Mesh Tennis

Looks like the Winnipeg Sun put together a list of the top 10 sports ads in prep for the SuperBowl, and we have some tennis ones making the list:

9. AMERICAN EXPRESS
We liked the first Andy Roddick commercial, in which he gets cracked on the head by a trophy falling out of a plane’s overhead compartment. They outdid themselves with the Roddick vs. Pong spot, where the ’70s video game icon returns every ball Roddick hits. Not sure what it has to do with credit cards, but entertaining nonetheless.

I guess no one wants to talk abotu the sad no-trophy no-mojo ads he did? I didn’t like the Pong ones as much as the earlier ads.

8. CANON
Maria Sharapova is not a great actress. She does not deliver dialogue convincingly. But her other qualities make her Canon Power Shot commercial, where she spells out “Maria was here” by blasting balls into a chain-link fence, a veritable feast for the senses.

I don’t think this ad should be on the list, but I do prefer humorous ones.

That’s it for tennis, but I really liked these:

6. REEBOK
From what we’ve been able to tell, the Terry Tate: Office Linebacker ads have absolutely nothing to do with athletic shoes. Doesn’t matter. We love watching this 250-pound monster absolutely destroy people for taking long coffee breaks or failing to use cover sheets on their faxes, then standing over them and taunting them. “Get ready for the pain, woman! The pain train is coming! Woo-woo!”

3. ESPN SPORTSCENTER
Sadly, we don’t get to see too many of these promo ads up here in Canada … just the lame efforts of their TSN counterparts. But any visit to the States (or YouTube) will yield some real winners. Our faves include the one in which “security guard” Rob Ray mercilessly pummels a delivery boy while yelling “Next time, show some ID!” and the spot in which Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin wrestles the Florida Gators mascot in the hallway. Good thing it wasn’t the mascot for a certain Florida baseball team.

The full list (with links to endless other lists) is here.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 29th, 2007 at 7:19 pm and is filed under Gossip / Non-Tour News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.