Don’t Just Eat. Win.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or Rocky Mountain), you probably know that we have a little football team here called The Denver Broncos. Some of the biggest names in the game have played for and passed through this franchise, including John Elway, Peyton Manning and the tank of a man known as Mark “Stink” Schlereth. These days, you can hear Mark sportscasting on ESPN radio and TV, but what you may not know about him is that he has a serious thing for green chili.
A few years ago, Mark’s landscaper buddy David Bloom had a pretty righteous chili recipe that he oh-so-generously shared with the Stink. Mark fell for it. Hard. And then, badda-bing, badda-boom, the Stinkin’ Good Chili brand was born — a partnership between this NFL superstar and his friend with a ‘green-chili thumb’. (Good one, Erin.)
Last year, alongside Alicia Potter of Faven Creative, I had the chance to give this growing brand the professional creative treatment it so needed and deserved. We worked up a range of strategic brand directions from which we landed in a place of sport, achievement and victory: Don’t Just Eat. Win. This spicy phrase is now Stinkin’ Good’s tagline and their game plan for the future as they go into queso and other categories beyond the four green chilis that I helped launch.
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Keep your eyes peeled for the touchdown-worthy logo and visual branding that Alicia designed (all packaging and promo copy by yours truly, including flavor names like “The Cluck” and “This Little Piggy”), and head to stinkingoodchili.com to see which stores in your area are stinking up their shelves with the good stuff. Hearty Garden is my personal fave, but you’ll have to try them all to make up your own mind. Oh! And don’t forget to ‘bring the stink’ to your next tailgate party, get-together or picnic. Every bite will have the whole crowd cheering…like for the Broncos…at the Super Bowl.
These football analogies doing anything for you?
Ok fine. But buy some chili anyway.