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From: lbl@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (leslie.b.locklear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Monday Night Football
Summary: I saw one...
Message-ID: <2327@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 89 20:01:03 GMT
References: <2523@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> <5601@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <5601@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>, nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock) writes:
> In article <2523@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> consp11@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Optimist Prime) writes:
> >I watched the telecast of Monday Night Football last night, from start
> >to finish, and I have a question:
> 
> At least you saw a good football game (at the end, anyway).
>

I saw one of the ads just before halftime.  It featured a kid named Stevie 
up in his room getting all sorts of famous visitors who he was helping with 
his Amiga 500.  Of course, Stevie's parents are extremely surprised each
time one them shows up at the door.  There were 3 of the Apollo astronauts, 
the Pointer Sisters (interesting because their keyboard players hype Atari), 
Tip O'Neil, and others whose names I can't remember right now.

There were several nifty screen shots of the Amiga doing Great Things, but
the commercial left me distinctly unimpressed.  The theme of the commercial 
was that the Amiga is the computer for creative people, but the viewer was
left with the impression that Stevie was the only person in the commercial 
creative enough to use it!

Sigh, I guess it's better than nothing...

Barry Locklear