NU asks fox to pull this promo....
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Nebraska athletics has decided to distance itself from a FOX Sport promotional ad that likens the Huskers to move ‘Children of the Corn.’
According to Sam McKewon of the Omaha World-Herald, the athletic department has asked FOX Sports to stop running the advertisement. Though it will not be seen on television, the video is expected to still be available on Twitter.
The promotional ad is a take on the 1977 Stephen King horror story, “Children of the Corn,” which was later made into a film. David Witty, senior associate athletic director for marketing and communications, said that’s not how the university wants to be represented.
“It’s not really the direction we want the brand to go in,” he told the World-Herald.
FOX Sports released 14 football promos for the upcoming season.
According to Sam McKewon of the Omaha World-Herald, the athletic department has asked FOX Sports to stop running the advertisement. Though it will not be seen on television, the video is expected to still be available on Twitter.
The promotional ad is a take on the 1977 Stephen King horror story, “Children of the Corn,” which was later made into a film. David Witty, senior associate athletic director for marketing and communications, said that’s not how the university wants to be represented.
“It’s not really the direction we want the brand to go in,” he told the World-Herald.
FOX Sports released 14 football promos for the upcoming season.
Stupid promo. Even if you loved the movie. Which I did. And love corn. Which I do. Stupid.
Don't have a strong opinion of the ad one way or the other, but I don't see why NU would ask for it to be pulled. Isn't this where about 50 people chime in to complain about how everyone is overly sensitive these days and predict the downfall of 'Merica?
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Ridiculously bad, and I'm thankful that our AD said "86 it, pronto!!" How "Lost in a cornfield" is a city of 300,000 people, with another city of 900,000 40 miles away?? F'ing idiots!!
It appears all but one player is Caucasian. I think this is as remarkable as the creative decision to use a 40 year old movie to entice today's viewers.
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PC culture strikes again. We are the Cornhuskers. Why anyone would be offended because of references to a movie from decades ago or why they would be offended that our university and its football team represents an entire agricultural state is beyond me. The AD needs to stop getting their panties in a wad over "their brand."
We have so much better stuff to promote than an old movie and some guys in the middle of a cornfield.
I agree...the commercial could be way better...it should have been almost like a horror movie. But...I don't want to see a commercial with the freaking Kearney Arch and the SAC.
It's not Fox's job to try and promote "our brand." Did you see some of the other ones? Minnesota was a play on the "nice people" of the state. NW was a play on being known as "the smart school." Purdue was about a stinking train. Rutgers was about being the commoner and not the elitist. Iowa highlights their pink locker room. Fox isn't out there helping to promote "a brand."
This would be similar to an Alabama Football promo, centered around a trailer park, with gravy-stained, cankled women fighting over the barbecued turkey leg.
Spit out my morning coffee reading this. Well done.... Laughing
When an inaccurate stereotype is perpetuated and causes harm there is good reason for the leadership to voice their displeasure. It has nothing to do with pc culture.
I had zero problem with it, and oh by the way, Lincoln is in the middle of a bunch of corn fields.
I thought "lost in a corn field" summed up our program fairly accurately for the past 15 years.
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Inaccurate? Are you upset that they didn't show some soybeans and wheat? When a football team represents a state whose primary industry is ag, why wouldn't you latch on to that image? It's one more example of the pc culture trying to spin reality into whatever fake image they want to portray.
For people who don't have a problem with this, they also shouldn't be shocked when they hear recruits remark how surprised they were after their visit, that they thoughts all there was was corn, that the university is in the middle of a cornfield.. How many times have we heard that unfair stereotype about Nebraska. This is a stupid ad that proliferates it. Maybe it seems like nothing to people from the midwest, but is there honestly not a single quality that a marketing team can make into a solid commercial? I can picture this group of well paid marketing folks sitting in a meeting and deciding, "lets make it about them being surrounded by corn again. Everyone thinks that's hilarious." It's not funny. It's embarrassing. It's stupid. It negatively impacts how other people view the program and the state. If you've ever stepped foot outside of the midwest, you realize it very quickly.
Too bad Iowa or Northwestern didn't ask Fox to pull the ads promoting their games. Then we surely would have regaled with stories about how back in the day (whenever it was), we had hogs to slop and butter to churn and we never woulda sat around clutchin' our pearls over some dadgum Twitter promo.
So should Northwestern have been portrayed in the image if gangsters, mob and modern day killers? That's what I think of when I think of Chicago.
I didn't say you shouldn't, what I did say is if you're one of those folks who doesn't have a problem with it, then don't be one of them who acts surprised when people/recruits/non-Midwesterners think Nebraska is "just cornfields" or rip on Nebraska for having nothing but corn. Low creativity stuff like this is the reason the stereotype persists as reality in people's minds.
A Nebraskan who is embarrassed by cornfields? Seriously? Nebraska football owes a huge debt of gratitude to "stupid" farmers and corn.
Reading comprehension not real great, is it. It's alright. I get it. I've read enough of your posts. You like to make up your own truths.
I can literally look out my office window in SW Lincoln and see a cornfield. I’m sure you could say the same for nearly all Midwest cities. I don’t mind the promo. It is kind of an overplayed, unimaginative narrative, but nothing to get to bent out of shape about. The fact that individuals outside the midwest are too naive, narrow minded and myopic to see that cities in the Midwest have more to offer than cornfields, and that the people that live here have as much depth as those anywhere else, is more of a reflection of their own shortcomings than it is a denigration on those of us who live here. A 30 second football promo isn’t going to change that perception one way or the other, just like it isn’t going to change Tuco’s perception of Chicago. We might as well have a little fun with it.