First, Pink Taco wanted naming rights to the Arizona Cardinal’s brand-new taco-looking stadium in Glendale. Now, in a related unintentional sexual taco reference, Shawn Johnson has endorsed her own on television:
You can be Urkel or you can be Juliet’s Romeo. You can be LeBron or you can be Poindexter. You can ace your tests or you can party late. You can rock white Ts or Lacoste Polos.
Or you can do all of the above. That would make you a Nerdy McFly.
Nerdy McFly? Isn’t that some sort of comic book?
No, it’s an ideology all about balance. You can be smart and you can be cool at the same time. If you’re laughing, it’s because you’re not a Nerdy McFly yet. You don’t understand.
The NBA was brilliant in coming up with these type of advertisements: Videos where two opponents are split down the middle, look you in the eye and rattle off a motivating monologue that pumps you up more than the Rocky soundtrack.
Then they asked Magic Johnson and Larry Bird to do it, and well, it just wasn’t the same. As the two legends were telling me how rivalries remain and the feelings remain the same, I couldn’t help but wonder how many takes it took each man to complete the 24-second ad. Bird’s droopy eye had me feeling like he would pass our any moment.
And as much as I make fun of these two, I have to bow down to both of them for being so great in their respective careers. It also made me think about the top old guys in sports right now.
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