No, that’s not the Los Angeles Galaxy on the pitch. It’s actually the clever marketing campaign of a German butcher who was trying to call attention to his pork-chop shop, while indulging in a bit of Euro love. He thought it would be a great idea to dress up plastic pigs with soccer kits and have them strewn on a very nice stretch of grass, one that is usually filled with cadavers of real pigs about to be sold to pork lovers like ourselves. What’s next: bodypainted girls playing soccer?

He goes hog wild for Euro 2008 [LA Times]
Image [AP]