Super Bowl Sunday 2010

Well the Super Bowl is over and we can all claim that we knew New Orleans would win. Or so we can tell all of our friends at work. We know everyone will be writing about the big weekend today. It is just that with over a million people watching the event many will find a need to make comments.
To start I find that it is encouraging to actually watch a Super Bowl game were the game was better than the commercials. Many years of attending Ken Kurtis’s world famous Super Chili Bowl party and most of the time we spend checking the commercials and eating snacks during the game part. Many times the game was so dull that you wondered why those two teams were playing. This year both teams showed great total play and an honest effort to play good clean football. It was a minimum number of penalties against either team it was a nice game to watch. The fact is that both teams seemed so intense and really worked to play hard and safe was an indication of just how much both teams wanted to win this game. The fact that no one seemed to have a major injury also indicates that the teams were concentrating on the game and not on the player in front of them. Yes they did play hard. Yes they did what they needed to win. They did not seem to be playing in anger just intensely or showing that a good sport can play a good hard game and that the team that makes the fewest mistakes and gets the good plays at the right time will win.
So if you watched for the commercials SO SORRY. It was not the best group of commercials that I have seen on the big weekend. I did watch the special that CBS ran last week were people voted on the best commercial of the last ten years. I do not know who voted – but I think that it was just not even close to a true winner. Whoever picked the top three commercials for the final vote missed the fact by more than a mile. The other problem was that if this was a national vote you might let the west coast actually vote. By doing the usual three hour tape delay and cutting off the votes from the west coast you do not have a true contest. CBS seems to like it that way. This year most the messages would not make the top 100 of the voting. A couple might make it and maybe one or two actually will sell a product. Doesn’t a good ad need to sell a product? Oh well that seems to be forgotten with all of the companies out to do image advertising. Let us hope in the future it does return to a football game that has big name and big money advertising. If they ever return to LA maybe we would not need Super Bowl parties to go to we might actually get to go to the game.