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Portland Timbers Coach John Spencer Provides Comedy Gold In Alaska Air Advert (Video)

By Chris Wright

In which former Chelsea striker, professional gruff Scotsman and current Portland Timbers head coach John Spencer puts in a fairly decent comedy turn as an air hostess in this mildly mirthful ‘Employee Exchange’ advert for Alaska Air…

Good to see a member of the footballing fraternity actually appear half-way lifelike on camera for once rather than looking like a complete ironing board.

The Alaska Air/Timbers staff swap series has already seen it’s second installment posted, with the MLS side’s burly lumberjack mascot, Timber Joey, firing up his chainsaw to help a bloke out of a luggage-related scrape…

Videos: 101GG

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By Chris on June 14th, 2011 in Funnies, MLS, Videos. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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10 Responses to “Portland Timbers Coach John Spencer Provides Comedy Gold In Alaska Air Advert (Video)”

  1. Ben says:

    Quite funny for an american ad….

  2. roo are ya says:

    am i the only one that thought that was wayne rooney when the looked at the pic ont the homepage?

  3. Chris also says:

    Brilliant! Actually makes me want to watch The Timbers. Amazing.

  4. Markell says:

    Pretty damn funny, surprisingly

  5. Raul says:

    Smartyphones

  6. Murray says:

    This stuff is funnier than that Man U-Turkish Airways collective effort.

  7. Paul Kirkland says:

    Genius

  8. Gino Annie? says:

    Nice mix og Glaswegian and american in some of Spencer’s words ha ha ha. Never thought he’d pronounce some words like that. Good ads

  9. Jose says:

    LOL @ the plastic knife!

  10. sdf says:

    aha, that’s great.

    great looking jersey btw

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