Posted on 02/27/2018 5:43:03 PM PST by Impala64ssa
If you’re a fan of corny commercials featuring prominent NFL faces peddling mediocre pizza while you watch football, we’ve got bad news.
The NFL and Papa John’s broke up on Tuesday.
The pizza chain announced the news during an earnings call Tuesday afternoon.
“We will shift our marketing from the broader NFL sponsorship,” CEO Steve Ritchie said on a conference call with investors.
The NFL and Papa John’s released a joint statement that the pizza chain will still do business on a regional level with teams in 22 markets.
Schnatter made the statement after watching shares of the company plummet by more than 30 percent.
There was also speculation that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who owns more than 100 Papa John’s franchises and took a hard line against player protests during the anthem, had a role in Schnatter’s statement.
The statement drew widespread criticism while also garnering support from white supremacists on social media.
Papa John’s stock tanked another 13 percent after Schantter’s statement, prompting a public apology and acknowledgment of its newfound support from neo-Nazis on Twitter.
Papa John’s had been the official pizza of the NFL since 2010. Shares of the company were down more than six percent in after-market trading at the time of this post.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
I have ended my partnership with the NFL too. No love lost.
Pizzas flip flop like waffles
Only white supremecists approved of Papa John calling out the kneelers, eh?
You SUCK, Yahoo!
I bet Yahoo wouldn’t call it ‘mediocre pizza’ if Papa Johns were breaking up with the NRA.
‘The statement drew widespread criticism while also garnering support from white supremacists on social media.’’
Propaganda inserted like a suppository.
Boycotts work!
Black Supremacists would agree with that statement, but were unavailable for comment because they all watching the movie “Black Panther” for the 16th time.
Exactly, l despise Yahoo. If you use them for e-mail switch. A hassle but you get to avoid the Rat splash page when you check your e-mail.
And so it begins...
“Propaganda inserted like a suppository.”
Now that is funny!! And an accurate description!
Yahoo is a garbage search engine from the 90’s that somehow managed to outlast Webcrawler.
Read Jonathan Swift’s book “Gulliver’s Travels” to learn about an early use of the word “Yahoo”.
Great book to read anyway.
Did anyone catch this sentence in the story...
“The statement drew widespread criticism while also garnering support from white supremacists on social media.”
Journalism is surely dead. It is all just propaganda now.
You SUCK, Yahoo!
Yahoo “News” and the other lefty outlets likely have the Southern Poverty Law Center writing all of their articles, these days.
That sounds exactly where that phrase/term would come from.
“Yahoo is a garbage search engine from the 90’s that somehow managed to outlast Webcrawler.”
Oh man, that caused a major flashback. When my son was around 10 years old we spent a Saturday morning on dial-up Yahoo to get phone numbers and call diners in Maine to ask if they served grits.
“Whats grits?”
We were easily amused...
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