Dude Wipes finds perfect spokesman
New York Jets running back Isaiah Crowell has a new endorsement deal that may not sit well with his coach.
Crowell, who received a harsh rebuke from Coach Todd Bowles after a butt-wiping touchdown celebration resulted in an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, is promoting a product called Dude Wipes, which bills itself as a toilet-paper substitute for men.
On Tuesday, Crowell posted a photo on his Instagram account showing him holding two boxes of Dude Wipes near a toilet. “Thanks to @dudewipes I am now covered,” Crowell says in the post. “Never leave home without them.”
The company is promoting Crowell on Twitter.
Crowell became the butt of a controversy during a Week 3 Thursday night game in Cleveland, where he spent his first four seasons. After scoring his second touchdown, he pretended to wipe his rear end with the football before throwing it into the crowd.
After the game, which the Jets lost, Bowles wasn’t pleased with what Crowell did, telling reporters it was “inexcusable” and would never happen again.
Crowell said he felt bad that his celebration hurt the team, but he added, “I was just having fun. You gotta have fun. If you’re not having fun with what you do, you might as well stop doing it. That’s how I feel about it.”
“Well, I did not like it as a mother,” Debbie Crowell told ESPN last week. “I was literally shocked. Isaiah is such a mildmannered person; he usually doesn’t do much celebrating. I’ve never seen him go to that extreme. I was like, ‘Oh, my God.’ I had a crowd of people in the house. He told me it just happened in the heat of the moment. As a mother, I wish he hadn’t done it.”
The NFL fined Crowell $13,369 for the Week 3 incident. In 2005, Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Randy Moss was fined $10,000 for pretending to drop his pants and moon the crowd at Lambeau Field.
Presumably, his endorsement deal would help cover any fines he incurs.
Not caving in
Danica Patrick encountered some resistance from Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers when she wanted to set up a woman cave in the house they share in Green Bay, Wis.
The retired race-car driver proposed converting a bedroom into her own space. Patrick said she has her essential oils, salt rock lamp, yoga mat and meditation pillow in a windowless room in the house, and she wanted one with windows instead.
“He’s got a man cave with his pop shot and pingpong table and bar, and I need a woman cave,” Patrick told interviewer Hannah Storm on Monday at the annual espnW: Women + Sports Summit in California. “I got shut down.”
When she first moved in, Patrick suggested building a greenhouse to counter the cold winters in Green Bay.
She said Rodgers liked that idea, with a yoga studio built off the side of the greenhouse.