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(quoted title taken from Sky News article. Why try to improve upon a title like that?)
German All-Star fussballers Michael Ballack and Oliver Kahn have just won a lawsuit against the country’s largest porn retailer Beate Uhse for marketing two of their new vibrators as the “Ollie K” and “Michael B”. Personally, I can think of nothing better than Die Frauleinen across Germany screaming my name at the heights of pleasure, but I guess if you get as many women as international footballers do, you get blase’ about it!
While - um, “researching”? - this post I stumbled upon a pretty funny, yet insightful article regarding the sports/sex marketing connection. We must remember that to most of the rest of the world, soccer is about the equivalent of football, baseball, and basketball combined here (London alone has something like 8 pro teams). And I am sure that such fanaticism leaves many women feeling a bit neglected by their husbands. So what better way to get your Missus behind the home team, eh? Now, on match day, both of you can be screaming, “Come on, England! Come on, Eng-a-lund!! Hit it, ya wanker! That’s it!”
Granted, no sport over here is as big. But I still thing there are some missed opportunities here. The “Bucking Bronco”? “The Tennesse Titan”? “The Houston Pocket Rocket”? I mean christ, you don’t even have to change the damn team name!
And for us guys, I still think condoms with your team’s colors/emblem is a goldmine.
