Posted on 09/06/2006 6:01:21 AM PDT by TaxRelief
If Fox was smart they would cough up for the car.
And fire the maroon who came up with the idea to trick someone in the first place.
Hello.
Do you have Prince Albert in a can?
Or take it out of his paycheck.
Reminds me of the old Cajun joke about the farmer who raffled off his dead mulr at five dollars for each ticket.
When asked if any of the people who bought tickets got angry, the famer said "Only the winner and I gave him back his five dollars".
Hey Fox, just show the damn game.
Tony "The Goose" Siragusa is co-owner of Tiffany's Restaurants and promotes the "best baby back ribs in the world". "The Goose" could start with a life time supply of ribs.
Siragusa's own foundation for whom it is names also helps many underpriviledged kids. I am sure that this effects Siragusa's reputation and FOX PR "is on the case".
What kind of producer would allow this? I mean, any idiot can see exactly what's going to happen.
Wasn't there a lawsuit, in Seattle maybe, where the radio station was promoting a giveaway of a fighter jet.
Plaintiffs spent a very large sum of money to essentially "corner" winning.
Anyone have a better memory than me?
I don't know why that gag has such perennial allure, but it sure seems to resurface every other year or so. The first such example I remember was a local radio show that set up an complex call-in contest, complete with semi-final and final "rounds", all for the chance to win "the keys to a new Corvette". Yep, all the winner got was a set of blank car keys stamped with the Corvette logo.
I don't believe there was a lawsuit in that instance, but that was before the litigation freight train was really rolling like it is today. IIRC, the radio station *did* lose a few big advertisers over the stunt. It's always a costly joke, one way or another.
What was the game show that used to pull this similar trick and you didn't know if it was a gag toy or a real car? (IIRC they would usually pull out the real car at the end)
The Price is Right?
It was Pepsi, promoting things you could get by saving and redeeming "Pepsi Points" from their products. The commercial, meaning to be taken in jest, said you could get a Harrier jet for some ridiculous amount of points.
Someone figured out that by spending a few hundred thousand they could claim the multi-million dollar jet.
Where it went from there I don't know.
SD
Fox sports should be shamed into getting this guy a nice new minivan.
Awful mean-spirited way to treat a guy who obviously put his heart into the game. I'll bet even before this cruel stunt, there were fans who enjoyed the Catman's antics more than those of the corporate personalities. Hmmmmmmmmmm (Not being a sports fan myself, I'm speculating.)
I agree with a previous poster that auto company sponsors should be beating down the doors to give the guy a real car and - incidently - shame the FOX sports team, which apparently has no class.
Good news!
From Channel 14 News:
"A Charlotte Observer sports columnist took up Good's cause, writing a front-page column in Wednesday's newspaper that resulted in outraged fans e-mailing Fox Sports.
That led Fox Sports Chairman and CEO David Hill to announce he would personally give Good the keys to a new Ford F-150 pickup.
"'I'm coming to Charlotte Friday to apologize to Mr. Good for a joke that went terribly, terribly wrong,' Hill said.
Hill said there would be punishments at Fox Sports over the incident, but said none of the announcers involved will be taken off the air.
"'I take the reputation of Fox Sports very seriously and I don't want it to be sullied,' he said.
Good expressed excitement at the turn his story had taken.
"'I'm so surprised and so happy,' he told The Observer. 'I thought all I was going to get was an apology.'"
http://www.news14charlotte.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=126273
Kudos to Fox for doing the right thing!
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