They Said marijuana would ruin your life and you wouldn’t amount to anything. The television campaigns share with us an image of lazy teen agers with zombie eyes, affixed to sofa’s playing video games or making major mistakes like leaving a friend behind at the party.

Kellogg’s Cereal of the Champions, not the Potheads!

Olympic medal winner Michael Phelps, proved them wrong… the young swimmer DID amount to something, in fact, the young swimmer brought home several Olympic medals, and proved his momma proud, just before losing one of his biggest sponsors this week when a contract with Kellogg’s Co was ended publicly a week before it would have expired naturally.

It seems Kellogg’s was looking for the athletic marketing angle. They weren’t it seems targeting the munchies crowd.

Michael was dropped due to the headlines made by the disclosure of a recent photograph showing the swimmer hitting a bong at a party this fall. Spokesperson’s from the Kellogg’s company reportedly said that the ‘bong incident’ was not consistent with their public image.

According to reports, to date, Phelps has accumulated more than 5 million bucks in endorsement deals from big companies such as Kellogg, Speedo, Omega (a watch company) Visa, Subway, and Hilton Hotels.

Speculation has arisen in the poker industry, some say Phelps might even utilize industry ties, and become the next Doyle’s Room poker star.

Popular gambling news tabloid Gambling 911 said wrote a fun expose on the subject titled: “Michael Phelps Might Need to Become a Poker Pro… Fast!”

“I think it would be cool to play in the World Series of Poker,” Phelps once said in respect to joining the poker world. “My game is a little off right now, so I’ll have to start improving it a little bit. But I think that would be cool, and it would be cool to meet some of those poker guys.”

The Poker Rooms Pretty Forgiving, some Swim Moms, Not so much…

“I am absolutely appalled. Honestly, absolutely appalled, sickened and saddened,” said Sherrie Peif, a Windsor, Colo., mother whose 12-year-old son, Braydon, is a swimmer. As a swim mom myself, I brought this up today, some swim parents, such as my own husband were appalled like Peif, others were a bit more forgiving.

Phelp’s Coach opted to stand behind him…

“Nobody’s perfect,” Bowman said in a recent story that ran in the Baltimore Sun, “It’s not acceptable, and this is not to excuse it. He definitely, from this point forward, has to decide what he wants to do. But for Michael to go through our trials, our training camp, and then the Olympics, which is unbelievably stressful, without any downtime, that’s hard. Still, it’s not an excuse.”

Negranue on Phelps

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