Green Bay Packers Breakfast Blitz

One of the gifts I got in our crazy exchange at Kelly & Jeff’s was a 3-pack of Green Bay Packers Breakfast Blitz cereal. These are basically just knock offs of Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios and Frosted Flakes and taste pretty much the same as the name brand cereals. I found this article about Breakfast Blitz in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Breakfast cereal celebrates Packers’ 90th anniversary
By Doris Hajewski of the Journal Sentinel
Posted: Sept. 10, 2009

The Green Bay Packers are commemorating their 90th anniversary with a breakfast cereal called Breakfast Blitz. The cereal is sold exclusively at Pick ‘n Save and Copps stores operated by Roundy’s Supermarkets Inc. in Wisconsin under a license agreement with the team.

The Packers are the fourth NFL team to have their own cereal, according to Craig Benzel, director of marketing for the team. They join the Philadelphia Eagles, Miami Dolphins and Arizona Cardinals on the breakfast table.

The cereal licenses represent a departure from standard NFL licensing rules, which required a manufacturer to pay for an NFL license and make products for every team in the league, Benzel said. The NFL makes exceptions for certain products to be licensed for individual teams if they are sold in local markets, he said.

2 thoughts on “Green Bay Packers Breakfast Blitz

  1. Apparently, Packers fans are not big cereal eaters because every grocery store in town has these clearanced out at like 95 cents a box and there’s still a ton of boxes.

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