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  • Tommy Okon, the kid who caught Mean Joe Greene's jersey in Coca-Cola's 1980 Super Bowl ad.

    Where are the stars of past Super Bowl ads now? 2009

  • Ted Okon , executive director of the Community Oncology Alliance, said smaller clinics are being hit hard by the economy and Medicare cuts.

    Dendreon's Cancer Drug Hit by Doubts Thomas Gryta 2011

  • Pittsburgh Steeler Joe Greene and Tommy Okon in the Coca-Cola ad that made its mark for both of its stars.

    Where are the stars of past Super Bowl ads now? 2009

  • Greene, now a Steelers talent scout, keeps in touch with Okon through phone calls.

    Where are the stars of past Super Bowl ads now? 2009

  • And while no one's sure what happened to the jersey featured in the ad, Greene sent Okon another for Christmas that year.

    Where are the stars of past Super Bowl ads now? 2009

  • Okon acted in more than 50 TV ads, but, "Most of them (didn't) even end up making it to air, let alone being as successful as that one."

    Where are the stars of past Super Bowl ads now? 2009

  • Second, I looked at a tangential document of the early formation of the “scene” in the Condesa through activities at the independent art space La Panadería, in the art book La Panadería: 1994–2002 Turner, 2005, edited by Alex Dorfsman and Yoshua Okon, who cofounded La Panadería with Miguel Calderón.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • “It reflects a violence that is inherent to our society and the form in which we relate to each other,” the artist Yoshua Okon tells me one day, as we are walking in Condesa.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • “For me the true crisis in Mexico, the real crisis, fundamentally, is the lack of a rule of law,” Okon says.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • The boy who made Mean Joe Greene smile is a 39-year-old father of four in Westchester, N.Y. Okon, who offered the battered Pittsburgh Steeler a postgame Coke and was tossed his jersey in return, says he got to "spend my day bothering Joe" during the ad shoot.

    Where are the stars of past Super Bowl ads now? 2009

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