Yes, I wanted the Saints to win the Super Bowl for 2 reasons: 1) Drew Brees was my fantasy football quarterback and you gotta stand by your picks and 2) NFC South prevails.
I’m really a Falcons fan.
But Super Bowl Sunday is not just about the game for me. It’s also about the commercials. I’m one of those rare people who like commercials. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy commercial free television because I hate the suspense and the waiting from the breaks. But I like a good commercial when I see one and will pause the DVR fastforward if one looks good.
For the first time in a very long time, I watched the Super Bowl at a bar. A neighbor won a keg and 100 wings from a local bar, so the neighborhood headed down to the watering hole to take a gander at some men in tights running around the field. It was so loud in there that we barely heard Queen Latifah and Carrie Underwood singing (some people said it was a good thing). The consensus around the keg table (yes, there was a table… with a keg in it… beer on tap… at the table…) helped put these Super Bowl commercials at the top of the best Super Bowl commercials for 2010:
Coming in at #5 is the Clydesdale Fence commercial. For some reason, I always get a little teary when it comes to those Clydesdale horses and wasn’t that little baby bull so cute? Yes, I will eat him in a heartbeat if it came down to it, but we all went awwww when he finally busted through the fence.
The #4 commercial is the T-Pain voice box commercial. Now, I’m pretty sure we’re all tired of that T-Pain voice thing, but we still found ourselves laughing after we grumbled about it. Then, just as surprising as his appearance on a boat, he’s at the party, dipping guacamole. I hope he’s not a double dipper.
The #3 commercial signaled a round of nostalgia for some of us at the table, but also elicited response because it was just so darned cute. That’s right, a bunch of children’s toys walk into Vegas…
#2 made us all laugh. I think it was the slap…
The #1 commercial belongs to the one entity that doesn’t need a commercial. It’s become a verb, for god’s sake! Yes Google still continues to hold it down, not only in the search department, but also in the commercial department. Je me presente: How to impress a french girl!
Honorable Mention goes to three commercials for me, one because it reminded me of my trip to Africa (leopards in a tree, elephants on a night safari…) the second one because it involved Little Kiss, and the third, just because Stevie Wonder was in it… and because it involved people hitting other people. Enjoy!
For a worst Super Bowl commercials list, check out Jezebel.com – the link leads you to their “Pathetic Men and the Women who Ruined Them” commercials that played during the Super Bowl and their take on what the ad companies that made them must be thinking.
Check out EW’s PopWatch best and worst Super Bowl commercials list (they hated little Kiss!).
Time.com’s James Poniewozik grades ALL of the Super Bowl ads here. (How did I miss the Tim Tebow ad???) Here is a more condensed version if you don’t want to go through all 68 ads!
What about you? Did you even watch the Super Bowl? If not, what held your attention, if not these commercials? Let us know in the comments!
