Thirty years after starring in what some consider to be the best sports commercials of all time, former Steeler Mean Joe Greene will be handed the 1979 Clio award. The award–given for excellence in advertising–will be presented to Greene at Heinz Field on Sunday, when the Steelers host the Bengals.
One of the more fun things about the presentation is that Greene will be reunited with Tommy Okon, who was the 9-year-old kid in the ad. Surely Okon is old enough now to appreciate the dangers of glass bottles in a stadium, especially with a large, angry dude limping around with one shoe off. The full ad is on after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Update from reader Boatdrinks: My morning radio show mentioned this, and said that the guy (tech) back at broadcast headquarters has mike open. Don’t think it was play by play or color.
Here’s your Division I-AA post for November [forget it, I'm not calling it FCS] the end of Villanova-Richmond game. Richmond misses a last-minute field goal, and the color commentator can’t get over it, losing whatever semblance of professionalism he had left. It might be the only time that a college football telecast suddenly morphs into an episode of “House of Punte,” only more profane. And more compelling. –Every Day Should Be Spencerday.
The United States Speedskating team lost a sizable chunk of its funding when the team’s biggest sponsor, DSB Bank NV, declared bankruptcy last month. But an unlikely hero has stepped up to offer the team its support, and America’s speedskaters will find themselves in Vancouver skating for another nation–Colbert Nation.
“On their enormous, billboard thighs, it will say, ‘Colbert Nation,”‘ Colbert said in an interview before Monday evening’s taping. “Be looking for that logo as it comes around the final turn. It will be easy to see because it will be in first place.”[..]
The show isn’t paying the team any money directly. Instead, Colbert is calling on his fans to donate to the team via www.colbertnation.com and www.usspeedskating.org. In the past, Colbert has had a great deal of success raising money this way. He has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Yellow Ribbon Fund, a charity that assists injured service members and their families. –SI.com.
Even if “The Colbert Report” itself doesn’t give the team a dime, they’re getting tremendous exposure that will bring other potential sponsors to the team and the athletes themselves. And with Apolo Anton Ohno being favored in nearly all of his events, the show should be rewarded as well. Usually both parties don’t stand to benefit like this unless one’s a Japanese businessman and the other’s a blonde prostitute. I think the speedskaters are the prostitute here. They have better legs.
The great thing about “South Park” it’s never really imposed an unfunny period on its viewership where the only point of the show was to impose partisan values on everyone. Yeah, I’m looking at you, Homer Simpson, you big fat idiot. What “South Park” has lacked in glitzy animation, it has always made up for it with terrific…just watch the goddamn clip. It’s Japanese guys killing the Miami Dolphins. I can only hope they started with Ted Ginn. No death is too painful for that guy. Also.
Lakers’ big man Pau Gasol will be making a guest appearance on an episode of the CBS drama “CSI: Miami” set to air next month. A Spanish basketball player acting on American television. That sounds like *puts on sunglasses* a tall order. YEEEAAAHHHH!!!
“It was a very attractive opportunity. I play Victor, a normal person who is involved in a car accident and police are suspicious that I am responsible for what happened. I have good, meaty dialogue with an officer,” he told daily newspaper El Pais. –AFP.
Meaty dialogue! Normal person! You know, a normal 7-foot Spaniard walking around Miami pulling his eyelids away from his face and muttering things like, “Mee ruv yoo rong time!” That’s the kind of programming we need more of on prime time–baseless Asian stereotyping from Europeans. Hey, that’s how we wound up with “The Office.”
So the whole Steve Phillips fiasco has reached its inevitable conclusion: ESPN canned his ass. They waited until Sunday night to make the announcement, and then loaded his career into a Mayflower truck and drove nonstop to Indianapolis.
“Steve Phillips is no longer working for ESPN,” network spokesman Josh Krulewitz said in a statement. “His ability to be an effective representative for ESPN has been significantly and irreparably damaged, and it became evident it was time to part ways.” –ESPN, via Deadspin.
I guess I understand–how much credibility does a guy have after he knocked boots with this? But if that’s the case, why does former Detroit Lions GM Matt Millen still have a job at the network? That guy dicked an entire city. For YEARS. And what does he get for his trouble? He gets to go on TV and tell everyone how much he knows about football. My ass. Oh, but he’s great on TV. No, the same rule applies. That asshole may as well have “0-16″ tattooed onto his forehead, because that’s the only thought I can process whenever I see that chump on TV.
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