Super Bowl Impressions – Fourth Quarter

1. Coke Ad – Coke runs “artistic” ads every year, well except for that whole “I’d like to teach the world to sing” thing like 30 years ago. Actually, that link is pretty damn awesome. Turns out it’s 35 years, and has the honor of being “the first historical ad ever to be restored in High Definition (HD). It can still be viewed by the public as it was donated to the Library of Congress in Washington DC in 2000.” Which is pretty cool, actually.

2. Coke ad with Bill Frist and James Carville – Does this mean that Coke donates money to both political parties to gain “cola favor” in government? Probably. This is a good Snopes article that’s related.

3. Second eTrade ad – I like when companies produce a few interchangeable spots for an ad campaign (instead of just producing 1 spot ad). To make an ad like this, it’s probably really easy to make two or three ads for just a little more money than one singular spot.

4. Bad Taco Bell Ad – Bad Taco Bell ads is public culture’s heartbeat, steady and strong. Ever since they urged you to “get laid at the bell”. Interestingly, here’s a cool BrandWeek article about expletives and their place in advertising. I like the NWA/Northweast Airlines stuff.

5. Gatorade Ad – Vitamin Water’s ad was much better. You got served, Gatorade.

6. New England is driving for the winning score, maybe? Well, at least a field goal. I figured that they’d have a chance to lose if and only if they scored under 20 points. My ideal ironic situation would be if the Pats were ahead the whole game and lost on the very last play. Undefeated until the last second. We’ll see what happens.

7. There are some good Super Bowl cakes and cupcakes photos on flickr. I never knew that there would be such amazing artistry. Check these out:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10539937@N07/2240202247/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/caryn74/2240991636/

8. Touchdown Moss! Hot damn! He hasn’t done shit all night and then gets the touchdown with 2:42 to go! Ok, back to your regular scheduled programming.

9. Here are more good photos from flickr that are “super bowl dessert” related:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krutsch/2240116911/ (ew!)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/philliephanatic/2239982285/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cayusa/2239963699/

this one is mormon-related and not dessert-related:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sterkworks/2240708028/

10. May I say that the “Non-alcoholic beverages advertised at the Super Bowl” club just got a little less exclusive. Enter Amp Energy. Which really turns out to be a Pepsi product. Which made me look into the different brands Coke owns. Hey, Coke owns Vitamin water! And they also own about a million other brands. Like SuperKools.
I’m not really sure what that is, even.

11. Crazy double catch with :59 seconds left! Amazing how Manning got out of the sack and then chucked it downfield.

12. Here’s a list of every Pepsi brand. Hey, Pepsi owns Gatorade. And SoBe. And also apparently the bottled Starbucks drinks. It’s interesting how different companies advertise their smaller brands on the World’s Stage like this instead of reinforcing their primary brand. I like that idea, because you can build huge brand awareness for this lesser brand, and that makes you more money. Maybe that’s why McDonalds isn’t advertising. But it would be crazy to have seen a Chipotle ad when they were affiliated with McDonalds

13. Manning to Burress touchdown! This is sort of exactly how I’ve envisioned this Super Bowl to end, with New England going almost all the way and then losing at the very end. I like how it just goes to show that it doesn’t matter how you get to the Super Bowl, just that you win it.

14. Giants win. Holy shit. Pretty fucking surprising. I like how the coaches ran out onto the field a little early. But I don’t like how the Patriots just ran off the field before the Giants actually won. It actually makes this event less exciting than it should have. Poor form, Patriots. Poor form. Maybe that’s what I like about hockey, and how there’s the very professional handshake at the end of a series.

15. I also spaced that Pepsi owns Taco Bell and Doritos. It’s crazy how many spots are really from the same parent company.

16. This is probably the first time that brothers have won consecutive Super Bowls as starting quarterback. Take that, Bryan brothers and Williams sisters!

OK, this is finally done. That was a lot more time-consuming than I had expected. But sort of fun. The game was close, which was nice. I sort of had a feeling it was going to be a blowout and I was just going to stop watching the game, but it wasn’t! I don’t mind as much that the Giants won, even though I’m so anti-Giants (that link is actually cool – goes to the New York Times’ NFL blog).