Miami Herald: Congratualtions Heat!

An ad for Macy's ran in Monday's Miami Herald, congratulating the Heat on winning the NBA title, and notifying readers where can pick up their Heat championship gear.

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2011/06/miami_herald_runs_macys_ad_con.php

Of course, they lost. And worse, had the Heat won last night, the series would only have been 3-3.

Stupid, foolish, and shameful.

EDIT: Said the poster who mis-typed Congratulations!

 

Someone ran the wrong ad obviously.

 

Congratulations Miami Herald! You did it again!

Signed,
1998 Minnesota Vikings Super Bowl Participants

 

Nothing gets past you...

 

This was obviously the third world addition, since they'll be getting all the Heat championship gear.

 

This was my analysis as well.

 

You know, it's funny you mention that, because the Herald DID do something called the Clipper that went to South America and such. Frank Ridgeway or somebody would know more about whether that's still the case.

 

Apropos nothing, but something I've long wondered. Whether it's the NBA Finals, Super Bowl, World Series or whatever, gear is produced proclaiming two different teams as the champions. When the one team loses, who swallows the cost of producing and shipping the now-inaccurate championship material? Is it the manufacturer, the team or someone else?

 

What did the Gimbel's ad say?

 

The cost is minimal, because they only pre-produce enough to get them through the first day and to have enough to show in the ads.

I read somewhere that the two years where they lost the most money on pre-produced championship garb was when the Packers lost to the Broncos and when the Patriots lost to the Giants.

 

Congratualtions, indeed!