I was unimpressed by the game. But then again I'm the type of viewer who watches NASCAR for the crashes.
Last year's game was the first Super Bowl where I enjoyed watching the game. A technical game is like watching full-contact chess. Last year's game was full of mud and rain and nobody could keep their grip on the ball.. there were 3 turn-overs in 3 plays last year. It was exciting and fun for me. This year's game was just... dull for me.
There were some good commercials though...
http://www.myspace.com/superbowlads
Iron Man and
Narnia got their trailers out there.
The
Wall•E commercial was funny too. Go Pixar, while the You
Don‘t Mess with the Zohan commercial is ammusing but I'm left a bit confused if I want to watch this movie... an Adam Sandler movie that also seems like it's directed by the Zucker brothers? Hmm..
Tide To Go won (in my opinion) for not only an entertaining commercial, but one that actually demonstrated the product and how it will impact your life.
Other fun commercials for me were the
Diet Pepsi Max (though you've gotta know SNL to get it),
FedEx had a follow-up to their monkeys in the office commercials with passenger pigeons.
The
Audi commercial was funny if you got the Godfather reference.
Classic Coke was entertaining if you knew who the pundits were, and the
Bud Light commercial with Will Farrell as his Semi Pro character had me busting up.
Amp Energy (with the guy jumping a car with his nipples and jumper-cables) and
Planters Peanuts (with the ugly chick) had me disturbed and wincing... so wrong.. so very wrong. I'm they'll be YouTube's favorites. *L*
Finally, the
Sara Connor Chronicles shorts in the intros to the game were ammusing... watching the NFL robot and T-100 fight it out.
The commercials I thought were terrible?
Garmin (with Nepoleon), while somewhat interesting, didn't seem to connect the product with the commercial. I'm sure I'm just over analyzing though.
Sobe (with dancing lizards) used Thriller for their drink? It will make you a zombie? I just didn't get a connection. Mildly entertaining, but I kept waiting for something about the product. Instead I got some website.. uh..
www.thrilltastic.com or something (and I'm not really that keen on looking it up either.)
and
G2 (for Gatorade, it had a dog licking a bowl of water.) It quenches thirst? Is it for dogs? Is it even helpful? Does it taste good? Pointless.