People don't watch the Super Bowl because they don't like/love football, and they could care less about commercials. That I totally understand.
People watch the Super Bowl because people like/love football. That too, I totally understand.
People watch the Super Bowl not because people like/love football, but because people like/love Super Bowl commercials? WTFrack?
So there are people who sit on their couch for four-hours to watch commercials and then – like this is an activity to be proud of - they declare it to loved ones and co-workers the next day! Pathetic. Let me give you a little perspective here of how sorry and sadthis is. They’ve just sat on their collective fat ass for FOUR-HOURS to watch commercials for consumer products. The actual game is four fifteen minute quarters (plus a little for time outs, injuries, play reviews and commentary). So, do the math. Cheesus H. Rice, those people need serious psychiatric help. In essence, the actual time that the game is on the air is a commercial break, because the actual commercial breaks are the actual show to those people. WOW! Have those people ever been sucked into the “I must consume, I must buy what TV tells me” hive mind mentality! Let me say it again... pathetic. Their minds have been so twisted that they think thirty to sixty-second spots are entertainment. I have NEVER understood the fascination with commercials any time of the year and especially during the Super Bowl. The other 364 and five-sixths days of the year commercials pi$$ people off because they cut up the flow of favorite TV shows. I only have two favorite shows – Battlestar Galactica and The Simpsons - and commercials piss me off. Even the ones I laugh at still piss me off because they cut up my show and the volume increases by twenty decibels. I didn’t turn the volume up and I don’t need or want the TV screaming at me about the piss-water that is Budweiser or the latest earth smashing Hummer POS mobile! Allow me to make something clear for those people who watch the Super Bowl not for the game, but for commercials. Commercials ARE NOT ENTERTAINMENT you dip shits! Get your heads out your asses. DVDs of favorite TV shows and movies, books and games are entertainment. Your left and/or right hand and some porn is entertainment. Commercials are thirty-second spots of consumerism designed to make you think that your life sucks without such-n-such five-blade razor product. X-company paid way too much fracking $$$ to make some inane spot hawking cars, beer, soda pop, and delivery services that people already know about and either already use/own, or don't use/own because for a lot of us our lives don’t suck and we are already cool. And while I am speaking of sucking, I have to say that the new Pepsi slogan SUCKS! It’s the one slogan/commercial that I clearly remember because it SUCKS so hard! Brown & Bubbly? Seriously, is this how Pepsi really wants people to think of their soda pop? Brown and bubbly? That’s just gross. The only things that come to mind when I hear brown & bubbly are volcanic mud, septic tanks and diarrhea! Pepsi was never my number one choice of soft drink, they were always number two (whaa wha whaaaaa) and this just seals it, forever. Maybe the brown & bubbly campaign should be for Pepto Bismol. Oh wait, they're new slogan is "Pink is Better Than You Think." It sure is ;-)
I refer to it as "The Commercial Bowl" 5 minute commercial breaks interspersed with a minute-thirty worth of play. If you're lucky. Then back to 5 minutes or more of pithy commercials. Oh, then there's the shitty half-time.
The only thing more commercial than The Super Bowl is Christmas.
Posted by: SteveK on February 6, 2006 03:51 PMwell, I guess I'll come pick up an ass-hat, 'cause that's why I watch the super bowl. Mind you, if I could ever get anyone to give me a coherent explanation of football I'd give watching the GAME a try. I do pick a team every year. This year I picked the Seahawks because a)they have birds on their helmets and b)I got mugged in Pittsburgh so I couldn't see cheering for their team. Every year, the team I pick loses. The officials seem to make calls randomly, from what little I have learned about the game. Is the whole thing rigged? Always the team everybody "expects" to win, wins. So, why bother watching the game if the outcome is a foregone conclusion? Instead, I go to my friend's superbowl party where they have great chili, see people I only ever see once a year, yell at the screen when everyone else does, and to entertain myself, I watch the commercials. Because the half time show gets less entertaining every year, too!
(Note to anyone who doesn't know me - I don't have television in my house, making any kind of commercial a distinct novelty for me)
So, what time can I pick up my hat?
I confess, I didn't watch the but a few plays of the actual game, but I did keep the tv on so I could catch whatever commercials were on each time I wandered past it. I didn't glue myself to the chair waiting for the next commercial, tho. In fact, I was so un-glued from the tv that I missed the halftime show. Does that redeem me?
If not, then can tea and I please-pretty-please have MATCHING hats? I'd LOVE that!!!
Posted by: donna on February 6, 2006 09:35 PMTea and Donna,
I think it's amusing that you are both asking for ass-hats and I never mentioned ass-hats or ass-clowns in the entire entry. Serious psychiatric help help, yeah, I mentioned that, but then I also need (and am getting) serious psychiatric help, but for something completely different. And knowing both of you personally and well, I can say that you are definitely don't belong to the “I must consume, I must buy what TV tells me” hive mind mentality group.
Peace,
--Will
PS, Tea, I can explain the game to you sometime, if you really want to know.
Hi Will,
Thanks for stopping by.
Well, did your team win? Or not?
Fun time whatever I agree, after the BEARS lost I was kinda blaaa.
Had a fun time over @ The Blue Republic, Dude did a really good skit on being a sore loser.And my followup.
So did Rex . and since they both were losers, it got kinda heated.
Hi Aj,
Being that I am a Baltimore Raven's fan (home town team and what-not) my answer is no, my team didn't win. In fact they were big loosers this past season, but they are still the team I cheer for.
Also, being that the Stillers and Ravens are big time rivals, I would have to say double no to my team winning the Super Commercial Bowl. I would have prefered the Seahags.
Now if you'll excuse me, I feel a little brown and bubbly coming on!
Peace and rock on!
--Will