Where's The Beef?
Saunier Duval-Scott team is now Scott-American Beef. This cracks me up on many levels. 1st is the fact Saunier Duval split in the wake of the recent doing scandal at the Tour. So American Beef signs up. Beef? Don't get me wrong, I suck down more than my share of burgers, but isn't it well know that non organic beef is all pumped up with hormones, steroids and everything else to yield bigger cows, more beef and more eats?? The riders will now be on a EPO free team. But have access to some kick ass cattle grade 'roids and blood transfusions with prize winning steer.
The 2nd thing that sort of cracks me up is the fact that American Beef is headquartered in Mexico. Chihuahua Mexico to be exact. Which would technically make it Mexican Beef based in an area of Mexico that also gave us every one's favorite dog breed The Chihuahua. THAT'S appetizing!
Lastly what cracks me up and impresses the hell out of me at the same time- is the freaking 5th leg that the bull in the photo above is walking around with!! Holy crap! New meaning to the expression "hung like a bull". No word if the team will be expected to rage packages like that is their new, sure to be a freaking scene, team kits.
Just felt the need to share rather than work.
Later.
7.30.08 EDIT: From VeloNews.com
"Since the Riccò controversy, the team’s title sponsor has withdrawn from the sport but the squad will continue to operate under the joint sponsorship of the Scott-USA bicycle company and Mexican meatpacker, American Beef, based in Chihuahua. The company supplies patties to Burger King, one of its primary customers, and to Wal-Mart and Costco under various brand names."
So belly up to the B.K. and support cycling! I know there was some talk on some forums from folks that thought given the name, that this was an American sponsor. Nope just a good ol Mexican cycling loving meat packer. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Some of my favorite meals are Mexican. If this IS an American company based in Mexico, it looks like they found an easier way to under pay folks, and give them no health insurance to do a dangerous, nasty job without having to smuggle them into the country. Easier to take the company to them. Damn, I can really go for a Whopper®.
posted by Jason @ 2:10 PM
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6 Comments:
Yeah, there is NO WAY you could pay me enough to be on that team! The team is barely formed and already the jokes are starting. No one will ever take them seriously.
who cares who your title sponsor is. These days we should be thankful someone is stepping up so quickly. At least American Beef doesn't have the threat of Mad Cow disease like in Europe. I would race for Amgen and or American Beef so long as the management was ethical.
Critics said the same things (doped up race/ and or team) about the Amgen tour and has it been such a bad thing???
Easy, Andrew it's a joke ;) I'm sure the beef folks are just fine and yes, sponsors are hard to come by in the bike biz. BTW I had the BEST burger on the grill tonight.
sorry wasn't trying to be negative, just wanted to point out we shouldn't be so negative about sponsors who shell out big bucks to our sport. Google is a powerful tool and we (myself included) need to be careful about our words. Sponsors see this stuff.
Hopefully Scott, American Beef will come up with a strong internal anti-doping control and this wont happen again.
I will admit American-Beef does sound like an odd sponsor, but in a way it does make sense if they want to expand there sales in Europe.
I know Andrew. I actually don't think I was that negative. There was just irony ripe for the plucking. I guess I read theonion.com too much ;)
I can actually see them replacing an old fave of mine from a few years ago- Predictor-Lotto. There was something great about a pregnancy test/lottery team. All I could think about was the "gamble" that many a woman has felt like they were taking as they peed on stick to see if they're pregnant or not.
I'd love to see more sponsors from outside the industry. I read on VeloNews that a deal fell though last year that would have had Discovery becoming Team Viagra-Trojan. The hang up was ASO/UCI's protest against the use of the phrase "Ride Hard. Ride Safe" on team cars as well as the fear of what the racers might rock in their podium spandex.
That's all a bad joke of course. It's a problem. I know.
Later.
American Beef could be anywhere from Canada to Argentina and still correctly be called American Beef.
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