These articles about Viagra no longer running ads during NFL games are ripe with puns

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Published 07/10/2017 at 11:53

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This morning, I clicked on an article about Pfizer ending its $31 million-a-year Viagra sponsorship of NFL games. It is titled, Viagra won’t advertise on NFL games, signaling softening ad market . Really. Well, I added the bolding.

Apparently, Viagra is going off patent this year, and so instead of buying cheap brand name Viagra in shady online pharmacies, men everywhere will soon be able to buy cheap generic viagra at their neighborhood megalocorp chain pharmacy.

Cialis is also about to go off patent, and then it’s going to be a generic boner pill free-for-all. There’s a deal in the works to sell over-the counter Cialis once the patent expires, if the FDA approves it. Since the Trump administration is all about getting rid of regulations, looks like that’ll be happening...any day now.

Jay Busbee, Yahoo NFL reporter, very much enjoys making jokes about things becoming softer when talking about no more boner pill ads during NFL games. In addition to his headline, he also has these lines:

Ad Age reports that preseason ad spending is the softest since the 2008 recession

Viagra, which popped up on the market 20 years ago

One of the NFL’s Top 40 advertisers, one which spent an estimated $31 million a year on sponsorship, won’t be rolling out ads with come-hither older women appealing to couch-bound dudes any longer.

Cialis loses its own patent exclusivity later in the season; if it too decides to pull out of the ad market

I thought I was done with all these puns, but then I clicked the link to the Ad Age article :

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TV networks are trying to keep a stiff upper lip as the once-lucrative erectile dysfunction sector has begun sagging like a doctored football in Tom Brady’s throwing hand.

Seriously.

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Kinja'd!!! "Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
07/10/2017 at 12:00, STARS: 5

Kick ass, I’ve been meaning to buy some matching outdoor tubs for the wife and I so we can bathe separately in cold hose water while swatting mosquitos and contemplating erections.

Kinja'd!!! "CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
07/10/2017 at 12:06, STARS: 1

My wife and I do this now 9/10 would recommend.

Don’t stay in the tubs more than 4 hours though.

Kinja'd!!! "Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
07/10/2017 at 12:09, STARS: 1

I’ve always laughed at the Cialis ads. I mean, if the drug works, shouldn’t they both be in the same tub?

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Kinja'd!!! "Funktheduck" (funktheduck)
07/10/2017 at 12:17, STARS: 1

Wonder what this means for NASCAR advertising as well. Pretty sure every other commercial is for an ED pill during a race

Kinja'd!!! "interstate366, now In The Industry" (interstate366)
07/10/2017 at 12:27, STARS: 1

It’d be hilarious if one of them ended up as a series title sponsor.

Kinja'd!!! "Funktheduck" (funktheduck)
07/10/2017 at 12:47, STARS: 3

“The Little Blue pill cuz your d**k don’t work #diabetes#obesity#stopbeingastereotype 500 at Indy”

Kinja'd!!! "Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
07/10/2017 at 13:01, STARS: 1

According to Ad Age,

Most recently, Cialis has bought time in Fox’s coverage of the 2017 U.S. Open golf tournament and in select MLB games and Nascar races. The brand has also snapped up inventory in general entertainment programming such as TNT’s new drama series “Claws” and ABC’s “Shark Tank,” as well as in NBC and CBS’s respective nightly newscasts.

Kinja'd!!! "Shoop" (shoopdawoop993)
07/10/2017 at 13:25, STARS: 1

My interpretation is that it works do well the man has to sit in an ice bath.

Kinja'd!!! "Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
07/10/2017 at 16:32, STARS: 0

Not sure it would be worth it then.