Because When You Think Of NASCAR, You Think Of Spongy Shoes

Crocs teams up with NASCAR (AP)

Crocs Inc., which makes plastic slip-on shoes, said Tuesday it has teamed up with NASCAR racing teams to use marks, driver names, signatures and numbers on its footwear.



Crocs said it signed licensing agreements or letters of intent with Dale Earnhardt Inc., Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing and Richard Childress Racing. The list of drivers featured on the shoes includes Dale Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, among others.

This makes about as much sense as some of the 97 other sponsors of NASCAR. (That number does not count the sponsors on the individual race cars, by the way.)

Here are some of the other sponsors that make me scratch my head, and it's not always the sponsor that's odd, it's their title that is amusing:

• Callaway Golf (Official Golf Ball): Because NASCAR fans are such avid golfers.
• Combos (Masterfoods) (Official Cheese-Filled): Official Cheese-Filled?
• Diageo (Official Wine): Seems odd, but With Leather already covered this for us.
• Gillette (Official Shaving Product): How many NASCAR fans really shave? I mean other than the women?
  
  


• Oral B (Official Oral Care Product): Write your own joke here: ___________________________.
• Old Spice (Official Antiperspirant & Deodorant): And here: ___________________________.
• Top-Flite (Official Golf Clubs): NASCAR fans must REAALLY like golf.
• Jackson Hewitt (Tax Service Company of NASCAR): Do that many NASCAR fans really need a tax service?