By Tiffany Craig Investigative Reporter
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Published: Mon, June 23, 2008 - 5:40 pm
Tiffany Craig
The Air Force has made no decision about what to do since the Government Accountability Office sided with Boeing on Wednesday.
Their recommendation is a re-bid on the 40 billion dollar military contract.
Northrop Grumman and EADS are flying under the radar these days... giving a local chicken-finger restaurant the chance to steal the spotlight.
They have a deal for Boeing that some say is finger-licking good!
The Mobile-based Foosackly's chain has a new sign up that says "We would like to offer Boeing a finger."
The brainchild of the billboard is Foosackly's owner Will Fusaiotti. He says he was clearing the marquis sign and was thinking of what to put up. "I was like we're gonna go with "71 days til football season" to start ramping up football season letting people know. As we were doing it, I said ahh let's wait on that. Let's do something about this whole Boeing thing they announced."
Usually Foosackly's creative advertising comes from the Red Square Agency. Rich Sullivan admits that his team had no hand in this one. "Sometimes the client will come to the table with some pretty great stuff and this is one of those cases. He managed to do something tongue in cheek that obviously people get a huge kick out of when you've got the guts to say what everybody else is thinking."
Depending on the feedback, the billboard will stay up through the end of the week.
If you're interested in a mini version of the message, bumper stickers will be available at the restaurant soon.
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Last time I checked boeing, Alabama was a part of the USA. Getting our parts from France isn’t any different from boeing getting their parts from China. I thought you libs hated China? Guess not when it comes to your almighty boeing.