I may be super behind the times on this video, but forgive me. I finally saw Steve Young and Jerry Rice’s Van Heusen commercial for JCPenney this Memorial Day. This ad features Young as a professor teaching a class about men’s fashion, and using Rice as the example of what to wear.
The commercial is only epic if you’re a fan of the two (like I am.) For the rest of America, it’s about as relevant as having Full House’s Danny Tanner hawk cleaning products. Appropriate casting…for 1995. Heck, I bet half the people who see this commercial have no idea who they are, yet alone that they were one of the best QB-WR combinations in NFL history.
That aside, what is truly epic is the behind the scenes video. In this video shot by KGO-TV in San Francisco in December, Young and Rice get funky. Yes. Let us watch them get down with their bad selves. Jump to the :45 second mark in this video and see the two try to do some type of dance. Gosh darn it, is it terribly awkward.
This is the stuff popular animated GIFs are made of. Now, if only I knew how to make one.