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TV Guide once listed the ad in which Mean Joe Greene gave his jersey to a kid who gave him a Coke as one of the Top 10 commercials of all time. And now, more than 30 years after it first aired, that iconic commercial has reached a new level of notoriety: it has made Glenn Beck cry.

If you were the type of person who got all of their information from billboards, you'd be a severely uninformed individual. You'd also be sitting down on the couch on Sunday afternoon and dialing up whatever TV a billboard told you was the best to FOX to watch Brett Favre and the Vikings take on the Green Bay Packers. Sadly, that game would never come and you'd wind up punching your hand through the TV before heading off to the nearest billboard-approved medical center to get your hand stitched up.

That's because FOX, despite what this billboard spotted in Washington D.C. tells you, isn't televising the Vikings-Packers game during Week 4 of the NFL season. And also because the game isn't on Sunday, it's on Monday night. So the whole billboard just proves that Terry Bradshaw is both bald and a bald-faced liar, right?

Via everyone's favorite Pittsburgh Steelers blog, PSAMP (and mini-ponies, y'all!), comes video from Sunday's Steelers loss to the Bengals. But it's not your ordinary video. No, sir. It's actually video that explains exactly how the Steelers lost. Well, kind of. Basically, when the Miller High Life guy (the larger gentleman who steals High Life back from undeserving peoples, he also goes by Windell Middlebrooks) is in your corner ... you ALWAYS win.

Video evidence after the jump.

Matt Ryan, the Falcons' starting quarterback, played collegiately at Boston College. Sunday, he returned to New England to play in Gillette Stadium against the Patriots in the Atlanta's first outdoor game of the year (including preseason). And while that is technically true, Ryan has had some experience with the elements and fake Patriots when he filmed this spot for Gillette Fusion razors.

The commercial didn't involve paint cans or leather sports jackets, but the after-the-jump YouTube provides a behind-the-scenes look at how to create an indoor Gillette Stadium (it bears a striking resemblance to the stadium in the opening sequence of The Last Boy Scout), which should no doubt come in handy for Pats fans now back on the bandwagon after yesterday's win. It'll make a lovely addition to the miniature Fenway Park many of them have already erected in their back yards.

Ric Flair is an icon among wrestling fans, not only worldwide but in North Carolina as well. He's always appearing on the Carolina Panthers jumbotron, screaming something or another about not drinking and driving (WOO!) and he's been known to show up at college football games and tailgates across the state.

And now he's been honored with his own commemorative scratch-off lottery tickets, designed specifically to help the children of North Carolina become more smarter. Or something.

The Boston Red Sox have "Sweet Caroline." The Chicago Cubs have "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." And the Carolina Panthers have "Mr. Bojangles (a.k.a. The Pick-Six Shuffle)." Now, the New England Patriots have "Cheers."

Confused? Excellent. To clarify: Gillette and the Patriots have teamed up to bring all of you wonderful New England Patriots fans a video featuring players, coaches, fans, and Cliff Clavin. And they want you to sing along, starting now and ending never. Witness after the jump.

Boost Mobile -- it's a classy company that allows you to pay per month for cell phone minutes in advance. It's also the company that's now rocking out a new commercial featuring Danica Patrick signing mens' breasts. So, yeah, classy as all get out. (Although still pretty funny, so credit to the marketing people who continue to find hilarious/attractive ways to get Danica involved in advertising, even if they did manage to cheese off the transgender demographic.)

The FanHouse Podcast: Because bloggers are much sexier on the phone.

As Elie Seckbach noted when we finished the HausCast, this thing could have gone for three days -- that's how smart and insightful FanHouse's embedded correspondent is when it comes to the changing course of media in today's society. Plus, he has multiple stories that caused Wilson to emit a Brinson-like overlaugh. If you're a Seckbach fan -- and if you're not, God rest your soul -- follow him on Twitter, watch his vids on YouTube, or keep up with him on Facebook. And listen now to learn why video is the future, in addition to the funniest stories you'll hear about anyone spending time in and around NBA players on a regular basis.

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

It was 20 years ago that Bo Jackson became a pop-culture icon when Nike featured him in a series of "Bo Knows ..."commercials for what was then a new kind of shoe, the Nike Cross Trainer. Now Nike has come out with a new Trainer 1 shoe, and to celebrate the release they brought together superstars from all sports for the 2009 Nike Training Summit. Superstars like Amare Stoudemire, Brandon Roy, Larry Fitzgerald, Adrian Peterson, Troy Polamalu (right) and more talk about everything from who they think the greatest athletes are (Troy's answer will surprise you) to what other sports they would play if they could cross over like Bo (again, Troy's answer will surprise you).

Check out the video after the jump.

Will Brinson kicked it at The OC for the Nike Global Training Summit.

Even as his team was booted from the playoffs by the Houston Rockets, Brandon Roy recently received high praise from Ron Artest. Artest decided to give him the highest compliment possible, stating that Roy, not Kobe Bryant, was the toughest player he's ever had to guard.

And you best believe FanHouse (specifically my homie Elie Seckbach) was jumping on that question when Roy made an appearance at the Global Training Summit, sporting his customized B-Roy Trainer 1's. We also discuss his offseason plans, what the Blazers' goals are for next year and what he's doing in the offseason.