On Sunday, there is a football game. For Europe—and most of the rest of the world—there’s lots of football games on Saturday, but I digress. Super Bowl 50, America’s most popular sporting and television event, kicks off on Sunday. While there are no official Super Bowl cigars–because the licensing fees would be a bit astronomical–there are at least two cigars being made for the Super Bowl as unofficial products. One is the Ditka Special GameDay Edition, made through Davidoff of Geneva USA’s partnership with the football legend Mike Ditka. The other is the La Flor Dominicana Special Football Edition 2016. There’s no celebrity football endorsements behind La Flor’s entry, instead there’s a football, literally, on the cigar. For the second year in a row, La Flor Dominicana has created a cigar that has a football, made using pieces of tobacco, on the cigar itself and sold it to retailers in the area where the Super Bowl is being held. This year’s version is a 5 5/8 x 54 perfecto with an Ecuadorian habano wrapper and Connecticut-seed accents. Underneath is a Nicaraguan binder and Dominican fillers. The cigar is priced at $12 and comes in boxes of 10 that don’t really hide much ...
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