Birders and baseball followers alike could perk up once they see the latest advert from DirecTV starring Hall of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson.
DirecTV is selling its latest no-dish-needed protection of baseball with an advert marketing campaign that includes the well-known fireballer changing old satellite tv for pc dishes into miniature ballparks — made particularly for birds! What’s extra, you’ll be able to win a dish-based ballpark — or a “Millet Mullet,” just like the props used within the advert.
Randy Johnson Bird Ballpark Satellite Dish
Johnson’s involvement performs off the truth that he as soon as killed a chicken with a pitch throughout a 2001 spring coaching sport. The southpaw’s fastball was interrupted by a blur of a dove that changed into an explosion of feathers.
Johnson has stated he’s since made peace with the unfortunate incident and even makes use of a lifeless chicken within the logo of his photography page.
To assist promote the previous dish-based supplier’s new dish-free service, Johnson introduces a “baseball paradise for birds,” a repurposed DirecTV satellite tv for pc dish that serves because the spherical basis for a miniature reproduction ballpark (full with figurine gamers and all). And this foolish stadium isn’t only for present — you’ll be able to enter to win one of many Bird Ballparks proper now.
And the enjoyable doesn’t cease there. Johnson leans into his “Big Unit” playing-day persona by carrying a “Millet Mullet” (a riff on his well-known hairdo), which it’s also possible to enter to win — so the attending birds have one thing to snack on throughout the video games. (Peanuts could be good for birds, however Cracker Jacks not a lot.) Baseball and chicken followers alike can register to win one of the Bird Ballparks or that knit mullet.
