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With yesterday being Canada Day and all, I couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate our great nation than with a McDonald’s post featuring the greats of our great national pastime. Unfortunately, they haven’t made any MickeyD’s ads about curling or lacrosse, so we’ve had to stick with boring old hockey.

I think this clip, cute as it may be, serves as a great reminder regarding sports figures and acting. I would’ve liked to think we learned our lesson after Space Jam, but not a year goes by where we don’t see some charisma-less hack toss a football for Coke or hit a home run for Wendy’s.

That being said, there are a few sports stars who seem more than capable of making the transition. Was anyone else surprised at how much fun it was when Peyton Manning hosted SNL a few months back?

McDonald’s Mondays is a weekly series of posts written by our own Jim Squires that initially appears on his pop culture blog fjetsam.com.