re: George Foreman's car collection is up for sale

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The grill was no gimmick.

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I still use mine pretty regularly to make grilled cheese sandwiches.
He didn't invent it though, they just used his name to sell it.

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The grill was no gimmick. He also had a daughter that boxed I believe.

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The grill was sold before it became a "George Foreman Grill". It was a good product, but they didn't have a good marketing plan and was going out of business. Somehow George Foreman came across the product, used it and liked it. And he figured if marketing was the problem, he would buy it, put his name on it and market it himself.

Anyone ever watched the movie on him? He is a pretty interesting dude. He stopped boxing to become a preacher. He thought that god gave him a platform to spread the word and was doing a lot of good. He opened up youth centers for kids to go instead of being in the streets, etc and then found out he guy he hired to manage his money. Not that it matters, but a white guy he became real close to before he started boxing was his money manager and he spend every last dime George had (he had a drinking and maybe a gambling problem).

George had to box again to earn some money. He liked boxing, it was something he was good at, but I don't think he loved it. He went into the job corps before learning how to box in order to learn a trade..

I knew nothing about the job corps until learning that Foreman had gone.