http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/espn-axescrude-ad-campaign-for-obvious-reasons-20910 Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:17:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/espn-axescrude-ad-campaign-for-obvious-reasons-20910#comment-32595 #1 Fan Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:25:23 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/espn-axescrude-ad-campaign-for-obvious-reasons-20910#comment-32595 It is beyond silly to get worked up over this. This is an ad agency trying to draw people into a commercial. It's completely normal for them to want to add some color to the characters. And in doing so it is perfectly natural (1) to try to associate with a picture of some kind of kid people might think actually might be found at a particular school and (2) to caricature the characters to some extent. Shame on you for falling into the trap of labeling these characters as "racist" "stereotypes."  It is people like you who are treating them as generalizations, not the writers and not ESPN.  "Awful" fits this story all right. It is beyond silly to get worked up over this. This is an ad agency trying to draw people into a commercial. It's completely normal for them to want to add some color to the characters. And in doing so it is perfectly natural (1) to try to associate with a picture of some kind of kid people might think actually might be found at a particular school and (2) to caricature the characters to some extent.
Shame on you for falling into the trap of labeling these characters as "racist" "stereotypes."  It is people like you who are treating them as generalizations, not the writers and not ESPN.  "Awful" fits this story all right.

]]> http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/espn-axescrude-ad-campaign-for-obvious-reasons-20910#comment-31733 Arta Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:39:01 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/espn-axescrude-ad-campaign-for-obvious-reasons-20910#comment-31733 they could have had a girl railing 8-balls for U of A they could have had a girl railing 8-balls for U of A

]]> http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/espn-axescrude-ad-campaign-for-obvious-reasons-20910#comment-31557 Plaxico Rent-A-Car Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:34:58 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/espn-axescrude-ad-campaign-for-obvious-reasons-20910#comment-31557 That's a shame. This ad campaign could have made millions! That's a shame. This ad campaign could have made millions!

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