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Super Bowl Impressions

• Harrison Ford and Dr. Suess. Cute enough but not particularly compelling.
  
• Hidden Bud Light at the office. Eh.
  
• Burger King Whopper show. I liked it. It was weird in the vein of all the BK ads featuring the king and it had this awesome surreal aspect as one girl dropped on another girl and then another and another were dropped on as the Whopper was being built.
  
• Sierra Mist airport security. Kathy Griffin and Michael Ian Black? D-list, indeed. Also, not funny.
  
• Bud Light magic fridge. Eh.
  
• Seattle's offense is looking better than Pittsburgh's right now. I'm sticking with my pre-game pick. Seattle will win this.
  

• Perhaps I spoke too soon. Seattle wasn't able to convert their third and 16 and are punting for the second time this game.
  
• Hybrid Camry. The weird accents bothered me before they explained them at the end of the ad. The ad was boring, like the Camry, so the ad fit the product perfectly.
  
• Dinosaur/Caveman FedEx ad. Memorable if not as funny as they wanted it to be.
  
• Bud Light bear ad. Still no good Bud Light ads.
  

• Three and out for the Steelers and the Seahawks will start at midfield. Seattle isn't looking great, but the Steelers look worse.
  
• V for Vendetta. Awesome graphic novel, awesome movie.
  
• Diet Pepsi and Puffy. Brown and bubbly? I could have sworn that the chorus of that song was "Come and get you some Bud" which seemed like it was advertising the wrong product.
  

• Alexander hasn't really been much of a factor for the Seahawks O yet. Two carries in a row now that haven't gone anywhere.
  
• 3 points from my boy Josh Brown. A great fantasy kicker, FYI.
  
• Aleve and Nimoy. Would have sucked if it hadn't been for the Trekkies in the audience at the end. The worried look on their faces cracked me up.
  
• Fixing a leak in the roof. Finally a Bud Light ad that I liked.
  

• End of the first quarter. Looks like the Steelers will be punting when we come back. Big Ben is off to an awfully slow start.
  
• Jackie Chan and Diet Pepsi. I liked the stunt-double stunt.
  
• Cars. It's not "The Incredibles."
  

• Nearly every great return is the product of holding.
  
• Suzy Kolber. At the beginning of the game she quoted Mike Holmgren as saying "the only people who believe we'll win this game is in this room." We've got some subject/verb issues there and I wonder if Holmgren really said it as she quoted it or whether she messed up the quote.
  
• Wow. I think that incomplete pass should have been ruled a fumble. It looks like he was hit right as he took his second step.
  
• Streaker. A Bud Light throwback to an ad from last season. I approve.
  
• Mobile ESPN/Sports Heaven. It has Jim Edmonds, so I approve.
  

• The Steelers finally got a couple first downs. This is the first drive they've had where they've been able to pick up a first down.
  
• Monkeys in the workplace. Another throwback ad. Is this going to be a trend?
  
• Fashion show/Escalade ad. There are some ridiculous eyelashes on those models.
  

• Interception! That ends the Steelers drive.
  
• MI:3. Not a very compelling ad. Especially when you compare it with the V for Vendetta ad earlier.
  
• Self-esteem fund? A nice idea, but why do I suspect that it's a ploy to get people to buy Dove products. Oh, it's because they paid millions of dollars for that ad and Dove is a company and all companies like to make money.
  

• Fourth and inches. Punt or go for it? Punt early, go for it late.
  
• I'm glad I'm not Randle-El. He got seriously hit.
  
• Shaggy Dog. Awful movie, awful premise for an ad.
  
• Escape Hybrid. The muppets are sell-outs, but I liked the ad.
  
• Michelob Ultra. Me like.
  

• Big play for the Steelers. Midfield to the three yard line. Seattle gave him way to much time.
  
• GoDaddy girl. Another throwback ad. Does everyone think alluding to last year's ads is the best way to make an impression?
  
• 2 minute warning. Pittsburgh is still 3 yards from a TD.
  
• Poseidon. It will suck.
  
• Five blades!? What's next, six blades?
  

• That was NOT a touchdown. His knee was down ages before the ball crossed the line. Big Ben was on the ground when he looked up and moved the ball over the line.
  
• Overstock. Boring. "It's all about the O?" Not a very great tag line. I think they should try "Let us show you our O face."
  
• Bullshit. I still don't think that was a TD.
  

• It's odd to see Seattle with fewer points on the scoreboard, because it seems like they've had no trouble controlling this game in the first half. I guess we get to see how good their 2-minute drill is now.
  
• Two timeouts in a row now with no commercial break. Interesting.
  
• Mental mistakes by Seattle may have cost them some points. We'll see if Brown can pull this off.
  
• He can't.
  

• Halftime. And time for me to get some dinner.
  

• Things aren't looking good for Seattle. To quote John Madden, Seattle "can move the ball but they can't complete the deal." If Pittsburgh gets another another TD it will be tough for Seattle to catch up. Seattle needs to get a stop here and hold the Steelers to 3 points.
  

• Giant Lizard + Giant Robot = Hummer. I'm sure driving a monster appeals to some, but not to me.
  
• Practical Solutions. A lot of money at advertise a household cleaning product. Especially with such a blah ad.
  
• HUGE PLAY! INTERCEPTION AND HUGE RETURN! If Herndon had a bit more gas Seattle would have 7 more points on the board right now.
  

• Seattle finally got a TD. And Stevens, who would have three TDs now if he'd been able to stay in bounds, was uncovered in the middle of the field. What a change in momentum. Things are looking up for Seattle.
  
• Jackasses in the workplace. The monkey ad taken to a new level.
  
• Who is the guy in the Taco Bell ads? I've seen him before but I have no idea who he is. Perhaps he's just been in a bunch of ads.
  

• It always amazes me that there are so many repeat ads on during the Super Bowl. If ads really are so expensive, why would a company pay so much money on a crappy ad like the one for the 5,000 (or whatever) blade fusion razor.
  
• I like the Tacoma ad. It got it's point across just as intended and I'm sure its target audience appreciated it.
  

• Al Michaels really likes Grey's Anatomy. Apparently its a "great" show. Interestingly, Jeremy also seems obsessed with it, as he called me up to ask me to make sure it got recorded after the game. We'll just have to see when the show starts, but recording stuff after sporting events can be tough.
  
• Was big Ben hurt at the end of that play? It seems like he's doing alright on the sidelines, so I'll assume that he's ok.
  
• Seattle has bad field position, but they just need to keep doing their thing and take four or five yards on every play.
  
• Hasselbeck looks pretty good scrambling out of the pocket. He's not exactly Michael Vick, but he got the job done.
  

• We've played three quarters and it's a four point game.
  
• Song for everything: I don't like ads where couches catch on fire. A bit too much like real life.
  
• I can do without Kurt Warner/Christian ads.
  
• This must be the local ad block. What airs in St. Louis in the local ad section? Christians, car repair, and Hardees hamburgers.
  

• Officiating in this game hasn't been awful, but it seems like there are a lot of no calls when the Steelers commit offenses and calls that don't make sense against Seattle.
  
• Emerald Nuts. Druids Under the Stairs. Has there ever been a bad Emerald Nuts ad?
  
• Michaels and Madden just made the same point I was trying to make about the officiating. It's not perfect.
  

• The first Pirates of the Carri bean was fun, so I'll give the sequels a go. Plus, the first sequel opens on my birthday, which seems auspicious.
  
• MacGyver & MasterCard. Awesome!
  

• Hasselbeck was down by contact, but only in a strict interpretation of the rules sense.
  
• More Jimmy Edmonds. I love the Cardinals getting some dap. Even the ads for the baseball All-Star game (a game that had four Cardinals starting) featured only East Coast and big city teams and no Cardinals. So it's good to see a Cardinals as the representative baseball player in an ad.
  

• Am I the only one who thinks the World Baseball Classic will be a big waste of time? The baseball season is already long enough. Plus, I don't know why we need these artificial national teams. It just seems like it will cause jingoism. And all these folks who were born in the US of A playing for teams like Italy. Contrived.
  

• Now that Seattle isn't going to win, I'm no longer interested in the game. Plus, we're in that zone where all the interesting commercials have already aired. Let's just get this over with.
  
• Two minutes to play. It would be a comeback of the ages if Seattle managed to do something here.
  

• Mental mistakes always cost you in the end.
  
• The Steelers beat the spread as well as Seattle.
  

Posted by on 5 February 2006 at 5:35 PM