12-May-2008, 02:39 PM
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