Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Super Bowl

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!

Sunbelt software is the only thing that fits for me that I can think of. I get the newsletters they send out, became familiar with them as a company, and now am more likely to try their anti spam and spyware programs. This is the only time I can think of that advertising has worked for me, and this is even more of an indirect method, since the newsletter does provide some good info.

Sunbelt Counterspy is great. My company uses it nationwide and it's cut our instances of spyware infected PCs to practically zero.