Airplane? Surely, there were better ways to promote Wisconsin

Wisconsin has reached back 34 years to promote its tourism industry.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Robert Hays — two stars of the movie, “Airplane” — reunited for a parody to promote Wisconsin:

David Zucker, the director of the film, graduated from UW Madison.

This isn’t his first crack at promoting Wisconsin. Two years ago, he produced this:

There were other possibilities that Minnesotans might have come up with.

Robert Hays, for example, could have been depicted extolling the virtues of Wisconsin while a passenger doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire…

Your move, Minnesota.