Thread by @benzkenney

I have a conspiracy theory about the Duke's Mayo Bowl dropping...Hear me out:
-The game is at 12 on a Wednesday and nobody watched
-How do they market their product? Free publicity.
-How do they do that? Take an old BCS bowl and loosely fasten it to the stand

Then...

Players dance, the bowl inevitably breaks and it's a front page story.

Why does this make too much sense? There was conveniently a bottle of Duke's Mayo next to the crime and a thing of duct tape.

What followed? It's a national story.

Now...Why would they do it

Reason 1: They were getting to much bad press for the Gatorade bath debacle

Reason 2: Nobody watched the game

Reason 3: Nobody has heard of Duke's Mayo

Or all three at the same time...It make too much sense to not be true

In the end I believe they purposely set the bowl up to break, placed a bottle & framed Mertz for dropping the prize

They now get people to actually care about their brand, product placement, the story is no longer about them being frauds and not filling the Gatorade tub w/ Mayo

#MertzWasFramed and they're going to get away with it with nobody noticing

Full conspiracy theory description coming on @LockedOnBadgers later tonight

(During halftime of the #CottonBowl TrophyGate got more air time than the game highlights)