Browns:Snickers commercial
Jon Cohodas
I hate to bring up the sport that Art took since we are all still happily
in baseball season, but I just gotta comment on this.
For those of you who haven't seen it, there are two guys sitting in two
stadium seats, chatting about what great seats they got, how they ever
got them, etc. The camera pans to the endzone where the word Cleveland
is painted. The narrator says "Got a lot of time on your hands? Grab a
Snickers."
Was anyone else annoyed by this commercial? I realize that they were
trying to be cute/clever, but didn't they realize that some people might
find this distasteful? Am I just grumpy since the Tribe lost tonight, or
did someone really screwup?
OB Tribe: Is Jeff Kent really that bad?
Frank Greco
> Was anyone else annoyed by this commercial? I realize that they were
> trying to be cute/clever, but didn't they realize that some people might
> find this distasteful? Am I just grumpy since the Tribe lost tonight, or
> did someone really screwup?
You're grumpy.
> OB Tribe: Is Jeff Kent really that bad?
Yes.
Frank G.
Michael Godlewski
I saw the commercial and although at first it made me unhappy to be
reminded, I smiled at the end. After all, they were talking about
Cleveland in a national ad campaign. It is nice to see our home city
mentioned anywhere. Living here in Phoenix, I often log on and read the
Sun News Online just to get a little taste.
I wonder if anyone is tracking Snickers' sales in Cleveland. Being a
marketing geek, I would be interested in seeing the stats.
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Jon Cohodas wrote:
> I hate to bring up the sport that Art took since we are all still happily
> in baseball season, but I just gotta comment on this.
>
> For those of you who haven't seen it, there are two guys sitting in two
> stadium seats, chatting about what great seats they got, how they ever
> got them, etc. The camera pans to the endzone where the word Cleveland
> is painted. The narrator says "Got a lot of time on your hands? Grab a
> Snickers."
>
> Was anyone else annoyed by this commercial? I realize that they were
> trying to be cute/clever, but didn't they realize that some people might
> find this distasteful? Am I just grumpy since the Tribe lost tonight, or
> did someone really screwup?
>
> OB Tribe: Is Jeff Kent really that bad?
>
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John
Hell yes I ws annoyed. I mean the commercial itself was funny as shit,
but when I looked to see that it was on a major network I thought to
myself, here we go again! I mean Cleveland has come so far to get the
critics off our back and now Snickers is using our humiliation to benefit
a candy bar. Should we all stop eating Snickers or what? Oh well, GO
TRIBE!!
Dan Spiegel
In article <50r0cl$s...@herald.concentric.net>,
I've got a different take (although I haven't seen the commercial). It
appears that this commercial accomplishes two things. It parodies the NFL
free agent teams situation while reminding the public of the fact that
Browns fans in particular (and Cleveland in general) got screwed royally.
Unless I'm wrong and the commercial is implying some bull about Cleveland
fans, grin and bear it and pray that the next team is run by competent
people. Of course, competent NFL owner would be a unique concept for
post 1960 Cleveland, wouldn't it?
-Dan
Andrew Kovacs
In a previous article, dspi...@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Dan Spiegel) says:
>I've got a different take (although I haven't seen the commercial). It
>appears that this commercial accomplishes two things. It parodies the NFL
>free agent teams situation while reminding the public of the fact that
>Browns fans in particular (and Cleveland in general) got screwed royally.
>
>Unless I'm wrong and the commercial is implying some bull about Cleveland
>fans, grin and bear it and pray that the next team is run by competent
>people. Of course, competent NFL owner would be a unique concept for
>post 1960 Cleveland, wouldn't it?
I haven't seen the commercial, either. However, the phrase "competent NFL
Owner" would, with about 2 or 3 exceptions, be an oxymoron for post 1960's
NFL, period. Art, for example, would be an oxy-deprived oxymoron. :) And
Boy Sherman could be described as being just, at best, deprived.
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In article <DxDw1...@boss.cs.ohiou.edu>
dspi...@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Dan Spiegel) writes:
>In article <50r0cl$s...@herald.concentric.net>,
>John <pot...@concentric.net> wrote:
>>Hell yes I ws annoyed. I mean the commercial itself was funny as shit,
>>but when I looked to see that it was on a major network I thought to
>>myself, here we go again! I mean Cleveland has come so far to get the
>>critics off our back and now Snickers is using our humiliation to benefit
>>a candy bar. Should we all stop eating Snickers or what? Oh well, GO
>>TRIBE!!
>appears that this commercial accomplishes two things. It parodies the NFL
>free agent teams situation while reminding the public of the fact that
>Browns fans in particular (and Cleveland in general) got screwed royally.
>
>Unless I'm wrong and the commercial is implying some bull about Cleveland
>fans, grin and bear it and pray that the next team is run by competent
>people. Of course, competent NFL owner would be a unique concept for
>post 1960 Cleveland, wouldn't it?
in the 1970's sense one iota. I think it was M&M/Mars way of saying, "Hey,
we think you got screwed, too, but football will be back." The fans were
kind of McKenzie Bros types who were Joe average. I don't think any slight
was inteneded.
Maybe step out of the first person a little and look at it another way. Last
year it was about the Bills losing SBs. The Bills did the commercial themselve
s. It didn't seem offesive to them, did it ? Nahh. Sometimes because of all
the garbage thrown at us when our town was a cesspool (although that has
undergone a unique revision by many anti-tax abatement, White, capital "W",
haters - but that's another post) we are way too freakin sensitive.
I say Good Show. Anything that keeps the Cleveland situation in the nation's
consciousness is not only good for Cleveland, but good for places like
Cincy and Tampa, where levies never would have passed if a vacant Cleveland
wasn't out there like an 800 pound guerilla waiting for a team; Philly,
Detroit and any other place where a bastard owner would abscond with a
fans' team.
No problems laughing at it from this corner.
Jim B.
Les Levine Show Tonite - After Indains, Sports Channel Ohio
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On Sep 10, 6:12pm, JBAR...@kentvm.kent.edu wrote:
> I saw it & I thought it was great. I don't think it made fun of Cleveland
> in the 1970's sense one iota. I think it was M&M/Mars way of saying, "Hey,
> we think you got screwed, too, but football will be back." The fans were
> kind of McKenzie Bros types who were Joe average. I don't think any slight
> was inteneded.
I thought it was funny too, but......
Upon further review, it is insulting. To whom I'm not sure, but
it is insulting somebody. Right at the end, one of the guys says
"It must be a 4:00 game" implying that those particular fans are
clueless.
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Frank Greco
> > I saw it & I thought it was great. I don't think it made fun of Cleveland
> > in the 1970's sense one iota. I think it was M&M/Mars way of saying, "Hey,
> > we think you got screwed, too, but football will be back." The fans were
> > kind of McKenzie Bros types who were Joe average. I don't think any slight
> > was inteneded.
>
> I thought it was funny too, but......
>
> Upon further review, it is insulting. To whom I'm not sure, but
> it is insulting somebody. Right at the end, one of the guys says
> "It must be a 4:00 game" implying that those particular fans are
> clueless.
Most humor insults some person or group in one fashion or another.
Frank G.
dan...@buckeye.cb.lucent.com
Yep. You are correct. Most Humor does insult some person/group.
But, we mustn't take life so seriously sometimes.
I AM a "Cleveland Browns" Fan, and will continue to be...even
if play never resumes again. And if we can't laugh at ourselves or a
joke once in a while...life would be boring and not too funny. That
would be a shame.
I for one laughed MY ASS off when I saw this comercial. Do
I eat Snickers Bars??? No, I don't. Will I buy them because of the
Ad? Nope. But It sure gave me a good laugh at a situation that
quite frankly wasn't very funny. [Nuff Said]
< Most humor insults some person or group in one fashion or another.
<
< Frank G.
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T & K Lambert
I too thought it was hilarious. A little laughter to get through this
Browns Football dormancy doesn't hurt.
I don't know about anyone else, but I thought the guy who sat on the
right (as you face them) sounded like a flaky pansy and was a moron.
This is a guy who wouldn't make it past the first quarter if he was in
the dog pound. He would have been heckled or roughed up a bit. I just
wished they would have used a better representative for a Browns Fan.
Terry Lambert
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Tj Streib
It may have something to do with all the negative feedback they got for picking on Cleveland (hadn't they suffered enough losing their team?). For a time, they even offered disgruntled Browns fans free cases of Snickers out of apology.