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Am I the only person around here who doesn't watch football and didn't realize the big game was on tonight until my son said "Super Bowl's on"?

Yes! (Actually I'm watching while I'm typing)

Actually, my Grandkids know the game's on....three of them are in MY chair and won't get up!

....2/3 of them don't know WHY they're there, but they just have a feeling that they SHOULD be!!

And the one who knows why he's there, thinks it's actually for the new commercials, that are supposed to be really funny!

Myself; I remember Superbowl 2 & 3,(I thought no 1 was a gimmic and wouldn't last)but was shocked to find it had snuck all the way up to 40 already!!
Rich.

No football here, I don't watch it much unless the Bears make the playoffs.

I found out when I heard a blurb on the radio that our RCAF and the US Air Force were conducting highly visible joint NORAD air defence missions over Detroit and Windsor. I assumed it was April Fools but apparently it's still February.

NORAD doing PR ? Is there a big budget vote coming up or something ?

I was hoping for something cool like the end of the Sydney Olympics when an RAAF plane (F111, I think) flew over the stadium, did a fuel dump overhead then kicked into afterburners to explode the dumped fuel in mid-air... but no, they're just flying around in circles...

I don't think the best speakers in the world could have made the rolling stones half time show sound anywhere near good.

Awful.

Nope, you're not the only one. Never cared a thing about football, particularly after enduring 11 years of shouts of "Roll Tide" and drunken, inbred extras from Deliverance while living in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. I stopped by the gas station on the way home tonight and the girl behind the counter asked if I was going home to watch the game. When I asked "What game?", she looked at me like I'd grown three heads.

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I stopped by the gas station on the way home tonight and the girl behind the counter asked if I was going home to watch the game. When I asked "What game?", she looked at me like I'd grown three heads.

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I like wathing it every year, but it is kind of scary how fanatical some people are over it. I predict in 5 years it will become a recognized holiday. Or not. . .

Did the Bears win?

I was wearing my bears shirt during the superbowl.

I had my Bears shirt, my wife had her Vikings shirt, and my oldest son had his Packers shirt.

Anybody think the commercials were better than the game?

Not in Canada. We got local stuff instead.

I was really looking forward to seeing Miss Piggy and Jessica Simpson in matching outfits.

I heard that channel 448 on the Bell Dish was going to run the US commercials today. Or tonight. I thought it was a little odd, but hey!

That IS odd! I'm so inured to to mentally tuning out commercials, that I missed most of them even though I was sitting right in front of the set. Can't seem to break the habit.

My Wife, who is more of a football fan than I, watched the game, and felt that perhaps the commercials WERE better than the game!

She is also a great NASCAR fan and will ALWAYS record the race so that when she's ready to watch; she can zap quickly over the commercials.

.....and past the boring "Rush-hour on the Freeway" segments of the race as well

But, in this instance, she and the kids watched the game in real-time just so they COULD catch all the commercials!

......and even did some "instant replays"

....of SOME of the COMMERCIALS!!

If I remember correctly a 30 second spot costs over $2.5 million these days. You can bet they are going to put some extraordinary effort into making the commercials...

I have never watched more than a few minutes of a football game and also did not know yesterday was THE DAY. Interesting that all I hear today is about the commercials. That'll be the day, when I watch television for the commercials.

Although in Canada I did get to see the US commercials. It was available on ABC-Detroit in HD. For some reason ABC-Seattle was carrying the version with substituted Canadian commercials. If none of that makes sense to you don't worry, it's just our government protecting us from God knows what

Thoughts:
1. CFL still rules.
2. Too bad IMHO the officiating was so poor.
C. It was nice of them to name the field after me
4. I'm so glad they protected us all by censoring the Stones "Start Me Up".
5. The best team did win but it wasn't pretty.

Wow!! If they're gonna charge that much for the time,....and pass it on to us....then I guess we'd better watch all those expensive commercials just so's we can be sure to get our money's worth!!

Think I'll add that to my New Years Resolution!

......(next year)

Seriously; the wife and kids really did enjoy a number of more elaborate and humerous ads!

I actually heard them laughing and watching them again!!

I just asked the wife which ones she liked the best?

She said she didn't have the foggiest who the sponsers were; but that the ads were fun!!

Fascinating!
Rich.

The ad that got the most laughs was the cell phone with anti-theft.

Don't worry, the game was a snoozefest and the commercials were barely better. Sure some got some laughs but entire event was pretty bad. And yea the Rolling Corpses (or maybe Rolling Kidney Stones) were horrible and the worst part of Super Bowl Sunday.

NFL really stands for No Fun League

young man just how old are you? This is f107's wife and I thought they were pretty darn good for their age. I would like to see you at that age doing a performance that well. Brought back a lot of memories. And I would say for a lot of people out there. The game was not very good but I think the refs were the one's to added to that problem and the commercials were as immature as the writers are. We normally don't watch these games but we have grandsons who were interested in them so we watched. It was fun watching them watch the game. kat

My computer is smoking now...

And thus ends the Encyclopaedia Illustrata's entry on "the Generation Gap"

Bren R.

Good points, I was thinking I hope I look as slim as Mick when I hit his age .....then it dawned on me... I don't look that slim now

I think that's the last time I'll say "Rolling Kidney Stones" out loud, around here!!

Touchy,...ain't she?These ex-GO-GO dancers can be pretty sensitive toward their old favorite groups!!

She pushed me out of my chair and ripped off the keyboard!!

But then again she's a lot younger than I am at only 58!!
Rich.

"2. Too bad IMHO the officiating was so poor."

Poor? It seemed deliberately unfair to me. I didn't care who won as long as my numbers came up (they didn't), but the officials were CLEARLY favoring Pittsburgh (CLEARLY, Jack ).
It was the only pro game I watched all year.

The BK commercial with all the ladies dressed as burger components was pretty cool - in a ridiculous "let's celebrate the lowness of our culture" kind of way.

I'm an old Stones fan myself, but I thought their guitar work wasn't up to par. Mick still can move around pretty good especially at his age.

I'm going to see them in person next month. It will be the forth time I've seen them so I'll able to judge better about them soon. Saw them twice in the mid 70s, once in the 90s and now in 2006. Should be interesting.

Second time I saw them was when Ronnie Woods was new to the group and it is still the best concert I've ever seen ... and I've seen a ton of concerts in my day.

What???

You're not sore over that second touchdown are you?

I happened to enjoy the game. My team won..........and the keg didn't float.

Man oh man,

What game did you guys watch??

I for one rather enjoyed the game. There were some incredible plays made and it was a good solid defensive game. Is this a case where if the score isn't huge that the game sucked?

Pittsburg is a running team and they ran the football a few yards at a time. This is great old school football and proved successful for them. To this they added some amazing pass plays and of course some interceptions but all in all I thought it was one of the more exciting Superbowls I have seen.

As for the officiating I agree that it was poor on a couple of calls but that goes for every football game that gets officiated.

As for the commercials. I watched the game a couple hours later as I had to work during the live showing, so I got to skip the commercials. Even though the slots cost 5 million per minute it seems in recent years they might be spending all the money on the slot and not on developing the commercial. Glad that I could skip them. Glad some of you enjoyed them. Hyserical that the name recognition failed. Why spend the money??

We were sitting around discussing comercials just the other day, and the question of which products we buy just because of comercials came up?

......Toyota?....no, nice cars and trucks though.....Geico?....like the lizard, but....no....Viagra?....NO!!....Mc Donalds?...the kids like the play areas, but....no...

Nope,....can't think of a single comercial, at least in the last, oh, thirty years or so, that caused us to make a purchase!!




.....ok, so the wife ordered some of those "Tupperware-like" storage thingies on a carousel, but that was more of an "infomercial"

Comercials are like those "tear-out" cards in a magazine, where they just get in the way of what you really want to do and just tend to make you angry!!

Hey!...it's like when you get in your 60s and realize that the number of minutes you have left are somewhat limited, so why would you want to waste tham watching somebody try to sell you something you eaither don't want, or need, or that you are going to buy anyway!!(Like MY favorite brand of T-P, not someone elses!!)

Thank those audio/video gods for DVRs!!

I'm totally with you on the commercials thing. The sad truth is, they must work, otherwise they wouldn't exist. I'm sure the marketing teams have plenty of numbers from the sales teams to justify the ungodly amounts they spend on commercials. If they didn't work, there'd be no funding to make them.

It comes down to this: there are enough gullible or easily-influenced people (fodder) to keep the plague that is commercials afflicting all of us.

Ah yes,...

...MKT 101, pg 2.

Aim your advertizing toward the young; forget the aged as they have already made up their minds! Make the young feel good about themselves by knocking the schools, the parents, and older folks, and they will follow you anywhere!

Aim your advertizing toward women, put down all males, and you will have a sale!!

....I took marketing 101 in the 60s...is it still accurate!??

There is a question though: how many times have you been in a store, looking at 2 different (but fairly similar items) and gone, "Hey, I've heard of that one. I think it was something good. I'll get that."

That's the power of advertising. Scary, huh?

Be afraid,....be really afraid!

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