*My* Phoned-In Hungover Contractually Obligated Day-After-Super-Bowl Post

Continuing in the tradition set by MamaPop Besterd Pet Cobra and his New Year's Day post, I bring you this drivel. So long as the definitions of "awake," "functioning," and "at work," remain loose, I am totally all three. And I'm not hungover from drinking, but rather from freaking the hell out for roughly six hours.

I am a Steelers fan. I bleed black and gold. Today, I am so, so happy. I really have to tip my hat to the Arizona Cardinals. They played an amazing game and they did not for one second let us get comfortable.

The whole city feels a little different today. Everyone is very tired, but the grins are nearly impossible to suppress.

This isn't a sports blog, so I won't inundate you with all of the stuff about it being the most exciting Super Bowl game ever, or about how James Harrison and Santonio Holmes defied reality with their touchdowns. But I will turn your attention to two commercials that really stood out to me.

I don't think I'm alone in the feeling that the Super Bowl commercials have really fallen off. They used to be a reason to watch the game, especially if your team wasn't playing or if you didn't really care about football but wanted to take part in the revelry anyway. But hints of brilliance were still present in the Coke Zero ad featuring Troy Polamalu, which was an homage to an iconic Coke commercial featuring Joe Greene. The original and the update are below:

On the other end of the spectrum, firmly planted in the WTF? category, is this Cash4Gold ad featuring...Ed McMahon and MC Hammer.

Besides the fact that Cash4Gold is a total rip off, I wonder if McMahon and Hammer are taking the good-natured self-deprecating humor a little too far. I just felt dirty after watching this.

Comments

You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

As a Cardinals fan (yeah, there are some of us, and I hope, after last night, there are more) it's good to see us agreeing: Ed and Hammer? Not all that funny. More just sad.

Posted by: Renee | February 02, 2009 at 03:14 PM

I though the Cash4gold was a joke - I kept waiting for it to be another company's ad, or a skit from next week's SNL episode.

Posted by: Kim | February 02, 2009 at 03:39 PM

I used to watch the game for the game, then the game for the commercials but now the internets lets me play through the commercials, which I probably won't even bother to do next year. They were stinky.
The Coke Zero one was OK but the MN Twins did something similar a year or two ago where Joe Mauer gave the kid one of his sideburns (which IMO was way funnier than a football player beating up a dorky guy).

Posted by: r+k+mama | February 02, 2009 at 03:48 PM

I watch the game for the game every year. Sometimes the game is boring but I watch anyway. I can't even watch for the commercials b/c stupid Canadian TV takes over the broadcast and we have no awesome Superbowl commercials... but I digress.

This was a really interesting game right to the bitter end, even without having "my" team in it (Packers, even post-Favre). Now to find the commercials online and my Superbowl weekend will be complete.

Posted by: lori | February 02, 2009 at 03:55 PM

I was just excited that Mrs. Potato Head remembered to pack her angry eyes!!!!

Posted by: sassystitcher | February 02, 2009 at 04:33 PM

I spent one half of that game cheering for the Steelers and the other half yelling at GoDaddy.

Posted by: Snarky Amber | February 02, 2009 at 05:17 PM

I think I'm going to write a rant letter* to the networks about the effed upness of the sexy commercials. The Super Bowl has always been a family event, but so many of the commercials are so sexualized that we had to pause and then FF through them. I also want to beat up Danika Patrick. She was this kick-ass role model that girls CAN play in a boys world, but now she's a bimbo using her sexiness for money. ACK!

*that I will never send

Posted by: Barbara | February 02, 2009 at 06:02 PM