I Watch The Super Bowl For Everything But The Game
I know I’m one of those odd people who find American football to be boring. I’m more of an Esports kind of person. If I ever have trouble sleeping I could put on a football game and one of their announcers would knock me out in ten mins or less with that endless droning they did. If that not enough I’m sure it would be the endless penalty and other stuff.
Bonfire
Thankfully while it was on I was enjoying some other stuff with those that do enjoy the big game. That to me is the fun parts of it-- everything else! For a little while, we even had a fire going and you could watch from the window if you wanted to.
I know many of you people with snow and cold right now are going hate seeing this photo! It is a fair bit too cold to go swimming but resting in the beach chair for hours on end next to a fire is the way to go! People can scream and shout all the way want about some player doing this or some referee missing that.
Food
I did not take a photo of any of the food as it was gobbled up right quick.
The store had some wonderfully layered avocado dip. No needs to fuss around and hope the avocados are “ripe” when you won't use them. Downside you really want a few containers of that stuff. It goes quick even more so if you have a chip made for scooping up a lot of dips.
Instead of ordering pizza like we sometimes tend to do. Picking up some premade dough at the store takes most of the work out of it. Then you just pile it high with sauce, pepperonis, cheese, onions, green pepper, red pepper and anything else you can think of. Toss it in for 15 mins and man you got a better pizza then you could have ordered.
Add in some S’mores from the bonfire and you are set to go for the night.
The Commercials
The only reason I really watch the game at all and sadly it was a big letdown this year. The companies use to be daring, bold, and amazing. Nowadays they release mostly stuff month(s) ahead of time. Try and promote some positive “feel good” bullshit. So by halftime, I was done wanting to hear or see anything else regarding the game.
There was at least one commercial that was amazing! At first, I thought it was going to be another lame and boring Budweiser commercial since they seem to go with the medieval theme and their knight. I won’t spoil it for anyone who either missed it or their area did not get the commercial. You can just look up “Game of Thrones X Bud Light” on YouTube for the video. All I have to say is well-played Game of Thrones! I’ve not watched you in a long time since I don’t normally spend on something like HBO. You sure got my attention though!
The number of other commercials that I’ve seen for the past month was a bit boring. Now I can understand if a company spends a fair amount of money and wants to stretch their advertisement money out more. The thing is they spent millions to play an old commercial during the Super Bowl. Many of them looked kind of cheap to shoot. I’m not quite sure how much a thirty-second ad was this time around. It’s never that cheap so what a waste of opportunity. Shame they don’t wait until afterword’s to blast their advertisement everywhere. I had not seen the Game of Thrones ad before well played to their marketing team in how it was deployed! Same others do not learn from them they seem to always have a decent one during the big game.
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That was one of my favorites. I think the favorite of mine was the cottage cheese milk. I think they said milk was better with chunks. Another good one was the nfl100. I was kinda confused why ninja was in it for a split second, but hey a streamer made it into an all nfl player commercial. I was happy about that.
Miss the bud clydesdale commercials, and dorritos just seems to have given up.
Oh man that one I found disgusting!
Indeed those where classics and always welcomed. Did they not stop those after they got bought out?
That one I did not seem. Must not have been in my region. We had a few local commercials like they did not have enough stuff to show.
That's the commercial.
You're probably right about the Clydesdales. I've been hit of miss with watching the superbowl after I've moved up North for one reason or another.
Man that was short what where they paying him by the second? hehe.
Ahahah Well that is the best part...
Indeed, I hope I missed some other great commercials. Sometimes my area does not always get the best ones. They seemed to be a little light even playing local stuff.
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I don’t like American football and watching it only confirmed that it is extremely boring. I didn’t care for the half time show and one too many commercials weren’t great. The fire freighters and Audi commercials were two of my favorite
It seemed like they where trying to please to many different demographics with as many people as they did have up there. While they made it look amazing it was quite rapid fire with song after song. Was a bit strange with how they where trying hype up how big of a deal it was for the music industry. I'm sure they have has more important things to worry about then who gets to be in the half time show.
Most people I know went off to get more food, made bathroom breaks, or where just not paying attention to the half time show.
Super bowl... as a German I know what it is but it's as important as the Crufts Dog Show (and with participants I'm less likely eager to watch or to get to know). But I understand that it's important to other people. Maybe it's a bit like christmas for non-religious people: you meet friends or family, have a good time while eating and drinking with some entertainment (be it people on the TV running after each other or opening presents).