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Obviously after winning a second national championship, there\u2019s been a lot of rhetoric thrown around about the legend of Stetson Bennett the Fourth, about how he\u2019s basically bigger than god in the state, he\u2019ll never have to pay for a meal or a drink in Georgia for the rest of his life, etc, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n And honestly, good on his part, because after living here for 20 years now, I never thought I\u2019d see the day when Georgia would actually reach the top of the mountain much less win two in a row, after the years on top of years I\u2019ve passively witnessed the Dawgs come close but choke, mostly to Alabama.\u00a0 As a Georgia resident, I am happy to see the hometown team reach the pinnacle of college football not just once, but twice in a row is pretty sweet.<\/span><\/p>\n I recently saw this ad come across my theFacebook feed, and was pretty surprised to see the God of Athens going so all-in as the poster boy for Raising Cane\u2019s chicken.\u00a0 To my understanding, Cane\u2019s has a pretty big, almost cult following in the markets they exist in, but down in Georgia, is Zaxby\u2019s country, their carbon copy franchise.\u00a0 No seriously, their menus are nearly identical, and I remember the first time I ever came across a Cane\u2019s, it was in Las Vegas, and their menu looked surreptitiously familiar, and my close friend I was with, when ordering her usual Zaxby\u2019s equivalent, I implored her to get the \u201cCane\u2019s Sauce\u201d and sure as shit, it was the same thing as Zaxby\u2019s Zax Sauce.<\/span><\/p>\n I have no qualms with Cane\u2019s, but as someone who discovered Zaxby\u2019s first, between my friends and I, I usually just refer to Cane\u2019s as \u201cZaxby\u2019s Red\u201d for obvious branding reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n The thing is, Zaxby\u2019s is not only based out of Georgia, their headquarters is in Athens, right near the University of Georgia.\u00a0 I actually interviewed with their corporate offices, but the flaky response to whether or not I\u2019d need to make periodic visits to the office in Athens, which is nearly 90 minutes away from me made me not pursue it, but the point is the fact that Zaxby\u2019s allowed Raising Cane\u2019s to somehow swoop beneath them and sign the kid in their very own backyard, and make Stetson Bennett their poster child is a pretty devastating blow.<\/span><\/p>\n Then again, Cane\u2019s apparently has that killer instinct about their company, because while I was interviewing with Zaxby\u2019s, it was brought to my attention that there\u2019s actually one solitary Raising Cane\u2019s location in Georgia; and it happens to be in Athens.\u00a0 Very cut-throat and guerilla of them to do such, but it was clearly enough for a guy like Stetson Bennett to probably have tried them at one point and have enough of a positive association to the brand to when they came knocking with some NIL money, he signed on.<\/span><\/p>\n Although I said I have no beef with Cane\u2019s, I\u2019m still a Zaxby\u2019s first person, because they\u2019re here and available.\u00a0 When I travel to places that have Cane\u2019s, I enjoy them all the same.\u00a0 But I have to give some respect to Cane\u2019s for landing such a critical hit to a chief competitor, because as I said, I don\u2019t think a lot of people are going to understand or realize just how much of a big deal it is that Cane\u2019s got a hold of Stetson Bennett and not Zaxby\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obviously after winning a second national championship, there\u2019s been a lot of rhetoric thrown around about the legend of Stetson Bennett the Fourth, about how he\u2019s basically bigger than god in the state, he\u2019ll never have to pay for a meal or a drink in Georgia for the rest of his life, etc, etc. And … Continue reading I don\u2019t think many people realize the ownage here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,79,56,106,203,60,52,58,190,49],"class_list":["post-49194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-branding","tag-cashmoney","tag-food","tag-football","tag-marketing","tag-ncaa","tag-owned","tag-sports","tag-white-people","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49196,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49194\/revisions\/49196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}