What campaign for Budweiser, written by a Chicago based director, was first aired during Monday Night Football?
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Vinny Warren Vinny Warren is an Irish-born American advertising creative director, most notable for his iconic "Whassup?" campaign for Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch). Warren was inducted into the Clio Awards Hall of Fame in 2006. He is based in Chicago, Illinois.
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Whassup? Whassup? (also known as Wazzup) was a commercial campaign for Anheuser-Busch Budweiser beer from 1999 to 2002. The first spot aired during "Monday Night Football", December 20, 1999. The ad campaign was run worldwide and became a pop culture catchphrase. The phrase itself is a slurred version of the phrase "What's up?".
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Jeremy Bates (American football) Jeremy Bates (born August 27, 1976) is an American football coach and former player. He was the quarterbacks coach for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL), a position he assumed in February 2012. Bates has previously served as the offensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks and quarterbacks coach for the USC Trojans football team.
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Jake Mintun John F. "Jake" Mintun (July 12, 1894February 25, 1976) was professional American football player who played offensive lineman for seven seasons for the Decatur/Chicago Staleys (1920–1921), the Racine Legion (1922–1924), the Kansas City Cowboys (1925), and the Racine Tornadoes (1926).
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Seth Meyers Seth Adam Meyers (born December 28, 1973) is an American comedian, writer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He hosts "Late Night with Seth Meyers", a late-night talk show that airs on NBC. Prior to that, he was a head writer for NBC's "Saturday Night Live" (2001–2014) and hosted the show's news parody segment, "Weekend Update".
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Ted Albrecht Theodore Carl Albrecht (born October 8, 1954) is a former professional American football player who played offensive tackle for five seasons for the Chicago Bears. Albrecht currently serves as an analyst for Northwestern University football broadcasts on WGN .
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Gino Bona Gino Bona (born April 14, 1973) is an American marketing professional. In January 2007, he won the National Football League's "Pitch Us Your Idea For the Best Super Bowl Commercial Ever" contest. His concept was turned into a commercial that aired on February 4, 2007 during the Super Bowl XLI telecast on CBS.
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Les Guthman Les Guthman is an American director, writer and production executive, who has the distinction of both having produced three of the "20 Top Adventure Films of All Time", according to "Men’s Journal" magazine, and having won the National Academy of Science’s (U.S) nationwide competition to find the best new idea in science television, which led to his film, "Three Nights at the Keck", hosted by actor John Lithgow.
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Chicago Star The Chicago Star was a weekly publication, founded in 1946 and financed by Trade unions. The board of directors were Ernest De Maio, Frank Marshall Davis, William L. Patterson, Grant Oakes, and William Sennett. Davis was the executive editor, Sennett the general manager, and Carl Hirsch managing editor. Howard Fast was a columnist, and Rockwell Kent a contributing editor. In an introduction to a book about Davis, John Edgar Tidwell indicated that the first issue was launched on July 4th to "[wrap] itself in the holiday's symbolic meaning." The paper carried Davis's weekly editorial "Frank-ly Speaking".
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Monday Night Football (How I Met Your Mother) "Monday Night Football" is the 14th episode in the second season of the television series "How I Met Your Mother". It originally aired on February 5, 2007.
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History of Monday Night Football The following article details the history of "Monday Night Football", the weekly broadcast of National Football League games on U.S. television.
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James Signorelli James Signorelli is an American film director and cinematographer, best known for his work on the TV show "Saturday Night Live". He has been the film segment producer for more than 400 episodes of "Saturday Night Live" since 1976. He has produced many of the commercial parodies for which the show is noted.
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Fran Tarkenton Francis Asbury Tarkenton (born February 3, 1940) is a former National Football League (NFL) quarterback, television personality, and computer software executive. He played in the NFL for 18 seasons and spent the majority of his career with the Minnesota Vikings.
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Ed Schwartz Ed Schwartz (May 5, 1946 – February 4, 2009) was a Chicago media personality who hosted local late-night radio programs from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. He was nicknamed "Chicago Ed."
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2005 Chicago Bears season The 2005 Chicago Bears season was their 86th regular season and 24th post-season completed in the National Football League. The club posted an 11–5 record, earning them their first NFC North title and the second seed in the NFC for the playoffs.
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John Hodgman John Kellogg Hodgman (born June 3, 1971) is an American author, actor, and humorist. In addition to his published written works, such as "The Areas of My Expertise", "More Information Than You Require", and "That Is All", he is known for his personification of a PC in contrast to Justin Long's personification of a Mac in Apple's "Get a Mac" advertising campaign, and for his work as a correspondent on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."
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Sideshow Bob Roberts "Sideshow Bob Roberts" is the fifth episode of "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> sixth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 9, 1994. Kelsey Grammer returns as Sideshow Bob, who, in this episode, wins the Springfield mayoral election through electoral fraud. The episode was written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, and directed by Mark Kirkland. Oakley and Weinstein drew inspiration for the episode from the Watergate scandal, and included many cultural references to political films, as well as real-life events. These included the film "All the President's Men" and the first televised debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy during the 1960 United States presidential election.
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Chicago Calling Chicago Calling is a 1951 film noir directed by John Reinhardt. It centers on a man trying to find enough money to continue a phone call from his wife telling him about the current state of their daughter.
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David Haugh David Haugh (born May 22, 1968) is a sports columnist with the "Chicago Tribune". He began his career at the "South Bend Tribune" in Indiana, working there for nearly a decade before joining the "Chicago Tribune" as the paper's Chicago Bears beat writer. Currently, he writes the "In the Wake of the News" column, originated at the "Tribune" by Hugh E. Keough in 1907. Haugh was also the co-host of the now-defunct "Kap and Haugh Show", which aired on Comcast SportsNet Chicago and WGN Plus. He partnered with longtime Chicago sports broadcaster David Kaplan on the program from 9-noon M-F.
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The Chicago Teddy Bears The Chicago Teddy Bears is an American sitcom that aired on CBS. The series was part of the network's 1971 fall lineup, premiering on September 17, 1971.
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Phil Handler Philip Jacob Handler (July 21, 1908 – December 8, 1968) was an American football player and coach who spent his entire professional career in the city of Chicago. On three separate occasions, Handler served as head coach of the Chicago Cardinals, and later as an assistant coach for the Chicago Bears. He served as an assistant coach for the Cardinals when they won the 1947 NFL Championship; and with the Bears when they won the 1963 NFL Championship.
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Michael Roarty Michael J. Roarty (August 24, 1928 – March 16, 2013) was an American marketing executive for the Anheuser-Busch brewing company. He has been widely credited with turning Anheuser-Busch and its products, including Budweiser, into globally recognized brands through advertising. Roarty created the advertising slogans "This Bud's for you" for Budweiser and "Weekends were made for Michelob." He also oversaw the creation of the Bud Light ad campaign featuring Spuds McKenzie during the late 1980s.