Why Can’t Fans Cheer For a Big Mac?
When the Bulls are at home playing in the United Center, fans who attend the game have an opportunity to win a Big Mac. If the Bulls score 100 points and win the game, fans can take their ticket stubs to McDonalds and redeem them for the delicious sandwich. I think it’s a fun promotion and anyone who has been to a game where the Bulls score 100 and win knows it’s fun to cheer for.
Well apparently not everyone thinks its fun. After Tuesday night’s fiasco involving Kirk Hinrich, many people are outraged at fans, the Bulls and even the players for this “poorly thought out” promotion. The Bulls were sitting on 99, but they were up by double digits with a few seconds to go. Kirk missed the free throw and the fans booed him so hard he felt the need to apologize to them at the post-game press conference.
Basically the argument goes one of two ways. The first is that the fans are just ignorant and classless because they cheer or boo louder for a Big Mac then they do the entire game. The second argument is that management’s greed has led to the “Love it Live” campaign, which is clearly geared at broadening the fan base to people who are less interested in basketball and more interested in seeing halftime shows and Dunkin Donuts races.
My response: Who cares? It’s a Big Mac! Let people cheer for the opportunity to win one. This is the same garbage argument I hear at Cubs games. People say “Oh fans just go to Wrigley to have fun and be in the sun, they don’t care about the game.” I respond to this the same way I would respond to that: Of course there’s a few people like that but let them have fun! It also doesn’t mean there aren’t real fans just because a few people pay more attention to winning a Big Mac than watching the Bulls stumble through another game.
So if the Bulls are sitting on 99 with the final seconds ticking away, cheer for your 100 points! It doesn’t make you classless or ignorant, it just means you want a Big Mac. Mmmmm, a Big Mac…I haven’t had one of those in years. Sounds delicious.
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Comment from Nels
Time March 27, 2009 at 11:20 am
I just ate my free Big Mac from last night’s Miami game. Mmmmmmmmmm. 540 calories.
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Comment from Ray Kroc Incarnate
Time March 26, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Honestly, I don’t know what the fans are whining about. Now if this were a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese I could understand their outrage. But ever since I passed away, the Big Mac has gotten tinier and tinier. I mean the last one I saw had pickles that were bigger than the actual beef patties. Talk about an overrated sandwich. Even McDoubles are more fulfilling than the Big Mac.