“This One’s For Mom” was Best Super Bowl L Commercial and It Wasn’t Close

I don’t watch the commercials during the Super Bowl.  I know it’s a thing, but that is the time to load up the plate, go get another beer or project some combination of unfortunate events that would lead to you winning the squares at the end of the half.  I catch up on the commercials on the internets on Monday when I’m not going to be that productive anyway.

So I missed this one during the game, and that is probably a good thing.  I don’t know what it has to do with Campbell’s soup, but Budweiser’s lost puppy didn’t have much to do with beer either, I guess.  And it sure beats the hell out of minute long constipation ads, Super Bowl Babies, abortions by Dorito and whatever that Baby Monkey Puppy thing was.

This one has it all.  I’m a sucker for the “life goes by in a flash” concept to start with.  Then you throw in this kid who probably doesn’t have much except football, who has his ups and downs, and ends up playing for the Packers.  All in 45 seconds.  

Through it all, there is his mom, cheering him on.  Yep, this one’s for mom.  Now where is my crying towel.  

 

Top X Power Ballads

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So I’m on the internets yesterday researching my Super Bowl prop bets like any normal person, and I run across this collection of Power Ballads, mostly from 1988 to 1991.  I of course head right straight down that rabbit hole.  Next thing you know, I’m crying like a little girl and singing along with Bon Jovi, “I’ll be there for you, these five words I swear to you.”  I’m not saying that Trish and I were singing those words back in 1989 while driving around in a red Trans Am with the T-Tops out, but I’m not saying we weren’t either.   Continue reading

Super Bowl 50 Prop Bets

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Having been duly appointed Communications Director by someone with the apparent authority to do so, and with the enumeration of certain rights not being construed to deny or disparage other rights retained by the people, U.S. Const. Amend. IX, I hereby declare and decree that the following future uncertainties shall be the official Prop Bets for Super Bowl 50.

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