Thoughts while watching the Superbowl:
First, kind of hard to focus while 7 boys run through the house repeatedly. Not to mention the bloody mary. Anyway, I' m not going to talk about the actual game here, as my observations are not worth your time reading. Carrie Underwood seems to have gotten her face molded in plastic, but let's move on.
They (the network traffic managers) clearly planned to run two pant-less ads back to back (so to speak), then two little people themed ads back to back in the next break. As an advertiser, that would irritate me, but you don't have that much say in when you're scheduled, other than quarters.
But what's with those themes? How did two different agencies (and their clients) come up with those identical themes? Corporate spies? They're both a little too weird for coincidence, in my opinion.
And let me just say, Aww, poor men. They're so oppressed that they're having to make self-referential ads about how whipped they are by all us mean women. That reminds me that the creative offices of major ad agencies (and the clients') are still dominated by men.
And The Who: weird. If you didn't look, they sounded pretty good, but who wants to watch your friends' dads pretending to still be cool? And what was with the "medley"? Almost a self-parody, really.
OK, maybe I'm feeling a little cynical. That's what the most made-up "holiday" does for me. And don't get me started on how crowded the Safeway was before the game.
Now the Puppy Bowl - that's television!! On to the second half.
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