people who just watch the super bowl for the ads

• do these people actually exist?

• what is up with them?

i kind of lost enthusiasm for this thread in the middle of starting it

HELLO

i don't care about football but i like parties and work in marketing so i think ads are kinda intersting. the end.

I think the Steelers are gonna win, and they're gonna win early.

Dud. But sympathetic dud. I understand that some people don't enjoy sports. I don't know why they don't, but I get that they don't. Yet there's still this monolithic cultural moment in the United States that revolves completely around the playing of sports. It's almost admirable that people have somehow decided that they can enjoy commercials - the most inane, annoying aspect of Capitalism - just so they can participate in the Super Bowl. I think even the Puppy Bowl (or whatever it's called?) is better than watching the Super Bowl for the ads.

the most inane, annoying aspect of Capitalism

I realize this may be challopskies.

it's not that i don't enjoy sports! i love watching basketball.

what about the nerds who just look forward to the unveiling of big summer movie trailers?

wouldn't actually be annoyed by this except the ads fucking suck & are so cloying in their "do I get to be viral yet? hey, this'll sound great at the water cooler amirite?" way

concept of watching a sporting event for the ads = fine, but watching the superbowl for the unimaginative groveling-for-your-approval ads = dud

he most inane, annoying aspect of Capitalism

couldn't you throw the televised game into this category as well, with the various logos flying across our screen as they sponsor various stats?

"This injury break brought to you by AFLAC"

Use Other Facts Please!

"The ads are more interesting than the game!"

advertising is one of the few things I hate more than the NFL

the superbowl is our nations most important holiday therefor people are welcome to enjoy it in whichever way they please whether it be by food commercials booze fellowship or sporting pleasure because this is america which is also the greatest nation on earth. however i prefer to have those who focus on the commercials at a different superbowl party than the one im at because theyre wicked annoying. lock thread.

super bowl commercials are sometimes lol but usually they try too hard

I feel the same way about pro football fwiw

I used to this person and now I'm a huge football fan and don't give a damn about the stupid beer ads.

(I also don't give a damn about the Steelers vs the Cards though)

i love superbowl ads and i basically expect them to be better than the game this year

do they still do the bud bowl?

i think the ads, parties etc are a bigger deal this year because the game is so horrible

i find it hilarious and heartwarming that small five minute sales pitches are considered a mass cultural event

i've never understood why more eccentric millionaires don't spend $10 mil or whatever to run crazy vanity ads during the superbowl, like just one long take of them spouting off about the right way to make toast

also i am very impressed with the level of skill & artistry demonstrated in many of these advertisements, and simultaneously confused and reassured at the fact that most of them are of greater artistic than the academy award nominees for any given year

greater artistic merit

ads have specific and tangible goals

"generality is the enemy of all art"

im not going to get in an argument about this unless we can agree that the terms of the argument are: each one of us prepares a 30-sec. video that represents his views on the matter, and then we take a vote

bringin respeck for whoredom

football games also have specific and tangible goals, indicated by chains, lasers, and giant painted grassy areas, ergo football is better than movies

lasers?!

isn't that how tv wizards put the big bright line on the screen, indicating the first down?

i didnt know that!

they should have put it in an ad

will SB run an ad for Joe Torre's book?

woops no lasers involved:

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/first-down-line1.htm

it takes seven computers and four staff though

j0hn d otm, we discussed this on ilnfl a couple days ago you should all join us

ha and they still get it wrong all the time xp

C/D: people who just watch the super bowl for the ads? Dud, except for the fact that these folks are the reason I have a good, stable job.

the superbowl is our nations most important holiday therefor people are welcome to enjoy it in whichever way they please whether it be by food commercials booze fellowship or sporting pleasure because this is america which is also the greatest nation on earth. however i prefer to have those who focus on the commercials at a different superbowl party than the one im at because theyre wicked annoying. lock thread.

what if there are ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE super bowl parties where people mute the game but watch the commercials?

wtf did that cross out thing even mean?

http://www.wimp.com/slickadd/

video about how the yellow line is made

last year in the UK the superbowl was on BBC2, i.e... no ads!! all the millions of minutes of ad time were filled instead with chat and hilariously inept analysis

^^^ sounds like an ad for ads, if you catch my drift

yeah for sure. channel five, a commercial station, broadcasts live mlb games on sundays and wednesdays from approx 1am-5am with no ads, but the only reason there aren't any ads is because there are literally no advertisers who feel that it's worth it. instead we get unbelievably poor studio chat from this british jackass who still says "an innings" from time to time and a know-it-all american guy who can barely disguise his contempt

please tell me he says "baseball boots" as well

i just watch the super bowl for the snacks

(actually not true, i haven't watched the super bowl in years)

Jonny is a passionate fan of the Atlanta Braves, and will defend them to the hilt, with regular calls of "G'won the Braves" when they win; his favourite player is Chipper Jones.

Shit, I've got to figure out a safehouse for Sunday, don't I?

Anyway, football is boring, the ads are either boring or insulting, the products are either useless or harmful.

Yeah, I won't be happy until flames engulf the earth, I know, I know...

These people are known as "my mom."

i love superbowl ads and i basically expect them to be better than the game this year

― max, Friday, January 30, 2009 10:39 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

boy was i wrong about this!!!!!!

I noted at least two ads that proudly featured workplace violence, including that weird bud one where everyone is drunk at a meeting and then throws a guy out a window...wtf?

the Recessionary Return of the Repressed

First Super Bowl in, oh, 20 plus years that I didn't watch at all, not even the commercials. And I'm really fine sitting out the dumbass conversations about the ads all day today.

I noted at least two ads that proudly featured workplace violence, including that weird bud one where everyone is drunk at a meeting and then throws a guy out a window...wtf?

playing to the Office fans

i remember this amazing ad where these dudes were trying to get (wait for it!) a super-homely girl to get up off the cooler she was sitting on, urging her to dance with them, so they could get to their bud light! rofl!

logged into youtube today and accidentally clicked the main icon not realizing that ADBLITZ is a separate section of the site just containing superbowl ads. there is a gallery of ads and here's a selection of promoted thumbnails:

2018 Game Day Gallery
PLAY ALL

1:06
Wix.com Official 2018 Big Game Ad with Rhett & Link — Extended Version
Wix.com
76M views
3 months ago

1:31
Alexa Loses Her Voice – Amazon Super Bowl LII Commercial
amazon
18M views
4 days ago
CC

1:01
Budweiser 2018 Super Bowl Commercial | “Stand By You”
Budweiser
16M views
1 week ago

0:16
Tostitos - Super Bowl Ads for All - :15
Tostitos
15M views
1 week ago

1:01
Bud Light - The Bud Knight
Bud Light
12M views
3 days ago

0:31
Groupon 2018 Super Bowl Commercial | "Who Wouldn't"
Groupon
11M views
1 week ago

2018 YouTube AdBlitz Super Bowl Teaser Ads
PLAY ALL
For the full AdBlitz experience please visit youtube.com/adblitz.

0:16
Tostitos - Super Bowl Ads for All - :15
Tostitos
15M views
1 week ago

1:01
The Perfect Fit ft. Chris Pratt | Michelob ULTRA Super Bowl
Michelob ULTRA
6.6M views
6 days ago
CC

1:01
Budweiser 2018 Super Bowl Commercial | “Stand By You”
Budweiser
16M views
1 week ago

we have reached a future of people watching TV on their computers where ads are more or less optional* yet 16 million people voluntarily wanted to see the new Budweiser commercial wtf

*optional in that yes there are still ads you have to sit through, making the choice to sit through those involuntary ads to voluntarily watch ads a puzzling one

Have a feeling that the new FBI show will be a liberal fave. A police state WEST WING. #SuperBowl

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) February 4, 2019

Stop posting Dennis Perrin tweets. hes shite

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06zqrjk

i'll take your advice into account, MB

no

so is the murder of the bud knight canon or what

It's going to result in a really horrible Sierra Nevada Snakes side plot