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Some Wheaties boxes with athletes or teams on the packaging, from the late 1990s. In 1934, the breakfast cereal Wheaties began the practice of including pictures of athletes on its packaging to coincide with its slogan, "The Breakfast of Champions." In its original form, athletes were depicted on the sides or back of the cereal box, though in ...
Wheaties maintained brand recognition through its definitive association with sports, and its distinctive orange boxes. It became so popular that in the 1939 All-star game, 46 of the 51 players endorsed the cereal. In the months following, Wheaties became one of the sponsors of the first televised sports broadcast to allow commercials.
Mary Lou Retton (born January 24, 1968) is an American retired gymnast.At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a gold medal in the individual all-around competition, as well as two silver medals and two bronze medals.
Tennis champion Coco Gauff joins a long lineage of athletes to be featured on the coveted orange Wheaties box. Coco Gauff is the latest athlete to endorse the “Breakfast of Champions.”
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The past year hasn't been kind to the "Breakfast of Champions" with sales down 14%, but makers of the iconic orange box aren't blaming the economy for the drop in sales; instead they blame a lack ...
He was the first high school athlete to have his picture on a box of Wheaties. For college, Spielman initially wanted to attend the University of Michigan , but his father, a lifelong fan of the Ohio State Buckeyes (Michigan's arch-rival ), strongly opposed the idea.
In 2015, Wheaties made Varipapa the centerpiece of a series of commercials. [39] Identified only as "Grandpa," Varipapa's shots from Bowling Tricks were overlaid with a narrator's voice criticizing millennial behavior. In one, the narrator states, "Grandpa wasn’t allergic to cats, or dust, or pollen. He was allergic to whiners. And losing ...