{"id":5148,"date":"2014-07-30T01:02:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T06:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2014-07-30T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T16:58:36","slug":"isu-athletics-signs-contract-with-pepsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/isu-athletics-signs-contract-with-pepsi\/","title":{"rendered":"ISU athletics signs contract with Pepsi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamie Pollard @IASTATEAD<\/a><\/em>
\nTransition to Pepsi is completed! @Gatorade is now our official sports drink! Also, @mtn_dew in concession stands. <\/em>
\n12:23 PM – 29 Jul 2014<\/em><\/p>\n

SQUEE!<\/p>\n

Now, that’s a qualified squee. Drinks at sporting events are notoriously overpriced. I rarely buy them. But since Coca-Cola has such a chokehold on the industry, this is really welcome news for someone who always has to settle for Sprite. (And not good news as far as my dentist is concerned, but I digress.)<\/p>\n

To have the option<\/em> of buying Mountain Dew or Pepsi when I go to an ISU game is progress. When the ISU campus was Pepsi (until 2012), Jack Trice Stadium and Hilton Coliseum were still Coke-only. I suspect that the concession stand change is merely a side bonus to the primary goal of getting Gatorade for the athletes. A potential hiccup? Bill Fennelly loves his Diet Coke.<\/a>\u00a0He may have to pour it into a nondescript cup.<\/p>\n

UNI is also a Pepsi campus, including the UNI-Dome and McLeod Center.<\/p>\n

UPDATE, noon 7\/30: The story on cyclones.com<\/a> says it’s the athletics department that signed the contract. It doesn’t say anything about the campus. The campus switched from Pepsi to Coke in 2012.<\/a> There may still be different contracts involved. In that case, qualify the above squee even more. The headline on this blog post has been modified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamie Pollard @IASTATEAD Transition to Pepsi is completed! @Gatorade is now our official sports drink! Also, @mtn_dew in concession stands. 12:23 PM – 29 Jul 2014 SQUEE! Now, that’s a qualified squee. Drinks at sporting events are notoriously overpriced. I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5156,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions\/5156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}