One of the great sports conspiracy theories focuses on Michael Jordan’s “flu game” from the 1997 NBA Finals. Jordan fans love to point at Jordan’s legendary, 38-point performance despite MJ battling an illness. His detractors either doubt the illness completely or call it a hangover.
We all knew that Game 5 performance was going to be addressed in The Last Dance, and on Sunday, it was that time.
Jordan detailed a story about ordering a delivery pizza in Utah and later coming down with food poisoning. While pizza isn’t a food that’s commonly associated with food poisoning, that was the story he was going with: DELIVERY pizza.
So, let’s see what frozen-pizza makers DiGiorno thought of that story …
Bravo, DiGiorno. Bravo.
It’s not every night that a #Brand Twitter account comes through with the perfect tweet for the moment, but DiGiorno managed to both make a legitimately funny joke and promote its frozen pizzas at the same time.
Jordan should have just had DiGiorno — the “flu game” never would’ve happened.
