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John Elway / Chris Chandler - Super Bowl XXXIII

Release year:1999
Category:Main campaign
Collections:Main Campaign
Times published:1

Notes

MilkAdMan lists this in its main campaign series.

Elway said his daughter collected the milk ads and hung them on her wall, and that he was glad to make her "Wall of Fame" (Milk Mustache Mania). A Super Bowl milk mustache ad was made every year from 1997: the two opposing players before the game, the winning quarterback in his own ad on the Monday after.

Milk Mustache Mania recounts that Chris Chandler's Falcons were beaten 34–19 by Elway's Broncos and that Elway was named Super Bowl MVP for the second year in a row. The book says the campaign has made a Super Bowl milk mustache ad since 1997 and was, when the book was written, the only advertiser to feature opposing team members in an ad before the game.

Milk Mustache Mania's photo and illustration credits page (p. 94) credits the Super Bowl ads to photographer Walter Iooss Jr.

Main image

Main campaign ad

Full-size image from MilkAdMan.

Credits

Photographer / credited image source:Walter Iooss Jr.
Campaign / production note:Super Bowl XXXIII
How certain the credit is:A — agency-side archive metadata

Variants of this ad (1)

Different printed versions of the same ad are grouped here.

Tall layout
Year:1999
Version type:Layout version
Difference:Tall, narrow layout with the headline "First Down. And It's Not Even Sunday." set across the top.
Notes:As reproduced in Milk Mustache Mania; probably the newspaper format.

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Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
Publication unresolved1999Layout version

Where it was published

PublicationIssue/datePageFormatSourceNotes
USA TodayJan 29, 1999 find this issueSports pageNewspaper adsourceWDBJ's Jan. 29, 1999 noon newscast says that day's USA Today carried John Elway and Chris Chandler across the sports page in a Got Milk? ad, and notes that the ads would run throughout Super Bowl weekend.