Super Sunday Has Arrived

Time to make the chli and nachoes and hit the couch. That greatest of unofficial holidays has arrived. I still have not gotten over my beloved Eagles losing last year. Maybe the Steelers can win it for Pa and Govenor Ed this time. Will just have to wait and see.

Best part (unless ofcourse the Eagles are playing) is watching the commercials. Hope there are some good ones this year. I really can't remember last year .... to many tears!

Top Ten Super Bowl Commercials from the Kansas City Star:

Joe Posnanski's top 10 Super Bowl commercials
1. Apple, 1984 (1984): Woman wearing a headband throws a hammer at Big Brother and smashes all the old concepts of Super Bowl commercials.
2. Coke and Mean Joe Greene (1980): The kid offers up his Coke. Mean Joe tosses the kid his football jersey. America says “Aw!” (Even though nobody is quite sure how that kid snuck into the tunnel.)
3. E*Trade, Monkey (2000): A monkey dances on top of a trash can to “La Cucaracha” while two men in plaid clap along. Then the words: “We just wasted 2 million bucks. What are you doing with your money?”
4. Budweiser, Whassup (2000): Friends greet each other with the eternal beer catch phrase “Whassup?” This led to countless follow-up commercials, including one where yuppies greeted each other by saying, “What is up?”
5. Reebok, Terry Tate, Office Linebacker (2003): Terry Tate goes around the office smashing office workers who commit various office misdeeds, like forgetting to include cover pages. “Productivity has gone up 42 percent,” the CEO says. I have no idea how this was supposed to sell sneakers.

Get the rest:
The Kansas City Star

Super Bowl Commercials - Have We Lost Our Minds
Huffington Post
Robert Schlesinger
Sat Feb 4, 1:59 PM ET
I have a couple of friends who are going to miss the Super Bowl but plan to Tivo it. In a twist that can only happen one day a year, they're going to d'beep-d'beep-d'beep past the football and watch the commercials.
I have another friend who is working overseas and plans to watch the game live, but is having someone record it for him here in the states and send him the tape ... so he can watch the commercials.
I didn't bother to point out to him that all of the commercials will undoubtedly be online well before the VHS tape wings its way across the pond. And I didn't even realize that putting the ads online is just the tip of the ice-berg -- companies are developing specific web-sites and buying search engine key-words to back up the $2.5 million they're plunking down for the ads.
Hell, today's New York Times has a listing of which ads are going to be on in what quarter.
And you can be sure that almost as much air time on "news" shows will be devoted to dissecting the ads as to dissecting the game on Monday.
Which calls to mind the question: Have we lost our collective minds?
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Super Bowl ads as much as the next person (well, OK, obviously not as much, but enough). It's like an advertising All Star game. It's great that they're better than the usual pap foisted on the Tivo-less teleivision viewer.
But ... they're advertisements.

The Huffington Post