We can’t wait
February 11, 2008
OK, so we should have posted this link during football season. Sue us.
But we don’t think you’ll mind seeing this early 1980s Alcoa commercial featuring the Sept. 24, 1978 Steelers-Browns game at Three Rivers Stadium. Yer Stillers won 15-to-9 in overtime on Terry Bradshaw’s … well, watch the video.
It’s one of Alcoa’s “Fantastic Finishes” series that ran during NFL TV broadcasts. (Another series of 60-second Alcoa spots that ran during football games, “You Make the Call,” pitted viewers against referees, asking them to guess how the real-life rulings in complicated games went.)
By the way, we’re pretty sure that Pittsburgh-based Ketchum, MacLeod and Grove handled Alcoa’s advertising in the 1970s and early ’80s, and we think we recognize a local voice on the recycling portion of this spot.
We can’t wait to find out if we’re right; do any PBRTV readers know who worked on these iconic TV commercials?
Please email us or post your information in the comments below … you make the call!
