Super Bowl

Went to a Super Bowl once. Hung out afterwards with 160 kilo nude, crying black dudes in the losers’ dressing room. Oh, but you don’t want to hear about that. The Super Bowl is all about the ads, which this year are said to cost $3.5 million for 30 seconds. Some recession they’re having in America.


When the 100 million Americans watching the Super Bowl go to the toilet in the ad breaks, they say city sewerage systems overflow. That’s actually a myth. No one takes a pee during the ad breaks. The ads are too good. The Super Bowl is the opposite of normal telly. That pesky football keeps interrupting some damn fine viewing.

Super Bowl ads are so highly-anticipated that you get teased beforehand. This year we’ve had the (thankfully false) threat of a Ferris Bueller remake and a sneak peak of David Beckham’s undies ad, which to be frank is more torture than tease. Fortunately, there have been some brilliant ads down the years. Let’s go the video(s).

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  • Mikeymike says:

    02:58pm | 06/02/12

    “Don’t forget the cover sheet on your TPS report.” Great ad with a great reference to Office Space. Read more »

  • Outraged says:

    02:47pm | 06/02/12

    When I went to The States last year and went to a Football Game, it was a great, safe atmosphere! The culture revolved around eating…with lots more food outlets with great food choices…and not many alcohol sellers around. You could buy Chinese food, Mexican food, seafood! So much variety of… Read more »

 

As entertaining as the game was, the best action in yesterday’s Super Bowl was off the field.

In the second quarter, Motorola ran a one minute ad which parodied Ridley Scott’s bold, apocalyptic 1984 Apple ad.

In Scott’s ad, Apple seemed to be implying that the world of personal computing, circa the actual year 1984, was dominated by a Big Brother-like power (IBM, anyone?) more reminiscent of Orwell’s fictional 1984.

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  • szybkieodchudzanie says:

    09:01am | 25/02/11

    I see a lot good quality articles here <a >skuteczne tabletki na odchudzanie</a> Read more »

  • Jane says:

    06:10pm | 10/02/11

    @Tom Thanks for such a kind response. Strong words. I think you will find that ‘moronic’ is an ill-informed personal opinion. My youngest son (2yrs) and my oldest living relative (87) can both use iTunes - it has to be pretty clever to reach such a wide range. And you… Read more »

 

There’s a big event on today awash with celebs, skimpily-dressed WAGs and meatheads who get sweaty for a living.

This was one of the small ones. Pic: Tracey Haslam.

I speak not of the Allan Border Medal, that self-congratulatory wankfest, aka the poor man’s Brownlow, where Shane Watson will again be recognised as the only bloke in Australia who can play cricket.

I’m talking about the Super Bowl, which starts at 10am today eastern time and goes for, oh, I don’t know, about a day or so.

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  • Michael C. Donovan says:

    11:15pm | 07/02/11

    James1 wins. Read more »

  • Tom says:

    09:40pm | 07/02/11

    I went to an NHL game and disappointingly a fight didn’t break out. I could tell most of the players were itching for a fight, as were most of the crowd, so why not ditch the formalities and give the people what they want? Ditch the sticks, helmets, goals and… Read more »

 

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