You’ve heard of “Bobble Head Day” at the ballpark where the first 1000 or so entrants receive a bobble head doll. Well, then you probably won’t be surprised to hear about “Britney Spears Baby Safety Night.” It’s a slightly less lighthearted event and you don’t get to leave with a doll that sports an oversized head.
But, that didn’t stop the Newark Bears, a New Jersey based minor league baseball team, from hosting a “Britney Spears Baby Safety Night” on Friday. The event was designed to educate people on the proper way to transport infants in vehicles. The inspiration: the now infamous photographs taken of Spears driving with her child improperly buckled up. The first picture, which set off a flurry of criticism directed at Spears, showed the pop princess driving with her baby Sean Preston sitting on her lap. (Spears defended her actions by saying that the hounding paparazzi frightened her child and she took him out of his car seat in an effort to “protect him.”) The other much publicized photo showed the 25-year-old singer driving her car with her then 8-month-old son riding in a car seat that faced forward instead of back (the seat manufacturer’s recommended position for a child that age).
Instead of a foam finger or a bobble head doll fans attending Friday night’s game received pamphlets on baby car seat safety and a chance to win a free car seat from the American Automobile Association. But, the game wasn’t overshadowed by the educational push—anyone who dressed up like a baby; brought a baby (any child under the age of 4); or were willing to share a baby toy got in free.
By the way, the Newark Bears opponent during the big Britney event—a team (perhaps, fittingly) called the Road Warriors.