BO JACKSON SINGS HIS EVER-LOVIN’ ASS OFF
Some brilliant, brilliant person posted the old Burger King “Legends of College Football” commemorative cup commercials on YouTube. Watch below for:
–Bo Jackson singin’ his ever-lovin’ ass off to the Auburn fight song. He should have known it well, dammit, as much as he was paid to go there. Blue-chip SECers cost some coin back then.
–Lou Holtz cajoling a bewildered Tim Brown into singing. Tim must be normal, since like most people he’s both confused and frightened by Holtz.
–Tom Osborne apparently suffering a minor stroke of some sort at the end of the video. Or singing. We’re not really sure.
–Jim McMahon, who was so drunk for filming he was forced to do the ad sitting in a deck chair while wearing a Detroit Lions jersey. None of this is provable, but we still suspect it to be true because it is much funnier that way, and yet still plausible given that it’s Jim McMahon.
We remember these commercials, mostly because we had the cups, since pre-adolescents live for free things handed out with fast-food purchases. Which we got when we bought the old Burger King fish sandwich, known to the world at large as “The Whaler.” Burger King then pulled off the amazing feat of giving it a more absurd name by rechristening it as “The Big Fish,” since “the Whaler” probably conjured up fewer and fewer images of hearty Nantucket harpooneers chowing down after a long day at the oars, and more and more images of floating Japanese whaling slaughterhouses firing rocket launchers into cute belugas.












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[...] • Ah, the great Burger King college fighting song commercials. [Every Day Should Be Saturday] • Some fun elections over at KSK. [Kissing Suzy Kolber] • Boise State tells ESPN to stick it. [Scout.com] • The BCS is hardly democratic. [The Fish Of Death] [...]
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Yes, numbnut, that’s the joke–that McMahon is so drunk he couldn’t be bothered to bring his BYU jersey.
Comment by Orson Swindle — November 9, 2006 @ 11:33 am
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That’s a BYU Cougars jersey, not a Detroit Lions one, numbnut.
Comment by Dow — November 9, 2006 @ 11:27 am
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[...] Every Day Should Be Saturday dug up some old Burger King commercials starring the likes of Bo Jackson and captain spit-lip himself, Lou Holtz. [...]
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[...] • Ah, the great Burger King college fighting song commercials. [Every Day Should Be Saturday] • Some fun elections over at KSK. [Kissing Suzy Kolber] • Boise State tells ESPN to stick it. [Scout.com] • The BCS is hardly democratic. [The Fish Of Death] [...]
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as much as i love tom osborne, the greatest commercial was the bobby bowden BK commercial where this kid was pestering the coach about joining the baseball team. i loved how bowden’s attitude completely changed at the prospect of getting his mouth-watering whopper down his gullet.
“welcome to the team… SLUGGER!”
Comment by rt — November 9, 2006 @ 4:57 am