Pizza Hut grants Michael Phelps free pizza for a year

August 20th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

Pizza Hut, part of Yum Brands Inc., is giving Phelps and his teammates on the men’s and women’s U.S. swim team free pizza and pasta for a year. The company didn’t say if it would do any advertisements with the team but said it would be willing to join in public appearances.

Man, Pizza Hut is smart. See, what they’re doing here is not paying Phelps a cent, but using his uber-fame at the moment to get their name out a bit. And hey, he apparently likes to eat a lot, so of course he wants some of their delicious pizza. (Aside: how good are the P’Zones from Pizza Hut? Seriously: it’s like heaven in your mouth.)

What I’m hoping here is that there is an intern compiling blog mentions of this story so that the marketing whizzes at the company see how smart they are and how much chatter it drummed up today. Intern, are you there? If so, is there some sort of way myself and E can get free P’Zones for a year? We may not have eight gold medals between us, but we pretty much have eight different blogs between us — which is like, way more important.