Posted on 04/07/2008 7:13:19 AM PDT by pissant
ATLANTA, April 4, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Hooters of America announced that the NCAA has pulled a full page ad promoting the popular restaurant chain and featuring well known College Basketball Analyst Dick Vitale from the Final Four Official Tournament Program. Word of the ad removal reached Hooters Marketing Department late on Thursday when the ad agency that had placed the ad on behalf of Hooters received an e-mail from a representative of National Events Publications, which produces and sells program ads for the NCAA. The ad in question is a Full Page 4 Color image promoting Hooters 25th Anniversary Celebration and features Dick Vitale and Sara Hoots, an appropriately named Hooters Girl, who happens to work for Hooters at a restaurant in Selma, Texas, a suburb of San Antonio where the Final Four is being played.
"My understanding is the NCAA had stated they would only consider the ad if we removed the image of a Hooters Girl, which is absurd. That would be like telling General Motors you can advertise but don't show a picture of a car," stated Mike McNeil the Vice President of Marketing for Hooters of America. "Sara is a beautiful, intelligent and hard working employee, and we would never consider removing her image from the ad. I am concerned by this last minute and seemingly arbitrary treatment. The basketball tournament is an important time for our business, and the fact that certain competitors of ours are allowed to advertise and we are not puts us at a competitive disadvantage," continued McNeil.
(Excerpt) Read more at earthtimes.org ...
The ugly bald guy. Dick Vitale is the reason the mute button was invented.
GO TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this thread is screaming yunz’ names... ; )
Dick was bawing like a baby on the Mike and Mike sports show this morning.
They should let Bobby Knight clean up the NCAA
NCAA NOT APPROVED HOOTERS GIRL (entertaining our troops in Afghanistan no less!! The horror!!)
Well, I know where I’m going for lunch!
The balls aren't covered.........duh ;-)
If Memphis wins tonight, you can thank Joakim Noah, Al Horford and Corey Brewer for deciding to forego their senior year.
...........but keep those low angle cheerleader shots coming.
Derrick Rose is probably the best freshman ever!
Florida would be pulling on their shorts the first 5 minutes.
“We’re talking colleges here, not the pros...”
Wrong. The NCAA tournament is very much the pros. It’s only the kids that don’t get paid.
Well...GM IS in the business of selling cars. I thought Hooters sold beer and wings...not waitresses.
Yes it looks like that
One more reason to like them girls
Fags and feminists rule our universities.
To show my support I’ll take one for the team and frequent my local HOOTERS more often.
Tacky, yet unrefined.
Delightfully tacky, yet unrefined.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.