Open thread for all things Super Bowl
Cory Bergman February 3rd, 2008
So, what do you think of the Super Bowl pregame show, the game coverage, the halftime show, the web integration and most of all… the commercials? Leave your impressions in comments below and we’ll surface a few in our coverage after the game.
Writes Chip: “It will be the highest-rated SB, dontcha think? Even higher than those great games of the 70s and 80s.”
Writes Tim: “Most of the ads were.. average, mediocre, take your pick. There was one that made me laugh.. but I can’t remember it so it wasn’t that effective, was it?”
Writes Mel: “While i think tom petty is a fine performer, i always get a kick out of how the producers of the half time show load up a bunch of screaming teens and 20-somethings in front of the stage…. the youngsters seem to be going crazy for petty. i bet most have no idea of the tunes he was playing.”
Writes Sparkles: “We tried going to the screaming stain web site right after the commercial. it didn’t work. doh!”
Writes Steve: “A four hour pregame is way too long. on the positive side - Jordan Sparks may have sung one of the best renditions on the national anthem i’ve ever heard.”
27 Comments Add your own
1. tdc | February 3rd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
they’ve most likely been outbid today for google placement, but yesterday’s hulu post that mentioned the super bowl served up an ad for peta’s banned tv commercials… when you have time check them out (’milk gone wild’ might make you chuckle).
click ‘tdc’
2. nate | February 3rd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Why does Fox continue to use that weird android football player animation in the bottom left corner? It’s been around waaay to long.
3. joe | February 3rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
That girl singing in the Doritos ad, who won the vote to sing in the spot, was the one who wrote that song for Digg. Which got a bunch of Digg users to vote for her. Smart!
4. Hank | February 3rd, 2008 at 6:07 pm
We have discovered that Troy Aikman is truly a boring color man. He is terrible.
5. Robert | February 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I enjoyed watching a Terminator destroy that robot. My wife thought the robot was a Transformer.
These halftime shows of recent are awful. What geriatric band that is loved-by-all will they dig up next year?
6. david johnson | February 3rd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
game’s kind of a snore.
7. steve | February 3rd, 2008 at 7:09 pm
A four hour pregame is way too long
on the positive side - Jordan Sparks may have sung one of the best renditions on the national anthem i”ve ever heard.
i would like to hear more nat sound from the field of play and a little less blaring of the crowd.
8. david johnson | February 3rd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
winner of the game: anheiser-busch’s agency of record. great creatives.
9. steve | February 3rd, 2008 at 7:35 pm
I thought thecoke balloon spot was great as well as the toddler doing the e-trades
10. Joe G. | February 3rd, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Did anyone catch who won the Puppy Bowl?
11. david johnson | February 3rd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
tyree’s catch is the best play of the game. amazing throw.
12. cory | February 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Woo hoo, the imperfect season! (Sorry Saf)
13. Safran | February 3rd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Go Sox!
14. Chip Mahaney | February 3rd, 2008 at 9:11 pm
1) It will be the highest-rated SB, dontcha think?
Even higher than those great games of the 70s and 80s.
2) I liked the Shaq horse-racing spot and the FedEx giant pigeon spot.
3) It’s been a big weekend for MySpace. Hosting a debate and Super Bowl ads, both this weekend.
4) Losing a game like this leaves you feeling like you were dumped. We Cowboys fans have known this feeling the past two seasons. We’ll be happy to share our Zoloft and our favorite therapists with our friends in New England.
15. Tim | February 3rd, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Most of the ads were.. average, mediocre, take your pick. There was one that made me laugh.. but I can’t remember it so it wasn’t that effective, was it?
The game: who put the sedatives in the Patriot offensive line’s water bottles?
16. Allen | February 3rd, 2008 at 11:12 pm
I loved the Will Ferrell Bud Light commercial. “SUCK IT”!
17. Bud Packer | February 4th, 2008 at 4:57 am
I really liked the part where the one guy had the ball and the other dude was chasing him and then they were like, “hey you, give me that or I’m gonna smash your face” or something mean like that… AND THEN, right at the end Grandpa Petty’s song it was cool that they didn’t show him getting off the stage with a Hoveround and turning off his guitar with the Clapper…. BUT OF COURSE, I think the Reds will win next year…
Thanx. Baby Jesus loves you…
18. Contrarian | February 4th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Yeah, but it would have been much better if we could have wathced it on our computer screens instead of that 60″ plasma, wouldn’t it?
19. Mel Taylor | February 4th, 2008 at 5:46 am
while i think tom petty is a fine performer, i always get a kick out of how the producers of the half time show load up a bunch of screaming teens and 20-somethings in front of the stage.
must admit, it looks GREAT for tv.
the youngsters seem to be going crazy for petty. i bet most have no idea of the tunes he was playing
in order to get the young crowd to clap, scream, and go crazy, the producer probably said: ‘the most enthusiastic will be on TV”
did you notice that NO ONE was lip syncing petty’s tunes ?
20. Hussman | February 4th, 2008 at 7:00 am
For the win:
Most exciting SB ever!
Tom Petty = just good, American music. It’s like Rock n Roll. Kinda weird, I know
E-Trade commercial win again, as does the “screaming stain” from Tide
21. sparkles | February 4th, 2008 at 7:36 am
we tried going to the screaming stain web site right after the commercial. it didn’t work.
doh!
22. tdc | February 4th, 2008 at 8:34 am
to #18 (contrarian):
matters not if it aired on a 60″, an 80″, a 2″ or a 13″ laptop, the LONG TAIL part of all this is being played out you-know-where… and not on your plasma.
that long tale includes (but is not limited to) your always positive take on things too!
see, you’ve become a part of what you’re contrary to.
hang in there, that light bulb will flicker at some point.
23. Rob | February 4th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Tom Petty singing Free Fallin’ during the half-time show … ummm … wow. Can we say “Sominex”?
As for the throngs of screaming kids during the Petty show, the consensus at our SB party was: ASU bused them in from Tempe, gave them free flashlights, maybe a CD and a bio sheet of Tom Petty’s work and they get community service hours for standing there with Grampa and smiling pretty for the cameras.
Don’t get me wrong. Tom Petty’s a great singer (And he was AWESOME in The Postman … j/k), but not in a Pump-you-up-during-halftime-at-the-biggest-football-game-in-the-world sort of way.
The commercials were the worst crop of unfunny and unsexy commercials I’ve ever seen during Super Bowl. Usually they’re either funny or sexy; this year they were mostly Politically Correct. The e-trade spitting up while trading baby and FedEx carrier pigeons were the only ones that were memorable. The rest smacked of the same packaging that brought us Tom Petty … they were watered down, politically correct anti-Janet Jackson-breasteses let’s not be funny or sensational or try and captivate the audience ads.
… on the other hand the game itself was one of the best Super Bowls I’ve seen in years so it’s all good.
24. Steve | February 4th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Politically correct? Neither the SaleGenie nor Carlos Mencia Bud ads were very PC. Brown people funny accents are teh funny!!
25. Rob | February 4th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Keyword in my last post in referencing PC advertising was the word “mostly”.
26. tdc | February 4th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
that long tail just keeps a waggin’
just came from thehuffingtonpost where i read about 1/2 of the 70 or so post game comments.
the pre-game, game and post game lasted about 10 hours on ’somebody’s’ 60″ plasma.
24 running hours later and not a tv camera in sight thehuffingtonpost is even making some $ off the superbowl!
27. oakling | February 16th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Yeah, politically correct was not a phrase that jumped to my mind during any of those commercial breaks. My favorite part of the whole thing was when those two football players spontaneously started slapfighting!
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