JackRabbit Café's Twin Cities Man in the Street--The Best-Looking Man In Show Business Today--sent HQ a heads-up on an item he saw in The Minnesota Independent.
It concerned the minor league St. Paul Saints baseball team, well-known in Minnesota and elsewhere for their topically clever marketing campaigns. That's the two-faced Coleman/Franken bobblehead above, outfitted as Sesame Street's "The Count," and hilariously playing off that state's still-unresolved U.S. Senate race between incumbent Norm Coleman and challenger Al Franken. 2,500 of the dolls will be given away at the May 23 game against the Sioux Falls Canaries.
I went to a Saints game a few years back and had a helluva good time--cheap tickets, great local beer and tons of food on lots of smoky grills all around the outside of the cozy ballpark. I could've hopped a freight train just beyond the fence, too.
If I had two hours to show space aliens the American Experience, I'd bring 'em to a minor league baseball game. I'll bet they'd never phone home again.
But, really: will any ballpark promo ever top the Bobblefoot, which was the Saints ode to dumbass Minneapolis airport stall boy and former Idaho Senator Larry Craig?
It even had a tapping foot. Hook-ups sold separately.
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