Oh. My. God.
Bird is the word, apparently.
Per a Wall Street Journal report, the Eagles and makers of… get ready for this… Angry Birds will be partnering up to bring you a synergistic experience not seen since early 90s Disney movies basically paid for your Happy Meals.
The Eagles and Rovio – the company behind Angry Birds – will announce the partnership on Monday. It will include “an Eagles-centric Angry Birds game to be launched in the fall and a marketing push that will include everything from social media initiatives to integration on local team television shows and even in-stadium displays.”
Those in-stadium displays? This:
For instance, according to the team, if defensive lineman Trent Cole sacks New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, the stadium’s video board will dump the traditional sack animation for a new one–an animation in which Angry Birds character “Big Brother Bird” Terence knocks Manning over. In short, for Angry Bird-addicted football fans, there will be no escaping your thumb-hurting vice this fall.
Uhh.
Something tells me the Eagles splash cartoons, released on the team’s website each Friday before a game, will also heavily feature those pissed off pigeons.
I’m not sure how to feel about this. On one hand, it’s refreshing to see some creativity. On the other… this is super hokey and somewhat perplexing. And that’s before we talk about Angry Birds reaching the height of its popularity, like, two years ago. What’s next? Pet Eagle Tamagotchis? Fletcher Cox Pogs slammers? The possibilities, they are endless.
But one thing is clear: Someone must have gotten a hold of the Eagles PR and marketing folks this offseason and told them to LIGHTEN THE HELL UP AND STOP BEING SO ARCHAIC IN YOUR THINKING AND BRANDING.
The response? A more visible Andy Reid, laughing with reporters and conducting chats on Philly.com. A dead Joe Banner. And Angry Birds, it seems– the article makes it clear that the Eagles pushed the game-maker for the partnership.
Highlighted the good parts, for your humorical pleasure:
Ari Roitman, the Eagles’ senior vice president of business, said the idea came when, like most businesses, his office became obsessed with the game. With the obvious bird theme in common, Roitman made about a year’s worth of calls before the team sold the Finnish company on the idea.
“This is, for them, a test the waters type of a partnership and we desperately wanted to go first,” Roitman said. “We did not want anyone else in this country to have a partnership with these guys before we did. It’s a pretty competitive avian sports nickname landscape out there.
“I think they understand, and this was part of our pitch, that this is a very scalable partnership for them and if it succeeds and we have every confidence it will, this could open a massive door for them to walk right into,” he said.
Jesus Christ.
We’ll look forward to see how this is implemented, mostly so we can shake our damn heads. For now, though, please enjoy this absolute-must-watch promo video featuring Reid and your favorite angry birds:
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…Speechless….
Oh my gentle Jesus…
The cgi Andy looks like a weight lifter as opposed to the fat sloppy piece of shit we all know he truly is. Hopefully he dies or gets fired this year, or both.
That’s not Andy Reid, that’s Chef Robert Irvine.
“They should call it ‘angry fans’” my dad will be here all week, folks.
“It’s a pretty competitive avian sports nickname landscape out there.”
Cardinals beat us to the Super Bowl; we beat them to the marketing plug!
*facepalm*
This is a doosh chill waiting to happen
…Somewhere, the Seahawks, Ravens, Orioles, BlueJays, and Falcons are snickering into their wings…
this is genius!
New uniforms, please. All of our apparel looks like crap.
I would like to stick my angry bird in Kate Upton’s asshole
WOW…Never thought i would here POGS referenced ever again!
Jesus Christ is wrong. The Eagles organization would never accept him.
Ari Roitman? wow. Jew Lurie really does have the 12 tribes working for that team….
WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go Eagles……..pioneering!
Dont hate pioneers…..the game is still popular, its not a NEW game anymore, but it is still popular…
You haters have to relax a bit here!
I like it…
Cakawwwwww!
There has been an Angry Bird Eagle shirt out for over a year now. This is nothing new. Check out Barktees.com and have one tomorrow. Nothing new here.
Everything was going great until Bomb Bird tweeted a pic of Tupac and Osama
well, its goofy, but on the bright side..
im hoping the game features angry birds dressed in eagles uniforms taking out pigs in cowboys and giants uniforms…
yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Get back in the kitchen Kimberly
Dumb.