Still Blue
It’s been nearly twenty years since former Duke University star Christian Laettner buried “the shot.”
You remember, “the shot,” right?
It was that miraculous, last-second “say-what-you-want-about-Christian-Laettner-but-damn-that-was-money” turnaround jumper that defeated Rick Pitino’s Kentucky Wildcats in the greatest college basketball game ever played.
First, we reminisce …
Yup, still money.
And now, we bring you the reason we’re bringing this up today, by way of our friends at Kentucky Sports Radio:
According to a KSR source, Vitamin Water is producing a new television ad featuring Christian Laettner and Rick Pitino which is likely to run throughout the NCAA Tournament. According to the source, the advertisement was shot yesterday in Louisville and will show Laettner following Pitino around his house making “the shot†over and over to torment him. The two principals to the event (neither of whom is exactly in good favor in Big Blue Nation) are the only ones involved in the shoot and the former Kentucky players are not part of the advertisement campaign.
Now that is cold.
Not only did Pitino come back and coach at Louisville (Kentucky’s arch-rival) after bolting Big Blue for the NBA, but now he’s rubbing salt in the most tender wound in Kentucky sports history.
Ashley Judd should be outraged by this …
Here are some pics from the Vitamin Water photo shoot, courtesty of KSR:
