These new Microsoft Commercials

[wounded]

What is up with these new Microsoft commercials for the windows phone with Gwen Stefani and Grant Hill?

seriously who the fuck is Microsoft's ad agency. I remember when they just sat back and took a beating from all those i'm a mac ads from apple and did nothing. then they responded with a seinfeld commercial. Now i love seinfeld, but you respond to a series of ads saying you are old and boring with using a comedian whose show has been off the air for 15 years.

I didn't think they'd top that then I saw a windows phone commercial with grant hill. grant fucking hill. and then gwen stefani. jesus, next thing you know there will be billy corgan.

[noyen]

celebrity endorsements that are targeting a specific age demographic. it's not all too shocking. i see the stefani one all the time. i wouldn't doubt if microsoft already approached someone like bolly. marketing. wild stuff.

[wounded]

I get that, but Microsoft isn't getting back int he game with outdated celebrity endorsements. I mean Grant Hill? come on.

[noyen]

i dont know who grant hill is but i do like jessica alba's body so they have a chance with me.

[Trotskilicious]

grant hill was a superstar basketball player in the 90s then his knee exploded and didn't really play for like 3 years, came back for one year then his knee exploded again and was out for another. then he actually managed to return and play well, but mostly as just a regular joe NBA starter and now he's a bench player for the clippers at the age of 40 playing 15 mpg and sucking super bad

[Trotskilicious]

and i mean super fucking bad his efficiency and shooting % should be absolutely humiliating he should have retired during the season

[wounded]

and he is fiddle dicking with his windows phone at the end of the bench

[Trotskilicious]

next thing you know tony romo's gonna be in ms commercials

[noyen]

i don't know shit about sports. he sounds familiar now though.. i'm not much of a manly man. it kind of sucks because a lot of conversation revolves around sports stuff and i only know so much. i am shameful.

[Trotskilicious]

whereas i am around people who mostly don't care about sports and then i am the shameful one

[Lucky Day Spa]

grant hill rookie cards were in hot demand back in 1996, tell you what

[Bread Regal]

he was on the magic for a hot minute wasn't he.

[Bread Regal]

the magic is good at having useless players it seems.

[Trotskilicious]

yeah he spent most of his injured years as a member of the magic

orlando just seems to be caught between having a great franchise that drafts well and being a place no one wants to stay

i read somewhere that they are the winningest expansion franchise in nba history but i'm sure the heat are closing that gap. still, having shaq and d. howard play for them was a boon, and honestly they are sorry right now but have a lot of good parts and probably will be in the top 5 of the draft for the next 3-4 years. i mean they have made 2 nba finals. some older teams can't even claim that

[vixnix]

they've obviously worked out that only gen x ppl or older want windows

[hnibos]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

grant hill was a superstar basketball player in the 90s then his knee exploded and didn't really play for like 3 years, came back for one year then his knee exploded again and was out for another. then he actually managed to return and play well, but mostly as just a regular joe NBA starter and now he's a bench player for the clippers at the age of 40 playing 15 mpg and sucking super bad

It was his ankle that exploded.

[hnibos]

Shattered is probably more accurate.

[Trotskilicious]

my bad

but yeah i say exploded any time something really horrible happens

[Trotskilicious]

also when guys get hurt i say they died or are dead

[Trotskilicious]

e.g. danilo gallinari died the other night when his leg exploded