Deshaun Watson Off the Field Thread v3: 11 games, $5M

[Jscc]

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First off, clearly, "From Rax to Rich's" is an all-time great example of wordplay. Put it in the hall of fame right now. But more importantly, can we get a new donation goal to help RCF become a Rax franchisee?

Licensing

www.raxroastbeef.com

I am so in if we can borrow inspiration from Hooters and have gorgeous women walking around wearing tight white tees with Rax printed on the chest.

 

[Benway]

I am so in if we can borrow inspiration from Hooters and have gorgeous women walking around wearing tight white tees with Rax printed on the chest.

Rax definitely missed the boat there.
I mean, C'mon, man! It was staring you right in the face!

Or maybe it was, and they couldn't think straight.

 

[The Oi]

Agree 100% with @Sebastian that their ad campaign could work with millennials and zoomers today if they hadn’t fallen apart. Meta-humor and dad jokes are where it’s at and Mr D could be swung into a meta- dad joke. Bringing him BACK would be the ultimate meta joke.

For any who don’t know what meta-humor is, think Tim and Eric. Andy Kauffman was the meta pioneer and then there was somewhat of a gap that was then filled by Adult Swim shows and Conan O’Brien.

Various levels of either being funny by not being funny or being so over the top bizarre that it overwhelms the senses.

Could be off to either side of Monty Python.

I’m pretty confident that bringing back Mr D as a supposedly “reimagined” concept with some very minor tweaks and not acknowledging that Rax itself had completely bombed BECAUSE of him would work. Throw him on some commercials and have him talk about how successful he had been as a marketing campaign and that he’s happy to be back etc.

Edit: I actually just emailed Rax about this and they fired me.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

I’m pretty confident that bringing back Mr D as a reimagined concept with some very minor tweaks and not acknowledging that Rax itself had completely bombed BECAUSE of him would work.

I think you would absolutely embrace the fact that he killed Rax. It's what would put bringing him back over the top.

You pitch him as the worst salesman ever.

 

[The Oi]

I think you would absolutely embrace the fact that he killed Rax. It's what would put bringing him back over the top.

So you go in the direction of that Rax is so poorly run that he’s back on the commercials. It’s a takeover.

Wendy’s does this with “Wendall” and Zoomers love it.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

So you go in the direction of that Rax is so poorly run that he’s back on the commercials. It’s a takeover.

Wendy’s does this with “Wendall” and Zoomers love it.

Back from exile in Guatemala....

 

[TheISHT]

Hurry, someone, contact their PR department with this great idea we all had on a Cavs Message board and report back when Mr. D will be back. Shit, someone should just edit an Arby's commercial, block their shit out, add in Mr. D to advertise for RAX, and upload it to youtube.

 

[CuriousMinds]

Rax’s?????

Invest into the blockchain

For example, you can buy an Olive Garden on the blockchain located in lovely Banger Maine for only 20 ether.

 

[The Oi]

Hurry, someone, contact their PR department with this great idea we all had on a Cavs Message board and report back when Mr. D will be back. Shit, someone should just edit an Arby's commercial, block their shit out, add in Mr. D to advertise for RAX, and upload it to youtube.

They don’t have a PR department…

 

[CBBI]

 

[Jack Brickman]

I don’t buy for a second that other NFL owners, most of whom are absolute scumbags, give a fuck about this. Half of them were lining up to try to give Watson the same contract and the other half would have been too if they didn’t already have a QB.

 

[Kbiz]

Wait just one second....

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First off, clearly, "From Rax to Rich's" is an all-time great example of wordplay. Put it in the hall of fame right now. But more importantly, can we get a new donation goal to help RCF become a Rax franchisee?

Licensing

www.raxroastbeef.com

RealRaxFans.

Can we also throw in a Friendly's franchise for old time sake?

 

[southernflyer]

RealRaxFans.

Can we also throw in a Friendly's franchise for old time sake?

The Orlando RCF remote office is near Friendly's on I Drive, down the street from Hulk Hogan's beach shop and the Fairvilla Mega store, for all your night time needs.

 

[Bob_The_Cat]

From the start they were run by idiots.

The franchise was Jax (as in Jack's) Roast Beef. Which is a perfectly germane name.

But instead the went with a name that sounds like a tertiary Star Wars character and proceeded to make every mistake in the book in terms of marketing and brand building.

They thought, at times anyway in-between creating various ____ bars, that their core demographic was humorless middle-aged adults without kids. Why they thought those people would frequent a fast food place is both heartbreaking and sociopathic.

However, despite that they once had a large number of locations.

Wikipedia says:

At its peak in the 1980s, the Rax chain had grown to 504 locations in 38 states along with an unknown number of restaurants in Guatemala.

I have to say that the above sentence is perhaps the greatest known in the English language. Few sentences in history have conveyed such mystery, beggar disbelief and simply make zero sense all in 25 words or less.

• How the fuck did they get to 504 locations in 38 states? How?
• How or why Guatemala?
• Unknown? Was there a rash of rogue Rax stores in Guatemala?
• Is it possible, that in some deep recess of the darkest corner of Guatemala that Rax still lives?

If you were born in the early-to-mid 80's, Rax was like fucking fantasy land. I remember going to the Rax in Mansfield with the buffet on a weekly basis.

Always loved how those restaurants had "Smoking Sections," which was just several tables that had ash trays and the whole place was still filled with smoke.

 

[CBBI]

I don’t buy for a second that other NFL owners, most of whom are absolute scumbags, give a fuck about this. Half of them were lining up to try to give Watson the same contract and the other half would have been too if they didn’t already have a QB.

I don't think the owners actually care very much. The league probably cares a little bit because of the optics of a guy who has been credibly found to have committed the NFL's definition of sexual assault more or less facing very little financial penalty, but that's basically it.