“He’s always chewing gum.” John is 1 of 10 national finalists in the second annual Bubble Yum World Series Blowout, to be held Tuesday at Mickey Mantle’s Restaurant in New York City.

John Boyle of Seahawks.com provided a detailed breakdown of Carroll’s gum-chewing noting the head coach prefers Bubble Yum and goes through about 15 pieces each gameday.

Status: False. Example: [Fine, 1992] Apparently some little kids in either New York or Chicago started telling people that the reason Bubble Yum was so soft was because the gum had spider legs in it.

Though bubble gum has been around almost 100 years, the Bubble Yum brand was introduced in 1975 and has a leading position in the bubble gum category. In the U.S. alone, about 7.2 million packs of ...