Fox has made me dislike Football.

[glinda]

After all the horrible commercials where people hit people and especially two of them women, promos on war or violent movies, commercials with cowboy themes, guns or war themes, panning to Bushes to make it appear that people were cheering for them (when they were cheering at the end of the song). I have had it. What a bunch of garbage.
Worse yet were the commercials to sell cruises or something for rich people and prefacing things with "The whales are disappearing". uggggh!
And this whole reading of the Declaration of Independence just because they don't agree with the Preamble of the Constitution. And hey... all the pro-military war crap during it as well as panning pictures of I think Ethanol Plants.
They turned the whole game into a damned Tea bagger Republican commercial.
It should have been fun to watch my neighbor State win but instead it was truly maybe the last time I will ever watch the Superbowl if it is on Fox again.

[RandomThoughts]

1. didn't watch it but good you noiced that

[The_Commonist]

2. Was there some sort of althetic contest on the TV machine?

I hadn't noticed...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I don't think the content of the ads is the fault of Fox,

much as I dislike NewsCorpse. Advertisers pay a buttload of money to get their ads shown during the Superbowl and I have no doubt that the same ads would have appeared regardless of the network that was airing the game. Next year it might be on a different network (the networks compete to get the game) and you can bet the ads will suck just as much. Blame the advertisers and the movie producers and the ad agencies and the people who buy the products on account of the ads. You can bet the ad agencies did market studies to figure out whether those very expensive ads will sell the products. Consider the demographic most likely to be watching football, and it's easy enough to understand the sales pitch: Hot women, beer, juvenile double entendres, flashy cars, lots of stuff blowing up, movies about aliens. No surprise, but the blame should be placed where it belongs.

[glinda]

7. I read that they rejected some commercials. So they must screen them And as far as demogrphics

go, there are plenty of women and even "Artists" like myself that watch football.
No. This was really definitely different, offensive on all accounts, way too political almost all the way through. It was like they were laughing at women, environmentalists, people who are not"gun carriers" and they were definitely pro-violence, pro-war, pro-everything horrible.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

9. So just imagine how bad those ads were.......

In the end, NBC would have ran most of the same ones too if they had the game. And all the networks will likely be running them after tonight.

[glinda]

12. We don't know what the other Ads were. Lots got rejected.

[MrMickeysMom]

4. Other than having an interest to watch Pittsburgh play...

(living there, and there have been far worse Super Bowl games themselves)... I summed up all the other stuff we saw as absolutely AWFUL. Just about every commercial lacked any creative thought behind it, downright STUPID. Every movie CGI filled violence with a guaranteed a bad script, then CAR WARS.... We make BMWs in the USA (didn't bother to say how much mileage they got), or some come back from Chevy (good luck, hope the Volt extended can sell, as far as I know, you have to wait forever), Cheesy and creepy attempts at humor, and the beer.

Of course, had you GONE to Dallas, your 900 dollar seats might not have been ready, so they gave you 2,700 dollars to go home, and the people outside the stadium paid $200.00 to sit in 40 degree weather and watch a jumbo screen with port-o-johns.

This was disgusting.... It said a lot about who enjoys what by the commercials, too. The stupid people who eat corn chips and the uber rich, and not much in between.

[former9thward]

5. You must not have seen any other Super Bowls

The coverage and commercials on Fox were no different than any other year on any other networks.

[glinda]

8. Am a huge football fan. Have watched a lot of Super Bowls. This was

by far far far the worst thing ever that I have witnessed.

[philly_bob]

6. You're right, Glinda.

Up until the football game began, there was a huge load of American Exceptionalist Patriotic smarm. You know, America stands for Freedom for the world.

<sarcasm>Riii-ight</sarcasm>

[gristy]

10. You mentioned a horrific one that I noticed

This guy's gf/wife throws a full can of soda at the guy, he ducks, the can hits a lady, and

KNOCKS HER OUT COLD.

THE COUPLE THEN RUNS AWAY.

AND THAT IS THE END OF THE COMMERCIAL.

It took me several seconds to pick my jaw up off the floor.

[glinda]

11. I know. How about the one where the log hits Rosanne in the head also.

When there was other slapping or hitting it was to guys but it was not real violent like these two ads were.
I refuse to accept this crap as normal behavior or even the status quo. It is not.

[frylock]

16. wow. really?

i'm sure we're bound to see an increase of violence against women because of that snickers commercial. probably a seven-fold increase on super bowl sunday alone. :eyes:

[glinda]

17. Bought into it much?

[frylock]

26. bought into what?

[niyad]

19. maybe you could talk to your local domestic violence center and see just how much the calls increase

on superbowl sunday.

violence against women is real, and such commercials, and the whole culture in general, don't help much.

[frylock]

25. better yet, why don't you provide the stats of increased violence on super bowl sunday?

yes, violence against women IS real. however, floating bullshit urban legends and claiming that slapstick such as seen in the snicker's ad serves to increase the amount of abuse against women only serves to belittle actual domestic violence.

[Dr. Strange]

23. How is that any different than Betty White getting tackled in last year's commercial?

I hope this doesn't lead to Richard Lewis or Rosanne hosting SNL, though.

[frylock]

27. it's not any different

[NuclearDem]

13. Slapstick...sci-fi action movies...

I mean, I see where you're coming from, but I'm not going to walk around throwing soda cans at people or jerk off to war movies.

Commercials are commercials. Don't like the content? Don't buy the product.

[cherokeeprogressive]

14. Whoa. There were commercials during the game?

I didn't see any.

I see what I want to see and disregard the rest. Commercials are for bathroom breaks, food breaks, bonghit breaks, and talk about what had just happened in the game.

[deacon]

15. I thought the Joan Rivers thing was pretty clever for the new .co domain. n/t

[Texasgal]

18. whoa.

I imagine most folks watched and didn't take everything so damn seriously. It was mindless entertainment! Must we take everything so freaking literal?

[niyad]

20. YES, because, whether you understand it or not, commercials, the whole media, influence the tenor of

society. and constantly putting crap like that on does not help. do you truly not understand how propoganda works?

[Texasgal]

22. Oh good gawd.

So let me get this straight, are you suggesting that everyone that watched the super bowl with the commericals have somehow been brainwashed into being a teagbagger?

Propaganda? Really?

[MadHound]

21. Actually I found it amusing that they read the Declaration of Independence,

It is much more of a radical, liberal document than the Constitution. The Constitution was a deliberate walk back of what the Founding Fathers feared would be real democracy, or as some referred to it, the "mobocracy."

[otohara]

24. The Reading of The Declaration of Independence

made me wanna hurl.

So much emphasis on overthrowing the govt. They never would have done that during the Bush years.

[Xenotime]

28. Declaration of Independence by the NFL only politicizes the game.

It does nothing for patriotism or changing america into something better.