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From the Star Tribune:
The St. Paul Saints, long known for offbeat, sometimes edgy, promotions (Michael Vick chew toy last year), have come up with a new one for their Sunday, June 1st game.
The Saints will be handing out 2,500 “bobblefoot” knicknacks.
The keepsakes consist of a miniature bathroom stall with a couple of lower legs and feet. One of the feet is springloaded and “taps,” which, the Saints’ press release says, is in honor of National Tap Dance Day, but I think there might just be another reference…
If you don’t remember…Senator Larry Craig was arrested for allegedly soliciting sex in the bathroom stall at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport.
The undercover officer who arrested Craig said the senator’s foot-tapping, bumping feet and swiping his hand under the bathroom stall amounted to well-known code used in soliciting sex.
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Not everyone’s happy about the giveaway:
“I agree with everyone here who says this is beyond bad taste. This says a lot about our culture–our biggest source of humour is excretory and reproductive function, not to mention anti-social sexual behaviors. What a shame–I have a five year old son who would love to attend a Saints game, and now that will never happen, for the same reason we don’t patronize shops that sell porn.”
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“For all of you Saints fans (and I hope you are actually Saints fans, otherwise why should you care?) that are taking the high moral ground on this, I have one question. Before this bobble foot horror that has pushed you over the edge and against our hometown Saints, how did you avoid the blatant cross dressing that happens every game when grown men come out in wigs, dresses, and heels to “drag” the infield? That’s indecent! Immoral! And dangerous for our children! How on earth did you explain that grotesque display to your family? The kids must be permanently damaged forever! With a SENSE OF HUMOR, which you obviously don’t have. Don’t hide behind your kids just because you don’t have a personality.”
“I would find it much easier to explain to children the humor of the promotion than to explain what Larry Craig was doing in the bathroom, and then managed to continue to represent our country. Kids are pretty smart once they turn 5 or 6. Of course, we can always try to shelter them until they reach the age of majority and then turn them loose without tools to cope, like a sense of humor.”
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I want to go to that game, sit by all the guys that “drag” the infield and get my picture taken by the infamous stall on the way thru the airport to head back to Philly.
