NuVo Condoms mailed Donovan McNabb an 18-pack on Tuesday, even though the company is well aware that wasn't exactly the kind of protection the Vikings QB needed against the Bears.
"Poor McNabb is getting too old to be roughed up this badly and it must start to hurt," reads a media release from the New York-based company, which gives celebrities condoms as promotional stunts. McNabb was one of the "NuVo Protection Plan" winners from Week 6 of the NFL season.
"Tough game Sunday night," Ben Isaacs, a NuVo veep, told me on the phone Tuesday. "They never really showed up to play. I guess you could say Donovan McNabb is the scapegoat, as he was benched in favor of Christian Ponder. Really, our main goal as a company is to focus on all the positive aspects of condom usage and try to do this in a fun way, which is how we came up with the 'NuVo Protection Program.'"
"In this country teenage pregnancies and STDs are on the rise," Isaacs said. "So we do these fun types of things just to get our name out there.
"I'm sure you've heard Ashton Kutcher allegedly had a fling with a young woman. ... We sent Ashton Kutcher a year's worth of condoms." BAM! The young woman who claims to have had the one-night stand with Kutcher said the "Two and a Half Men" star used no protection.
"Thank God we weren't in business" when stories of Tiger Woods marriage-busting infidelities broke, Isaacs said. "We wouldn't have enough left in inventory." NuVo launched as a company just a few months ago.
Since I've heard nothing to suggest that McNabb is anything other than a faithful husband, he probably doesn't need condoms as much as some of his married pro colleagues. While Ponder seems much smarter than the average pro athlete, the HOT, all-out sexy single guy could probably use a shipment? "That is correct," Isaacs said.
NuVo's probably already packaging product for shipment to Ponder, since the hapless Vikings take on the Super Bowl champion Packers on Sunday. Run, Christian, run. I want to be right about predicting six Vikings wins this season (a number I hated selecting because coach Leslie Frazier is a lovely guy). But even that's looking optimistic.