Pop Culture Victim
Thursday, August 12, 2004
  Good grief.
Think you can drink Pepsi at the Olympics? Think again.
The Interational Olympic Committee ... is policing spectators at the games to ensure that they aren't toting brand-marks for their sponsors' rivals. Penalties for buying the wrong product range from confiscation of your goods to being forced to wear your t-shirt logo-side-in.

Repeat after me: You like Coca-Cola... You like M&Ms... You like them...

Seriously though, what is this? Am I just supposed to accept this as a sign of the times, where brand loyalty takes priority to sport at a sporting event? Have we bottomed out to such depths that someone has the authority to tell you what you can wear on your T-shirt, where Olympic-caliber athletes are equated to nothing more than surface area upon which logos and slogans can be emblazoned?

Pfeh.
 
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