Throughout the NCAA tournament, I have been barraged by the same advertisements to the point where I can rip my shirt off to reveal Bags Fly Free better than the Southwest guys. The ads that infuriate me the most, however, are the teasers for the Masters on CBS. They are frustrating not because of their [...]
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CBS Should Advertise Tiger Woods’ Masters Return Like a Maury Povich Episode
Can We Use Bailout Money To Help Howie Long Make Manly Chevy Commercials Again?
I wonder if Howie Long hates having to wear sweater vests to sell Chevys to car buyers who are now doing research. Compared to the old ads, where he could wear what he wanted, go to a construction site and talk to tough guys all day, the commercials now are a travesty. He has to [...]
Rejected Endings to the "MLS Is…" Advertisements
…Not being put on the TV at the bar. …Barely trailing the Junior World Curling Championships in the ratings. …A proving ground for future stars of the Trinidad & Tobago soccer league …Looking too much like MLB on the TiVo again. …Weighing the possibility of letting players carry the ball. …I was just calling the [...]
Rejected "This is SportsCenter" Advertisement
INT. HOSPITAL DELIVERY ROOM – DAY Doctors and nurses are in a frantic rush to try to successfully deliver a kind of baby they’ve never seen before. The heart-rate monitor BEEPS rapidly. People are running around in commotion. Bloodied medical equipment is being passed around with fervor. DOCTOR She needs a Cesarean. There’s no other [...]
Impartial Referees
I was watching the Champions League the other day, this big soccer tournament in Europe, and it bothered me that the referees wore advertisements. It shouldn’t have been too surprising because ads are posted everywhere: on players’ jerseys, on the field, along the walls, on the stadium and so on, but something really annoyed me [...]
Milwaukee's Best Light Commercials
I wonder if those commercials for Milwaukee’s Best Light are frightening to gay people. The ads usually run during the World Series of Poker and they’ve always got a bunch of guys hanging out. One of them does something a little effeminate, like pet a poodle or not punch his girlfriend, and an enormous can [...]

