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Book
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Mine is the one with Derreck (sp?) Brooks on the bus with the little kids making them sing along about how much they love him. They change a lot, but what's your favorite?

Or your favorite ESPN commercial. Mine is the one with the two baseball players (I don't know baseball) talking about what's weird, and then one says, "You know what's weird?" "What?" "That." And you look out the window and there are all these sports announcers and players and mascots all dancing around the maypole. "Yeah. That is weird."

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Icarus
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[ROFL]

I love those commercials, especuially the ESPN ones!

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Icarus
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I like the one for ESPN magazine where the cheerleader is talking about how she really loves football, and contrary to popular beliefs, she is very knowledgeable about the game. How does she keep up with it all? Espin the Magazine. And then she does a cheer: "E. S. P. N. Gooooooo Espin!"

[ROFL]

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Carrie
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All of them.

I really liked the one a few years ago with Santana Dotson (of the Packers) in a daycare center or something, and the kids had a measuring tape and were measuring his arms, legs, around his head, the length of his nose, and all the like. The last shot of the commercial was him carrying about eight of the kids - at least one from each arm, a couple on each leg, one around his neck on both the front and back... absolutely adorable.

I think they've gotten funnier in the past few years.

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Icarus
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I like the Testeverde spot.

"On the football field, he's a magician."

[Big Grin]

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Book
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I like the bench press one. "My dad can do more than that..."
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"mmm, spaghetti."
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Like anyone needed me to say this, I also like the Testeverde one.
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Matt Birk, he went to Harvard.
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Icarus
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"You don't have to be Jason Taylor to make a difference."

[Smile]

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ESPN has had some of the best commercials ever made. My favorite is pretty old, probably from around 1996-97 or so, when Keith Olberman was still there. It was not too long after the World Cup, so Alexi Lalas was still in the public consciousness.

Lalas is hanging out in the ESPN offices, sitting cross-legged on somebody's desk, playing his guitar and singing. Most people seem to be enjoying it.

Suddenly Olberman gets up from his chair, grabs Lalas' guitar out of his hands, pivots and smashes the guitar across the corner of another desk. He then silently turns and hands the wreckage back to Lalas, then returns to his desk. Doesn't say a word, and doesn't even look particularly perturbed. It was great.

UofUlawguy

[ September 30, 2003, 12:22 PM: Message edited by: UofUlawguy ]

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Bump for my new favorite:

"Derrick Brooks is involved in a program to get kids to express themselves."

::kids move foam rocks on stage::

Mexican Kid #1: Badges? We don't need any stinkin' badges.

I laugh out loud every single time.

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