Salaam and Pitts to star in Super Bowl Ad

[Texans_Chick]

Originally Posted by TexanSam

I watched the video on the website, but I thought it was Ephraim exaggerating the story not the commercial makers/Hollywood? I thought Pitts said that Kyle Turley was also involved in having him try out for the football team but that he's keeping the entire story under wraps in case he wants to write a book about it (the book part was probably in jest, the rest I'm not so sure).

And Hollywood likes the more exaggerated story, so even with Pitts saying that's not the way things were, they went with Ephraam's version.

And of course, I am sure the conversations between the two didn't go the way they did on the commercials. "Oboe, it's a member of the woodwind family."

Hollywood does the exaggerated version because if reality programming was real, it would be boring.

Dramatizations of real events are rarely a reflection of reality because reality is usually boring and subtle and complicated and that doesn't make for good TV.

[tulexan]

Of course Hollywood is going to exaggerate the story. The point of the commercial was to tell an interesting story in an entertaining way. The commercial probably wouldn't have been made if they told the story the way it actually happened and I think Chester doesn't really care either. Better to be in a Super Bowl commercial about yourself telling an exaggerated story than not to be in one at all.

[Texans_Chick]

Originally Posted by tulexan

Of course Hollywood is going to exaggerate the story. The point of the commercial was to tell an interesting story in an entertaining way. The commercial probably wouldn't have been made if they told the story the way it actually happened and I think Chester doesn't really care either. Better to be in a Super Bowl commercial about yourself telling an exaggerated story than not to be in one at all.

As I said, it wasn't a complaint about the ad but more of an observation.

[YellerLotYeller]

Chester and Salaam were just on Ellen.....pretty good stuff.

[HoustonFrog]

Originally Posted by YellerLotYeller

Chester and Salaam were just on Ellen.....pretty good stuff.

I wanted to know if someone saw it. How did they do?

[AnthonyE]

Originally Posted by YellerLotYeller

Chester and Salaam were just on Ellen.....pretty good stuff.

Ah, yeah. I heard. Didn't get a chance to see though.

What'd they talk about?

[Texan_Bill]

Originally Posted by YellerLotYeller

Chester and Salaam were just on Ellen.....pretty good stuff.

Originally Posted by HoustonFrog

I wanted to know if someone saw it. How did they do?

Originally Posted by AnthonyE

Ah, yeah. I heard. Didn't get a chance to see though.

What'd they talk about?

I wanna know:
a) Why is Yeller is watching Ellen to begin with?? and,
b) why Frog and AnthonyE are interested???

[powerfuldragon]

'cuz she makes out with chicks, dude.

[Texan_Bill]

Originally Posted by powerfuldragon

'cuz she makes out with chicks, dude.

LMAO!!!

That would be cool, if she didn't look like the guy in gym class that everyone picked on... I mean her kissing a chick doesn't exactly conjure up, say Tiffany Amber Thiessen and Jaime Pressley, or Brit and Maddonna, etc., etc....

[YellerLotYeller]

Dude, I watch Ellen everyday.....j/k. I saw a commercial for it while I was watching the news at lunch. Pitts and Salaam talked about the story behind the super ad. They said it was voted the #1 SB commercial on some poll. Also Salaam gave her a signed Texans jersey, and they were both decent dancers.

[TEXANRED]

I will help you guys out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXTYmR5UTZE

Figured someone would have put it on youtube by now.

This was funny stuff.

Chester looks like he is slimming down to play guard in Gibbs' system. He is usually a little rounder. Even Salaam looks to have slimmed down.

I thought Salaam was a FA this year?

[AnthonyE]

Originally Posted by TEXANRED

I will help you guys out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXTYmR5UTZE

Figured someone would have put it on youtube by now.

This was funny stuff.

Chester looks like he is slimming down to play guard in Gibbs' system. He is usually a little rounder. Even Salaam looks to have slimmed down.

I thought Salaam was a FA this year?

Maybe his agent and the Texans have already been talking.

Thanks for the vid.

[drewmar74]

Interesting. Apparently our positive reviews of the commercial weren't seen through "homer-colored" glasses.

"Though an earlier survey by TiVo showed that E*Trade's Super Bowl ad was the most viewed, new data from IAG Research claims the NFL's Chester Pitts ad was the most liked and FedEx's carrier pigeon ad was the most recalled. E*Trade's ad featuring a talking baby scored high, netting No. 7 on the "most viewed" and No. 8 on "most recalled" lists. IAG, New York, bases its findings on 18,000 surveys with people who watched Sunday's telecast. The NFL's ad, about a Houston Texans player named Chester Pitts who was discovered bagging groceries by fellow Texan Ephraim Salaam, performed 72% better than the average Super Bowl ad."

http://www.brandweek.com/bw/news/rec..._id=1003708015

[GlassHalfFull]

Salaam needs to do stand up comedy when his football career is over.

[HoustonFrog]

Originally Posted by Texan_Bill

I wanna know:
a) Why is Yeller is watching Ellen to begin with?? and,
b) why Frog and AnthonyE are interested???

Just saw this...interested in what they have to say..lol

I did see that she had them on the red carpet of the grammys as correspondents......and no I wasn't watching the red carpet..it was in the Chronicle today.

[Wolf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaB2a...eature=related

john mccain asks kyle

[b0ng]

Originally Posted by Wolf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaB2a...eature=related

john mccain asks kyle

It's literally just like Salaam's story, but has enough subtle differences to think that he got discovered by both guys. So has Chester ever said who talked to him first?

[Wolf]

they will be back
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/fea...-brothers.html

The Ellen DeGeneres Show will be taping episodes again this week at Universal Orlando's CityWalk.

Noon show, Friday, March 28: Florida's own Flo Rida ("Low"), Comedian Jeff Foxworthy (who wrote a children's book called "Dirt on My Shirt") and NFL players Chester Pitts and Ephraim Salaam, who are said to be DeGeneres' favorite football players. They're with the Houston Texans.

[AnthonyE]

Originally Posted by Wolf

they will be back
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/fea...-brothers.html

That's awesome to know, thanks.

[TexanSam]

They should give Ellen a customized Texans jersey!