The Onion’s latest issue featured an article about product placement in the Superbowl. They go overboard, even for the Onion, but at least it has local interest.
“This is great for the league, but I’m not sure it’s the best thing in the world for the players,” McNabb said. “The anxiety made me throw to [wide receiver Todd] Pinkston a half-second before he turned and looked back for the ball?I mean, looked for the can of Campbell’s new Chunky Chili. If I hadn’t felt so much pressure to please the advertisers, I wouldn’t have hit him in the forehead with that pass. I also believe that, if he’d been wearing a traditional helmet instead of a KFC bucket, he wouldn’t be in the hospital right now.”