Sporting Event Featuring Commercials

Yes folks some sort of sporting event is occuring later today. Super something or other. And while I don't know what teams are playing, I believe that trailers for X-Men 2, and the first Matrix sequel are both supposed to air during the 2 million dollar 30 second ad spots. So this time around, you can tivo in reverse!

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You've been able too

[e12532]

download the matrix teaser trailer from their webiste for months... at 1024*768 res even :)

And the original X-men movie sucked, Hulk looks good though

Re:You've been able too

[agentZ]

There's a second trailer for the Superbowl. After the game it will be posted to the official web site. (Right now it's just a little movie saying the real trailer isn't available until January 26th.)

Re:You've been able too

[e12532]

Here's the address for the hi-res trailer, need quicktime installed to view.

I'm sure all the good commercials

[jcurious]

will find thier way online during/after the superbowl.. why waste my tivo hours with this?

some are even online right now:
http://www.superbowl-ads.com/

Re:I'm sure all the good commercials

[Saeger]

Or, you can wait to see most of the SuperBowl commercials along with brainwashing analysis this Sunday on PBS's Mental Engineering.

Don't let the low budget and "interesting" guests put you off; it's really a great show. :)

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Re:"Super Bowl" is trademarked

[leviramsey]

However, it is legal to use "Super Bowl" in news coverage of the event. However, even if you are a media outlet doing news coverage, you can't use "Super Bowl" in, say, your advertising, unless you are an NFL sponsor. Thus, CBS, ABC, and FOX can use the phrase "Super Bowl" in their ads, but the other networks cannot (I'm not sure how cable nets, like TNN, ESPN, and Fox Sports Net are handled), Coors Light can but Budweiser cannot, Reebok can but Nike cannot, Cadillac can but Toyota cannot, Pepsi can but Coke can't and so forth.

Hulk Trailer out now

[thatguywhoiam]

Just noticed that the Hulk commercial is available at Movie-List.

Anyone else think that the Hulk looks like Shrek?

Superbowl HDTV This Year BABY!!!!

[BRock97]

Forget TIVO, this is the year that HD will be widespread enough so that here in Omaha, NE USA we will have it for the first time broadcast over the air. ABC has announced that the broadcast will be HD and in Dolby Digital 5.1. The post game will also be that way as well! Plus, if that wasn't enough, Alias (with Jennifer Garner, yowza) will be on right afterwards, which has been in HD since its beginning.

I am pretty excited as this will be my first taste of the 21st century broadcasting technology for a live sporting event and it will only get better!

Re:Superbowl HDTV This Year BABY!!!!

[Chris Carollo]

hd over cable would be a lot better. but hd over airwaves? it doesent even get the range that normal uhf gets

I know you're trolling, but I can't resist...

I'm getting HD (CBS and ABC) over Time Warner cable. I can also get CBS, NBC, and WB digitally over-the-air. All of the digital signals are crystal-clear, even when broadcasting in SD, and I can receive CBS OTA even though it's low-power and low-antenna (for now), which would have resulted in a grainy, fuzzy picture were it analog.

I will enjoy my $6000 TV, thankyouverylittle.

Re:"Sporting Event Featuring Commercials"

[Anonymous Coward]

you would be surprised, in many non-usa parts of the world, sports events DONT take a break every 30 seconds to sell the drooling masses cheap garbage.

they actually KEEP PLAYING until the game is over!

weird huh?

Ad schedule

[RedX]

SUPER BOWL XXXVII ADVERTISERS - SPORTS BUSINESS DAILY

1ST QTR ADVERTISERS
Anheuser-Busch*
Columbia Pictures: 30-seconds
DaimlerChrysler: 30-seconds
DaimlerChrysler: 30-seconds
FedEx: 45-seconds
Gatorade: 30-seconds
H & R Block: 30-seconds
PepsiCo: 45-seconds
Quizno's: 30-seconds
Universal Pictures: 30-seconds
Warner Bros.: 60-seconds

2ND QTR ADVERTISERS
Anheuser-Busch*
Hanes 30-seconds
Levi Strauss: 30-seconds
Monster: 30-seconds
PepsiCo: 30-seconds
PepsiCo: 45-seconds
Philip Morris: 30-seconds
Subway: 30-seconds
Touchstone/Disney: 30-seconds
Trident Gum: 15-seconds
20th Century Fox: 30-seconds
Universal Pictures: 30-seconds
Visa: 30-seconds
Visa: 30-seconds

3RD QTR ADVERTISERS
Anheuser-Busch*
AT&T Wireless: 30-seconds
Cadillac: 90-seconds
Columbia Pictures: 30-seconds
Nat'l Drug Control: 30-seconds
PepsiCo: 30-seconds
Reebok: 60-seconds
Salton: 30-seconds
Yahoo's HotJobs: 30-seconds

4TH QTR ADVERTISERS
Anheuser-Busch*
Columbia Pictures: 30-seconds
myfico.com 30-seconds
Nat'l Drug Control: 30-seconds
Sony Electronics: 60-seconds

Anheuser-Busch has bought five-and-a-half minutes of time on ABC's broadcast and will advertise in all quarters. The Bud, Bud Light and Michelob Ultra brands will all be touted.

The US Govt Bought 2 Ads

[iluvpr0n]

Thankfully, the White House Drug Czar's office has seen fit to, again, buy *two* of these overpriced ad slots to propagandize about the evils of marijuana. What a perfect way to spend my tax dollars, thanks guys!

NORML.org has a page up about this huge waste.

iluvpr0n.

Re:WTF is the SuperBowl?

[SideshowBob]

The league is divided into two conferences, the NFC and the AFC. Each of those conferences is divided into 4 divisions. The team with the best record from each division, plus 4 "wildcard" teams, 2 from each conference, go to the playoffs.

The playoffs are a single elimination system; the division winner with the overall best record having the top seed, then so on down the line. The top two seeds get a "bye" in the first week of the playoffs, i.e. don't have to play to advance to the next round. Then single elimination progresses as you would expect.

Each conference has its own playoffs, and the winner of the two conference championships advances to the Superbowl. So in that sense the Superbowl is a game between the year's best AFC team and the year's best NFC team.

This system was developed because the AFC used to be the AFL and was a completely independant league. Then it merged with the NFL to become the AFC.

The divisions are more or less geographic (this year was the first year after 'realignment' when, after decades of expansion teams and relocations the divisions no longer bore much relationship to the geographical locations of the teams, so teams were moved to different divisions to more accurately reflect their geography, and in one case - the Seattle Seahawks - a team was moved to a different conference to balance the number of teams in each). So for instance the Superbowl this year is between the Tampa Bay Bucaneers of the NFC South division, and the Oakland Raiders of the AFC West division.

This is all from the recollection of a football afficionado (I hate the term 'fan') on his first cup of coffee, so pardon any errors. Hope it helps.

Re:$2m for 30 secs?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not only that, but you know that commission that's supposed to be investigating September 11th? The one that the white house tried to get Kissinger to head? Well, they're giving that commission a whopping 3 million dollars -- one million less than they've alloted to the airing of this commercial -- to investigate the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor.

Re:$2m for 30 secs?

[Saeger]

If you want to fight the terr-arr-ists, make sure you buy your crack cocaine from the CIA. They need all the funding they can get above-and-beyond their normal daily pork allowance. :-)

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