Social Media Savvy Rand Paul Debuts Liberty Football on Super Bowl Weekend
The Kentucky senator co-opted a decades old game for some self-promotion.
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Say what you will about his chances of winning the Republican nomination for president, but Senator Rand Paul has certainly mastered the art of self-promotion.
As nears what well could be the start of an upstart presidential campaign, Paul devised yet another way to keep his name in front of voters: paper footballs. Paul promoted the idea, in which the senator's supporters were directed to Paul's Facebook page, where they could print out an official "Rand 2016" paper football kit, one day before the Super Bowl.