To coincide with its season-long NFL campaign, Visa
honored the "ultimate" fan from all 31 NFL teams yesterday
by unveiling the "Visa Hall of Fans" exhibit at the Pro
Football Hall of Fan in Canton, OH (Visa). Among the fans
inducted was John "Big Dawg" Thompson as the Browns'
"superfan" (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 1/20).
VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE: Boomer Esiason, Jim Kelly, Bernie
Kosar and Warren Moon will team up with N.Y. ad execs to
determine the best football ad of '98 at the NFL QB Club's
"Gridiron Greats of Madison Avenue" tomorrow at the Official
All Star Cafe (NFL). Jets coach Bill Parcells is among 10
finalists for the award for his Tostitos ad. Other nominees
include the DirecTV spot featuring QBs in shopping carts,
the John Elway/Terrell Davis Campbell's Soup ad and Drew
Bledsoe for Pringles (N.Y. POST, 1/20).
YOU WANNA BE A COWBOY? Fox is running its "Own The
Dallas Cowboys For A Day" promo next week through Super Bowl
Sunday. The winner will be flown to Dallas next season to
be presented with the title of owner by Jerry Jones, have a
pregame tour of Texas Stadium and talk to Fox NFL analyst
John Madden. Fans enter the promo via FoxSports.com (Fox).
