Glory days long past for the Stanford Tree

How the mighty have fallen. Not many people will remember this, but in 1998, the Stanford University sports mascot, the Tree, was an advertising star, appearing in a bunch of ads from Citron Haligman Bedecarré for Stanford football. In one, a voiceover said the “first rule of acting is never to overact.” A lumberjack then chopped at the feet of the Tree, who went into an elaborate dying sequence. (If anyone knows if these ads are online, please tell us.)