Friday, August 29, 2008

The Endorsement Games

The Beijing Olympic Games made us emotional, swell with American pride, and rekindled our inner Angelina Jolie complexes with every next adorable Chinese child we wanted to adopt (and I'm not talking about the underage gymnasts).

But now, as most things do, marketing and advertising are taking the world's stage.

Who better to represent the USA than the 12,000 calorie a day ingesting, Bob Costas interview cop-out extraordinaire (that overused decree of "I'm at a loss of words"), abnormally built (torso of a 6'8" man, legs of a 6'0" man...and he's 6'4") swimming phenom....
Michael Phelps!!

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