30 thoughts on “HAPPY SUPER BOWL! (GO PACKERS!)

  1. Richard R.

    I guess I’ll watch it, I’ve watched them all, going back to the time when it was simply a football game and not an Event. The longer halftime will give me a chance to go downstairs and read, or take a walk The paper says kickoff is 3:39 PST, so I’ll turn it on a bit before 4:00 to see the beginning of the game… Maybe there will be some good commercials, I always look forward to the Budweiser ones with the clydesdales.

    Who will I be cheering for? The defense.

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    1. george Post author

      I’ve asked my students in my MARKETING classes to watch the Super Bowl for the commercials, Rick. Sorry to disappoint you, but the new owners of Budweiser have abandoned the Clydesdales in their new commercials.

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    1. george Post author

      I suspect Big Ben’s sexual predator problems and his 4-game suspension have something to do with most people rooting for Green Bay, Patti.

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  2. Deb

    As a former member of Franco’s Italian Army, I’m rooting for the Steelers–but not without reservations because of Ben R’s “issues” (husband: “He’s the Charlie Sheen of the NFL”).

    I suppose if I looked like the woman above, I could play for whatever team I wanted to!

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  3. Jeff Meyerson

    When I heard Roethlisberger was out drinking until 1 am the other night I thought, “Yeah, he’s learned a lesson, just like Charlie Sheen.”

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  4. Scott Cupp

    George –

    I saw something on the making of the Old west Budweiser commercial =for this year’s Super Bowl and the clydesdales were definitely a big pieces of it

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    1. george Post author

      Joe Pytka, the director of many of those Bud commercials for the Super Bowl, says the new owners of Budweiser ruled against the Clydesdales. Maybe they changed their minds.

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  5. Jeff Meyerson

    I saw the Clydesdales in an ad, so I guess they caved to popular opinion.

    I liked the Volkswagen ad with the mini-Darth Vader.

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    1. george Post author

      The kid in the Darth Vader outfit was my favorite, too, Jeff. The Clydesdales had a cameo in one of the Budweiser commercials, but the Bud Lite commercials focused on comedy.

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  6. Deb

    Oh, I forgot he was from Detroit, so perhaps the Chrysler commercial is, uh, understandable…but that iced tea schtick? Blech!

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    1. george Post author

      The Green Bay running back, James Starks, is a local kid from Niagara Falls, Beth. Last night, the lights on the Falls were green and yellow in his honor.

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  7. Todd Mason

    Marshall Mathers was always a clown, folks.

    That the Packers were once (still?) the property of Green Bay made me a little more favorable toward them than toward those privately-owned teams that extort things from their locales. I, too, am also a little swayed by their lesser rape-rapsheet.

    Though one of my friends has no other reason for rooting for the Steelers than that one key player is a fellow Orthodox Christian. Not Rapemoreberger, happily.

    But I didn’t care, and didn’t watch. Models in abbreviated teamwear don’t upset me, but it’s not the logos that might catch the eye…

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    1. george Post author

      And you didn’t miss much with the mediocre quality of the Super Bowl commercials, Todd. Although I liked the one with the little kid in the Darth Vader outfit that got voted the BEST SUPER BOWL commercial in AD AGE.

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