Sunday, October 7, 2012

State Farm's Discount Double Check

Okay, the first commercial featuring Aaron Rogers of the Green Bay Packers and his stupid "move' (the Wrestler's Belt" was funny - clueless folks in an Allstate office think he's doing a robot dance or what have you and don't recognize him as the Green Bay quarterback...

But of course now they're milking it dry with a couple more commercials along the same theme.

I have to say I hate these "moves" that football players dream up.

You score a touchdown? Your celebration should be spontaneous and real and with your teammates.

But no... you've got guys who literally brush off their teammates so they can do a dance or call attemtion to themselves in some way - and it's not spontaneous - you know they've rehearsed it and are doing it not because they're happy, but because they want to show up their opponents.

I hate that.

Daunte Culpepper always got ragged for his touchdown "dance" - he'd twirl his arms together and no one understood why he did it until he explained - in basketball it's the referee's signal that someone had "traveled" and I guess he'd been called for traveling once in a basketball game and it had stuck in his craw.

Aaron Rogers' is almost as dumb. He makes a move with both hands like he's putting on a wrestler's gigantic belt (and is there anything more tacky than those huge belts they aware as prizes in wrestling matches?) Talk about stupid!

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