Well, we can't talk about the Super Bowl without talking about the Super Bowl Ads. It's the buzz around the water cooler for even a few days after Super Bowl Sunday. So what makes these such a hot topic and why doesn't anyone care about commercials any other time of the year?Well first of all... my favorite this year was the "Pepsi Max What Is Love" Ad.... hilarious seeing Chris Kattan at the end. Makes you wonder how many times people have come up to him bopping their heads & pointing going " you, me, me you, me, you"
Anyway, so what's the buzz all about? Well, if the downloads and views in the hundreds of thousands online in the past few hours is any indication then it's either the need to not be left out....because you didn't want to sit through a 4 hour game, OR... you are one of those people like me who get a little excited thinking about there FINALLY being something worth watching in between gametime. There's no muting the TV and no fast forwarding through the commercials with TiVO. No....we actually paused the TV just so we wouldn't miss them. This year with there being a lot of
celebrities who decided to get in on the commercials from Justin Timberlake, to Shaq, to Carlos Mencia, and even Alice Cooper, it makes you wonder what the cost for a 30 second slot was. With these celebrities commanding top dollar for endorsements and the average 30 sec slot being $2.7 million....were they worth it in Pepsi bottles & tires that will be bought? By the way, in case you didn't catch it, Justin's commercial was at his restaurant in NYC 'Southern Hospitality' where he flew out of the front door....that can be seen on our website.We have friends who email us with 'did you see this one' and 'didn't that one suck' and 'did you find out where we can see them online?' Well, the answer is yes, definitely, and absolutely. If you are like me and want to see them again or pass them along and have a good laugh with your buddies or co-workers.... watch them all here http://MySpace.com/superbowlads
This year FOX teamed up with MySpace and downloaded all of the commercials. After each quarter you could go online
and watch them again.....or in case you missed them because your TiVo wasn't working, or you had to look down to clean the beer off of your belly.This year I thought there were really quite a few funny commercials like the "FedEx Bird", "Richard Simmons almost run over", "The guy AMPed up with jumper cables", "Will Ferrell's Bud Light", and surprisingly "Naomi Campbell's SoBe Thriller". These all had me laughing. Let's also not forget the FOX Rejected commercial with Danica Patric. It was funny but something tells me that GoDaddy.com
will be laughing all the way to the bank with all of the hits they got with the teaser on TV. Unfortunately, I thought that the abundance of new TV show commercials and Movie Trailers were just toooo much.... made me mad that I wasted my time waiting for the funny part in them and it never came. On that note, some that were supposed to be funny just weren't.....although, I'm sure our dog thanks them because I filled up the water bowl after watching the horrendous Gatorade Dog commercial....that one really lost me. There really were too many that left you thinking that someone said "let's just put a celebrity in it and then we won't have to be creative"....aaand....Of course, let's not forget the ones that I didn't even know what I was supposed to be buying.... Straws at Timberlake's Restaurant? Spandex shorts from Ray Lewis? .... It just wasn't clear enough for all of the money that they paid, in my opinion.Over all though, this year was a pretty good year for Super Bowl Ads and the Super Bowl itself wasn't too shabby either......
Shannon & Matt Bridgeford
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