Super Bowl Ads

Posted by Frank J. on February 2, 2009 at 8:23 am

For the first time since I remember, I didn’t watch the Super Bowl. Did I miss any good ads worth seeing?

(14 votes, average: 3.57 out of 5)

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33 Responses to “Super Bowl Ads”

1. seanmahair says:
   February 2nd, 2009 at 8:47 am

   As soon as I heard the “one” had anointed the Steelers, I figured why watch, Satan had already picked the winner and Voila, thus it was written, thus it was done.

   I have heard the game was good, back and forth the whole time. The ads never interest me anyway. Some are good, some are lame, all are a waste of airtime. I’m there to watch football and don’t care what car some spokesperson or spokes animal drives or what insurance company loves squirrels or the new salvo in the Coke-Pepsi wars. Same message different carrier, same old, same old……..overpriced, over hyped, over, over O’vomit.

2. MarkoMancuso says:
   February 2nd, 2009 at 8:54 am

   Both O’Bambi and Dan Rooney can kiss this Steeler fan’s butt. Especially Bambi – go ride someone else’s bandwagon, you little punk.

3. Freemon Sandlewould says:
   February 2nd, 2009 at 8:54 am

   It is ALL one big advertisement. Its advertisements with advertisements sprinkled in during the teasers for other advertisements. I have no problems understanding why Obummer gets himself elected when I realize people LIKE to watch this festooned high definition turd. Wake up and smell the monkey pooped out the bean coffee. The rest of the world plays soccer. And its just as every bit as dumb and a waste of time as football is.

   BTW- note to men: Watching large sweaty men in tight pants grappling… should you just come out of the closet already?

4. This Girl says:
   February 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 am

   Game was good GO STEELERS!! Ticked me off that they thanked Obama after winning.

   Right on #2.

5. LearntoDrawaLine says:
   February 2nd, 2009 at 9:03 am

   The game was AWESOME. The ads stunk. The old pepsi ad with Mean Joe Green was redone by Coke with Polamalu which was kinda funny but that’s it. I see funnier commercials on regular tv than what the Super Bowl had. Plus, I hate these stupid washed out 80’s stars they get to perform – Journey and Bruce Springsteen?!?! Can they get noone better to perform in these things? I remember the last Super Bowl I watched (I only watch the Steelers. Go Pittsburgh!) they had Mick Jagger perform. Gag! We flipped to FOX News and watched Huckabee during Halftime. Neil Cavuto was on and it was way better than the gagfest the halftime show is.

6. cold soldier says:
   February 2nd, 2009 at 9:21 am

   Just alot of subliminal sycophantic pandoring to the black community as far as i could see.

7. Corona says:
   February 2nd, 2009 at 9:23 am

   The Superbowl ads are teh ghey. They were okay maybe 10+ years ago, but not since.
   And doesn’t Madden have any relatives with $ who can put him in a home already? I can’t believe he went into full retard detail about how a quarterback fakes a pass.

8. branden says:
   February 2nd, 2009 at 9:49 am

   Hulu has all the SB ads up: http://www.hulu.com/superbowl

   My favorite was Pepsuber . But I also like anything that has Richard Dean Anderson.

   Other ones I thought were good: Doritos Crystal Ball, Doritos Power of the Crunch, Monster, and Denny’s.

9. ac halle says:
   February 2nd, 2009 at 9:55 am

   You missed absolutely nothing, advertisement-wise. Only the abysmal tipification that this Republic is in.
   The game WAS awesome as previously described….last half of the 4th quarter especially.
   Rooney’s blather (quick) regarding “Our Dear Leader” instantly brought the curtain down for me.
   Throwing a couple a thousand gallons of water on a puny fire.

10. Plentyobailouts says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 9:59 am

    Ha Ha, some of you wasted time watching that thing? I decided when they announced that a bunch of anti-American pos’ were performing, it was not going to waste my life. Besides, only those ignorant gun clinging racists who voted for murtha in pennsylvania (is that home to Dracula?) and some old codgers cared anything about who won anyway. We decided we would plant a chia pet and watch it grow, was probably more interesting anyway.

11. Basil says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 10:01 am

    By the way, when is that game? Is it next weekend? And who’s playing? Cowboys against … who? The LA Rams?

12. MarkoMancuso says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 10:17 am

    Nope, Basil, it’ll be a special exhibition game between the Florida Gators and the Detroit Lions. The current betting line is Florida + 15.5.

13. Ernie Loco says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 10:50 am

    #12 Don’t worry though, the Lions will draft another wide receiver with their first round, number 1 pick! That’ll give them a huge boost. Now if they just had a quarterback to throw to him, a line to block for the quarterback, a running back to mix it up, and a defense that didn’t suck, then they’d be going somewhere.

14. Silicon Valley Jim says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 10:52 am

    Marko -

    Does that mean that the Gators are favored by 15.5 or underdogs by 15.5? Either way, I’ll take the Gators.

    Speaking of the Lions, why was Matt Millen being paid to offer his opinions on the game? Even a random football fan picked at random would have a better case for being chosen – at least he wouldn’t have proven how little he knows about football by putting together a team and selecting a coach who went 0-16.

    I thought that the Doritos ad was pretty good, myself, and that the Pepsi ads were probably a big hit with the low-IQ set.

15. NunyaB says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 10:52 am

    I’ve never cared for football ** snore ** when I had to be at HS games for band, so why start this year?

    I did try to watch a Superbowl about 10 years ago, Just Because, but switched channels immediately after the National Anthem. So much for that.

    I spent yesterday instead looking at houses (didn’t find anything), taking several naps, and channel surfing towards Whatever Else was on. The Puppy Bowl with Kittehs Halftime show on Animal Planet was dang cute!

16. Jimmy says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 10:53 am

    I was rooting for Arizona but missed the game, too. I heard they had a 6-hour pregame show emphasizing the astonishing fact that “football players make football plays.”

17. kansasfarmboy says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 11:01 am

    The game was good. The adds were bad. One was truly terrible. It’s actually the only one I remember. The flower add slamming internet flower companies like ‘Proflowers’. Me and my wife both looked at each other asking “Are the kidding?”

    The only thing that really had me laughing was the half time show. The irony of Bruce Springstien singing “Broken down heroes on a last chance power drive? dive?”. That was rich. Half time is when we eat so we don’t have to endure the whole thing.

18. MarkoMancuso says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 11:07 am

    #13, Ernie Loco,

    Maybe Barry Sanders has a son?

    #14, Silicon Valley Jim,

    It means the Gators would be favored. That line would be a little too low, IMO.

19. Reality intrudes says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 am

    Maybe they should call it the Stupor Bowl.

    Ads, salty greasy food, beer, Obama worship, and sitting on one’s butt for hours waiting for the next play. No thanks!

20. Kent says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 11:29 am

    I missed the first half and halftime, then caught all the adds online a few minutes ago.

    Superbowl ads used to raise the bar a few years back, but now people A) expect that all the time, and B) they start running some of the ads early, so the blitz of good jokes you haven’t heard before is pretty much gone. Having recently-released and new ads in the same bundle actually makes the new ones less funny.
    Now you have a mix of old ads, recently released ads we saw last week, and “superbowl ads”, many of which are mimics of old superbowl ads.

    The golden age of the superbowl ad is pretty much shot.

    We liked the game for a few minutes when the Cardinals lead and we were really REALLLLLY hoping O’s team would go down like a Democratic intern.

21. Mateo R says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    Heck I’d pick Northwestern to beat the Lions

22. sam says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 12:44 pm

    The commercial with the “Heroes” vs. Hall of Fame football players was pretty funny.

23. Rightjabs says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    Two ads stuck out in my mind. I loved “Talking Flowers” by Tele Flora and the Doritos Crystal Ball. Careerbuilder.com and Pepsi had some good ones too.

    Thank God Arizona made it interesting before the end. IMAO the better team won though.

    I wanted the Cardinals to win because I didn’t want Pittsburgh to have more SB wins than the Cowboys….

24. SmokeyBehr says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    I watched 15 minutes of Monster House on Cartoon Network while The Busboy was strumming his geetar. It was probably a whole lot more entertaining.

    Props to Doritos and Budweiser (not bud light) for their spots. The movie trailer/teasers peaked the hell out of me, since I’m a total movie nut.

    Oh, and I’d pick my hometown Fresno State Bulldogs to beat the Lions; and that’s the FSU Baseball team, even.

25. Maripat says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm

    Definitely the Doritos snow globe spot. I was laughing out loud.

    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=51557435

26. midwestconservative says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    The adds were the show. That was by far the worst pro game I have ever watched. #%&* sunday afternoons — I want to see REAL football– I’ll go back to fridaynights. Those highschool kids play the game with heart not contempt like the so-called pros do.

27. JackTansk says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    It was a great game, even with having to wake up at 0620 Monday morning. It was worth it just to see Harrison’s 100-yd run.

28. JPG says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 9:24 pm

    It was a great game — and I hate the Steelers and their fans.

    Corona, Madden has always been like that.

29. Terry_Jim says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 10:18 pm

    The Macgruber ads -4 or 5 of them – all ran on SNL Saturday, pretty funny.

    Anyone else catch the one second Miller High Life ad?
    Cracked me up. Why spend $3 Million for 30 seconds when a second will do (when preceded by a huge radio campaign asking you to look for it).

    I’ve hated Super Bowl halftime concerts ever since they started adding the phony mosh of adoring fans that keep their hands raised as they mob the stage.
    Sickening.
    I watched Wipeout on ABC and only endured a couple of Stingspreen’s songs.

30. Sulamie says:
    February 3rd, 2009 at 12:01 am

    #11 I’m with you. Had no idea and didn’t care. I love going out during the Superbowl, though. Every street and store in town is EMPTY!

31. Terry_Jim says:
    February 3rd, 2009 at 1:46 am

    Oh, and there was that neat ad from Catholic Vote . com, “Life – Imagine the Potential”
    that showed a sonogram and described a preborn child who would be
    abandoned by his father and raised by his struggling single mom.

    I must have been out of the room when that one aired.

32. Stephen says:
    February 3rd, 2009 at 8:09 pm

    I wouldn’t know. I was either using the restroom or getting another drink during the commercials so that I didn’t miss the game. But then, I’m a man.

33. P.J. says:
    February 4th, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    The only commercial I laughed out loud at was the Bridgestone or Firestone (one of the tire companies) using Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head driving around in a convertible along a mountain road. High Comedy.

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