Inspired by actual products, such as Ryan Miller's new Kick-Save Krunch cereal, we thought we'd cook up some goodies that would have made perfect sense in their day. Talk about missed opportunities for savvy marketers...
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Finger food at its finest.
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The butter stops here! Great for breakfast, and they make handy pads when you're pressed into service between the pipes.
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If anyone deserved to be on a box of oats, it was this consummate playmaker...
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The sweet-skating defensemen was a tasty combination of offense and defense, no?
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Well, his nickname is Soupy, after all. Still time for the soupmaker to sign him up...
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Yeah, he had a real cereal, but the netminder's name is a sweet match for a famous brand of candy...
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Serving suggestion: with a HUGE glass of milk.
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Baseball great Joe DiMaggio used to pitch Mr. Coffee coffeemakers. You'd think some savvy bean counter would have latched onto the Hall of Fame defenseman back in the day...
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The journeyman defenseman hailed from Pittsburgh, the home of Iron City suds...
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Well, they do call Boston "Beantown" after all...so why not?
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The winger actually wore 57 as a play off the brand (which had no "e"), so he clearly deserved to be on a bottle of this stuff.
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Famous for his poppin'-off freshness, the brash former GM/coach and now broadcaster always gets a rise ...