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Fantasy football blog site Fantasy Football Sideline used 84444.com to conduct its vote for Football’s Hottest Wives.  Over 26,000 votes were cast for Football’s Hottest Wives in the annual competition sponsored by Fantasy Football Sideline and Fantasy Baseball Dugout.  Matt Schaub’s wife Laurie repeated as the champion by overtaking an early lead by Julie Dorenbos, wife of Eagles Pro Bowl long-snapper Jon Dorenbos.

Wayne, Pennsylvania – For the second consecutive year, Laurie Schaub, wife of Houston Texans’ quarterback Matt Schaub, has been named as “Football’s Hottest Wife” by the readers of fantasy sports websites Fantasy Football Sideline and Fantasy Baseball Dugout.

Buoyed by promotion from Philadelphia rock station WMMR and her appearance on the Spadora on Sports radio show, the beautiful Julie Dorenbos, wife of Eagles long-snapper Jon Dorenbos, was the very deserving and early leader in the competition.  But, as the competition moved into the second half of the season, Schaub began making her move and ultimately became the repeat winner in the second year competition.

Third place was awarded to supermodel Gisele Bundchen, wife of Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady.  Gisele was clearly the most famous of the finalists, but football fans tended to lean toward the less well-known candidates Schaub and Dorenbos.

Laurie Flynn Schaub is an ex-cheerleader from Auburn University.  She parlayed that experience with the Tigers to become a cheerleader for the Atlanta Falcons.  While in Atlanta, she met Matt who was then the back-up QB and holder for the placekicker.  The couple married in February 2008.

Football’s Hottest Wives, patterned after the highly successful Baseball’s Hottest Wives that is now entering its fifth year, began early in 2011 when several nominees were named by the fantasy football website.  Based on visits by readers, the final 17 finalists were selected by the publishers of the website.  Voting began early in the NFL season and continued through Super Bowl Sunday.  Fans were permitted to vote once per hour.  Voting was provided through the website and through text message voting provided by mobile marketing site 84444.com.

Here are the final statistics for Football’s Hottest Wives 2011-12.

1. Laurie Schaub (Matt) – 24.8%
2. Julie Dorenbos (Jon) – 20.4%
3. Gisele Bundchen (Tom Brady) – 7.8%
4. Kristin Cavallari (Jay Cutler) – 4.6%
5. Sasha Dindayal (Antonio Gates) – 4.5%
6. Alicia Jammer (Quentin) – 4.1%
7. Candice Crawford (Tony Romo) – 3.6%
8. Evelyn Lozada (Chad Ochocinco) – 3.5%
9. Heather Mitts (A.J. Feeley) – 3.5%
10. Katina Taylor (Jason) – 3.3%
11. Amanda Brown (Peyton Hillis) – 3.3%
12. Carrie Prejean (Kyle Boller) – 3.2%
13. Christy Oglevee (Chris Cooley) – 2.9%
14. Brittany Koehl (Stephen McGee) – 2.6%
15. Sanya Richards (Aaron Moss) – 2.5%
16. Kim Zolciak (Kroy Bierman) – 2.1%
17. Betina Driver (Donald) – 2.0%
18. Others – 1.4%

We comb the write-in vote in the hopes of finding a hot wife that we may have missed in the competition.  The leading write-in candidate was Susie Celek, boxer and wife of Eagles’ tight end Brent Celek and also the business partner and good friend of Julie Dorenbos.  Susie is also a regular on WMMR radio in Philadelphia.  Nicole Jennings, wife of Packers’ wide receiver Greg Jennings, was also listed on numerous write-in ballots.

Kendra Wilkinson, wife of Hank Baskett was also named on several ballots, but Kendra was not eligible this year due to Baskett not being on a regular NFL roster.  Lingerie Football League stars Amber Seyer and Jenny Kaus also received votes, but that’s for another contest that the company will sponsor soon – Hottest Stars of the LFL.

Super Bowl Sunday requires some serious flour power at pizza restaurants across America.

The National Restaurant Association said that 55% of Super Bowl viewers order food from restaurants and 65% of them pick pizza.  For most pizza restaurants, that means that Super Bowl Sunday will mean twice as many pizzas as their next biggest day of the year.

Last year, Pizza Hut and Domino’s sold 2 million and 1.2 million pizzas respectively on the day of the biggest game of the year. Papa John’s sold more than 1 million pizzas on Super Bowl Sunday topping its 940,000 that it sold on Super Bowl Sunday in 2010.

Papa John’s Gives Away Free Pizza on Coin Flip

This year, however, Papa John’s has cooked up a new promotion in an attempt to top 2011’s sales.  If you go to the Papa John’s website, you can choose the outcome of the coin toss if you are a member of Papa John’s Rewards.  If the majority of Americans choose the outcome of the coin toss prior to the start of the Super Bowl, Papa John’s will give away one large one-topping pizza plus a two-liter Pepsi MAX to its Papa John’s Rewards members.

If you like to gamble based on historical outcomes, this is not the best place to do so.  In the first 45 Super Bowls, heads holds a slim 23-22 lead so it must be the year for tails, right?  Interestingly, the NFC team has won the coin toss for 14 consecutive years.

A coin flip that matches the choice of the fans is going to mean that Papa John’s employees are going to be flipping a lot more free pizzas in February.  And, Papa John’s hopes that its Rewards members will be flipping out if they win.

Despite the potential cost of the free food, Papa John’s online promotion and television commercials starring Peyton Manning and Jerome “The Bus” Bettis are helping it build its database of email addresses and mobile phone numbers.  A mushrooming database for email and mobile marketing is the result of savvy efforts such as this.

Private Stores Playbook for Pizza Sales

But, it isn’t just the large pizza chains who are trying to earn a larger slice of the super-size Super Bowl pie.  Local pizza restaurants like Main Line Pizza in Wayne, Pennsylvania, are also getting into the act.  Last year, single location store Main Line Pizza offered a Super Bowl party platter via its text message marketing and received an 11% return rate.

“That blew me away,” said Robert Saionz, owner of Main Line Pizza.

“It has been very effective,” said Jennifer Saionz who handles the marketing for Main Line Pizza and creates the text message promotions.

Jennifer said that the 84444.com text message marketing company that it uses has packages as low as $45 per month for up to 1000 text messages, thus making mobile marketing the most inexpensive advertising that it does.

Main Line Pizza builds its database through store-front signage, stickers on its pizza boxes, and by offering an immediate 10% discount for any new customer that opts-in to its database and shows the text message.

Taking Action on Super Bowl Pizza Sales

Super Sunday is the biggest day of the year for many things: hours spent watching television; dollars wagered; pizza sales.  While it’s probably too late for your restaurant to purchase a $3 million spot in the Super Bowl, there’s still time to set up a text message marketing promotion to have a spectacular Super Sunday in pizza pie sales.

 

Looking for the best text message marketing company?  Look no further than us here at 84444.com.

There are a lot of options in the text message marketing world, but if you want a company that has 22 years experience in business, and not 2 years experience, then 84444.com might be your best choice.  If you want a group that has all ex-media salespersons to help maximize the effectiveness of your promotions, then 84444.com might be your best choice.  If you think that you might like to expand your product to Canada, then 84444.com offers you easy expansion through our Canada text message marketing site.

For the second consecutive year, 84444.com has been chosen by internet marketing company Olympic Internet to help choose its “Football’s Hottest Wives” for 2011. Voting for the popular Football’s Hottest Wives is done via text message voting using shared short code 84444.com.

Laurie Schaub, wife of Matt Schaub, returns in 2011 to defend her crown as “Football’s Hottest Wife” 2011. For five seasons, our brother publication Fantasy Baseball Dugout has provided us with Baseball’s Hottest Wives.

Football fans can vote for their hottest wives via internet vote or through text message voting provided by our friends at 84444.com.

Hot NFL Wives – 2011

Now, the moment that you’ve all been waiting for. The final nominations are in and we have our Sweet 16 for Football’s Hottest Wives 2011.

Laurie Schaub — Text HOTTEST 1 TO 84444

Alicia Jammer — Text HOTTEST 2 to 84444

See the complete list of the Sweet 16 finalists after the jump.

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84444.com is now the exclusive sponsor of the Fantasy Sports segment of sports talk radio show Spadora on Sports.  Listen as Pete Spadora interviews baseball legend Jeffrey Maier about his role in the 1996 American League Championship series between the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles. The Spadora on Sports interview segment includes information from the publishers of Fantasy Baseball Dugout and Fantasy Football Sideline.