Professional Cycling For the Fans - Vote: Most HATED TdF Commercial

Or maybe if a bird would crap on the guy while he was grasping at the magically floating pieces of wood? I dunno, I kind of want those tires. They freeze time! Now, if I had tires that froze time and enzyte to make my weiner huge, I'd already be living the High Life!

My wife actually favors the Cervelo commercial due to the bit about getting to eat the fruit when he becomes a Champion

My wife actually favors the Cervelo commercial due to the bit about getting to eat the fruit when he becomes a Champion

Now there's some effective marketing that I'm sure Specialized would love to hear about. ;)

How about a new slogan for Saab: Bjorn from jets! :)

Saab Born From Jets. I have heard that commercial for years now.

Richard



i guess the OP's cable company isn't playing this one.... i swear i'm so sick of it!

you guys have it easy.in Canada, versh*t can only get a few advertisers, so they show one single Heineken ad EVERY SINGLE break. It's so bad I can't watch live anymore.

"Heineken!?, F*ck that sh*t!...Pabst blue Ribbon!"

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y143/ElCapitanMorgan/BlueVelvet.jpg

"Heineken!?, F*ck that sh*t!...Pabst blue Ribbon!"



Tempted by the fruit of another?

Did you know you can get ripped working out only 20min a day 3 times/week?

Tempted by the fruit of another?

Did you know you can get ripped working out only 20min a day 3 times/week?

"I'm 50 and have a Bowflex body, play in a band, yet still look really, really gay."

http://www.hotchickswith******bags.com/uploaded_images/Bowflex-720454.jpg

"I'm 50 and have a Bowflex body, play in a band, and look really, really pathetic in my futile attempt to not get old. Please tell me I'm not pathetic. And that the chicks still dig me. The chicks still dig me, right?"

http://www.hotchickswith******bags.com/uploaded_images/Bowflex-720454.jpg
Fixed that for you.

Earlier this year, my girlfriend made me go out and get a DVR ;), and I have to admit that it makes watching the tour more pleasant. If I am working from home, I can sleep in a little, and then start watching it and skipping the commercials as they come up.

we have different ads here, since it's in french and a lot of the ads are local. But we do have the specialized ads, which i like- the one with Bettini and with Boonen. However, that enzyte ad drives me nuts when i see it. I wish i knew the ads you were all talking about...this thread is pretty funny.

I remember a few funny ads from OLN, which i still have on tape- like the one with Phil and Paul Bingo, from the Vuelta, and the Bob Roll ads where he's in Italy...and the FREEDOM Jimi Hendrix spots.

The Bettini one isn't that bad, at least compared to the other ones. The music there is kind of quirky, and not overdone.

I remember a few years ago there some obnoxious Lincoln commercials that had some J*** tune in the background. To this day I cannot stand that tune..

That F'ing Tape Add!

+1

It is the perennial dilemma with VS/OLN. I find being exposed to PBR, World's-Strongest-Man competitions and WEC way more nauseating than TdF doping scandals.

Nobody has mentioned the promo with the two women at the bar -- one asking the other which of two "celebrities" she would rather have sex with. And then adding variations in order to get her to change her answer.

Completely dumb.

Gratuitous.

Do they really think cycling fans want to hear that?

that bowflex ad with the guy who's 50 years old and plays in a band. Since when can you only be in a rock band if you look like Powdered Toast Man?

another funny ad is the one for the prostate medication, where they have a bunch of guys out on a road ride...except they're all on mountain bikes. And one of them punches his fist in the air...it's just a weird ad. Why not have them actually on a road ride?

what annoys me most ... is those damned superimposed ads just after a commercial break. Many channels, even PBS, seem to do this nowadays.

Fx channel adds sound effects (swooshes and bumps) to the bug ads!! :eek:


If that practice proliferates, I will swear off TV altogether! :mad:

Do they really think cycling fans want to hear that?

I got my attention! :D

I got my attention! :D

You're easily entertained.

Have you ever been with a . . . real . . . woman?

... another funny ad is the one for the prostate medication, where they have a bunch of guys out on a road ride...except they're all on mountain bikes. And one of them punches his fist in the air...it's just a weird ad. Why not have them actually on a road ride?

Because it is the same mentality as the commentators have. They think they are playing to people who don't know anything about cycling. They probably did demographics and determined that if they only had cyclists in the audience, it wouldn't be worth the money they are spending.

Sadly, they are probably right, and one of these years we don't see the TdF any more. :(

I nominated the inventors of Tivo for the Nobel Peace of Mind award.

The Bridgestone commercial blows. If I never see it again, it'll be too soon.

"Hi, I'm a dork. Who wants to be stranded with a flat tire?" Lame commercial of the year.

I think the Bridgestone ad is pretty dramatic and kinda cool.

You are so dead to me now. :eek:

i'm surprised nobody has mentioned the michelob ultra commercial. that thing is driving me nuts. if you've never tried this stuff, you'll only do it once. i've talked to bartenders that have told me they can't give the stuff away. and the commercial is the most asinine thing i've ever heard. a beautiful example of a lot of babble that sounds good but actually says absolutely nothing.

"your life isn't one-dimensional. neither should your beer be"

well, my beer and i are both three-dimensional. four, if you wanna count time. i've never had a one-dimensional beer

"perfectly balanced, and made for today"

huh? what in the hell does this even mean? every beer is "made for today". this means absolutely nothing. stuff like this drives me nuts. it's an insult to your intelligence. marketing double-speak. i grind my molars every time this thing comes on


Michelob Ultra is ultra-crappy, ultra-blandness in a bottle. Yet, it seems at most bars, the only beer they sell is Diet this or Diet that. Your choice of Bud Light, Coors Light, or Miller Lite. Bleah. Even worse, one place tried to pass off that Guiness draught in a bottle swill as a premium brew.

Instead of having a couple of beers that you actually enjoy, most people simply want something they can chug all night like they did in college and high school. Taste matters not.


I record the TdF and skip most of the commercials. I've still managed to watch them all at least a few times, though.

The Subaru one has got this Brad-Angelina "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" interplay between the two models that apparently race each other from one hideout to the next.

The ads that have no reason to be on Versus in the first place; tape, wheelchairs? Beer, bikes, cars and Enzyte; that's what Versus is all about. ;)

None of them are as bad as a couple years ago with the whole trek bikes/livestrong sweepstakes, with Bobke acting like a tool during each version of the commercial. I think it showed him winning a laptop, water bottles, power bars, etc...

"I'm 50 and have a Bowflex body, play in a band, yet still look really, really gay."


I think looking gay is kind of a prerequisite for rocking out

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"Hi, I'm a dork. Who wants to be stranded with a flat tire?" Lame commercial of the year.

Somebody earned some major coin putting that dreck together. Absolute garbage.

You are so dead to me now. :eek:
I was alive to you? :eek: :D

You're easily entertained.

Have you ever been with a . . . real . . . woman?

Pot calling kettle black. <-- :D

Who's the one that posted the rant?

None of them are as bad as a couple years ago with the whole trek bikes/livestrong sweepstakes, with Bobke acting like a tool during each version of the commercial.

:rolleyes: Now we know who the current target demographic is. Those were the best TdF commercials ever!

TapouT.

"What it is, baby!"

"What it is, baby!"
Christ, I laughed when I read this one... That goddamn line is buried within my skull now, the visual of this clown on his ass on that couch burned in my retinas.

Still, I am only thankful that the Smiling Bob idiot leads in the true voting, if not the responses here. I think he wins the award for the klondike you most want to send out into the left field bleachers with a Louisville Slugger sans pine tar. It's amazing he's not leading this poll three to one, actually.

The fact that Verses feels compelled to bury the first 3/4 of every mountain stage with 20000 commercials so the last climb can be "commercial-free" is wearing as a pneumatic drill. When you add in that horrible repetitive nature of these single digit commercials they rotate, it's adding insult to injury.

I was doubly embarrassed today when poor Phil Liggett had to ANNOUNCE that idiotic Cage Fighting travel tour crap LIVE in between TDF action. Jesus, the poor bast@rd must have been thinking "the money just is not worth it" while he read from that card. IT was beyond embarrassing.

My biggest complaint is the fact that OLN/VS thinks they need to run Troutwig, Roll, and Robbie in Prime Time, only leaving Paul and Phil for the stage conclusion. There is no comparison between the two, even though Paul and Phil are making more mistakes. Having to listen to Trautwig's blather is beyond punishment. Even after all these years, he knows next to nothing. And Bob USED to be amusing to some extent, but he has turned droll as as a bast@rd in his play by play. Robbie should stick to Energy Snacks. IT's an embarrassment really. Still, at least SOMEONE is covering it. I still watch it every year.

... Still, at least SOMEONE is covering it. ...

The only important point in all the rest of this pointlessness.