TV Loses the Spring Guy

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You know the commercials where the guy in the black trenchcoat comes up and explains in the simplest way possible how using a Sprint wireless phone can solve all of lifes big - and small - problems? Well, thanks to the Nextel-Sprint merger, he's now out of a job, AdJab reports. In the day and age of annoying Verizon "can you hear me NOW??!!?!" commercials, it was nice to have a reliable, no-nonsense, slightly humerous spokesman on air for a cell phone company. So long, Sprint man. It was a good run.