Ho hum. The guys at England’s Advertising Standards Authority must really be bored. They recently ordered Paddy Power, one of Ireland’s biggest sports betting groups, to remove an ad that they claimed encouraged animal cruelty. The bookie group’s ad had a team of blind soccer players using a cat as a rugby ball, and the ASA claims that they had literally hundreds of complaints over the campaign. I mean, come on guys, surely the public has the intelligence to know that a cat is NOT a play thing and that the average soccer player, blind or otherwise, won’t mistake a furry thing with four legs and whiskers for a round leather soccer ball!?!?
I was going to bring you some jokes about our furry friends but I don’t want to be accused of hurting their feelings, so we’ll have to laugh at soccer players instead, courtesy of SoccerJokes:
The Devil was constantly challenging St Peter to a game of soccer, but St Peter refused, until one day while walking around heaven he discovered that quite a number of international footballers had entered the ‘pearly gates’.
“I think I’ll arrange to play that soccer game,” said St Peter to the Devil. “We have a great number of international soccer stars in heaven at the moment from which to select a winning team.”
“You’ll lose, you’ll lose!” taunted the Devil. “What makes you so sure we’ll lose?” enquired St Peter. “Because,” laughed the Devil, “we have all the referees down here.”