I’m going to take issue with Ms Hargrove…read this and then watch the UTube vid.
Eli Manning Snubs GM By Turning Down Keys to 2012 Grand Sport
by Lauren Hargrove on February 6, 2012You just won the big game and received the MVP award, and with it, a brand new car! But it’s a Chevy, and you’ve been helping sell Toyotas for years… Awkward! Millions are watching live on TV as one of the major sponsors of the game presents you with the keys to a brand new 2012 Corvette Grand Sport convertible – what do you do? Keep it simple and classy, saying “thank you” to at least acknowledge the prize, without seeming like an entitled jerk who is worried about burning bridges with the foreign company that’s been writing you checks for years?
Nope! If you’re Eli Manning, you leave without a word or the keys…
Kevin and Bean of Los Angeles radio station KROQ performed a mock interview with the MVP this morning; according to their “correspondence” with the game winning quarterback the current plan is to use the C6 as a planter. It is unlikely that the Corvette will actually face such a harsh fate, but it does leave ‘vette lovers and football fans wondering will happen to the C6.
While playing in, let alone leading a team to victory in the Super Bowl is an achievement few of us could even begin to comprehend, and the pressure of post-game interviews and ceremonies must be enormous, how hard is it to say “thank you” and pocket the keys? Even if your fear of offending Toyota is so great that actually accepting and driving the gift is unthinkable, at least raffle it off for charity or something…
If anyone at GM is actually reading this, I am sure there are plenty of armchair quarterbacks who would graciously receive the Corvette and provide it with a loving home if Manning never does pick up the keys.
NOW…watch the video…..and see if Eli doesn’t say Thank You.
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2012 Grand Sport, posted with vodpod
Thanks for reading
Tim
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No one loves everything Corvette more than I but Manning had just come through a war and now was in the extreme emotional uplift of a Superbowl win. And you expect a person to think clearly and diplomatically at that instant?
More importantly, this has been cleared up and later on, Manning did what one would expect him to do and we go on loving those beautiful Corvettes!
I agree 100% Bill. Thanks for dropping a note.