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Guinness Ad #77: Free Kick

July 16, 2011 By Jay Brooks

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Our 77th Guinness ad features a free kick in a soccer … er, football match that the goalie is unable to stop because it was kicked hard enough to propel both the ball and the goalie into the net for a score. The source of that force can be found sticking out of his back pocket: a bottle of Guinness.

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Comments

  1. The Beer Nut says

    July 18, 2011 at 11:32 am

    That looks like Gaelic football, not soccer: the goal is H-shaped.

    The kicker is wearing Galway colours. No county pride at James’s Gate then…

    • Jay Brooks says

      July 18, 2011 at 11:42 am

      Ah, thanks for the clarification. That must be the game my wife and I watched in a pub in Dublin 15 or so years ago and couldn’t make heads of tails of. There was dribbling, soccer kicking and American football field goals, too. We thought maybe we’d had too much to drink.

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