Badminton Commercial in US

**Lala Miso** · 05-03-2007, 01:06 PM

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

Personally i just think this is partly the reason people think badminton is an easy sport --;

**Joseph** · 05-03-2007, 01:06 PM

Anyone see the vitamin water commercial?

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

**jerby** · 05-03-2007, 01:19 PM

the word abomination comes to mind...

Thsoe blokes are soo fat they just háve to be baseball players...

***kwun*** · 05-03-2007, 01:22 PM

the two "asian" guys are actually Howard Bach and Bob Malaythong, the #1 US MD pair.

despite that, the commercial itself is pretty lame.

**jerby** · 05-03-2007, 01:36 PM

I recognized Howard...

but darn....Americans... You'd expect they did at least sómething right if you hire in two professional players...

**Dreamzz** · 05-03-2007, 01:49 PM

hahaha, what a dumbass commercial ... pardon my french.
i can't believe howard stooped to that level!

***kwun*** · 05-03-2007, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Dreamzz

hahaha, what a dumbass commercial ... pardon my french.
i can't believe howard stooped to that level!

i doubt he designed and directed the commercial. he was probably hired to do it without knowing any details.

**Chire** · 05-03-2007, 01:54 PM

I want the 30 seconds of my life back that I just wasted watching this commercial!

That's probably the lamest and visually most unprofessional commercial I've ever seen. I mean, just look at the bald fatso diving to the net

. What the heck why didn't they just hire 4 professionals instead of just two?

I feel sorry for Bach having taken part on this.

**TLCal** · 05-03-2007, 02:03 PM

man....totally became speechless after watching this dummiest commercial of my life time so far.

**cooler** · 05-03-2007, 02:26 PM

-looks like the receiver faulted by moving before the shuttle is served.
- on the black guy, how can he smash return a jumpsmash by bob M. ?

**ctjcad** · 05-03-2007, 02:52 PM

...thx for providing the link

i was quite surprised also when i saw Urlacher launching himself for that birdie, without helmet, padding...anyways, it's just a pointless humor at badminton..

**Dreamzz** · 05-03-2007, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by kwun

i doubt he designed and directed the commercial. he was probably hired to do it without knowing any details.

yeah, haha, i mean him no insult .... he was prolly unwittingly a part of this.

still, badminton's image must have taken a hit in the states.

**Konnichiwa** · 05-03-2007, 03:08 PM

i think for howard and bob its all about the $$$$$..... haha... i meannn hey who wouldnt want the extra money for doing a commercial plus get two meet other famous athletes

**Wong8Egg** · 05-03-2007, 03:08 PM

No wonder ESPN rank badminton lower than baseball.

**Loppy** · 05-03-2007, 03:10 PM

I'm sure that commercial will have done a lot of good for badminton, since there are 2 "famous" baseball players in it. Besides, it's better for people to think it's an easy sport instead of a hard sport, if it's easy more people will be tempted to try it out =p
what we need is some badminton commercials in the UK with famous football stars...

**Kelvin** · 05-03-2007, 03:14 PM

what the crap was that? LOL

I was laughing too hard to understand what it was about...

edit: oh nvm... it was about water

come on guys, it was obviously created for amusement. Seeing a football player & baseball player doing their own routine was funny. Oh, and I want to smash like Ortiz ROFL

**Pete LSD** · 05-03-2007, 10:05 PM

I wonder if Bob and Howard had second thoughts about the commercial. Granted they really need the extra money, but the way it was done put badminton in a very bad light and it was very lame.