Super Bowl

Time to talk about the Super Bowl. Was it just me or did the commercials seem pretty lame this year? Sure, there were some pretty good ones. Budweiser had some nice ones. The hidden fridge. The beer scavenger hunt. Guys pretending to fix the roof while goofing off. The little Clydesdale trying to pull the wagon. A few really stood out. The guy using the beer to keep from being mauled by a bear, but his friend grabs it and runs off. The sheared sheep as a streaker running on the field where the Clydesdale are playing football. The best was the touch football where a hot chick tells a guy she's going to be open, then he decks her after the catch. Ameriquest had some really funny ones with the doctor killing a fly with the defibrillator paddle and the woman on the plane who falls on the guys lap. Funny stuff. My personal favorite was the Mastercard commercial with MacGyver. However, the rest weren't so good. CareerBuilder wasn't bad. Their two commercials were good, but not Super Bowl good. It wasn't much different from the ones they run during the year. Which was a real problem. Too many didn't stand out. Gillette had another commercial about how advanced their newest razor is. Whoop-dee-doo. Emerald nuts had another one that came up with an acronym that was stupid. Motorola now has a cell phone that looks like a rock. Will the excitement ever end? And I still can't figure out what was up with the people biohazard suits. The most disappointing were two areas - cars and colas. Diet Pepsi had a pretty good one with Jackie Chan and a Diet Pepsi can making a movie. There other one was odd to say the least. To begin with, who the Hell cares about Puff Daddy? The second, does calling something "brown and bubbly" make you want to buy it? The other cola ad was for Sierra Mist. It bombed the moment I realized it had Kathy Griffith (mistakenly called a comedienne even though she isn't funny) and one of those schmucks whose only job now seems to be commentary on the VH1 "I Love The Whatever Decade We're Showcasing This Week". None of the car commercials stood out at all. Toyota with the bilingual dad? Boring. Another Tacoma commercial showing it's tough? Yawn. Hot chick mudflap logo looking at a Honda pickup? Why not get a real hot chick. That Cadillac surfacing on a model's runway? Looked expensive, but the commercial sucked. Actually, there was a car commercial that stood out. The Hummer that was spawned by some dinosaur type monster and a giant tin man was just bizarre. And finally, the Burger King commercial must be mentioned because it was the most elaborate production with some Ziegfield Follies dance show about the Whopper. Oh, and it sucked.

Almost forgot. There was a football game in which the Steelers won their fifth Super Bowl. I'll give the Seahawk fans the complaint about the offensive pass interference. While technically, Darrell Jackson did push off, it was clearly ticky-tacky. So, I'll call the final score 21-14. As for the other disputed calls, I don't know if Sean Locklear held on a long pass play for the Seahawks, but I'm not buying anyone who says that he didn't. Maybe Gatlinburg's ABC (which probably means Knoxville) left off a replay, but the only one I saw showed the play from the back which means I only saw one of Locklear's hands. I don't see them both, I can't say he wasn't holding. And complaints about the Roethlisberger touchdown are laughable. There is no way to tell whether the ball crossed the goal line from the replay. So, how can you say the Steelers got a break? As for me, the ball in his arm hit the ground a couple of inches from the goal line, but where it is at the point doesn't matter. The defensive player hit Roethlisberger's arm straight on as he was diving for the end zone. Physics tell me that his arm was probably pushed back instead of stopped dead which makes me believe the ball was over the goal line at some point. Besides, the Steelers didn't get all the calls. One of Jerramy Stevens' dropped passes (I can't remember which one of many) looked like a catch and fumble to me, but the refs called it an incomplete pass. Speaking of which, I thought Stevens should have been the MVP. His four drops really helped the Steelers out. He almost dropped his touchdown catch. I don't know why Joey Porter thought he was soft. I have to laugh about Mike Holmgren blaming the refs for the loss. The last thing he wants is to explain why the Seahawks looked so inept at the end of both halves. I was beginning to wonder if they had ever run a two minute drill before.