Super blahs …

• Posted in General musings, On TV

Congrats to the Steelers for winning the big game. I feel sorry for the Cards, though. That was a really heartbreaking way to lose. But now, on to the important stuff — the commercials. 😎

Overall, I thought the commercials were pretty weak this year. I liked the Clydesdale commercials, especially the one with the horse playing fetch. But then again, these are always my favorites. I also enjoyed the Audi commercial with Jason Stratham that was a bit of a spoof of Stratham’s Transporter character. Other than that, though, nothing really blew my socks off.

The one with Carlos Boozer of the Utah Jazz started out well, but then, it got a little sappy. And I had no idea what they were advertising. The Olympics? Jewelry? Buying stuff online?

The beer commercials were lame and not funny at all, along with the car and cell phone commercials. Overall, they were all just … meh. They didn’t even show any cool movie trailers this year. Even G.I. Joe looked cheesy.

And the commercial for Heroes where they are playing football with all the NFL greats … I hope you got a lot of money for that, John Elway. Because it was lame. :rolleyes:

I wasn’t that impressed with the halftime show, either. Half the time, I couldn’t even understand what Bruce was saying/singing. And I felt real sorry for the cameraman he slammed his crotch into when he did his run-and-slide move. The NFL should just get Jimmy Buffett to do the halftime show next year. Seriously. Call Buffett now.

What about you guys? Which commercials did you like? Share in the comments.

6 Responses to “Super blahs …”

  1. Lori T says:

    I did not watch the Superbowl or the commercials…but I have to say anything with Jason Stratham is well worth watching. I love Jason Stratham!!

  2. Michele L. says:

    Hi Jennifer,

    My husband and I were thinking it would be cool if they had Van Morrison as half time entertainment. Pretty close to what you were thinking! We didn’t care for Bruce Springstein.

    There were some commercials we liked. Not many though. We felt the same way as you, the commercials weren’t as good as other years. We loved the one year when they had all the “What’s up?” alien commercials. Oh, and the Budweiser frog commercials. Those are classic!

    The football game was pretty exciting though! The 4th quarter was the best!

  3. Jennifer Estep says:

    Lori — You would have liked the commercial then. It was basically Jason Stratham driving a variety of cars before jumping in an Audi. And he looked *very* good in it. 😉

    Michele — Van Morrison would be cool! I liked the Budweiser frogs too. And the Taco Bell dog. They just don’t make commercials like they used to, do they?

    I’d say that was one of the best fourth quarters of any Super Bowl that I’ve seen. You always want the game to be good, but that one was definitely a classic.

  5. ILuvLA says:

    The problem with the Audi commercial was summed up at Slate.com: why run a commercial that features a lot of cool cars built by your competitors?

    Switched over to “Wipeout Bowl” during halftime. It was *hilarious*.

    (Hey, any news on whether there will be a fourth Bigtime book?)

  6. Jennifer Estep says:

    ILuvLA — I didn’t even think about that. I just thought it was cool that Stratham was spoofing his Transporter character.

    It’s not looking good for more Bigtime at this point.

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