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The Washington PostTV has the Superbowl commercials on a rotating (autoplay) loop.
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SB Nation has Puppy Bowl gifs.
The Washington PostTV has the Superbowl commercials on a rotating (autoplay) loop.
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Violet
The Maserati commercial was awful. They must have paid a fortune for an ad that long and it was weird and creepy. At least everyone’s talking about it. No such thing as bad publicity and all.
eyelessgame
The Noah ad and the $cientology ad bookend the first half pretty symmetrically.
eyelessgame
I thought the Maserati ad was going to be a Tesla ad, and it would have been a lot more fun if it were.
Xantar
I’ve always been a fan of Bruno Mars, not least because he sounds just as good live as I’m studio. So this halftime show is all right by me.
Warren Terra
I think the two parter Budweiser frat-boy-fantasy-by-committee ad (Schwartzenbopper? Really?) was one of the worst I’ve ever seen.
Also the Lambourghini ad, which was interesting (in its suspense-laden we’re all in this together little-boy-narrated build up) but turned out to be for a fncking Lambourghini.
kindness
Hate to say it but I’ve missed most of them. That’s when I’ve been rustling things up.
KG
@Violet: I was actually surprised Maserati had an ad. Wouldn’t think they’d bother, being Maserati and all.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Who broke the internets?
Helen
Site is borked. Before it borks again – go over to the Coke FaceBook page. The wingnuts are out. Amazing how many “Real Americans” think that “America” is our national anthem. Next year I want to see a Planned Parenthood commercial. Advertising abortions. Starring Sandra Fluke.
Suffern ACE
USC vs. a Community College Walk On team would have been closer.
tofubo
the question is, could tebow have done done worse ?? #tebowlosesgamesforu
Bill Arnold
The matrix ad (Kia?) made me smile.
PsiFighter37
Game’s over. Only thing left to see is if Denver gets bageled.
Baud
Denver saves the shutout.
kindness
Thanks for the link.
Denver finally scores. Too late. It’s all Seattle.
Citizen_X
Dylan does an ad!
Anyway, the commercials are outdoing the game. Or Denver’s game, at least. Liked Colbert’s ad best.
Villago Delenda Est
Well, Broncos managed to score just as the 3rd quarter ended.
And BJ came back after a brief hiatus…wardrobe malfunction?
So much for the shutout.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
Oh my God, we broke Balloon Juice! Us bastards!
TD Broncos!! Where’s your shutout now, Seahawks fans?!??!!!
Nyah nyah nyah!!!
Villago Delenda Est
@tofubo:
The short NFL career of Tebow makes me happy.
Baud
Best thing about that earlier Coke ad is that Coke is HUGE in the South.
PsiFighter37
I guess no shutout. If they don’t onside kick, I’m going to sleep – they need 4 TDs in 15 minutes, just from a mathematical standpoint, I think they have to kick it – every Seattle drive, if a 3-and-out, will still burn 2-3 minutes from the clock.
Violet
@Citizen_X: Loved the Dylan ad. I love, love, love that song, “Things Have Changed.” It’s from the film “Wonder Boys”, which I also love. He won an Oscar for it.
cathyx
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn: I want you to keep it up. Seahawks are going to lose.
Elmo
Posted in thread below, which appears to be dead, so reposting here:
So my wife and I loved the multilingual Coke ad, and said at the same time, Yeah, but you know there are ppl out there who hate it.
So I went to Freeperville to see them in their native habitat. And sure nuff, there is some serious butthurt in the rightosphere. Furriners! Singing! In their own gibberish, instead of Jesus English as God intended!
Violet
Did Richard Sherman get injured? I was in the kitchen and thought I heard them say he did and someone replaced him.
James E. Powell
@Suffern ACE:
USC vs. a Community College Walk On team would have been closer.
Only if Lane Kiffin were still the coach.
Pogonip
Commercials are better than last year.
Has anyone checked the Hallmark Channel’s Kitten Bowl?
Next year: the Cole Bowl, in which John tries to go from one end of his house to the other without injury.
Jay C
Finally! A chance to BS on BJ!
Denver’s escaped the shutout, but the blowout still looms…
Being outclassed on defense will tend to do that, I guess…
mellowjohn
liked the cheerios ad, especially the mom’s expression at the end of the spot (plus the fact that it will make more RWNJ heads explode!).
but most of them leave me cold. it could be my 25+ years in direct response advertising, but most of them a) give no hint of what it is they’re selling until the very end, and b) don’t give any reason why you should buy whatever the hell it is they’re selling.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Violet:
He got nicked. Came right back in.
Jay C
@Pogonip:
Naked, while sweeping a jar of mustard in front of him with a mop. While trying to catch Steve. With an ass-razor.
different-church-lady
Now that’s just plain cruel.
Warren Terra
Wait,for the second time recently a Seattle receiver walks through four or five defenders? Did the Denver players bet heavily on Seattle to beat the spread by 30?
Violet
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Thanks.
@Jay C: On the opposite team, drunk college kids led by quarterback Rosie.
trollhattan
Me haz happy. It’s been a long time in the wilderness.
Villago Delenda Est
Someone invoke the mercy rule!
Anoniminous
@Warren Terra:
Broncos need to hold a remedial tackling school.
JGabriel
Is there some kind of football or basketball game going on tonight? Or some other kind of sporting event?
Elizabelle
@Bill Arnold:
yes, matrix ad was one of the few good ones.
SiubhanDuinne
Thank goo’ness you’re back.
Baud
Denver needs to run out the clock.
Schlemizel
It seems we broke BJ for a time. There was a long stretch I couldn’t get the page to load. Missed you guys!
JGabriel
Remember, everyone, the final score doesn’t matter — just that everyone involved enjoyed themselves and were good sports about it.
Villago Delenda Est
Sherman is down, and it doesn’t seem to be a nick.
Ernest Pikeman
Bob Dylan is selling cars.
Bob. Dylan. is. selling. cars.
What?
Elmo
@trollhattan:
Enjoy it! They’re not my team, but I am rooting for them tonight – in no small part because of Richard Sherman.
I wish you all joy. My poor Chargers will remain in the wilderness a while longer, alas.
Elizabelle
seahawks going to score a half century?
MomSense
@Villago Delenda Est:
I had to leave the room. I don’t like to see them get hurt.
Violet
@Ernest Pikeman: It’s like the Clint Eastwood ad a year or so ago. He was selling Detroit. Dylan’s ad was much the same.
Violet
So Richard Sherman seems to be hurt for real this time. :(
Jay C
@Villago Delenda Est:
Just saw Sherman limping off to the cart: game over for him, I’m thinking.
MomSense
@Elmo:
That was such a good ad. Sad to say I’m not surprised at the fright wing reaction.
Schlemizel
@Ernest Pikeman:
SHould have been Dow or Northrup-Grummann
mainmata
@Violet: Not to mention the car is called Ghelbi which sounds like some sort of bacterial infection. Terrible ad. Almost all of the car ads featured celebs.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Missed the first half. Glad Seattle is laying the smack down.
FlipYrWhig
@mainmata: isn’t that the name of the Miyazaki animation studio?
different-church-lady
Manning sets a record for completions in a Super Bowl.
Is there a more telling stat about how a player’s legacy is going to come down than that? A great stat quarterback, but somehow all those numbers don’t add up to championships.
Davis X. Machina
Manning’s 33 completions a record. Greatest quarterback ever, amIrite?
I blame the NFL head office for this blowout. They always favor the Patriots.
Central Planning
@JGabriel:
That, and if I won any money in the pool.
different-church-lady
@Baud: Madden’s never going to live that down, is he?
Violet
@mainmata: The whole thing was awful. But you know what? It’s the ad I remember the most. I remember it for its creepiness, it’s complete lack of relation to the product and the very idea that Maserati would be advertising at the Super Bowl. So..memorable.
FlipYrWhig
@efgoldman: it makes sense if you’re making cerebral short films. Less sense if you’re trying to use short films to sell a product.
Villago Delenda Est
@Davis X. Machina:
Well, two of his “completions” were to Seahawks…
BTW, I hope John Fox didn’t plan on spending that $1 million bonus for winning the Super Bowl this year…
Belafon
@FlipYrWhig: Funny, but that’s Studio Ghibli, not Ghelbi.
gene108
@Helen:
Wow. I read the Facebook feed. It really did set the nutters off.
Baud
@Davis X. Machina:
Completions and passing yards are often high for teams that are playing from far behind, since they can’t afford to run the ball.
Mike E
@Violet: Except, this one has Dr J gliding to the basket at Rucker Park, so, WIN.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@FlipYrWhig:
Close. Ghibli. I was hoping the ad would be for a cat-bus.
http://media3.giphy.com/media/qhuFHjIDMYrfO/giphy.gif
Gin & Tonic
@Belafon: Ghibli is the name of the car.
trollhattan
@Elmo:
Thanks. Back when we were in the same conference I thought Fouts was going to take one.
Jay C
Who was that ghoul carrying the Lombardi Trophy around?
I noticed nobody was going near HIM…..
JPL
Who’s going to be the MVP?
Baud
@JPL:
It’s really a tough one. Everyone played equally well.
Schlemizel
@efgoldman:
The worst was the SONOS ad, even at the end they still didn’t tell you what they were selling.
Violet
@JPL: The Denver defense, for being so brilliantly bad.
cathyx
@JPL: Manning for Seattle. Turnovers won it.
Elmo
@trollhattan:
Closest we came was the incredible year of Miami OT followed by the Freezer Bowl in Cincy. I remember being completely unable to stay in the room during the Miami game at the end – I couldn’t stand the tension.
Anoniminous
aw jesus
Belafon
@Gin & Tonic: Sorry, I got the name ghelbi by walking back through the comments here. I didn’t get it from the ad.
Mike E
@gene108: They’re just overcompensating for their Cheerios poutrage.
Violet
@Jay C: Oh gawd. They just showed him again. SCARY! You’re right–he is a ghoul.
gene108
@efgoldman:
QB wins / losses isn’t a good measure either, because a QB with a great defense can win a ton of games and not be as good as one with a less than stellar defense.
QB’s get too much credit for wins and losses, in my opinion.
Corner Stone
@Schlemizel:
I didn’t see their ad, but SONOS is a fantastic system if you can spring for it.
Jay C
@Violet:
Nobody’s stealing THAT trophy…..!
AWWWW! Budweiser puppy-and-Clydesdales ad! CUUUUTE!!!
JPL
I’m thinking they will give it to Wilson but wish they would give the MVP to the thug. Seattle defense was awesome. Now a puppy commercial. Life is good.
Violet
Puppy commercial!
different-church-lady
@JPL: It won’t happen, but I’m hoping for Sherman, because Jerry Callahan of WEEI said if Sherman won it, “…I won’t even come into work on Monday.”
Schlemizel
@gene108:
Hell, one of the worst QBs in the moderen game is in the HoF simply because he was on the Steelers when they were unbeatable. I could have QB’ed that team to the super bowl
ruemara
I missed everything. I spent the afternoon to evening with a friend, analysing her script. 5hrs later and we got about half done. I think I’ll write the rest up and send it. Does anyone know if analysis takes a long time? She said she paid for a script doctor and she got a 1 page write up and no discussion. Maybe I put the anal in analysis. But I really wanted her to get good feedback.
different-church-lady
“Do not attempt”
They’re fucking Doritos — of COURSE I’m not going to attempt!
Mike E
Ok, I vote for the kid riding the dog for Doritos.
maeve
Anyone but me think the Clydesdales stomped to death the somewhat sleazy guy who was “adopting” the puppy and taking him away from his true love?
Or am I just reading between the lines?
Gin & Tonic
@Belafon: It’s a model that they’ve made for decades. I’d love to be able to afford one.
Corner Stone
@Schlemizel: Bullshit. Tired of simple BS like that.
You’d have got planted like a marigold.
Ernest Pikeman
@Violet: Um, yes, a wholly owned subsidiary of multinational corporation, Fiat, is advertising “Detroit” out of the goodness of their little hearts. I have a bridge here that is being decommissioned. Charge or cash?
Well, Chrysler is going to be more irrelevant soon, again. Their lineup has no high efficiency or non-fossil fuel vehicles.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Both sides do it!
Schlemizel
@Corner Stone:
It was a very modern high end house with a pair of hands using their smart phone to play different types of music in different rooms that turn colors depending on the music being played. The music & the colors creep towards each other. Followed by their name
Schlemizel
@Corner Stone:
Thats a maybe but he is not a HoF QB
The rest was a bit of hyperbole.
Violet
@Ernest Pikeman: Oh, yeah, it’s not out of the goodness of their hearts. I don’t need your bridge. My point was, it’s been done before by another “icon”. Dylan’s sold other stuff–he did a Victoria’ Secret commercial a few years ago.
Anoniminous
well that was awful
lol chikinburd
@FlipYrWhig: Someday I’m going to be driving a Gainax. We can imagine what that car’s commercials will look like.
Villago Delenda Est
Ladies and Gentlemen…your world champion (ha!) Seattle Seahawks!
What a conceit that is (world champion, that is).
But I’ll take it.
Schlemizel
@Villago Delenda Est:
Well they are probably the world champs for that game, who is gonna compete? Now baseball, thats arrogance to claim a World Series
Laertes
Oh dear. I’ve heard the wingnuts are freaking out about the Coke commercial. MSNBC had better fire someone.
Mike E
@Anoniminous: Not as bad as Papa John’s pizza tho.
Villago Delenda Est
@Schlemizel:
I concede the point, and you’re right about the “World Series”. Cripes. American exceptionalism is everywhere.
Pogonip
@Jay C: If he’s naked at least there will be no wardrobe malfunctions.
RSA
Huh. My three favorite ads were all about cars: Kia, Chrysler, and Jaguar. Cool for different reasons.
Elie
@Anoniminous:
To be fair, it is very hard to prepare for speed. They just were a different team and on another plane from what they played all year.. you can’t address that late in the year. Their tackling worked fine against slower opponents…
Ruckus
@Gin & Tonic:
I notice that you didn’t say you wanted one, only to be able to afford one. I would as well but then I’d also like to be able to afford a Ford Focus. Not that I’d buy one of those either.
Elie
I’ll say this: Russell Wilson is a LEADER. You cannot measure the impact of that easily, but you sure do know when you Don’t have one (see Bears — Cutler – great arm but no heart and weak character which leads to poor preparation and inability to weather tough games). You know it when you see it… and you know when you don’t. The strong arm always makes the team believe that they have more than they have and they inevitably hold onto the dream too long.
Corner Stone
@Elie:
Bullshit. You don’t know shit about it. When Brian Fucking Urlacher comes out and says Cutler is one of the toughest guys he knows? I’mma take his version over yours.
Mnemosyne
Just getting around to the Puppy Bowl now — I watched the Kitten Bowl this afternoon. Did they advertise that the First Lady was going to be on with Bo and Sunny, or was everyone else surprised?
Seth Owen
So let me get this straight. MSNBC had to apologize to the Rightwing for calling them racist over their expected exploding heads due to the Cheerios ad and moments later their heads start exploding over America the Beautiful in English and a few other languages? Seems to me MSNBC was proven right. The minute that ad ended I knew as sure as the sun rises the Right would be butt hurt over the ad.
Just like they were butt hurt over the Indian American beauty contest winner, the Puerto Rican anthem singer and the interracial Cheerios family. It was utterly predictable.
Origuy
In the UK, Nissan has a crossover utility vehicle named the Qashqai. The Qashqai are a Turkic tribe living in southwestern Iran.
Elie
@Corner Stone:
And you can… I didn’t ask you!!!
Scuze me if I have MY OWN OPINION!!!
Didn’t I ask you not to speak to me? There is a reason for that, turd beatle..
Elie
@Corner Stone:
Do not address me. EVER! I donot care about your thoughts, worries or want your comments on anything that I write. Period
Mnemosyne
@Elie:
Pie filter or Troll-B-Gone makes everyone happy.
Ruckus
@Elie:
What @Mnemosyne: said.
I come here to read good comments, learn things and sometimes just to enjoy reading people’s thoughts. When that person is an ass most or all of the time I put the pie filter on them. Reduces my blood pressure a noticeable amount. I think I have maybe a half a dozen filtered out. I have noticed that some people will have a bad day or two and that doesn’t earn them a time out but being consistent does.
Citizen Alan
@Villago Delenda Est:
I disagree and hope he gets signed somewhere. Because every day Tim Tebow plays football means another day passes before this telegenic, popular crypto-fascist gets into politics, from whence he will likely never be dislodged.
BubbaDave
@Citizen Alan: Plus eventually the fact of his suckitude will penetrate even the thickest wingnut skulls, limiting his time as a tapeworm in the bowels of our Congress.
PurpleGirl
@Citizen_X: No, they bought the rights to use a portion of a recorded song…
And Laurence Fishburne wasn’t singing Desum Norma either. Don’t know whose version they used, but it wasn’t Fishburne…
Corner Stone
@Elie: Oh, shut your stupid fucking piehole, you buffoon.
You’re posting to a public blog. And as such, I will continue to say whatever the fuck I feel like about your transparently stupid musings.
Let’s see…Monumentally stupid blatherings by Elie about an NFL QB, or Brian Urlacher going on record about his evaluation of the toughness of a QB he actually practiced and played NFL games with?
Wow…that’s a tough call. Real tough, indeed.
Corner Stone
“Do not address me, EVER!”
/some buffoon named Elie on a public blog