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Calling each tailgate chefs: You could gain $20,000 and escaped tickets to the SEC Championship Game by mixing up the close batch of chili.
Knoxville, Tennessee-based Bush's Beans is currently hiring its "first ever" chili commissioner. The occupation comes with a one-time "salary" of $20,000, and its responsibilities are straightforward: Co-host a tailgate astatine the SEC Championship crippled successful Atlanta connected December 3 with histrion Brian Baumgartner, known for playing Kevin Malone connected NBC's "The Office."
The contention victor volition besides person 2 tickets and a two-night travel to the game, get to collaborate connected 1 of the brand's authoritative recipes and person a year's proviso — 36 cans — of Bush's chili beans. They'll besides vie successful the tailgate's chili cookoff, judged by a sheet of caller World Championship Chili Cook-Off champions.
To apply, you'll request to constitute astir your favourite chili look and item however you'd pump up the vigor astatine a tailgate crowd. You'll besides request to taxable a abbreviated video, nary longer than 15 seconds, detailing wherefore you should get the job.
"While it is important for our chili commissioner to person an outgoing property to assistance pump up the crowd, we're looking for a instrumentality who is arrogant of their idiosyncratic chili look and loves to bring radical unneurotic implicit a vessel of this tailgate staple," Ben Carpenter, Bush's marque manager, tells CNBC Make It.
Entries volition beryllium judged successful 3 categories, according to the company:
- Originality and creativity
- A compelling video argument
- Optimism, enthusiasm and quality presented successful the video
You mightiness privation to treble down connected that 3rd factor, successful particular: It's the judges' tiebreaker category, the contest's rules note.
Last year, the SEC Championship game's reported 78,030 attendees and 15.3 cardinal tv viewers astatine location watched the Alabama Crimson Tide decision the Georgia Bulldogs. The Bulldogs avenged that nonaccomplishment the pursuing period successful the College Football Playoff nationalist title game, defeating the Crimson Tide successful a rematch.
Both teams are aboriginal contenders again for this year's SEC Championship game, alongside the Tennessee Volunteers, Ole Miss Rebels and LSU Tigers. Fans of those teams could find the chili commissioner gig peculiarly appealing, fixed the escaped tickets up for grabs.
Applications adjacent connected November 8 and the victor volition beryllium notified connected November 14, according to Bush's Beans.
Disclosure: NBC and CNBC are divisions of NBCUniversal.
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