Rome Take from 3/9/10:
You know how sometimes it's hard to gauge the exact moment when something "jumps the shark"? The moment it goes from interesting to annoying. From funny and fresh…to played and lame. Well, in the case of the Snuggie, it's not hard. It wasn't when they came out with team-logo Snuggies. Or, when they released "leopard print" Snuggies. Incredibly, it wasn't even when they released Snuggies for pets. No, that moment happened Friday night in Cleveland when 20,000+ Cavs' fans set the Guinness World Record for "largest gathering of people wearing fleece blankets." Congratulations, Cleveland. What was the previous record, 2?
Look, at this point, if you don't own a blanket with sleeves, you know somebody who owns one. But neither you nor anyone else has ever shown up in a public place rocking one. Well, except for the 20,000 Cavalier fans who did just that Friday night! They became the first people to "snug-up" at a sporting event, since that family of freaks did it in the commercial at a soccer game.
Look, I know that everybody wants to break some kind of world record, but it shouldn't be at the expense of your dignity. Now that the Cavs' fans have the Snug record…is it going to force the Magic to keep pace with the world record for simultaneous "slap-chopping"? Are the Steelers going to convert the "terrible towel" to the terrible Sham Wow?
Congratulations Cleveland. Unlike LeBron, the Snuggie record is something they can never rip from you. That one's going up on a wall and never coming down. I mean, who else would even bother to try?
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