Aug
26
2009
Jared Fogle Is Ryan Howard’s Friend And His Confidant
Posted by meech.one at 5:55 pm ET
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Hey, look who’s back! It’s Big Brown and that crazy Subway spokesman Jared Fogle in a brand spanking new commercial for the Big Philly Cheesesteak, which may be big, may have cheese and some sort of steak on it, but it sure as hell ain’t from Philly. Revel in the awkwardness, after the jump…
I don’t know what kind of friends Ryan Howard pals around with, but I know if any of my buddies greeted me with a Big Philly Cheesesteak from Subway when *I* was hungry, I would never talk to them again.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, that commercial was filmed at the home of the Riversharks, Campbell’s Field, in Camden, NJ. I know that because the Twitter feed of @Harpo42 — which is also how I found out about the commercial — told me so.
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Welcome back Fightins! That is one terrible, terrible looking cheesesteak. Kind looks like the runs in a bun.
That cheesesteak is what I visualized when I first read Tucker Max’s “Tucker tries buttsex; hilarity does not ensue”
http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/date/tucker_tries_buttsex_hilarity_does_not_ensue.phtml
The song is better is on Golden Girls.
Oy. WTF happened here? Comments cleared, posts messed up… Damn you, hackers!!!
Welcome back, Fightins
I’m blaming bigmyc for everything.
Also, I need to apologize to my girlfriend for telling her that her computer was retarded for not loading this site.
LMAO @ Watrick.
hey guys im new, is this a brand new website?
@Jocksniffer…you have an intriguing imagination.
Props to Meech for the video.
@ will H – you look like a Mets fan. GTFO
Guess this means I need to roll back to my previous persona…
…the return of PhiPhan5648!
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I thought Ryan Madson cursed so hard it broke the internet.
In the Indiana Daily Student, in April 1999, a former dorm mate of Fogle, Ryan Coleman, wrote an article about Fogle’s weight loss story after Coleman ran into Fogle and hardly recognized him, because of the lost weight. A reporter for Men’s Health saw the article and included the, “Subway sandwich diet,” in an article on, “Crazy Diets that Work.” According to the article, Jared had become obese by eating junkfood and not exercising. He came up with his “Subway diet” because Subway was his favorite place to eat. Subsequently, he changed his menu choices at Subway to include healthier choices and smaller portions, which was followed by his significant weight loss. This article caught the eye of a Chicago-area Subway franchisee named Bob Ocwieja, who thought the story might have some potential, and he took the idea to Richard Coad, the creative director at Subway’s Chicago advertising agency. In hindsight, Coad would later say, “I kind of laughed at first, but we followed up on it.”
Coad and Barry Krause (the president of Coad’s ad agency) sent an intern to Bloomington, with only vague instructions to track down the “Subway guy” (at the time, they were not sure if he even ate Subway sandwiches, or some other brand of submarine sandwich). The intern started by going to a Subway near campus, and began describing the story about the anonymous “subway guy”. A counter worker there immediately knew who he was talking about, and said “Oh, that’s Jared. He comes here every day.” As of October 2008, the store is still located below an apartment complex at 401 S. Woodlawn in Bloomington.
After finding out that Jared did indeed exist, and had lost weight as described in the article, Coad and Ocwieja took the idea to Subway’s new marketing director, who had previous experience in fast food, and the marketing director responded “I’ve seen that before…Fast foods can’t do healthy” as a marketing vehicle. Subway’s lawyers also weighed in on the idea of the promotion, saying that there would be liability issues with promoting some sort of informal medical claim.
The idea looked to be fading into oblivion, but Krause and Coad decided to try to run a regional ad campaign, and many franchise owners in the area also liked the idea. However, regional ad agencies did not normally pay to make their own commercials; instead, they usually paid only to run the commercial spots in their regions. Krause decided to make the commercials without receiving any money from other sources. He would later comment “For the only time in my career, I gave the go-ahead to shoot an ad that we weren’t going to be paid for.”
I once hi-fived Jared the Subway guy at an Indiana Pacers game. I’ve hated myself ever since then, because I had the perfect chance to punch that smug bastard in the face and didn’t do it. Who knows if I’ll ever get the opportunity to do that again, but if you see a story on the news about a guy in Indy knocking Jared out, you’ll know who it was. That’s a story I could tell my grand kids one day. That prick would always have great seats at all the games, and then go back in to the tunnel with the team after the game.
Can we get Brad Lidge to do some TV appearances? Rollins started doing his stuff for the energy drinks and he’s been killing the ball. Howard does this subway shit, and he’s been a monster lately. Maybe it’s a reverse curse. Get Lidge to do some shit.
(Yes, I intentionally left out Hamels…he sucks).
gonzo, you crazy
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hey guys, how’s it going? sorry i’ve been MIA for the last month & a half – i got lost somewhere out in america. i promised meech some phillies road reports but the alcohol and illicit narcotics put the kibosh on any coherence. apologies. i will say that the grand finale of my 40 days and 40 nights in america was at citi field on sunday, the denouement compliments of my man eric bruntlett and his unassisted triple play.
i say all this to say that: while big brown rightfully deserves praise from jared fogle and others on high, he is not alone. in fact, those yahoos a 90 minute amtrak ride north have their own subways ads — for cheesesteaks! johan santana and cc sabathia do a new york version of the subway philly cheesesteak ad, and neither of them can speak a lick of english. santana’s venezuelan spanish is thick as a brick, and cc speaks in shaquille o’nealian with marbles in his mouth. can’t those jackasses do a pizza or egg cream commercial and leave the cheesesteaks to the WFCs?