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cycling '74 sponsors soccer team...

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Author: Bluermutt on March 23 2007

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--> "With an enigmatic name that refers to a specific time and activity of questionable relationship to the organization's actual purpose, Cycling '74 has received its share of athletic sponsorship requests during its nine year history. Typically these have been bicycle tours or related events, and after careful consideration, we have rejected all of them. However, when I received an urgent call from the coach of my son Bruno's soccer team saying that they were flirting with disqualification for lack of a sponsor, our corporate policy of exhaustive review (involving multiple levels of committee meetings) was carelessly discarded in order to seize the opportunity to market advanced audio and video software products to sports-minded 11-year-old boys and what we hoped would be their easily influenced parents."

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Comments

03/23/07 + mlbot

score!

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03/23/07 + Roshi

GGGOOOGOGOGOGOGOOOOOOAAAALLLLLL!

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03/23/07 + j_chot

that's really funny.

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03/23/07 + tapirA

lol lol lol

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03/23/07 + zfigz

props...

p.s. I was in soccer in Brownsville, TX at age 4...it sucked and now I make music with my computer.

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03/23/07 + Jim

Nice article!

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edited: Mar 23 2007 + GregTArtZ

yeah soccer.

Video

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03/23/07 + skab

that team is all just one giant msp patch run from a basement in dusseldorf

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03/23/07 + sweettrip

lemur-controlled goalie

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03/23/07 + straight

do you reckon they could could up with an external to explain away goals to americans?

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03/23/07 + TecknoMan

Great company, great people. Always a class act to work with in my experience.

03/23/07 + yghartsyrt

i want a team jersey

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03/24/07 + tunalicker

sponsor children's music workshops. is that too much to ask?
soccer's also awesome. my hometowns played (with no sponsors) every year.
after 14-15 years, i have to say its an excellent work out....

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