Bill Walsh gave Coors Light a touch of class

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Bill Walsh, the legendary San Francisco 49ers coach, who died this week at 75, was a class act. He even managed to seem dignified in those Coors Light press-conference ads, which endeavored to make NFL coaches look foolish by having them appear to answer questions from beer-swilling doofuses. See two more Walsh ads from the series after the jump.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

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