Russell Wilson usually throws the ball, or maybe runs with it. Now, he wants everyone to eat the ball.
The Seattle Sehawks quarterback is the new face of "Eat the Ball," billed as an educational bread and "the bread of a new generation."
The bread is shaped like little footballs, or globes stamped with all seven continents.
"The thing that got me to eat the ball and really understand and gravitate towards the program is it's not just athletic balls for the kids or the people just in general to tailgate," Wilson said in a statement. "It's also an education purpose. The education purpose of, there's an EarthBall, so it has all the seven continents.
"So imagine a kid goes up to a line and he's grabbing that piece of bread. Rather than just grabbing a normal piece of bread, he's grabbing something that can trigger his mind to think about the continents of the world, what city is where, where they want to go. Eat the Ball. It's changing the game for food for kids, for people all over the world. It's huge in Europe now and we want to bring it to America."
CBS Sports.com NFL writer Will Brinson sees a few problems with this.
"You're getting smaller sandwiches, you've got to be getting way more carbs per bite than you would with normal bread and, again, just because someone can imagine a visit to Italy when they sample a ham and cheese sandwich doesn't mean they're experiencing a life-altering moment," Brinson wrote.
"Does eating a hamburger entail making a football-shaped patty? That's a total nightmare, regardless of how natural the bread ingredients are."
Then again, imagine a burger made with the globe-shaped bread. Maybe it's better once you get all seven condiments -- err ... continents -- on it.
Party foul
Sounds like someone didn't get an invitation.
The Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., has canceled its annual invitation-only Kentucky Derby-themed party in response to protesters at last year's event who complained that basing a party on the popular horse race was racist and economically elitist.
According to The Dartmouth, the school's newspaper, KDE's members have voted to rebrand the party to avoid offending people. Instead of having a Derby theme, it will have a Woodstock theme.
"We realized that if anyone on campus felt uncomfortable or upset with the theme, then we obviously shouldn't have it," KDE social chair Jehanna Axelrod said.
KDE vice president Nikol Oydanich said house members were convinced by critics that the party was racially offensive because it evoked the aesthetics of the plantation-era South. (Point of fact, the first Kentucky Derby wasn't held until 1875, 10 years after the Civil War ended).
Wonder if anyone will protest the Woodstock party, which would surely evoke the drug-fueled, sex-crazed era of the 1960s. Nah. It's college.
Bubba talks
Fans occasionally like to give two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson a hard time. On Saturday, one fan found out what it felt like to get shut down by a champ.
According to USA Today's Roy Lang, Watson, who was the first to tee off in the third round, had some fun with the spectators. After slicing his drive into the woods on No. 10, Watson asked a patron to give him some room.
"Can you back up? You're really not supposed to be back here," he said.
"Neither is your ball," the fan said.
"I don't know about you, but I have two green jackets," said Watson, before he pitched back into the fairway. "Thanks for coming."
Sports quiz
Before playing for then-Wisconsin Coach Bret Bielema for one season in 2011, Russell Wilson tried his hand at professional baseball, spending time with which organization?
Answer
The Colorado Rockies
Sports on 04/11/2016