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Thursday, May 28, 2009
MVPees
Posted By Rebecca Walsh on May 28, 2009, 1:57 PM
Nike. Also known as Satan’s Shoe Company, has come up a brilliant ad campaign.
The Most Valuable Puppets.
It’s the Kobe vs. LeBron hype in puppet form.
They talk trash to each other in commercials, for which Nike reportedly spent millions of dollars developing, and had last weeks #2 viral video spot on the internet.
The problem, of course is that if Orlando wins game 5 tonight or game 6 on Saturday, or Game 7 on Monday… LeBron is out.
If I were Phil “Beelzebub” Knight, Nike’s chairman of the board of directors, I’d start working on a Dwight Howard puppet this afternoon…
The Most Valuable Puppets.
It’s the Kobe vs. LeBron hype in puppet form.
They talk trash to each other in commercials, for which Nike reportedly spent millions of dollars developing, and had last weeks #2 viral video spot on the internet.
The problem, of course is that if Orlando wins game 5 tonight or game 6 on Saturday, or Game 7 on Monday… LeBron is out.
If I were Phil “Beelzebub” Knight, Nike’s chairman of the board of directors, I’d start working on a Dwight Howard puppet this afternoon…
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