I was looking forward to this game and some of the commercials. Unfortunately I was driving during nearly the entire pre game and the game itself. Were there any good commercials? I read that all the commercials are on YouTube on some AdBlitz channel?

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Nothing all that remarkable. You'll see all of the commercials for at least the next 3 months anyway.

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To me, most of them were dumb.
Although the Pepsi one with Elton John made me laugh.
I thought it was dumb, until the very end when you see who he ends up with in the "dungeon".

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Who was it? I didn't make the connection when I saw it.

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"Flavor Flav", the "rapper".

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Do they have some past history?

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That's not entirely true. The two Eminem commercials last year I didn't see again unless it was on YouTube. I don't care to watch 8 hours of TV to catch the good commercials, c'mon man! 🙂


That kind of sucks that there wasn't even any good commercials. The game (from what I heard on the radio) seemed like a good one. Which is what counts most.

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I barely noticed most of the commercials, although the polar bears in the Coca-Cola ads were cute. In fact cuteness seemed to be a predominant theme this year, in contrast to the frenetic search for snidely clever humor that have characterized Super Bowl ads in the past. There were a lot of references to Star Wars and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. A number of the ads I recognized, since they have been running for some time already.

My German friend was fascinated with the halftime show. She'd never seen anything like it in a European sporting event, although I imagine that the gigantic concert that opens the World Cup might rival it.

Overall, I was pretty meh about the whole event. The game was relatively boring except for the last half of the 4th quarter (and even then, the only drama was that I really didn't want the Patriots to win), the ads were unremarkable, and the bar was so loud I could barely hear the halftime show.

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