Remember that bit from last week about the cultural significance of overalls and our beloved mascot Herbie?
You can forget all that.
After seeing an item on Corn Nation about a poll EA Sports was running to determine which mascot would get the first ever Wii cover for the NCAA Football franchise--this was immensely important because the folks at EA were using the old, overalled Herbie rather than the new, phone-holster Herbie--I launched into a screed about the value of that distinction. It was impassioned, it was obsessive and, ultimately, it was all for naught.
If you go to the EA Sports website today and, using your little floating Wii remote, try to vote for Herbie you'll see that he has been updated (assimilated? gentrified?). Phone-holster Herbie is back, awaiting your vote, and Steve Pederson, from deep inside his palatial Pittsburgh estate, continues to haunt us.
Damn you, Steve, daaaammmmmnnnnn yooooooouuuuuu!
The good news is that the only reason I learned about this disgusting new development was because my father, inspired by this blog, was voting every day and noticed the change.
See? We're reaching people here...and thanks, Dad.
(Photo note: You might remember the gentleman in the above photo from the first overalls photo I posted. Apparently he always dresses like Herbie and I love him for it--in the manly, altruistic Greek sense of the word. It is now my mission to seek him out and interview him for this very blog.)
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