Meh…

You’d think for $3.5M per 30 second ad, the stupor bowl commercials would have been a lot better than they were…


IMHO, the best one was Clint Eastwood’s halftime for America, which had, to me, MULTIPLE meanings…


The Coke ads, were pretty much stock and trade.


Same for Chevy, VW and Bud.


Go Daddy sucked as always, the Honda spot was pathetic unless you were a Ferris Buhler fan, and I know NONE of the four kids watching at the friends even had a clue what that one was about.


Audi, well, they won’t be selling to any “twilighters” in the near future… πŸ™‚


Probably the worst was the Seinfield ad, again references to a long dead show, slap dash, and in reality Seinfield would have just bought the dealership and kicked the guy to the curb…


The Fiat Abarth commercial was just strange, we all thought it was a ‘better’ Go Daddy until the end… πŸ™‚


And that half-time ‘show’? Β The lip sync wasn’t bad, but they had the volume too low (no great loss there) on Madonna’s voice, and WTF? with the guy shooting everybody the bird during his solo???


The game? Well it was not bad, one team won, one team lost. Since neither one was mine, I didn’t have a dog in that fight. Β BUT my host probably slept on the couch last night, cause his wife is a Pats fan, and the wife and daughter areΒ “twilighters”!Β πŸ™‚Β 


At least I managed to get home before all the drunks hit the roads last night, I was hearing sirens till about 0130, when I finally dropped off to sleep…


Today will be interesting, in who shows up on time, who doesn’t and what shape they are in!

Comments

Meh… — 15 Comments

  1. I had to do a google search when my wife asked me who was playing. I’d forgotten it was superbowl Sunday until we got to church and someone asked my which team I was rooting for. He didn’t appreciate my response of, “Neither.”

  2. Great Football Game!!
    Dog killing and burying cat was a scream. Hated the rest. The Chevy truck making through the end of the world made me laugh, since I have one.

  3. WSF- At least I got fed in the bargain πŸ™‚

    Lila- Thanks!

    Crucis- THAT’s funny πŸ™‚

    Skul- I must have missed that one, and yeah, it’s pretty funny!

    Danny- Concur!

  4. I was hoping both teams would lose. . .

    A totally forgettable Super Bowl, as most of them have become.

    I’ve given up on the NFL. Just one big giant corporate gut-pile at the expense of overpaid, overhyped athletes.

    I grew up a Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers fan during the 60’s. Say what you will, but Landry and Lombardi knew how to run a team, and those were the days of REAL players–not the overpaid, overhyped, spoiled showboating one-year-wonders we have today.

    Hey! This almost makes me sound like a bitter old man.

    –AOA

  5. another american tradition that makes no sense to the rest of the world …. sounds like you had fun though, and i guess really that’s all that matters.

  6. Julie- Bout like your Aussie Rules Final, but with less drinking in the stands πŸ™‚

    MSGT- Everybody made it in, some were ‘hurtin for certain’ πŸ™‚

  7. I liked the Budweiser Clydesdales rescuing us from Prohibition. It combined two of my favorite things – beer, and protests against government regulation.

    I also liked the CareerBuilders chimp commercial. Reminded me of some of my co-workers.

    But then again, I’ve got lowbrow tastes…

  8. We had a good time with some family. I wasn’t rooting for anyone in particular. Like you, I was very underwhelmed with the commercials.

  9. I missed the game (yay), saw the half-time show (which was okay for the most part), & definitely caught Eastwood’s Dodge commercial.

    Listening to the JohnBoy & Billy show on the way to work yesterday, I heard the JohnBoy Jeopardy question- what will 10% of the folks who watched the Super Bowl be doing yesterday?

    Taking the day off. πŸ™‚