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Not very impressed at all this year. I can't even really think of any that stand out.
What were your favorites?
Same here - they were pretty much forgettable...
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I got a chuckle out of a couple. The etrade baby with the milkaholic was pretty good (milka-what????)
We've Got Big Hills
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Hometown AG win.
Giddyup.
(tangent because I don't feel like starting another thread)
Colts and Manning fans who are search for answers this morning should blame espn.com. I had the website up for the majority of the game yesterday... their banner headline during the first half was "Colts in Control".
The score was 10-3 or 10-6 at the time.
Ultima tastes like failure.
(tangent because I don't feel like starting another thread) Colts and Manning fans who are search for answers this morning should blame espn.com. I had the website up for the majority of the game yesterday... their banner headline during the first half was "Colts in Control". The score was 10-3 or 10-6 at the time.
Serves Archie right for rooting against the Saints.
More Cowbell!
The commercials were a big meh, but as a fan of Lost, I liked the Bud Light one with the plane crash survivors who would rather drink Bug Light than try to get of their island.
Now that the Saints have won a title, how about a Super Bowl for a city and franchise that's even more destitute -- Detroit.
"I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern ship building has gone beyond that."
Captain Edward J. Smith, Master of Titanic
I think there were only 2 companies that didn't waste their money. FloTV and KGB cause I had never heard of them before and now I've googled them to find out more about them. I mean who doesn't already know that Doritos are good.
I liked the Budweiser ad with the colt and the calf that grows up to be a longhorn and tries to race the horses. That's just because I'm a Texas Longhorn fan, though! Made me homesick, thinking of the two longhorns they kept in front of the GE plant in Austin (I always wondered why they did that).
Google's was the most effective and engaging by far, but not funny or anything.
Ignoring the hype of it being the S-Bowl and all, what is it with CBS covered games and their ridiculous need to repeat this cycle:
Score
Go to commercial
Back from commercial, kick-off
Go to commerical
So, all we did was come back for the kick-off? Its so noticeable that CBS does this more than anyone else's coverage, the players must hate it. Add in the 30 minute half time, and this must be the dullest game for the players.
Play....pause.....play a little...pause....review a call....play some more...pause....score!....pause...kick off...pause
It's not just the players that hate it, and I think it is more than CBS though I may be wrong. I had seahawks season tickets for quite a few years. I finally dumped them because going to a game in person just got too painful. Those TV timeouts are obviously in real-time, not added later. So sitting at the game is a whole lot of hurry up and wait. And it's cold. And rainy. And beer is 12 bucks. And I don't want to hear the same 5 songs over the speakers over and over again. Etc. The kickoff process was especially annoying.
Of course, I dumped my tickets and the seahawks promptly went to the superbowl. I missed the good season.
(except, I didn't. TV RULES for football. )
Gotta TRI
I don't know... I liked a bunched of the commercials.
Bud Lights "house"
"bridge"
and " Lost" were all pretty funny. I was waiting for the annual Clydesdale ad too and was happy with the one they produced.
The dorritos w/the dog was the funniest of that brand.
E-trade babies are always funny so I liked those.
Betty White for Snicker's to me was hilarious and I also liked the Coke sleepwalking ad.
There seemed to be more funny one's during the first half than the second and I agree that overall there were far too many commercials. It was make a play, go to commercial, make a play...
How about the Who's performance? Meh.
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