Tuesday, November 18, 2008

KFC becomes the "Official WIng Sponsor" for Super Bowl XLIII

Kentucky Fried Chicken announced the first-ever sponsorship agreement between the chicken chain and the National Football League to make KFC's world-famous chicken wings the "Official Wing Sponsor" of this year's NFL Playoffs and Super Bowl XLIII.

"The sponsorship includes rights to depict the NFL shield and the Super Bowl XLIII logos on KFC's Wings buckets and on 32 oz. NFL promotional drink cups and other packaging, as well as television advertising, online presence and in-store signage." Consumers who purchase a 32 oz. drink will have a chance to win one of several NFL prizes including a trip to Super Bowl XLIV in South Florida in 2010, flat-panel TVs and NFL.com gift certificates.

"It seems only fitting for America's favorite chicken wing to sponsor America's favorite sport on the game's biggest stage," said Javier Benito, executive vice president of marketing and food innovation for KFC. "It's exciting for KFC to have 'wing season' news to share during the NFL Playoffs and Super Bowl."

The KFC chain sells more chicken wings than any other restaurant.  The Super Bowl is the peak of the wing season for the company with Americans eating more than 90 million pounds of chicken wings during the weekend of the Big Game. 

This is a brilliant partnership for KFC and the Super Bowl. It will increase exposure for both KFC and the Super Bowl and award those lucky people that buy the  32 oz. drink with once in a lifetime incentives.  These incentives have been popular with other fast food chains like MCDonalds and Subway, it's about time KFC joins the trend.  Also, what can be better than football and wings?! YES PLEASE! 

5 comments:

Raven said...

I love football. And I love chicken.

This is a win win situation for both companies.

I'm a sucker for advertising, so I'll be eating KFC every sunday for sure.

twells said...

I think this is a great idea for KFC to team up with one of the largest sports markets. However, the quote by Javier Benito saying "America's favorite chicken wing..." I will disagree with. This is great for an advertising campaign, but definitely not America's favorite wings... at least not mine anyway!

ak1176 said...

Yummy! Bring on the wings!

lelli said...

I think it's a great idea and it will be very successful. I'll definitely eat me some wings and watch me some cowboys!...if they make it. But its a great advertising idea.

KristenLuedke said...

To be a sponsor of the NFL playoffs is HUGE! This will gain a lot of attention for KFC. Not much buzz has been going around about KFC recently so I'm pretty sure sales will increase tremendously!