It’s arguably the most recognizable Super Bowl commercial in history. “Mean” Joe Greene is walking towards the locker room, as a kid offers him help, and then his Coke. In exchange, Greene tosses him his jersey.
The two are now set to get back together in a new video to honor the original, which was shot for the upcoming Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials 2016 special on CBS. The two discuss what made the commercial great, and also what went into making the ad.
In fact, Greene says he had to drink 18 bottles of Coke in order to get the commercial right. “I didn’t know any better. I chugged the doggone thing over and over and over,” Greene said, per Entertainment Weekly. Although that’s a lot of Coke that nobody should probably drink in one day, it was worth it for the now classic advertisement.
Greene attributed the success of the commercial to Tommy Okon, who played the 9-year-old fan in the iconic ad in their meetup for the CBS special. A portion of their reunion is on Entertainment Weekly’s site.
Okon said, “I think the people that created it wrote a great commercial that really tells a story … that commercial’s kind of what Joe is: tough, football player, who’s a nice guy.”
The full-length edition of the clip above is surely a can’t-miss. Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials 2016 will air on CBS on Tuesday, Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. ET.
