Ford Still Sponsoring Curling. Name These Superstars!

Robert Farago
by Robert Farago

While GM has been cutting back on its sports sponsorships left and right—to the point where Car and Driver’s April Fool’s story that Chevy’d pulled out of NASCAR was too credible to be funny—it’s good to know that The Blue Oval Boyz are still deeply enmeshed in the the world’s most exciting sport. Here’s a montage some of the “hotties” of curling (a blogger’s characterization, but who am I do disagree?). How many can you name? Special credit if you’re not from Canada.

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  • Redwood Redwood on Apr 10, 2009

    I'm American and found curling fun when I visited Vancouver earlier this decade. It's kind of like a Canadian Bowling. Fun for the whole family! Much like bowling, it's not something I'd watch on TV.

  • MMH MMH on Apr 10, 2009

    Curling...meh. dull Now hurling on the other hand...there's a by-god sport. It gets no better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmzivRetelE&annotation_id=annotation_177512&feature=iv

  • Landcrusher Landcrusher on Apr 10, 2009

    I gotta say, sponsoring curling is likely better bang for the buck than sponsoring golf. Curling enthusiasts are really charmed by support, golfers could give a ...

  • Russell Russell on Apr 10, 2009

    Is this worse than sponsoring a basketball or a football team? At least the winning team's city or country does not have riots after a win. I don't think these people drive bling-mobiles either. I don't mind if Ford curl with them, either. It's all funtacular.

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