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Second Coming Canceled For Getafe Copa Del Rey Match

Aug 10, 2009, 6:30 PM UTC

If you feel like having your head explode with sufficient force toâ†µscatter debris over a three-state area, watch the following ad for Laâ†µLiga club Getafe with the knowledge that “primero esta miâ†µequipo” means “my team comes first.”â†µ

â†µâ†µYes, pretty much everyone in the Bible just dissed God in favor of aâ†µteam that escaped relegation from La Liga on goalâ†µdifferential. If Getafe was located anywhere in the middle of theâ†µUnited States, the entire club would be imprisoned. â†µ

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â†µAnd Getafe's marketing gets weirder, if less likely to causeâ†µconniption fits: previous ads have featured transvestites, idiotsâ†µ("my father is proud of me; I'm a Getafe fan" is the punchlineâ†µfor those two), enormous demon-beasts making friends with lantern-totingâ†µmoppets, and an egg-laying man giving birth to an excitable dwarf thatâ†µonly says "where?" No, seriously.â†µ

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â†µDonde? Donde? Donde? Aaaaaaaigh it why argh. If you still have chunksâ†µof your brain left over, the rest of the ads have been helpfullyâ†µcollected by Sport Is A TV Show.â†µâ†µIn this context, Getafe’s new sponsorship deal with fellow shockâ†µmarketers Burger King—which comes complete with horrifyingâ†µKing underside for goal celebrations—makes an infinite amount ofâ†µsense. Bring Getafe your blasphemers, your dwarves, your huddledâ†µtransvestites yearning to have a freakshow of a football club to callâ†µtheir own. Collected, they will escape relegation from the Isle ofâ†µMisfits. Probably.â†µ

â†µâ†µ(HT: The Run Of Play)â†µ

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