Tag: Jared the Subway Guy

Subway Great Fair-A-Thon Challenge Clue #1

In 2008, the N.C. State Fair helped celebrate the 10th anniversary of Jared the Subway guy’s tremendous weight loss, and his former size 60 pants, with the Pants Dance Revolution. This year, Jared is taking his message of health and fitness all the way to New York to compete in the NYC Marathon, and he wants you to come cheer him on. All you have to do is help us “Celebrate What’s Great” about the State Fair by competing in the Great Fair-A-Thon Challenge, and you may be on your way to the Big Apple! Great Fair-A-Thon Challenge participants will first compete…

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Dancin’ fools

We had a blast at Wednesday’s Pants Dance Revolution. The event drew a big crowd around the Waterfall Stage and the Storm Squad, Mike Morse from G105’s Bob and the Showgram and THE Subway guy, Jared Fogle. The contest, which invited people to upload their craziest dance moves in their craziest pants to YouTube, generated almost 10,000 views. The prizes were pretty sweet: A year’s supply of SUBWAY sandwiches, a Nintendo Wii, a Wii Fit game and–drum roll, please–a signed pair of Jared’s size 60 pants. If you didn’t make it out to get a Jared head or enter the…

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Q&A with Jared, the Subway Guy

Getting thin made Jared Fogle famous. Fogle was an overweight Indiana University student when he began eating Subway sandwiches and exercising. He lost 245 pounds. After his story appeared in the campus newspaper, he gained notoriety for his weight loss and became a pitchman for Subway. Since then, he has appeared in commercials and traveled the world talking about the importance of proper diet and exercise. This year, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of “taking it off and keeping it off,” Fogle and Subway launched the Tour de Pants. Afterward, his original pair of size-60 blue jeans will be retired…

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It’s a revolution!

We are starting a revolution…well, Jared Fogle (the Subway guy) is at least. As part of his 10-year anniversary with Subway Restaurants, Jared is embarking on a cross-country “Tour De Pants.” Along the way, he’ll promote Subway restaurants and 10 years of maintaining a healthy weight. As part of the promotion, there are lots of activities, such as an online Pants Dance game, and the chance to make a healthy promise. In conjunction with the 2008 N.C. State Fair, Jared just launched a new competition…the Pants Dance Revolution, where you can win a year’s supply of Subway sandwiches, a Nintendo…

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TXTing contest winners

We have to say, we were very impressed with the “text-pertise” of our Deep Fried blog readers! Congrats to all of our commenters for their awesome entries (check them out in the comments link below this blog entry!): DCShadows31dodgerfan4399hv114HollyLinseySugarWayne Our favorites from the entries: DCShadows31’s “gr8 f%d” (great food) dodgerfan4399’s “dEp frYd =’s” (deep fried Oreos…the equal sign’s space in the middle stands for the creme filling, with the two lines acting as the cookie) SugarWayne’s “frYd $” (fried dough) Holly’s “DIS wiL b my ~:oz 1st tym” (This will be my baby’s first time…tilt your head to the left…

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