okay... I like the super bowl. I like watching guys smash into each other and stuff. and I get all excited when it's a good game. Fine, laugh at me! And I like the weird commercials. I like the trainwreck-stupid ones too because it's so weird to think of huge teams of people and millions of dollars totally blown on something that an 8 year old could have done, and that misses the boat anyway.
the five blades commercial made us all die laughing because it was so stupid and because of the onion article. I liked the hamburger dance commercial...
The best one was this one for a cell phone. Very poetic and a coherent image/message. A meteorite, a crater, erosion, passing of time indicated by glaciers, oceans, etc. And finally a smooth rock on a beach. So instead of the impression of an annoying piece of junk that will likely break within 6 months and go obsolete, you have this message of durability, classic timelessness, and YET also, being sort of cool and from space. Who believes it for even a second... not me.. but I got the idea and admired the artistry.
doh! what's happening to my brain! I like commercials!
At the party I was at, the whole crowd shouted "Onion!" when that ad ran.
Posted by: whump | February 06, 2006 at 12:18 AM
That's the only reason why I watch the Stupid Bowl. I blush to admit that my favorite was the Bud pony trying to pull the Bud cart, and then ::sob:: he started pulling the huge cart and ::blows nose::: you saw that his parents ::big breath to compose self:: pushing the cart from behind!!! ::full on weeping::
Posted by: Ms. Jane | February 06, 2006 at 08:00 AM
Next year, our place! B/c we are the "queers who like watching sports" gathering nexus.
Posted by: lori | February 06, 2006 at 10:21 AM
The only reason to watch the Super Bowl is the ads.
Posted by: Stephanie | February 06, 2006 at 11:11 AM
No way, man. I like hearing John Madden spout off cheesily. "Because only one team will win. And there are winners, and there are losers. And The winners will be Remembered Forever, and the Losers Forgotten." Which while I know there are a bazillion dollars at stake, it still makes me laugh because it's so fucking trivial whether some guys throw a ball across a line and I will never actually care or remember and neither will about 99.999% of the entire world not to mention Recorded History Throughout The Ages. You would think it was fucking Ragnarok.
Posted by: badgerbag | February 06, 2006 at 11:37 AM
Also, that dialog is taken from about a million reality shows, e.g., Project Runway:
Heidi: At the end of today's challenge one of the designers will leave. Because they lost. Tthere will be one less designer. Because the losing designer will leave at the end of today's challenge. Which means that there will one be ::insert number:: at the end of the day. Because the losing designer will not be here anymore. Because they lost. And had to go home. Leaving only ::insert number:: left for next week's challeng. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Posted by: Ms. Jane | February 06, 2006 at 11:56 AM
ahem.
http://video.google.com/superbowl.html
Posted by: amy.leblanc | February 08, 2006 at 05:02 PM