Dickie V is legendary. Any college basketball fan from over the last 30 years recognizes the face and the voice. He is ubiquitous. He has crisscrossed the country hundreds, maybe thousands of times.
The Two Awful 1987 Commercials That Launched ‘The Legend of Zelda’ – One of the Most Successful Video Game Franchises Ever
December 22, 2011 By 5 Comments
Hundreds of thousands of kids in the United States, Canada, and Europe will awake on Christmas morning to find a copy of Skyward Sword, the sixteenth game in the Legend of Zelda series. Skyward Sword, which hit stores just in time for Black Friday, is the fastest selling game in the history of the franchise.
2012—in addition to being a Summer Olympics year, a U.S. election year, and the end of the 13th cycle of the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar (be sure to order a new Mesoamerican Long Count calendar while supplies last)—marks the 25th anniversary of the North American release of Nintendo’s original Legend of Zelda game.
Is this the funniest commercial starring an NFL player…ever?
November 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
As you have surely heard by now, Jake Delhomme is back in the NFL.
The man who quarterbacked the Carolina Panthers to the Super Bowl in 2003, and who is renowned as a great guy and good leader, but who in subsequent years became synonymous with terms like “interception” and “noodle arm”, is now a member of the Houston Texans.
But no matter where Delhomme goes, now or at any time in the future, to me he’ll always be Bojangles’ Defender of the Fresh Biscuit.
Must-See Commericial: Chevy True Stories – “My Dad’s Car”
November 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
There are countless car commercials that clog the airwaves, and most of them are painful to watch. There are the loud, obnoxious dealers who are accompanied by elementary graphics in an effort to market their dealership. These commercials usually result in a change of the channel, as opposed to a trip to the dealership.
Chevy has done something different.
Video: Ad campaign with Alec Baldwin and John Krasinski comes to a funny conclusion – but is it the best of the bunch?
September 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
As you may know, New Era has had a rather humorous series of web commercials this season featuring Red Sox fan John Krasinski and Yankees fan Alec Baldwin.
According to today’s Hot Clicks, the series has now come to an end, and the final installment may be the best one in the series.
Commercial Grade: Jennifer Lopez and the Fiat 500
September 21, 2011 By 7 Comments
If you watched football Sunday, you probably saw the new Fiat commercial featuring Jennifer Lopez as often as you saw the Detroit Lions score against the Kansas City Chiefs. Which, for those of you who didn’t watch the ineptitude of Haley’s Vomit (not the catchiest nickname, but after being outscored 89-10 through two weeks it is fitting), is a LOT.
Since football watchers are predominantly male, and men are easily excitable and are reduced to their most primal during rough-and-tumble contests such as football, it’s not unreasonable to believe that guys could be influenced by whatever they see in this exaggerated, caveman-like state of mind.
For that reason, a commercial with an attractive lady trying to sell a car seems like a perfect spot to run during football games.
Is anyone else but me and Joe Posnanski sick and damn tired of Mr. Excitement?
January 15, 2011 By 4 Comments
If you have watched a football game this year, then you are familiar with Mr. Excitement. He is one of four men who go to every Super Bowl. Thanks to Visa, and the NFL’s commitment to bend over for every last dollar it can get, we are reminded of their commitment during every damn football game, during pretty much every other commercial break.
Well here is a picture of Mr. Excitement, and I would just like to say that, despite Visa and the NFL’s best efforts, I think this guy is a miserable jackwagon.
An Excruciating Rundown of The Worst Commercials on TV: Part 2
September 2, 2010 By 3 Comments
After the success I had with my first Excruciating Rundown of The Worst Commercials on TV, and considering the fact that companies are still airing horrible commercials, I have decided to do a part 2 of this series.
I was very surprised that it got so many hits. A few days after it was posted, I went to check how many views it had and my reaction was similar to Warren the Ape’s was when he saw Chauncey the Bear’s manhood.
I am now more experienced this time in the department of bad commercials, and I have done more research than in my last post.
I have also been listening to my readers comments and some of their requests. Oddly enough it seems like 60% of those comments were about how hot people thought Flo from Progressive was.
Lets just leave that as that.
An Excruciating Rundown of the Worst Commercials on TV
July 28, 2010 By 84 Comments
I love watching TV, especially sports on TV, but nothing is worse than terrible commercials.
I am talking about commercials that are so bad you want the company to go out of business just so they will stop airing them.
Lately, commercials have seemed to get worse and worse. Someone needs to put these misguided companies in their place.
That’s where I come in.
I am going to look at some of the worst commercials that are on TV now, to highlight the worst of the worst and do my part to shame these companies into not spending millions to air this annoying drivel.
The Midwest: Where White People Rap About Minivans
May 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A good college friend of mine who works for Toyota called me yesterday and during the course of our conversation she asked me if I’d seen the “swagger wagon” video. I told her I’d heard about it, but hadn’t watched it.
She implored me to watch it, and because she is very persuasive I complied.
Because I ended up finding the video to be pretty damn funny, I’m sharing it with you now:
LOTD: Hot Clicks Featuring Great All Star Game Taco Bell Ad “It’s All About the Roosevelts”
July 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
We all know that this is the one of the slowest days of the sports year, if not the slowest. Â Luckily for us, a few ultra-conservative political websites (National Review and Free Republic) decided to link to my post highlighting George Bush’s first pitch at Game 3 of the 2001 World Series, which provided a much appreciated traffic bump for the day. Though some of our commenters today have not been too pleased that I refused to rake President Obama over the coals for his less-than-stellar toss last night, we certainly appreciate their visits.
With that in mind, it’s time to spread a little love to our friends in the sports blogosphere with our daily link dump that we refer to around here as LOTD (Links of the Day).
 And the first link of the day is a blog that should be required daily reading for any sports fan, and a place that link to often: Hot Clicks by Jimmy Traina.  In addition to sterling pictures of Erin Andrews and Beyonce in today’s edition, Jimmy has embedded one of the highlights of last night’s All Star game: the pitch-perfect Taco Bell commercial featuring a devilishly clever parody of the song “It’s All About the Benjamins.”
The video is below, and is about as good as it gets for non-Super Bowl commercials. Â
Come to think of it, with the relatively poor quality of recent Super Bowl commercials, this one may be as good as it gets period.
Video of Taco Bell All Star Game Commercial: It’s All About the Roosevelts
And now we spread some link love elsewhere around Al Gore’s glorious creation, the Internet:
Jay Crawford: ESPN’s Resident Hard-Ass — (Deadspin)
Cards Willing to Make Strong Offer for Halladay — (MLB Trade Rumors)
Batting Stance Guy on Letterman — (Zoner Sports)
Goodbye, Dale Tallon — (Tremendous Upside Potential)
A Dozen Video Game Firsts — (Gunaxin)
Harry Potter Look-A-Likes in the Sports World — (Sports Rubbish)
Mountain West, WAC Sign BCS Contract — (The World According to MoonDog)
Derrick Mason Goes Barry Sanders All Over the Ravens — (Detroit 4 Lyfe)
Remembering the Duel in the Sun — (Major League Jerk)
Former Standout QB Found Dead — (Sparty and Friends)
Want to throw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field? — (Valspar)
MLB Halfway There Hardware — (Josh Q. Public)
