You know, that short, ugly gray thing with the “A:” on its front that mindlessly repeats the answer to some trivia question while hanging around people’s houses.
I just don’t get it, and it’s bugging me. The thing is not cute and the commercials are not funny. Even the basic theme of the commercials (thing runs away from some guy working around his house) makes no sense. The ESPN website offers no explanation. Since I’m doomed to see these commercials over and over (bf is a huge SportsCenter fan), can somebody offer an explanation before I go nuts?
The creatures are saying answers to questions - for example, “191 RBI’s” is Hack Wilson’s RBI record - and the little critters and the unfruitful chase to catch same is the interpretation of the physical manifestation which occurs when an answer is needed then but on the tip of the tongue and/or similarly out of reach and unattainable.
They did the same thing a couple of years with the “knowledge is power” spots where someone’s knowledge attained from watching a Hockey show on ESPN gave him a little hairball with feet as his “knowledge.”
In a nutshell: A bunch of art fags have taken over the ESPN ad department…
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Holy Toledo. Something of a difference in philosophy between these ads and the one showing the sportscasters with their “tattoos” of favorite sports personalities, eh?
Can’t wait to spring this on my bf the next time we see it; he’ll think I’ve lost my gourd. Thanks.
I’ve been wondering about these commercials also. Satan’s expanation sounds reasonable. However, the commercials do nothing for me. It’s too bad because I really enjoy most of the Sportscenter ads. The current one where the Financial Network is interviwing Steiner is great. Previous ones (“Follow me to Freedom!” and “I just don’t know who you are anymore”) were also quite clever.
The ESPN Football After Dark commercials must die.
The little Answer Guy is kind of cute in a creepy sort of way, but I wouldn’t miss him. I think the only really funny one is when the guy is in his kitchen, and he follows the little trail of crap to the closet, where he finds the creepy mutant munchkin hiding.
AAHHHHCK! Bob Lanier,Bob Lanier,Bob Lanier,Bob Lanier…
I couldn’t figure out what the hell it was, either, and as a result, that commercial annoys me.
On a somewhat related topic, have any of you seen that commercial (I believe it’s for a website or search engine) where the wife wants to learn all about football and is basically given the brush off by her husband, only to end up learning more than him?
The commercial ends with the wife screaming that the quarterback should have “negotiated the safety” and then the last scene features the husband hiding in the bed, with only his head sticking out, on the telephone, asking a friend “What does it mean to negotiate the safety?”
Anyway, if you’ve seen it, and you’re a big football fan–is “negotiating the safety” a real football term? It sounds like something that COULD be a legitimate term (maybe reading the safety’s movements to determine the coverage). However, I’ve been following football for nearly 30 years, and have a pretty good grasp of football strategy, but I’ve never heard the term. And it also sounds like something that could have been made up, but is authentic sounding nonetheless.
I never heard this exact phraseology used for what is a fairly common football tactic, that being to have the QB, by using his eyes or pump fakes, tricks the help in the secondary (usually the safeties) into going elsewhere allowing for a matchup where the receiver and corner are essentially one-on-one because the person who is supposed to be there for support is tricked and elsewhere.
I didn’t think that the term was all that important as much as the fact that if a woman would know the nuances of the game such as this, I would marry her in a second.
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I guess my question is, “Is this an actual term used in professional/college football?” I’ve asked other friends about this, and we also believe that, if it’s an actual term of art, it must mean something similar to what you describe above. None of us have heard it used before, though, so none of us were sure if it was a realistic sounding but made up term, or an actual term of art.
