You wanna know how you stop a rogue Papa John's pizza franchise from sullying the good name of LeBron James? You start a mediocre Facebook group, that's what you do (yup, 121 fans of the Cleveland Cavs will never eat the Papa again -- what a strong stand). Or you could start an inaccurate and rudimentary website ("Kiss the Ring" doesn't necessarily apply to Bron just quite yet, you dedicated 186 pizza haters) dedicated to snuffing out disrespecting pizza joints.But hate not on the quality of Cleveland's protest. It has reached the dough stuffed ears of Mr. Papa John himself, in Kentucky, and corporate has responded, offering to make it up to all the Cleveland fans who were so wronged by this one Washington D.C. version of the pizza store.
To apologize, Papa John's will sell Cleveland residents a large, one-topping pizza for 23 cents on Thursday. The 23 is an homage to James' jersey number. The company also will donate $10,000 to the Cavaliers Youth Fund.Woo! Charities! Cheap pizza! Homage! It's almost enough to get me worked up into the kind of frenzy that inspires shots of garlic sauce before I go back to class.
Okay, not really. I actually think that Cleveland fans should have recruited Domino's or Pizza Hut to respond and am kind of surprised they didn't call the King and lock up the free marketing while it was available. Of course, the geniuses that inspired the Noid and Queen Latifah as spokepeople are probably no longer around, so you can't expect too much. Fortunately for us, the silliness around the Cavs-Wizards series is just about over.
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. I'd sure as hell hate to work at one of those places while they were selling 23 cent pizzas, I'd probly quit, I know if I lived in Cleveland, I'd order about 30 of them.
Posted at 3:25PM on May 5th 2008 by mgraber16
2. I would like to be a fly on the wall at the Papa John's pizza store with the 23 cent pizza sale. It will be total chaos and I am sure Domino's Pizza and Pizza Hut will probably do something similar to compete with the Papas.
Posted at 12:03AM on May 6th 2008 by George B Vieto
3. The 23 cent Pizza day should have been set for tonights game... Tues.
Posted at 1:34AM on May 8th 2008 by Rhette
4. 10 cent beer night and 23 cent pizza day... what else will Cleveland think of next?
Posted at 1:34AM on May 8th 2008 by CJB
5. I live in Cleveland, and it is chaos. There is a mob down the street from us, with a helicopter and the whole nine yards. I believe it is great Papa Johns marketing (at other businesses expense -- we couldn't go to the CVS - no parking), and no other franchiese jumped on the wagon at all. Right now it is all about mob control!
Posted at 11:41AM on May 8th 2008 by Valerie
6. It's funny how they are not even answering their phones...I have been calling, and it's busy, so I just let my phone sit there redialling itself, and when it got through it rang so many times that my phone hung itself up.
Posted at 11:41AM on May 8th 2008 by Kristina