Steve Harvey reprises famous Miss Universe moment for T-Mobile - CNET

Miss Colombia decided not to sue him for the obvious distress caused (she is not American.) War between the two countries must only have been averted after strenuous diplomatic efforts.

Harvey can now laugh about it. I know this because in T-Mobile's second Super Bowl ad, he laughs about it.

The motivation of the ad is Verizon's accusation -- in an ad that featured colored balls (video below) -- that T-Mobile, as the company's SVP of marketing Peter DeLuca told me: "basically covers no one." The truth, he said, is that T-Mobile now has 97 percent of Verizon's coverage.

So here's Harvey explaining Verizon's balls are just that. While, at the same time, marveling that he actually got something right. (We'll see how much he gets right when he mans the T-Mobile Twitter account during the game.)

DeLuca told me that the ad "pokes fun at the category."Indeed, the accusations thrown around by one carrier against another can be quite laughable.