Oh. My. God. I guess I had blocked it out until now, which is amazing if you consider how many times they played the stupid freaking thing, but what in the HELL are the marketing people thinking???? Get some anonymous fans to hold up some pieces of cardboard with magic marker writing on them?? Take a little kid and have him run around in Yao's shorts??? Pretend to have some fat guy jump on the little trampoline and the fall on his face?? Some old dude lounging at center court like he's doing some boudior photography?? Maybe I am just completely out of touch, but could someone explain to me how that is supposed to make me want to buy Rockets tickets??? Ok, I can see the sense in having a couple of the hottie Power Dancers in the commercial, but why only have them in it for exactly 2 milliseconds??? Come ON Rockets!!! At the very least, please try to limit the number of times you SHOW the stupid thing per night!! I was ready to stick my own head in the over after seeing it for the 50th time in the span of about 30 miinutes!! Please please PLEASE change the strategy on this stuff!! The 'homey home-made cheap and cheesy' look does NOT go with the new arena, uniforms, players, city, or the dramatic logo designs. GIVE IT UP. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! I gotta get a TIVO. (ok I feel better now)
Those commercials were not very impressive. Yeah...I remember them, but it's because they were so bad...not because they made me want to buy tickets. The music is cheesy, too. Get some AC/DC or Kurtis Blow and pump some energy into the commercial. At least bring back that dork that prances around his living room with the giant map of Texas hanging on the wall who gets pissed off at the Rockets, stomps away, then returns to beg their forgiveness. That guy rules! Or better yet...do a commercial where the only person talking is John Amaechi.
I have to admit though.....I really enjoyed the Southwest commercial where everyone was leaving the office like it was the last day of school. I especially laughed at the minivan peeling out as it left the office.
Would you rather watch Steve and Yao playing scrabble? I never did find out what the hell "huxi" was....
As long as Le$ has this team this is what we're gonne get. His ideas are horrible and mostly have nothing to do with basketball. It all started with that stupid bear. I still don't know what a bear has in common with a team called the Rockets. First we had the clown suits, now we have the silk pj's. When will this stop? How long before we have a REAL NBA team instead of being the laughing stock of the league?
How about Viagra as a sponsor? They could have the old dude ask what a Jeff Van Gundy coached team and Viagra have in common. The answer... they both give you rock hard "D".
Guys, in case you missed this post, cato13 is telling the truth. That really is him in the commercial.
Yeah, I was wondering if he was joking or serious. I'm lukewarm to the Rockets commercial. What was killing me was the Joe's Crabshack commercial which was (1) repeated ad nauseum, (2) terrible, and (3) really, really annoying.
Was 'cato13' telling the truth? Is it really him (cato13) in the commercial? Or was it 'Calvin Cato'? Or cato13=Calvin Cato?
