It’s probably a good thing Charlotte Hornets rookie shooting guard Dwayne Bacon isn’t a vegetarian.
Reporters and headline writers have for years regularly emphasized his successes with the same puns, from “Bacon sizzles” to “bringing home the Bacon” to “saved his team’s Bacon” to – once more, with feeling – “Bacon sizzles!”
And as a standout on Florida State’s men’s basketball team, he inspired 1) a university promotion that handed out 10,000 strips of free bacon to students for one game and 2) a trio of fans who came to every home game wearing bacon costumes.