Big Johnson

[2] For a time, the company also sponsored the Busch Grand National Series NASCAR driver Johnny Rumley.

[3] In 2006, Garrett Pfeifer created Maryland Brand Management, Inc.[1] During that period Big Johnson accounted for 60% of MSP's sales and profits doubled every year from 1990 to 1994.

[4] In 1995, the company's products became part of a United States Constitution First Amendment case when a gift shop proprietor at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland was forced by a U.S. District Court ruling to take sexually suggestive T-shirts and cards out of his store, which was located in a federal building.

[5] A few months after the ruling, the case was settled with the gift shop being granted expanded space in exchange for surrendering the right to sell the offending materials.

[6] Although both Disney World and Kings Dominion, are both large customers of MBM, Big Johnson shirts are banned in their amusement parks.

[2][3] The cartoon captions allude to male genitalia using the double entendre of the Big Johnson name.