Super Bowl Commercials - WTF??!!

[warren]

Thank you. Indeed, life is too short too short for "bull". Way too short!

 

[verporchting]

The commercials just sucked this year. For the years when I’m indifferent to who wins (most) my favorite part of the whole shindig is socializing with friends and watching the commercials. This year was a bust.

 

[Jimmy_Jack]

I liked the Caesar salad guy. I laughed.

 

[wolflarsen]

Stupid Bowl Sunday is one of my favorite days to go fishing. Once again, there was nobody on the river and the steelhead were biting. Not too sorry that I missed out on men running around in tights and shitty commercials.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I agree Jesse. I remember on several thinking "They just spent millions and millions of dollars and I'm not sure what they were advertising".

 

[FALaholic]

Didn’t miss anything the NFL has had to offer for the last 8+ years. Lost interest long ago.

 

[agnosticpipe]

Yeah, whatever happened to ads like the ones from Outpost.com. Super Bowl commercial where they shot gerbils out of a cannon at a hole in the name outpost.com. on a wall. I think it was for computer supplies. There were a couple of others involving a marching band a some wolves, and tattooing young children. Offensive? maybe, funny? yes! I think you can find them all on YouTube.

 

[rmpeeps]

When I began my "illustrious" career I worked on a lot of commercials, literally hundreds of them, mostly high end, including commercials for the Super Bowl and the Oscars. We did a heck of a job of promoting the product in a creative way. But we NEVER lost sight that we were using creativity TO PROMOTE A PRODUCT! It's a commercial, not the Great American Novel.

Yesterday's Super Bowl commercials were clearly super high budget, loaded with big names completely wasted, and a ton of rudderless creativity that had NOTHING to do with the product. In my humble opinion expensive failures and pure crap. And WAY TOO MANY OF THESE HORRIBLY INEPT COMMERCIALS.

Anyone else care to comment?

Only one commercial really made me laugh, but I can’t really remember what it was for, and not worth a search…..

 

[rmpeeps]

Wait, this local Texas market ad was pretty damned good.
HEB, the best grocery store in the USA.

 

[ssjones]

The electric SUV commercial using the iconic Soprano's opening was pretty decent. I drove that same route for 18 years, so maybe it was nostalgia for me.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Wait, commercials are part of the game? See... football is just too complicated for me to follow.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Which one was your favorite?

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

Watching the commercials validated that everything has already been done…very little originality if at all…but most of us are lemmings anyway so. ?️

 

[mawnansmiff]

I watched about 5 minutes of the game....(pressed the wrong button on my remote you see)....and it was all stop/start/stop/start/stop/start by which I mean the whistle was blown virtually every 2 or 3 seconds and game was stopped.

How on earth is that sport?

And as for the wearing of crash helmets just to play a game ....have you guys never seen rugby being played? No crash helmets or body padding worn there guys.

Think I'll stick to snooker.

Regards,

Jay

 

[Bengel]

have you guys never seen rugby being played?

Favorite sport, live!

 

[jpmcwjr]

I watched about 5 minutes of the game....(pressed the wrong button on my remote you see)....and it was all stop/start/stop/start/stop/start by which I mean the whistle was blown virtually every 2 or 3 seconds and game was stopped.

How on earth is that sport?

And as for the wearing of crash helmets just to play a game ....have you guys never seen rugby being played? No crash helmets or body padding worn there guys.

Think I'll stick to snooker.

Regards,

Jay

I've seen more than a few ruggers wear head protection. But the coefficient for injury is much higher in American FB than rugger, soccer and cricket combined.

I may be one of a very few who's into EPL, Champions League, and NFL and college FB. But, then, who cares?

 

[pantsBoots]

I watched about 5 minutes of the game....(pressed the wrong button on my remote you see)....and it was all stop/start/stop/start/stop/start by which I mean the whistle was blown virtually every 2 or 3 seconds and game was stopped.

How on earth is that sport?

And as for the wearing of crash helmets just to play a game ....have you guys never seen rugby being played? No crash helmets or body padding worn there guys.

Think I'll stick to snooker.

Regards,

Jay

Hear, hear! Just when something starts happening, tweet! Time to stop and stand around. I guess it's marginally more exciting than bowling and marginally less exciting than baseball.

 

[ssjones]

Rugby players have tried to crack the NFL, but most don't make it.
From this list, only one had success, the Ravens Haloti Nagta (high school rugby, then switched to football)

How Many Players In Rugby Have Played NFL? - FloRugby

Which rugby players have made the transition into the NFL?

www.florugby.com

On this list, Steve Tasker

Steve Tasker - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I guess Rugby players just aren't tough enough?

 

[warren]

I'm guessing rugby players don't like the boredom of standing around, dithering about wondering what to do next. They just go out and play.

 

[beefeater33]