In Dallas, Food franchise Raising Cane’s chicken is willing to give Dwight Howard chicken for life if he signs with the Mavs.
The company known for its “One Love” is willing to do its part in trying to wooing the big man to Dallas, and while this is a local PR move this could also show the star that Dallas is ripe for endorsements from a star as Dirk does not really thrive in that role.
SportsDay DFW did some amusing number crunching on this Cane’s campaign and how much a lifetime supply chicken is actually worth.
Howard is 27. The average American male life expectancy is 76. That would be 49 years – 2,548 weeks – of free grub for Howard.
Figure the least he would order in one sitting would be the Caniac 6-finger combo, which is $10.80 including tax. Surely, though, an athlete of Howard’s size would have no problem downing the 25-piece Tailgate box, which goes for $29.75 including tax.
If Howard ate one Caniac a week for 49 years, it would cost Cane’s a reasonable $27,518.40. One Tailgate order per week would extrapolate to $75,803.
But if Howard really took advantage and hit the drive-through every day, he’d amass $192,628 worth of Caniacs, $530,621 worth of Tailgates.
If the latter occurred, Cane’s would be lending the Mavericks far more than a hand in landing Howard – 445,900 chicken fingers, actually.
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