gotta be the tagline

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Don’t tell Gary Geyer the tagline he created for hair salon chain Fantastic Sam’s is strangely familiar.

Sure, “Gotta be the hair” sounds a bit like the old Nike line “It’s gotta be the shoes.” But Geyer, creative director at T&O Group in Irvine, Calif., swears he never saw the Nike spots. What’s more, the very suggestion that his work has been “influenced” by other sources brings back bad memories.

In the early ’90s, Geyer created spots for the Florida Lottery that used the line “You never know.”



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