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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!
That's a bit foolish. Go make an hour-and-a-half long, ahem, "adult feature" for $100k.
Much more fun, and so much cheaper!
-Mark
Fortunately, unlike many past Super Bowls, the game will be good. =)
;-) I for one am definitely wanting to see what the previews for the upcoming summer movies will be like.
Expect a slugfest with the Raiders finally winning 24-21 on a late TD.
And yes, I will be watching the ads, too.
... But I'd be much more worried about Raiders fans.
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Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.
Wasn't this posted last year?
Is that the political correct term for Superbowl, to not offend fans of other sports?
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.)
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/
I spent a year in Iraq looking for WMD and all I found was this lousy sig.
What sport is that then? Ten-pin bowling? We have a lot of superbowls in london (it is a chain) but I can't remember them getting much television coverage.
I heard it was the buccaneers vs. the raiders...suddenly I have in my head this picture of Blackbeard the Pirate fighting Atilla the Hun.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
"Super Bowl" is a trademark of the National Football League. This is why most radio and TV ads you hear and see relating to the Super Bowl don't use the official name, but instead call it something like the "Big Game."
"BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
For those of us in the military overseas, we will be watching the game on the Armed Forces Network (AFN). Due to a variety of issues, no commercials are aired on AFN which means we miss out on what could potentially be the more entertaining part of the game.
If someone with a really kind heart could encode the commercials and post them on the internet, we would be very appreciative. Last year wasn't so bad as we do get Fox, although tape delayed by two weeks, so we could watch the commercials when it re-aired. This year, there will be no avenue for us to see the game as we would in America.
Thanks in advance.
I've dirtied my hands writing poetry, for the sake of seduction; that is, for the sake of a useful cause. --Dostoevsky
This sounds like that scene in Demolition Man, where Stallone's character is shocked to discover that, in the future, radio stations play nothing but commercials. There's even an oldies station that plays vintage... commercials. Aaargh!
(this is not a
"We're fighting spam, bannerads and god knows what more and now there are sites devoted only to tv-commercials?"
I think that's a Good Thing. The sooner that advertisers realize that we enjoy and watch/discuss *good* ads, the more likely it is that we'll be able to avoid even more invasive forms of advertising (i.e. TV popups/in-show product advertising). I'll gladly host a commercials FTP site if it'll keep me from getting a TV popup for Cheerios over some PG lesbian scene on Fox. Of course, the gravy is getting to see entertaining commercials instead of the drab look-at-this-SUV-climbing-an-incline sort of crap. That's just me, though...
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!
Bryan R.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
Don't feel so bad, neither do the Browns or the Bengals. (I'm from Cleveland so I can say that. :-)
Ther is an article about Tivo releasing commercial viewing habits from last year's superbowl. Though the winning kick by the Patriots was the most Replayed event, The ritney commercial cam in second. In fact a number of comercials were Replayed by more viewers than any other actual part of the game, including an amazing trick play.
:P
This is a perfect example of additional creativity in the production of commercials resulting in great ratings and even repeat viewings.
I know I can watch the Bud Light commercial with the two chicks wrestling in water and then mud every single time it comes on.
Ouch ... "Gay Rugby" Thats a bit harsh . How about we take a soccer team and pit them up against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a game of real american football (no pads) . Then we see who is standing at the end . The winner gets the official use of football for their sport and the looser has to use "The fanciful fairy ball ballet" . Sounds fair to me .
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.
It's time we catch up with the rest of the world and realize that Medical Marijuana provides the ability to relieve the pain of many sufferers with debilitating illnesses such as Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
And which of these do you have?
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.
I remember it being said that if you watched a show and skipped the commercials you were essentially "stealing" it (don't look at me, I try to keep my stupid comments to a minimum), but what happens if you're watching a show JUST for the commercials? Seeing as though neither of my teams made it to the Superbowl. All I'm interested in are the commercials, what then, should the cable networks pay me for my time?
3000 dead over past 2 years, still no free Palestinians, still
I won't get to see the $2mil commercials. I'll see local commercials for "Guy's Used Cars"
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S
So, any sites?
rewster: I have yet to see a reasonable argument why anyone "needs" it.
Pot has been shown numerous times to be beneficial for a number of maladies not addressed by other medication. I'm not going to cite links becuase I'm sure you're aware of them. If not, Google is your pal.
Me: By the way, can you explain in clear, concise terms why pot _should_ be illegal?
rewster: Explain to me first why it should. Studies have shown the kind of damage it does to the human brain - so tell me how that's beneficial to anyone? And why people with certain diseases should be allowed to use it, then?
Ok, here is why is should be legal. I'm holding you to your side of the bargain - you have to explain in clear, concise terms why pot should be illegal.
It should be legal because we live in a country based on the concept that the individual knows best what is good for them. Roughly, one should be able to go to hell in thier own way, so long as they don't take others with them. We allow people do drive motorcycles, have dangerous sex, climb rocks, drink too much, and drop out of school. Even if pot were so harmful that it was worse that alcohol or cigarettes, it should still be legal. That the drug trade is dangerous to others is a self-referential argument - if it were legal, there wouldn't be crime surrounding the trade.
So, now it is your turn - please explain in clear, concise turms why pot should be illegal. I accepted your turn around, and answered you. Please pay me the same respect.
-j
I forget what 8 was for.