Maryam...... Racing Expert Told Me ButtleOpener/NASCAR Issue Reported By Gannett Was "Most Likely" a Publicity Stunt to Sell the Raunchy Product.... It Worked.... Luckily a Guest Opinion Writer (Citizen Journalist) Wrote Something With MEAT; Unlike Typical Tennessean Reporting

 
Racing Insider told me ButtleOpener Attempt NOTHING More than a Publicity Stunt....




Official NASCAR Sponsors take Pride in their Image as Family Friendly..... 

Mark Gregory had to have known it prior to applying.  He "most likely" wanted a denial to BOOST sales.  It worked!!!  He got FREE publicity from the Tennessean.

FYI- The ONLINE the Tennessean published a GREAT Commentary... Too bad they did NOT make Sherri Gregg's Opinion Front Page of the Williamson AM....  This lady writes the way I wish Maria Giordana did....  The article Sherri wrote has "substance"  People would pay for "substance"

 
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120513/WILLIAMSON07/305130015/Silence-speaks-volumes-about-ButtleOpener-s-effect


".....Gregory, a school board member since 2004, is selling a life-size replica of a woman’s buttocks clothed in a pair of panties. It is used to open beer bottles. The product hit the market in the fall and Gregory has traveled to NASCAR events, football games and college campuses to market what he calls the ButtleOpener.  But when he went after a NASCAR sponsorship, Gregory said the logo got a red flag.  “Our logo, they didn’t like it. It’s got two little swoops that look like butt cheeks,” Gregory said. “They objected to that.”
Gregory said he has heard little from the community he serves as a school board member since Thursday, when his product was featured in a weekly newspaper distributed in Williamson County......."    The Tennessean