Saints promotion pays edgy tribute to Sen. Craig

[canis_lupus]

From Page One Q:

You've heard of the bobblehead doll that baseball teams love to hand out to fans. So how about a bobblefoot?

The St. Paul Saints are putting their own twist on the popular promotion, in a nod to one of the most notorious Minnesota stories of last year.

At Sunday's game, they'll give 2,500 fans a miniature bathroom stall with a pair of lower legs and feet - one of which is springloaded so that it taps.

A Saints press release notes that, "It doesn't matter if your tapping style is done with a 'wide stance.'"

That's a not-so-subtle reference to Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig, who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after an undercover police officer arrested him for allegedly soliciting sex in a bathroom stall at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

http://pageoneq.com/news/2008/Saints_promotion_pays_edgy_tribute_to_Sen._0522.html

OK, so I've got kind of mixed feelings about this, but you have to admit it is clever ... just like the team that did the Michael Vick dog chew toy promotion.

[msongs]

1. not as clever as obama giving bigots the green light regarding glbt marriage equality nt

[LeftyMom]

4. Please stop threadjacking. It's rude. nt

[MNBrewer]

2. I live in Minneapolis

And have been to a few Saints games. I'm not sure how I feel about the bobblefoot, myself.

[treblemaker]

3. It just sucks that "gay" gets lumped in

with bigoted, self-hating, closeted cheating hypocrite -- for which I think the ridicule is 100% deserved, on more or less the same level as corruption-fighting Eliot Spitzer and his big-ticket hetero hookers.

The more of these folks come out, the easier maybe it'll be to keep the issues separate.

[Toasterlad]

5. That's Actually Pretty Funny.