Papa John sues Papa John's

[cabbageboy]

Yeah this has been all over the local news, with his various U of L ties. He was also forced out of the U of L Foundation, and given his nebulous role in the whole board of trustees insanity where Matt Bevin replaced the entire university board with his cronies. So now Schnatter is out, and he can follow Ramsey (who was out as president a while ago) along with Jurich, Pitino, etc. I think Schnatter wanted Pitino and Jurich out, then he himself was shown the door as well.

But yeah, by all means get rid of the Papa John's name for Cardinal Stadium. And take the KFC Yum Center name as well.

[Savage Gambino]

Jul 12, 2018 14:20:01 GMT -5 cabbageboy said:

Yeah this has been all over the local news, with his various U of L ties. He was also forced out of the U of L Foundation, and given his nebulous role in the whole board of trustees insanity where Matt Bevin replaced the entire university board with his cronies. So now Schnatter is out, and he can follow Ramsey (who was out as president a while ago) along with Jurich, Pitino, etc. I think Schnatter wanted Pitino and Jurich out, then he himself was shown the door as well.

But yeah, by all means get rid of the Papa John's name for Cardinal Stadium. And take the KFC Yum Center name as well.

Can we get rid of Little Caesars Arena while we're at it? Going from Joe Louis Arena to Detroit Events Center (LCA's working title) to that is just... ugh.

[bootytea]

Wow, I've read so many different articles and I don't understand the outrage if you consider the context of the statement. This reminds me of Netflix executive fired for mention it as one of the inappropriate words.

As someone who has worked with a white supremacist for half a year before that idiots stupidity got him fired, this isn't even close to racism..

Maybe more will come out, but even a fine or suspension would be a stretch to me.

[Glitch]

"This..has got to be..the worst pizza, EVER!"

[Gawk Rivers]

He's gonna make a great Twitch streamer

[Kevin Hamilton]

In the 80s, the worst we had to fear was the Noid.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Jul 12, 2018 14:29:57 GMT -5 bootytea said:

Wow, I've read so many different articles and I don't understand the outrage if you consider the context of the statement. This reminds me of Netflix executive fired for mention it as one of the inappropriate words.

As someone who has worked with a white supremacist for half a year before that idiots stupidity got him fired, this isn't even close to racism..

Maybe more will come out, but even a fine or suspension would be a stretch to me.

The context is "Why am I getting heat when a guy who's been dead for four decades didn't get heat for saying racist stuff?"

Dude tried to whatabout his way out of blaming black players being allowed to protest in the NFL for hurting his company's sales. It's terrible PR and being forced to step down was pretty much inevitable.

[Kevin Hamilton]

Dude would have been way better served to just have 'Papa John' be a fictional character and him just be a CEO you don't hear of. It's a lot easier to b a jackass when you haven't made yourself a "name".

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Jul 12, 2018 18:34:50 GMT -5 Kevin Hamilton said:

Dude would have been way better served to just have 'Papa John' be a fictional character and him just be a CEO you don't hear of. It's a lot easier to b a jackass when you haven't made yourself a "name".

He’d be best served to stop being a racist pile of crap.

[Kevin Hamilton]

For sure, but if you're gonna be a racist pile of crap, it's probably better for your bottom line to keep that shit on the DL.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Jul 12, 2018 18:46:58 GMT -5 Kevin Hamilton said:

For sure, but if you're gonna be a racist pile of crap, it's probably better for your bottom line to keep that shit on the DL.

That’s a fair point.

[Toxik916]

Papa John's pizza is hot garbage and so is Papa John himself. Dude needs to go the f*** away

[MrElijah]

So he's shit, the prices are shit and the pizza f***ing sucks.

If that ain't trifecta of total failure and dumbing yourself outta position..

[The Captain]

Jul 12, 2018 18:20:47 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Jul 12, 2018 14:29:57 GMT -5 bootytea said:

Wow, I've read so many different articles and I don't understand the outrage if you consider the context of the statement. This reminds me of Netflix executive fired for mention it as one of the inappropriate words.

As someone who has worked with a white supremacist for half a year before that idiots stupidity got him fired, this isn't even close to racism..

Maybe more will come out, but even a fine or suspension would be a stretch to me.

The context is "Why am I getting heat when a guy who's been dead for four decades didn't get heat for saying racist stuff?"

Dude tried to whatabout his way out of blaming black players being allowed to protest in the NFL for hurting his company's sales. It's terrible PR and being forced to step down was pretty much inevitable.

Pretty much. You also don't have to be a card-carrying white supremacist to be a racist. He blamed NFL anthem protests (which are overwhelmingly done by black players to protest against police brutality and a lack of racial justice) for his lagging pizza sales, which is ridiculous and it displays a certain level of racist thought to even think that's a reasonable conclusion. He complained about Colonel Sanders being able to say the N-word without backlash (which again, he never did, at least not as far as we know) as opposed to going "Hey, let's make it known we don't endorse white nationalism," then reminisced about growing up in southern Indiana at a time when black people would literally be dragged to death by pickup trucks.

What I'm getting at is him saying the actual n-word is more the racist cherry on top of an already racist sundae. He could've never said that specific word and it still would've been pretty damn racist.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Jul 12, 2018 13:45:22 GMT -5 Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 said:

I was just on the company's website, and they still have his smug mug adorning the company logo....one would think they'd get an IT guy to quickly modify it and remove any connection to him, but nope.

This is better

[brown bricks]

Someone may have already brought this up, but are they changing the name? It almost seems like they have to due to it being tied to a racist prick. It would be like if Subway was called Jared's Subway or something similar.

[Paul]

Jul 12, 2018 21:06:24 GMT -5 brown bricks said:

Someone may have already brought this up, but are they changing the name? It almost seems like they have to due to it being tied to a racist prick. It would be like if Subway was called Jared's Subway or something similar.

The problem with changing the name of the place is that they have all the time and money invested in the existing name... and they'd have to run ads saying that "Papa John's is now SuperGreatPizzaCo!" or whatever, so people would know they're the same company anyway...

[brown bricks]

Jul 12, 2018 21:12:02 GMT -5 Paul said:

Jul 12, 2018 21:06:24 GMT -5 brown bricks said:

Someone may have already brought this up, but are they changing the name? It almost seems like they have to due to it being tied to a racist prick. It would be like if Subway was called Jared's Subway or something similar.

The problem with changing the name of the place is that they have all the time and money invested in the existing name... and they'd have to run ads saying that "Papa John's is now SuperGreatPizzaCo!" or whatever, so people would know they're the same company anyway...

Yeah, that's true. What a mess they're in.

[DoubleDare]

I think they should change the name, how could they not?
Also you know why I love Pizza Hut? Cause I DONT KNOW THE OWNER or CEO, and they don't seem to make any stupid comments.

[Rave]

Wow. Well ain't he a special kind of stupid.