The best sports adverts of all time? Discuss
Like a lot of games involving Ipswich Town these days, most adverts are annoying, dull and instantly forgettable. But some are unquestioned classics, and a good proportion of those feature sports in some way. Thus, instead of spending an evening watching Hollyoaks and Casualty with the Angry Blonde, I decided to track down the best - that I can remember.
No doubt I have missed many contenders for the Advert Hall of Fame, but that's the beauty of a blog - you can mock my list and question my intelligence while sending me those that you think, nay demand, should have made the cut.
Let's get to it then. In no particular order, here are ten of the best....
1. Accrington Stanley? Who are they? Milk didn't stop Ian Rush looking like he'd been battered with every branch from the ugly tree though.
2. Isotonic means in balance with your body fluids. I drank approximately 9,567 pints of Lucozade Sport after watching this advert. Still couldn't kick a ball straight.
3. Parklife Nike ad. Great advert, song not so much.
4. Li'l Penny, circa mid 90's. I still resent the fact that a half-foot tall puppet had more chance with Tyra Banks than I did.
5. Good versus evil football epic. Classic in so many ways. I'm sure one of the evil players is actually Jaap Stam, Ian Wright gets nutted and Cantona exudes gaelic swagger as only he could before he got fat and hairy.
6. Michael Jordan plays himself. Excellent idea, but tempered by the fact that I could have taken MJ in his days at the Wizards. Why did you do it Mike, why??
7. Muhammad Ali fights his daughter. Laila would probably be harder to beat than most of today's heavyweight crop. I did say crop.
8. Tiger Woods channels Bill Murray in Caddyshack. Tiger proves that he isn't just a freak of nature cold-eyed winning robot metronome, he also has a sense of humour. And I shall have strong words with anyone who claims that Caddyshack is a bad film.
9. Carlsberg's best pub team in the world. This 11 would still have a better chance of winning promotion this year than Ipswich Town. Unless Magilton was in charge, of course.
10. A wildcard entry. I would make a joke about this year's Detroit Lions, but I fear no-one in the UK would get it. They would, however, bang on about rugby players not needing pads or a rest every ten seconds. Sometimes, I really hate this country.
That's my ten. Now, what have I missed?
Let the debate begin......
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