Isiah Thomas Target of Half-Popped Smear Campaign

(FranchisePick) Popcorn is the world’s purest and most wondrous snack. And October, National Popcorn Poppin’ Month, is the special time we set aside to ponder and appreciate nature’s most sacred and magical food. For snack food purists, it is a holy time.

Isiah Thomas knows well the emotional power of popcorn. He grew up hungry, the youngest in a poor family in a Chicago ghetto. Some of his fondest memories from those days involve sitting with my family around a huge bowl of popcorn. The lessons that Isiah’s mother (a legend in her own right) imparted over a bowl of popcorn helped Isiah reach his dreams of earning a college degree, and building a life of athletic and personal achievement. Popcorn-powered Isiah Thomas went on to become one of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players of All-Time, a 12-time NBA All-Star and member of the Hall-of-Fame, Head Coach of the Indiana Pacers, President of the New York Knicks and a bestselling author.

Isiah Thomas: The Prince of Popcorn. As a way of giving back, Isiah Thomas called up The Popcorn Board one day and offered to join their board and be their spokesman… for free. Years later, when he fell in love with the popcorn of a new popcorn franchise company called Popcorn, Indiana, he became an investor in the start-up operation. The owners changed the name to Dale & Thomas Popcorn to honor their new partner.

Sadly, not everyone in the popcorn industry is as pure as popcorn. It appears that a scheming sports promoter and a couple of nobody popcorn wannabes have teamed up to try to exploit the recent controversy and personal attacks upon the true Prince of Popcorn, Isiah Thomas. It seems that they can’t buy publicity for their uninspired brand, so they must make a crass attempt at stealing a few headlines by attacking a man who earned his fame through hard work and personal excellence.

T.T. Buds Popcorn: As Uninspired as it is Unknown I’m referring to a sad little popcorn company called T.T. Buds Popcorn, owned by Tom Sneed (not the golfer) and Tim Dalton (not the actor) and their hired henchman Jim Delaney of Activate Sports & Entertainment (a company that’s saving up to someday have a website of its own). T.T. Buds Popcorn has set up a separate website in a lame and transparent attempt to promote themselves at Isiah Thomas’ expense. They have launched a pathetic campaign to try to get The Popcorn Board to fire Thomas as the industry spokeman and to install themselves in his place.  Read about it here:

T.T. Bud’s Popcorn Launches Pathetic Campaign To Succeed Isiah Thomas as Official Popcorn Industry Spokesperson

I’m sure TPB will jump at the chance to replace an internationally reknowned basketball hall of fame legend with two nobodies named, cutely, Tim & Tom… especially after they read the petition that contains a whopping 125 signatures… no doubt signed by down-in-the-dumps Red Sox fans who’d sign away their mothers for a handful of stale, tasteless T.T. popcorn.

Look what other losers are eager to jump on the Kick’m When They’re Down bandwagon:

Anti-Isiah Thomas Popcorn: Want Some?

Isiah’s Undercover Popcorn Empire

Rival Popcorn Toughs Want Isiah Ousted

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF SUCH SLEAZY, OPPORTUNISTIC AND ULTIMATELY PATHETIC PUBLICITY STUNTS? SHOULD ISIAH THOMAS BE REINSTATED AS POPCORN INDUSTRY SPOKESPERSON, OR SHOULD T.T. BUD’S POPCORN BE BOYCOTTED, SANCTIONED AND BANNED FROM THE POPCORN INDUSTRY FOR VIOLATING THE SANCTITY OF NATIONAL POPCORN POPPIN’ MONTH?

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