Leave Nothing: Merriman v. Chingachkook

Then 2007 -2008 NFL season is back and with it comes Nike's latest ad-campaign, LEAVE NOTHING. Not since Dennis Hopper smelled Junior Seau's cleats and likened Sterling Sharpe to, "a freight train with stick'em" (choo choo baby, choo choo) has a commercial made me want to lace'em up and strap it on. (edit: wow - that sounds like a crazy S&M reference)
One ad spotlights Shawne Merriman (there are others on the Nike Web site) absolutely destroying various blockers, ball carriers and QBs from around the NFL and uses some very cool special effects that have Merriman seamlessly morphing from one uniform/stadium/weather condition/opponent to the next on the fly. Watching Merriman eviscerate players in a vicious 'roid rage would normally be enough for me to tolerate a 30 second interruption of my football viewing but the music takes the whole thing to another level.
Merriman's assault on opposing offenses is set to the theme from Last of the Mohicans. For anyone who has seen the film, hearing those flutes + drums should instantly bring to mind Chingachkook's own assault on the Hurons as he raced to save his son. If somehow you've never seen this film sequence before - Watch.It.Now. The idea of Merriman's opponents hearing that music in their heads and feeling the same sense of dread the Hurons felt as Chingachkook and Hawkeye battled through their entire war party is brilliant.

*Chingachkook and his amazing rifle/hatchet sends Magua into the abyss

edit: found out Michael Mann directed the Nike commercial too - makes sense, still brilliant maybe just not as much so...

and with the first pick in the 2007 NFL draft...

the Oakland Raiders select..... JaMarcus Russell - Quarter Back, Louisiana State Univeristy.
let this be a return to Pride & Poise and a Commitment to Excellence - Mr. Davis, this may be your last chanc to return our beloved franchise to its rightful place of prominence. JaMarcus, you are the future (and the present) of this once proud organization - it is your singular mission in life to bring victory and glory back to Raider-Nation.
The inner-circle needs new membership - join them JaMarcus, join them...
Otto, Snake, Blanda, Freddy, Casper, Shell, Upshaw, Plunkett, Old-Man Willie, Stork, Bo* (Vincent Edward Jackson gets special mention here on this blog - Howie despite being from chuck-town is skipped because of his movie career, Allen is skipped because of his defection to the !@#$ chiefs and his associations with OJ)