![]() ![]() ![]() The one where the guy has been working out so hard (or playing so hard) that he drinks the Gatorade with such urgency that it spills all over him. One time I accidentally did four push-ups trying to get off the couch, so I immediately went and ate 36 Bagel Bites so my body wouldn’t start to think I’d decided we were going to become a guy who works out.Ģ. I don’t know that I’ve ever been as enthusiastic about anything as guys in Gatorade commercials are about getting back to working out. The one where the guy slams the Gatorade bottle down because he doesn’t have time to set it down gently because he fucking has to get back to work immediately and so it splashes all over. These are the five best Gatorade commercial tropes:ġ. (Gatorade had started working on it before he actually won, so its bet had been made.) It really was epochal, and it engineered what Gatorade would come to represent creatively. And this came the same year he won his first championship, too. Jordan was becoming the biggest athlete in the world and also stepping into what would become one of basketball’s most influential and revered eras. It’s still the greatest Gatorade commercial of all time, and I can’t imagine a scenario in which anything could ever be better. There are a bunch we could show you here, but there’s only one that was truly iconic: Gatorade got its shit together in the ’90s and started making cool commercials. Like, I mean straight up.” They played basketball weird in the ’80s. And then just throw the ball straight up into the air. You want it to look a capital letter ‘C’ but turned the other way. It started out well enough (the guy with ball is about 11 feet up in the air), but I need to meet the coach who told this poor kid that the best way to shoot a jumper is to “bend your spine back as far as it can - really, really crank it. The only very interesting part of this one is the 0:17 mark: Here’s a Gatorade commercial from the ’80s. I’m surprised Tipalet wasn’t able to overtake Marlboro, what with its cherry-flavored cigarettes and all. The second thing that’s funny is that the commercial that came on directly before this one (at least in this particular commercial block) was one encouraging people to smoke because cigarettes taste good and smell good. But tell me how it’s going to help get all of these minorities back out of baseball. Two things are funny (to me) about this: First, this was 1969, so it’s just real easy to imagine a version that played like this getting cut right before airing:ĭissenter: Fine. Narrator: Says the New York Yankees, the Minnesota Twins, the Cincinnati Reds …Īnd on and on. Narrator: This is Gatorade, the greatest thirst quencher ever made. This was back before athletes were brands, which is easy to tell because the commercial is anchored by baseball teams rather than baseball players. Just as much fun, though, is Gatorade as a pop culture entity, mostly in regard to the commercials the company has made. I don’t know that everyone has a personal history with Gatorade, but I know that at least every athlete does, or at least every athlete in America does, or least every athlete that I know does, or at least I do, so that’s why I thought the Gatorade 30 for 30 short was so interesting. Fruit Punch: The Tim Duncan bank shot of Gatorade flavors. Glacier Freeze: What a lot of people don’t know is that the captain of the Titanic actually drove that ship straight into the iceberg because he thought it was a Glacier Freeze Gatorade.ĥ. (Mikan retired before Bill Russell’s first year in the league, and I don’t imagine that was a coincidence.)Ĥ. Lemon-Lime: It ranks this high mostly on account of the weight it carries historically, with it being the original flavor and whatnot, like how people mention George Mikan with the best NBA centers ever even though he’d get dusted by basically any center considered marquee who played after him. Fierce Grape: I would give my life for an ice-cold Fierce Grape Gatorade.ģ. (By the way, “perfect and delicious” is a good way to describe Jordan’s game if you want to be a total weirdo but also aesthetically correct.)Ģ. Citrus Cooler: It was Michael Jordan’s favorite, so that’s how everyone knows it, but it was also perfect and delicious, so that’s how everyone should know it. These are the five best Gatorade flavors:ġ. ![]()
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