The best commercial I can remember: Howie Long and the "man step"

She'll be known as the girl that pointed at Howie Long's weiner on national TV. Life is about to do a way worse number on her than anything you're planning.

 

You have no soul

 

I hate that little red-haired biatch. And Howie looks dorky in that one.

 

I'd love for the man-step guy to turn to Howie and say, "I had hip replacement surgery last year, asshole."

 

I'll give you some ammo ... Dothan High School principal

 

The best commercial in a long time?

Howie Long epitomizes the classic obnoxious bully as he berates the hapless doofus (who is really more like most real guys) for using the "man step" equipped Ford.
Does that happen in real life?
Not unless it's between one over-sexed, under-brained seventeen year old (Howie) and his less-endowed-with-masculinity, can't-get-a-girlfriend classmate.

I do wonder if GM has managed to put a tidy title on the billion dollar bailout largesse extended by the US taxpayers (nerdy Ford guy among them).

May I suggest....

"MAN STEP" ?

 

Most obnoxious commercial of all-time? I'll buy that.

The man-step that Chevy derides is actually a clever and useful accessory for truck owners who aren't 6-foot-plus former athletes.

No wonder Obama wants to take over GM.

 

As a proud owner of a F-150, I cannot wait for the Ford owner to hand Howie bankruptcy papers while laughing about the Aveo and the Hummer.

 

I pissed off Howie Long last year.
His position coach, Earl Leggett (the guy who introduced him at his HOF induction) lived in our area and died last year. Leggett and Long were close, and Long delivered a great eulogy. I covered the memorial service, but missed a couple of the people I wanted to talk to. So as much as I hated to, I went to the graveside service.
After it wrapped up, I was talking to Terry Robiskie on his way back to the car. Howie Long walks by and says, "You're doing an interview at a funeral!?" Couldn't tell if he was talking to me or Robiskie.
Robiskie was cool and told him we were talking about Leggett. Howie let it go, but he still gave me disapproving look No. 37.
That's my Howie Long story.

 

I might side with Howie on that one.

 

Normally I wouldn't have gone to the graveside service. To me, that's for the family. But I really needed to talk to someone else about Leggett, and everyone slipped out a back door at the memorial service. I felt like a bit of a heel even being there, but it's not like I was asking Robiskie about how the Falcons were going to do next year.