{"id":605,"date":"2008-05-23T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/05\/23\/bobblefoot-giveaway\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T19:35:44","slug":"bobblefoot-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/05\/23\/bobblefoot-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"bobblefoot giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>the saint paul saints<\/a>, our beloved local nine, will be giving away 2,500 of these fine collector’s edition bobblefoot<\/em> keepsakes at sunday’s game at midway stadium.<\/p>\n

the saints straight-facedly claim that the bathroom stall promotion was intended to coincide with national tap dance day<\/a>, since one of the dangling feet is springloaded such that it “taps” or bobbles.<\/p>\n

i’m not one to judge folks based on their worst moments (lest i be judged, i suppose), but this promotion seems innocuous to me. the saints don’t even mention the distinguished senator from idaho, though the bobblefoot might <\/em>be construed as an homage to his foot-tapping and wide stance.<\/p>\n

last year, the saints took some heat for giving away a michael vick dog chew toy. have they finally crossed the line with this promotion? a pioneer press <\/em>poll put the question to readers. of 119 votes, 7 percent said “yes, it’s nothing to laugh at<\/em>,” 30 percent said “no, it doesn’t offend me<\/em>,” and 63 percent said “come on, it’s the saints! they gave away a randy moss hood ornament for cryin’ out loud<\/em>! [note: mr. moss had recently run over a traffic officer].<\/p>\n

let’s see, the game starts at 7:05 sunday. what do you think it would cost to purchase one of these fine bobblefoots on ebay this monday? i’m guessing that some <\/em>tap dance afficionado would go as high as fifty bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the saint paul saints, our beloved local nine, will be giving away 2,500 of these fine collector’s edition bobblefoot keepsakes at sunday’s game at midway stadium. the saints straight-facedly claim that the bathroom stall promotion was intended to coincide with national tap dance day, since one of the dangling feet is springloaded such that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[31525],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}