This amazing ad aired in game one of the Nugs – Utah series. I’m not sure which is more amazing, however…the buzz this ad created, or the fact that whoever is now running the Jordan ad campaigns doesn’t have an HQ video readily available online to get all H1N1. Viral video has to be a huge component of successful campaigns these days…we feel that exactly unlike Melo in game one, Nike/Jordan dropped the ball on this one. So it goes. Enjoy it here as videotaped on betamax through a window on a neighbor’s tv…it’s certainly still worth the watch.

This ad is so good, they not only borrowed inspiration from Monty Python for the floating-head-ascension graphics, but even squeezed in a flock of the Utah state bird.

If one of the 2 or 3 people who occasionally read this thing could please find a decent quality version of this commercial and forward it to us, it would be greatly appreciated.

As life-long Orange(men) fans, we can quite plainly say this 2010 team is the best we’ve ever seen Syracuse put on the floor. The team that won it all in 2003 had, obviously, amazing talent and a future NBA all-everything in Melo, but this team is just that: a team. It doesn’t feel like we have that insane liability on the court…the guy who could single-handedly win or lose games with his reckless play. 2010 has a team full of guys who pick each other up, and as a group can overcome most all of Scoop Jardine’s ridiculous decisions down the stretch. We love Scoop, honest, but do sometimes wonder, as he’s fouling guys shooting three pointers down the stretch (multiple times), what (or if) he is thinking.

That said it is high time we pay tribute to the 1996 Syracuse squad that advanced past Kansas in front of a hostile Denver, CO crowd to make the Final Four. High time we pay tribute to Al McGuire and his bit of “french pastry”.

It would really be a shame if this team who opened the season with an exhibition loss to Division II Le Moyne and has since gone 6-0 against Top 10 teams doesn’t play into early April and end up with some nylon neckwear.