Super Bowl Commercials 2012: Classic Ads That Deserve a Redux for Super Bowl 46

Downy is already giving the classic Mean Joe Greene Coca-Cola commercial a refresh, but there are a few others I'd love to see. Flipping through my mental Rolodex (that didn't take long), I can recall three other classic spots ripe for the picking.

Obviously, it's too late now, as every ad has already been produced, and many have even leaked. Still, these ideas would be quite entertaining.

Well, at least they would make me chuckle.

MJ and Mars Blackmon

Both Michael Jordan and Spike Lee are older, heavier, more wrinkled versions of themselves now, but that is exactly where the humor comes in.

Check out one of the classic spots from the 1990s:

In the original spot, Spike asks MJ, "What makes you the most unstoppable player in the universe?" A more appropriate set of questions these days are as follows:

(In my best Mars Blackmon voice)

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"MJ, what makes you such a horrible talent evaluator for the two terrible clubs you've been associated with?

Was it drafting Kwame Brown No. 1 overall?

Was it hiring the nomadic Larry Brown when your young Bobcats needed stability at head coach?

Was it drafting Automatic Adam Morrison?

Was it trading away both Gerald Wallace and Stephen Jackson shortly after the team made its first playoff appearance?"

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MJ could then repeatedly answer with this to every question:

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"5U$@ you, Mars."

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Now that would be entertaining.

Where's the Beef?

It's been nearly 30 years since Wendy's popular "Where's the Beef?" commercials. If you're too young or just want a refresher, here it is:

Flash-forward to the present, when a current elderly actress could ask the million-dollar question (original actress Clara Peller passed away in 1987). 

This time, instead of bringing a burger to her table, Vince Wilfork shows up and says: "Somebody called for the beef."

Maybe he could even show up wearing the Ugg boots Tom Brady bought for every member of the team.

Max Headroom Coca-Cola

Max Headroom was the hyperactive, computer generated character that Coca-Cola rode for a successful run of commercial spots during the mid 1980s. Here is one example of a Headroom commercial:

How about having the 2012 version not even feature a computer generated character? Let master impersonator Frank Caliendo impersonate Max Headroom.

He has nailed everybody else from Charles Barkley to Robert DeNiro; let's see if he can mock somebody that doesn't even exist.

Do some things with the lighting and video filters, and bam, you got it.

You will probably want to move your children out of the room when Frank appears. The original Max Headroom used to scare the bejesus out of me—I can only wonder what Caliendo as Headroom will do to today's youth.

Maybe that's half the fun.