The original with Joe Greene is one of the top ten super bowl commercials ever. This Coke Zero commercial is just a satirical mimic of the famous original not an attempt to replace it as a genuine classic. Troy ripping the Coke exec's shirt off and tossing it to the kid is imo comical, thats all.
THat's exactly what happened to me. The first time I saw it, I was at work, and I said out loud, "Well, it's not exactly Mean Joe Greene."
And the others at the table were all younger, and were like, "who's Mean Joe Greene?"