The Cleveland Cavaliers showed a promotional video on Wednesday over their arena’s jumbotron in which a fan hurls his girlfriend across the living room because she’s a Chicago Bulls fan, Deadspin reported.
The video showed a couple recreating a scene from “Dirty Dancing” in which the girlfriend ran and leapt into her boyfriend’s waiting arms. However, as she ran toward him, he noticed her Bulls t-shirt and, instead of catching her, slammed her onto the floor for not being “ALL IN.” The video then showed her writhing in pain on the floor as a voiceover gave this message:
“When it’s playoff basketball time, you have to be ‘ALL IN,’ so don’t make the same mistake she made,” the voiceover said.
The video ended with this dialogue from the couple, who were shown sitting on a couch — both wearing Cavs t-shirts:
“I thought you were ‘ALL IN,'” the boyfriend said.
“Well, I’m ‘ALL IN’ now,” the girlfriend responded. “Let’s just watch the game.”
“Go Cavs!” the triumphant boyfriend said.
Deadspin reported that the video was removed from the Cavs’ Vimeo page on Thursday.
Watch the video below:
A sure sign that this “promo” was cooked up by a male-only crew. I don’t think “tone deaf” quite covers this travesty.
‘You root for the employees of a corporation in a different city to win a meaningless game that adults shouldn’t waste their time watching other adults play? Why, that makes me want to abuse you physically and then blame you for it afterwards!’
Quick! QUICK! FIRE UP THE OUTRAGE MACHINE!
Wow. The woman is put in a fucking frilly apron no less.
Do the Cavs really want to bring domestic violence to mind in order to sell their product?
Wow…as the woman holds onto her injuries and is then seen on the couch with an icepack on her head, obediently following the ‘correct’ cue from her angry boyfriend, with his hand wrapped around her for good measure, as she agrees to comply and just watch the game.
Fucking disgusting. Its beyond bad.
Totally in bad taste. I mean, Dirty Dancing is just a total suckbag of a movie and I can’t believe they would have the gall to resurrect references to it. Geesh…