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Eat (Skittles and cake), Pray (for a win), Love (those edible audibles)

And then there was Double Trouble with the colors that put the fun in football and its food:
— If you can believe the gridiron-based ad, Skittles candy would have you call an eatible — as audibles are far too dated — and sprinkle them not on your face, but on a foam finger cake. Other football grub we had for the big inter-division game was a yellow and dark blue cake with a pigskin in the middle. Dark blue? It seems they couldn’t make up their minds about going purple or green as the secondary color. Turns out the Vikings big win put that issue to rest. Then there was the dog decked out with not only a pro football sweater but also skirt, that had of all things a Bears theme, (just who is No. 13?), and loved the treats that were given (were they Skittles?). And a Houlton bar, the one with the classic two-sided sign that shows, alternatively, either a downtrodden Packer or Viking, that for the Big Game was offering $1 beers for scores made by the Vikings, not the Packers. And when you consider how the game played out, they must have given out a lot of brews, that being a Wisconsin thing. Lastly, at Dick’s, management did not know until it was pointed out to them by a staffer, that they scheduled their big soup cookoff for the exact same time as the big Sunday game, from noon to 3 p.m. So since they had doubled up on their promotions, they really had an issue to tackle. At least they didn’t triple up, by doing something even further like the annual Drive Your Tractor To The Bar Day at Meister’s. That would be much more feasible, with them being in rural Boardman, not downtown Hudson.

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