Beat the Vikes

I'm normally at my crotchety-est when it comes to commercials. I mean, I'm a very peaceable and nonviolent man, but give me a handgun and put me in the same room with the "Can fifteen minutes really save you fifteen per cent or more?" guy, and there's a chance tragedy would ensue.

But I like this one:

Makes me laugh every time. Love the patronizing little pat the woman gives him on the way by. Funny.

TOP will not publish on Tuesday, as Yr. Hmbl. Ed. gets hauled in for some medical tests. (Isn't it annoying how real life gets in the way of messing around on the internet?) Nothing serious. Back soon!

"Go Pack" tonight....

Mike

P.S. Here's the link to the commercial if you can't see it here.

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Featured Comment by David L: "The awfully sad repercussion from the Vikes' loss."

Comments

[Dave Van de Mark]

Looks like the Pack are nicely emulating the "Granola Goons by the Bay" and their heydays with quarterbacks Joe and Steve. Aaron Rodgers is really on a roll...
Best wishes on the tests too!

[Dana Thomas]

....Hey Mike....just a note here before you go in for your medical test. As a photographer working in the medical field I can tell you one test leads to another....go cautious young man!
And, speaking of one thing leading to another,I am compelled here to tell you how much I enjoy and appreciate your good sense, humor, and excellent taste. A day does not pass when I don't check you out. I will not be caught on Facebook, but It would be a pleasure to come face to face with you.

Thanks Mike

[HT]

Tell it to me straight, Doctor. The Vikings are still in the hunt for a playoff spot, right?

[Chris]

Interestingly, they seemed to have cast the wrong person as the "robot" in that commercial. Aaron Rodgers is as automatic as a robot, and I mean that in the very best way possible way.

With that being said, I think there's still an argument for him not winning the MVP this year. I'm 100% serious when I say that Peyton Manning should be in that conversation, too, despite not playing a single down this year.

It's hard to imagine one player's absence(even a QB) having as dramatic an effect as Manning and the Colts this year. Perennial powerhouse to frontrunner in the "Suck for Luck" campaign because one guy is gone? Amazing.

[tex andrews]

Well, my favorite ad on TV these days is the "Tiger by the toe" , with the deadpan line: "Do I really have to holler?" And before that it was the Verizon "pony" ad....

[Blake]

I'm not laughing though, since my State Farm homeowners premium just increased 14.8%.
And it's said that the "Occupiers" 'don't have a clear, coherent message'.

[David Bennett]

Must be an American thing...

xxx

[Tom Higgins]

That's fantastic Mike. When's the photo competition? Huh? Huh? :)

[Christopher Lane]

Well, you did, but good. Sigh.

[paul kramarchyk]

I live in Connecticut, and New England is my team. But I must say, nothing in sports can compare with a stadium full of happy cheese heads.

The Packs are having a great year. And I'm lovin' it.

Enjoy Mike, enjoy.

[yunfat]

I love football (especially how it makes no sense to people who don't love football). When you are American, and live abroad, like I have, you are constantly forced to defend American pastimes, which can be tough, especially pro football.

For our international guests, professional American Football is a unique combination of ballet, espionage, and artillery spotting, played by superhuman millionaires on HGH visionquests, sponsored by ego tripping billionares out to build the worlds biggest TV's just to see their own face displayed in so aggrandizing a fashion as to make their nosehair bigger than the average human being.

Hmmm... I doubt that helped, but I tried :)

[Mike Johnston]

"Hmmm... I doubt that helped, but I tried"

Make me laugh, though.

Mike

[Roger Bradbury]

I really don't want to know what the tests were, but, um, did they use an Olympus camera? : )

[Patrick Love]

Is it just me, or have you "suddenly" jumped on the Pack' wagon now that they are hot? ;-) I don't remember this kind of coverage back in the Favre days.
Well, since I split my internet time between pictures, football and travel this just got that much better.

[Mike Johnston]

Patrick,

Boo!

Yeah, it's just you.

Mike

[Rob]

"Must be an American thing..."

Quite!

[Wayne]

I love it when young women behave in a perfectly rational manner.

Wayne (Bears fan)