[pic] Michael Vick on the Happy Meal Box?

Update:

McDonald’s Grimaces Over Vick Snafu

This is all Mike Vick needs right now. First you lose a 100 million dollars and now McDonalds forgets you are in jail.

via TMZ

A TMZ employee went into a McD’s in Hollywood yesterday and ordered a Happy Meal (don’t ask). The box she received (pictured above) advertises six different electronic sports games, each of them named after a famous athlete. But Michael Vick is the only one of those athletes who is currently in federal prison.

The advertising was part of a cross-promotion with ESPN from 2004 — back when Vick was just an overrated football player, instead of a dog murderer. Considering the Happy Meal is specifically targeted to young kids, you’d think Mickey D’s would be more diligent about removing the name of a convicted dogfighter off the packaging.

We’ve contacted McDonald’s for comment and they say they’re getting back to us. This should be good.

~ by streetknowledge on October 10, 2008.