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Ehlo fan of Gatorade commercial?

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Craig Ehlo's 13-year NBA career has been reduced to one very infamous play. He knows it and he relishes it. Michael Jordan's brilliant knack for clutch plays perhaps began, at least in the NBA, when he drilled a 15-foot buzzer-beater over Ehlo to clinch the Chicago Bulls' first-round playoff series win over the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1989. The replay has been shown more times than "Gone With the Wind" and it's being shown again on Gatorade's new ad campaign, according to the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER.

This time, Ehlo enjoys Gatorade's version of revisionist history. The new commercial shows Jordan missing the shot and Ehlo celebrating. But Ehlo still has a smile on his face.

"I have TiVO and I had to TiVO it back and said 'Wait a minute, he missed it,'" Ehlo said Wednesday. "I knew something was up when (Gatorade) called and asked me my permission. They just said it would be different, but they didn't tell me how. I fell out of my bed when I saw it the first time. It's amazing in my own perspective because it happened 16 years ago and it's still in the public eye.

"Jordan's a guy that will always be in the public eye. The association with it, I don't have a problem with that at all."