Jeep Stole Grey's Thunder in the Gillette Pitch

Car beats razor to Pacino's speech in Any Given Sunday

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To hear Tor Myhren tell it, Grey was dead in the water at one point during the agency’s successful bid for Procter & Gamble’s Gillette account.

Why? Because a key element of a brand manifesto video that Grey produced in December and that P&G executives embraced later appeared in an actual ad for Chrysler’s Jeep Grand Cherokee. The Jeep ad, which broke in February, features audio of Al Pacino giving a speech as coach Tony D’Amato in Any Given Sunday.

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