By AJ Hayes
We don't make it a habit of rooting for New York teams, but the Giants' improbable upset of New England on Sunday night was fantastic. Not only did it result in one of the best games in Super Bowl history, but it managed to wipe some of the smugness off the face of Patriots coach Bill Belichick. A sore loser and a cheat, Belichick is one of the more odorous fellows in sports today.
It also ended the talk once and for all that Tom Brady is the equal of Joe Montana. Brady may be a nice guy and a swell quarterback, but Montana saved the Super Bowl for his brightest moments, not his stumbles.
On to more important matters: Super Bowl commercials. (You can view them all here.)
Our personal favorite was the stylish Doritos ad in which a suave vermin hunter lays out half a cheesy chip on a mouse trap and sits back and waits, munching on the rest of the bag. Suddenly the wall explodes and a huge costumed rat appears, pummeling the tuxedoed hunter with a right/left combination. We laughed, even though the ad's been around for a while, it turns out.
Now for the least funny spots.
Salesgenie. It's not clear what a Salesgenie is or does, but its animated ad mocking Indian accents makes us want to stay clear of it.
Lexus. The ad consisted of an over head shot of a Lexus spinning donuts. Then a voice over says, yeah you can do this, but you shouldn't. Yeah tell that to the Golden Gate Park gardeners who have to patch back together the lawn in certain parts of the park on a weekly basis.
Bud Lite. In this spot we find that one side effect of drinking Bud Lite is the ability to breath fire and scorch everything non-manly in sight include drapery, dollies and your wife's pet feline. Hmmm, always thought the only thing this watery swill was good for was dousing fire.
Planters Nuts. Horny male admirers fawn over an esthetically challenged woman with a unibrow and hairy mole after she rubs cashews on her pulse points before going out. Somewhere Bacon Advisory Board members are kicking themselves.
Career Builder. Super Bowl ads had no shortage of misogynistic moments and this was the worst example, as a beating heart bursts through a woman's cashmere sweater and walks away. The suddenly perforated woman is told to follow her heart. To where? Does Career Builder make coffins?
Finally, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' half time show looked like an inadvertent ad men's hair coloring. The decrepit band members each looked about 85 with their sallow skin, crows feet, and wrinkled brows, the top of their heads looked as if they had spent the first half of the game soaking in motor oil.
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