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Eager to expand beyond his sluggish sports blogging business, Sammy Sportface will be launching an adjacent enterprise next Saturday when Duke comes to Winston-Salem with a Final Four berth at stake.
In the parking lot in front of the Joel Coliseum, Sportface will set up a lemonade-like stand but with a twist. He will be hawking 64-ounce Shirley Temple beverages to Wake hoops fans and the players and coaches. He will refuse to sell these delightful drinks to any potential Duke customers even if they offer him bribes.
Literally, overnight, Sportface got inspired to launch this business based on the feedback he received from the blog he posted yesterday on the epicenter of Wake hoops, the Demon Deacon Sports Nation online community that gathers hundreds of thousands of like-minded souls.
Unwittingly, he found out Parking Lot Parker Friedrichsen has been guzzling Shirley Temples since he was a little boy. A Shirley Temple is a mood-lifting and mouth-satisfying concoction of ginger ale with a splash of grenadine, topped with a maraschino cherry. Think Cherry Smash for upscale folks.
In a prepared statement sent to media outlets across the United States, Sportface said he’s branching out in his entrepreneurial quest because he, too, has enjoyed Shirley Temples since he was a little lad and he wants to unify the Wake Forest hoops community around a single drinking experience. For those so inclined he’ll also replace the grenadine with Fanta Grape Soda.
This is more than just a money grab; it’s community service, a cheap thrill, and a tip of the hat to Parking Lot’s ability to make threes from the parking lot.
“I could have started this business at any number of venues – Haynes Mall, the Wake Forest Quad, Allegacy Stadium, Tribble Hall, Salem College. But the Joel parking lot has special meaning and emotional gymnastics. Duke defenders need to defend Parking Lot as soon as he steps off the team bus onto the parking lot because he can make shots from that far away from the hoop inside the Joel.”
On the morning of the Duke game, Sportface will stop by Harris Teeter to get the ingredients for the Shirley Temples, and a couple of Fanta Grape bottles, then dart over to a specialty store that sells 64-ounce glasses a bit like the ones you see on Bourbon Street.
“Go big or go home has always been, and always will be my business and life motto,” said Sportface. “The Shirley Temple glasses need to be so huge that the Winston-Salem Journal won’t be able to resist writing a story about the new side hustle, sugary drink, and Parking Lot motif.”
At the drink stand — conceptually similar to a lemonade stand but with more flamboyance and discontinuities — Sportface will erect a 50-foot flat screen for drink buyers to binge-watch Shirley Temple movies, and click on a laptop website link to join the Sammy Sportface Baby Boomer Brotherhood Facebook Page.
“Twenty-four hours ago I had no idea I would be launching a Shirley Temple business in a parking lot,” said Sportface. “Just goes to show that in life you always have to be ready to take action when the moment is right, when the right set of conditions coalesce. I’m a big believer in the power of now. A split second ago Sportface was lost but now he’s been found – in a parking lot.”
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