Rival Friends Commercial

[Seth]

I try day in and day out to understand this fucking commercial. It starts with "Why Can't We Be Friends" and asks if Red Sox and Yankee fans and other rivals can't be friends. It asks you and your rival friends to tell your stories. WHAT?? What the fuck is a rival friend and what kind of stories can you have?

I don't get it and it bugs me.
I'm a Mets fan and my bf is a Yankee fan. My best friend loves the Mets and her daughter is a Red Sox fan. Is that interesting to anyone? Does anyone have a story that is interesting on this subject?

[Bach]

Maybe they are looking for something along the lines of "...we were going to break up over the fact that he likes Team A and she likes Team B. But then she kicked him in the nuts and they kissed and made up."

Actually I'm in total agreement with you. The commercial is rather ridiculous, but based on most of the other spots/promos they run, I'm not surprised.

Must have been the brain-child of Bruce Kelly.

[Seth]

I don't know, the commercial might be working... I'm thinking of tuning in just to know what the hell they could possibly find interesting about it!!

[Chester'sLiver]

Maybe they are looking for something along the lines of "...we were going to break up over the fact that he likes Team A and she likes Team B. But then she kicked him in the nuts and they kissed and made up."

Actually I'm in total agreement with you. The commercial is rather ridiculous, but based on most of the other spots/promos they run, I'm not surprised.

Must have been the brain-child of Bruce Kelly.

This is totally true - nothing beats the "How much is that doggy in the window? How much wood can a woodchuck chuck? How much does a tranny charge for a BJ? On what's on my XM?" spot that is absolutley horrid!

[Papagolash]

One of my best friends used to be a Mets fan until they signed Mike Piazza. Since then he's become a Yankee fan and I take any oppertunity to bash him about it or make him uncomfortable.

For instance, on halloween he threw a keg party up in Boston where he's going for school and I dressed up as that dead Red Sox fan that got shot in the eye by cops. Nothing like getting into arguments with Sox fans, lying down mocking the dead bitch, and seeing my friend look really uncomfortable.

[Bach]

and I dressed up as that dead Red Sox fan that got shot in the eye by cops
That very well might be the singularly most innovative thing ever posted on this board. Bra-fucking-vo!

Now back on topic...

I don't know, the commercial might be working... I'm thinking of tuning in just to know what the hell they could possibly find interesting about it!!
It's not even marginally seated in reality. You will never see two people shaking hands in an airport, let alone a Yankees and Red Sox fan. Just because they both have XM MyFi's does not detente make. Most encounters with fans of other teams end in name calling and infantile "your mother" jokes, not a peace treaty.

Must be that E-Lo marketing mentality at work. Kinda like on this morning's show -- "don't forget to tell them that the Oldies are alive on XM."

[APortablePhone]

I dressed up as that dead Red Sox fan that got shot in the eye by cops.

You really dressed up like this...

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