Isner-Mahut in a Durex Ad (I say, what could be more appropriate!)

Mike — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:19:53 +0000

I’d like to go on record saying that I’m extremely surprised – but no less satisfied that it exists – that an ad aligning the longevity of the Isner-Mahut match with sexual longevity only got 756 views (as of this moment) on YouTube.

H/T to SI’s Bryan Armen Graham for tweeting this a few minutes ago.

Top-5 Andre Agassi Commercials from the 90′s

Mike — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:37:06 +0000

Around the age of nine, I was looking to make some extra scratch. I’d just come off a failed scheme of trying to sell superballs made out of play doh – they were more ornamental than bouncy, mainly because play doh don’t bounce. For my new business venture, I decided to gut a bunch of my Sports Illustrated for Kids magazines so I could sell the individual glossy pictures of the athletes. I went at the books with a pair of scissors cutting out all the mid-nineties stars and pasting their likenesses onto construction paper – I was destined to be as lucrative as say the person(s) who patented play doh or the 1000 sheet assortment pack of construction paper.

I sold one. And only because my mom, like most women in the early 90′s, had a real live thing for Andre Agassi.

Why am I telling you about this misadventure in childhood capitalism? (Especially, since I was obviously destined for such lucrativeness later in life.) I wanted to convey how hard it’s going to be to break the news about Andre’s hair weave to my mom. It’d be easier for everyone involved if she watched 60 Minutes last night and had already been shattered by this coming out.

Now that the hidden truth behind Andre’s scalp has been Couric’d, those of you who are going to need to cope by remembering Agassi’s coif in its age of innocence, I suggest the antidote that is his commercial work from the early 90′s. I’ve embedded my Top-5 Agassi pitch moments from the 90′s below – surprise, they’re all for Nike and the Canon Rebel. Apologies if the few ads where he appears with a shaved head in the mid-90s are too much for some to bear.

“Image is Everything”

The Rules of Golf

Agassi’s Rock n’ Roll Tennis Camp

Change?

Agassi vs. Sampras, Street Tennis

Special consideration to The Wade Blog, check out their Top-10 Agassi Commercials here.