Most random pitchmen

[wicked]

I was watching the Twins-Astros game and there was another Frank Thomas Nugenix ad.

With Andy van ****ing Slyke.

I haven’t thought about Andy van Slyke in probably 30 years. The Pirates got torn down and I feel like he faded into oblivion.

They had to put a chyron up saying it was Andy van Slyke. No one knew what he looked like since he was probably last seen in public in 1997.

How many retired baseball players have to say no for Nugenix to even think about calling up a guy who’s lived in a cave for a couple decades?

It made me think of what other people who have been way off the radar popped up in an ad. I can’t think of anyone as random as AvfS.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Rick Moranis popping up after decades of retirement in that cell service ad with Ryan Reynolds.

 

[ChrisLong]

I was watching the Twins-Astros game and there was another Frank Thomas Nugenix ad.

With Andy van ****ing Slyke.

I haven’t thought about Andy van Slyke in probably 30 years. The Pirates got torn down and I feel like he faded into oblivion.

They had to put a chyron up saying it was Andy van Slyke. No one knew what he looked like since he was probably last seen in public in 1997.

How many retired baseball players have to say no for Nugenix to even think about calling up a guy who’s lived in a cave for a couple decades?

It made me think of what other people who have been way off the radar popped up in an ad. I can’t think of anyone as random as AvfS.

He's most famous for being on-deck when Jack Clark hit the homer off Tom Niedenfuer as the Cardinals beat the Dodgers.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Doug Flutie is a little strange. It's 20 years since he played and he was never a huge national star.

I don't get why some of the older actors do ads. Bryan Cox is almost 80 and probably made a few million on Succession. Tom Selleck makes a few hundred thousand a week and is doing ****ty ads for old people.

 

[Slacker]

 

[Scout]

I was watching the Twins-Astros game and there was another Frank Thomas Nugenix ad.

With Andy van ****ing Slyke.

I haven’t thought about Andy van Slyke in probably 30 years. The Pirates got torn down and I feel like he faded into oblivion.

They had to put a chyron up saying it was Andy van Slyke. No one knew what he looked like since he was probably last seen in public in 1997.

How many retired baseball players have to say no for Nugenix to even think about calling up a guy who’s lived in a cave for a couple decades?

It made me think of what other people who have been way off the radar popped up in an ad. I can’t think of anyone as random as AvfS.

Nugenix gives you a boner when your 50 or older.

Guess who were popular athletes 30 years ago?

 

[Scout]

 

[MisterCreosote]

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

My all-time favorite pro wrestling heel. His team with Mad Dog Vachon was golden, particularly the interviews.

Verne Gagne was known to be a miser, so I don't know how much bank the Baron made from wrestling. According to Wikipedia he worked as a substitute teacher on his off days (can you imagine him subbing a middle school or junior high class?) and owned a souvenir shop near Lake Itasca after retiring.

 

[dixiehack]

Erik Estrada pitching real estate developments in flyover country remains my gold standard in this category.

 

[Batman]

Doug Flutie is a little strange. It's 20 years since he played and he was never a huge national star.

He's obviously past his peak sell-by date, but I think Doug Flutie was a household name for at least 20 years. The hail Mary vs. Miami lives on forever. He won the Heisman, famously flamed out in the NFL and had a great comeback story, Flutie Flakes ... there's an entire generation who knows who he is.

 

[CD Boogie]

I was watching the Twins-Astros game and there was another Frank Thomas Nugenix ad.

With Andy van ****ing Slyke.

I haven’t thought about Andy van Slyke in probably 30 years. The Pirates got torn down and I feel like he faded into oblivion.

What, you've never gotten a Pirates/Cards square in Immaculate Grid?

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I had to look it up because I was confused which way the trades went, but Van Slyke came up through the Cardinals organization and was traded to the Pirates in 1987 for Tony Peña, who was a non-factor in the Cards' NL pennant that year because of injury and basically thereafter.

Van Slyke, on the other hand, became hugely popular in Yinzerland.

 

[garrow]

 

[Scout]

 

[Flip Wilson]

I remember hearing, just a couple of times, a radio commercial here in Central Texas for Bluto's Pizza, and it featured Fritz Von Erich. And for some reason, the tag line was, "I'd rather have Bluto's than a blue nose." I have no idea the context of the commercial other than that.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I still am blown away by Ice-T pimping Car Shield.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Ice-T and Shaq, more the latter, are kind of random. Shaq doesn't have to do anything for another day in his life and he is selling all this down market stuff.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Jennifer Garner, Taylor Swift, and Paul Giamatti are also on the list of stars I would think couldn't be bothered to leave the house for filming ads.

The money must be amazing.

 

[Batman]

Jennifer Garner, Taylor Swift, and Paul Giamatti are also on the list of stars I would think couldn't be bothered to leave the house for filming ads.

The money must be amazing.

I would think Taylor Swift's Capital One commercials are part of a sponsorship deal for her tour. But she is also getting a reported $8 million for those commercials, and it looks like Garner is getting between $3 million and $5 million per year. So yes, the money is very amazing.