How To Beef Up Your Collection of Brett Favre Memorabilia: Buy His House.

October 5, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
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I just can’t do the winters anymore.

Otherwise, I’d consider ponying up the $475,000 for the house at 2085 Shady Lane, Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin. Apparently the Favre family house has just gone on the market. Maybe a few days after Brett the Jet threw a record-setting 6 touchdown passes in one game?

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So Much For The Sore Ankle. Brett the Jet Throws Six Touchdown Passes Against the Cardinals to Win Big.

September 28, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Brett the New Jet threw a career-high and Jets-record six touchdown passes, tying with the last Jet who had any claim to fame, Broadway Joe Namath. New York took advantage of a series of mistakes by Arizona in a big second quarter before holding on to beat the Cardinals 56-35 on Sunday.

Guru’s Note: Ex Cal Golden Bear, now Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers hurt his right shoulder during a 30-21 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the Packers don’t expect to know how serious the injury is until Monday.

Guru’s Note #2: While some would quibble that my frequent coverage of anything Brett, Golden Bears and Green Bay does not qualify as the new product development that’s this blog’s mantra, I would argue that football delivers new products every Saturday and Sunday.

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From the Bears to Britney, Sarah to Shoes, What’s New This Week.

September 8, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
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The week after Labor Day 2008 brings us a bonanza of newbees from the droolworthy to the dreadful:

New Jet Brett Favre, now sporting #4 for his new team, and fresh off his first victory as Broadway Brett

Chrome, the Webkit-based Google browser that’s already being called a Windows killer

New Comeback Kid, Britney Spears, thanking God and her ‘two beautiful boys’ while sparkling her revamped bod through last night’s MTV Video Awards

The new Seinfeld-Bill Gates commercial that’s reportedly part of a $300 million media buy aimed at  ‘engaging consumers, sparking conversation’.  Has Ad Disruptor Alex Bogusky succeeded in making Microsoft cool?  Are you conversing, folks?

The newly ranked Cal Bears, surfacing at #23 after the 66-3 rout of Washington State over the weekend

New VP Candidate, Moose Murdering Mom Sarah Palin — plus a passle of new polls that gives the ticket a bump bigger than you-know-whose

New starter for the Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rogers, who just won the season opener against rival Minnesota Vikings


But of course, all of these pale in comparison to what’s truly earthshakingly (a nod to last Friday’s 4.0)  nouveau: shoes.  That would be the newly launched, newly luxe Hey Lady Shoes, the Anti-Dyeable, Actually Danceable Wedding Shoe. The brainchild of the Bay Area’s style-savvy Leung twins, the shoes’ breakthrough heel constuction is designed to once-and-for-all put an end to The Pain that marrs that Perfect Day.    If you’re about to be a bride and you’re in search of shoes that are both Anti-Polyester and Anti-Prom, check out the elegance from the twin entrepreneurs.  In fact, Hey Lady’s lush look and feel is so fabulously fashionable and functional, I might almost consider getting married again.

 

 

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Brett’s A Jet.

August 7, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Wondering how the new colors will go with my Packer earrings.

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Brett Backs Pack Against The Wall, Files For Reinstatement.

July 29, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
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I’m wearing my Bring Brett Back T-shirt as I type this latest update (trust me, I look slightly better than the pasty white guy in the photo) : ESPN reports that Brett Favre has officially filed for reinstatement. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is letting the team and the future Hall of Famer tap-dance it out for the next 24 hours in an attempt to come to a resolution.

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July 11: More Sinners Than Winners, From The Packers to Silicon Valley to IndyMac to The New iPhone.

July 11, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
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The Week of July 11 is crammed with Sinners and only one (semi) Winner:

  • After shoddy treatment from Ted Thompson, Brett asks to be released from Green Bay. 
  • Single White Female, the sequel. The Mercury News reports that with the ouster of Dianne Green, CEO of VMWare, none of Silicon Valley’s 150 biggest corporations have a single female CEO.
  • The Basin Complex Fire ravages more than 103,000 acres of pure, pristine California and moves closer to Carmel Valley.
  • Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae tank. Then mortgage giant IndyMac Bank is seized by the Feds.  This bank deserved to be outed for its sleazy shenanigans.  Who’s next?
  • And the obsession with all things Apple grows, with the launch today of the new iPhone3G, released this am at AT&T and Apple stores around the US. It’s faster, cheap, cooler than ever — and also capable of bringing down Apple’s activation system.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Poll on Brett’s Possible Return

July 3, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
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The latest jsonline.com poll:

If Brett Favre is indeed interested in playing again for the Packers, should the team welcome him back?

Yes (62.5%)

No (37.5%)

Total votes: 18,935 + 1 (mine!)

Apparently the only response from the legend himself is: “It’s all rumor.”

And yes, I realize the intended mission of this blog is supposed to be new products, especially marketing, branding, strategy, blah-blah. But it seems to me the ‘Brett Favre’ brand has plenty of existing equity and if Schlitz Classic can be a comeback success after 30 years, shouldn’t the Brett brand have a chance after less than 6 six months?

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