So I was in the shower this morning doing my usual "shower thinking" and I was thinking about the start of MLB spring training, and somehow or other, ended up thinking about the old Nike commercial, "Chicks Dig the Long Ball". I watched it again, and it is even more funny now being the full midst of the steroid era.
Watch it again, and appreciate all the things that are funny about it now that weren't when it originally aired:
"How long are they going to worship this guy?"
"It really is the shoes!"
"Have you guys seen Mark?"
So that got me searching for some more long lost sports commercials. After some searching, I came across an old Moses Malone Nike commercial (equipped with French subtitles). Kevin, ignore all the speaking in this commercial and tell me what good old Moses Malone could use to help his game...
It's about time...
Haha, and then there are the good old ESPN commercials...
And Manny being Manny...
But I will have to give it to Kevin and his sport, of all the commercials I've watched on this Presidents Day, the soccer ones have been absolutely bad ass. Check these two out:
Almost makes me want to play soccer...almost...
~Mikey D
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Haha, I remember all of those commericials (except for the Moses Malone one)
He needs Air Gophers! But he was missing those shots on purpose to practice his rebounding...
I love the soccer commercials! The "life of a soccer player" is one of my favorites.
But Nike freestyle is still my favorite soccer commercial of all-time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFrSYdr2Gg
When this commercial came out, I spent countless hours practicing that Ronaldinho trick at 0:14. I can get my foot around the ball the first time, but never with enough control to do it again. That is fucking incredible.
And I love that move at 0:53 where Rui Costa bounces it off the wall past 2 defenders. I have seen that move attempted in indoor games a few times, but I've never played with or against anyone good enough to pull it off.
The videos won't load for me - they are all just empty boxes. What do I need to do to get them to load?
The Nike freestyle commercial is awesome, but I think it's harder for me to appreciate since I've never played soccer. That trick where he bounces it off the wall with two defenders...I can appreciate that! Pretty good stuff.
That's why I said you had to watch the Moses Malone video without all the speaking! If you just watch the video...it's Air Gophers. Our skits have been stolen by Dave Chapelle and apparently our commercials are like Nike's (well, Nike from the 80s, we're behind the times apparently).
Here ya go Adam, I'll post ya the links to YouTube for the videos (in order):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ltD21rYWVw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0zSdN5ceXU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh54gxBX1N8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LjnqtSPps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwlpTgbQTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w04xmH2SOLA
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