Deeply Embarassing Calgary Flames Video

In the past twenty years, an alarming trend has emerged in the world of sports: athletes making rock videos. It’s a promotional strategy embraced by every league around the world at one time or another, and it always turns out wrong.

Today’s example comes from the unremarkable 1987 Calgary Flames. You don’t have to be a hockey fan to shudder and giggle at this embarassment. I had to turn it off around the one minute mark, lest I cringe myself to death.

BONUS VIDEO: Geek Squad ad involving missing the CD slot. I can’t decide if the guy in it is an actor or not. Either way, I think it’s well-made. Except, of course, the rent-a-geeks come off as cocky SOBs, which might intimidate potential customers.

UPDATE: Well, this is turning into a sundry video post, but I just encountered two more bits of Friday frippery. From Troy and Russia, an example of how parkour has expanded beyond its native France. From John, following on the bodily endangerment theme, some crazy Swiss bastard rides a rocket-powered bicycle at 245 km/hour.