Just in case you didn’t get the texts, or haven’t followed the Red Bulls ongoing, long-running pursuit of Thierry Henry _ a pursuit that they adamantly have refused to acknowledge until next Wednesday _ they wanted you to know their adding a new player.

They’ve been running ads and Youtube vignettes, and as much as I ripped some of their previous ad campaigns _ that slow-motion running thing still gives me migraines _ these have been pretty good. They raised their game. Guess Henry can do that. Er, sorry, unnamed Frenchmen can do that.