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This article was published 18/10/2010 (3635 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Winnipeg’s mayoralty race on NBC’s Today Show? Well, ain’t that a kick in the ... well, you know.

A locally produced fake election ad that shows Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz’s unfortunate foot-to-face blunder in a recent charity soccer game has become such a viral-video sensation that it caught the attention of Today host Matt Lauer and panelists Chuck Todd and Donny Deutsch.

During a segment Monday morning discussing the best and worst political ads of 2010, the Katz-kick spoof was shown along with Tea-Party-endorsed Delaware U.S. senate hopeful Christine O’Donnell’s endlessly replayed "I’m not a witch ..." commercial and a controversial ad featuring rifle-toting West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin.

While the trio was fairly serious in discussing the U.S. political ads, the made-in-Winnipeg spot drew peals of laughter from Todd, Deutsch and Today’s studio crew.

"Now, THAT’s advertising," said Deutsch, an ad executive and frequent morning-show panelist.

Todd, NBC News’s chief White House correspondent and political director, stressed the importance of "going viral" in the current political-advertising climate and said the spoof ad must certainly have achieved its goal.

"You know what? We’re talking about it," he said. "It made it all the way to here."