Sunday was the Superbowl, Monday everyone talked about it, and now that it's Wednesday, everybody has already forgotten about football. But, I got pictures to share. Does anybody care anymore?
Let's face it, the NFL owes this girl bigtime. If you didn't know, one of the players for the Kansas City Chiefs, Travis Kelce, started "dating" Taylor-freaking-Swift early in the season. It's a totally cute story, but the result is that sooooo many more people were interested in football this year. Here she is with other musician Ice Spice. Sorry I don't recognize the guy there, is that Ice Spice's brother, maybe? They have similar hair styles. Maybe his name is Water Spice?
I got to watch a lot of football this year, but we're still here for the big commercials, too. Here's Chris Pratt scoring another iconic role when this random person snaps a picture of his moustache and calls him The Pringles Guy, which goes viral to the point of him landing a movie role. As they look up to the Pringles Movie billboard, she weakly asks "Do I get a cut of that?" and he hands her a potato chip. Funny, but also, I feel genuinely sad for the poor woman. I'm sure if this were real, he'd make sure she got more than just a chip.
Hands-down best commercial of the night goes to legendary Arnold Schwarzenegger. There were some teaser ads for a few weeks that he would be "Agent State Farm" very dramatically. And when they finally show the ads, he says the tag line with his accent "Like a good neighbah, State Farm is there!" And the director yells CUT! Arnold, it's "neighbor"... That's what I'm saying, "neighbah!" So the gimmick is a total riff on his iconic "Get to the CHOPPAH!" quote. The perfect combo of hilarious and charming. Kudos to the person who thought of this.
Oh yeah, there's some football game or something. I don't think I can offer any recounts of the game, I don't have any permission from the NFL or CBS Sports. They tell you that, but does anybody even care? Like, how many people at work say "Yo, did you get permission to offer up a recount of the game, from both the NFL and CBS Sports? Because I did, and we can't talk about it unless you did, too."
The announcers mention that Nickelodeon is broadcasting the game? With commentary from Spongebob and Patrick? Wah? Do they even care that gazillions of people are going to switch over to check that out, like right now? Me included!
All of the on-screen graphics look all spongebob'd! Check out Doodlebob up in the corner. I watched this for a few minutes, but I wasn't sure if they'd get the same ads, so I switched back. For the ads. I think I might have found this more F-U-N, though.
Tear. Carl Weathers was in some commercials, leading up to the Superbowl, for Fanduel, and recently passed away. They still played his spot, and included a nice note for him. Classy. Those ads are expensive, so every second counts. It was super cool they did this.
You like donuts? Well how do you like them donuts? Matt Damon embarrassed by his buddy Ben Afleck trying to impress Jennifer Lopez with his new boy band The DunKings. Another funny commercial.
Wings and poppers! I don't think I went too crazy on the food this year. It's the Superbowl, so you gotta have the bad-for-you indulgence meal.
Usher dared to dance in roller skates! Gotta give it up to all the background dancers, too. None of them fell down. Also, during the show it seemed like he forgot that the wardrobe changes needed to be done backstage, as he took off his shirt at one point, like... what?
Soon after the halftime show, Uber Eats ran an ad with the gimmick of; to learn something new, you have to forget something you already knew. And had Usher saying: "Man, I hope one day I get to be in the halftime show!" Like, he just forgot he was just in it. Hilarious.
Another icon, Mr. T, in a Skechers commercial, there's no "t" in "Skechers". They'll spend the money to get Mr. T, but not the actual A-Team Van? Is this close enough?
Bud Light does a gimmick every year that still manages to be cool, where the people in the ad are at the game. This year there was a rubbed bottle that made a Genie pop out and grant wishes, and of course at the end of the commercial they wished they were at the Superbowl. And here they are! How does this work every time?
Lady Gaga has performed the Halftime Show before, here she is just relaxing and enjoying the game this year. Is it cool to notice she painted her face like a real football fan? Or do you think she would have done that normally?
I have no idea what this Temu thing is, but they ran several ads during the game. So they must be rich enough to do that. The commercial was saying Shop Like A Billionaire, and they weren't kidding.
This ad was unexpectedly funny when Eric Andre was sick on an airplane and asked for a doctor, and everybody started offering him Dr. Umstick ice cream cones, and he was confused in pain. Comedic delivery was the key, I think.
Boom. I've been using this Microsoft app for the past few months already, and it was neat to see an ad for it. There's an artificial image generator, where you type in a description prompt, and it uses the AI to produce a usually-amazing piece of artwork. You have to run it several times to get really good pictures, but the point is, that the computer is doing all the work for you. It's quite cool. Apparently it does a lot of other neat things.
The game was close near the end, and even though it was tied with only 2 minutes to go, both teams scored again, with a 19-19 tie! Overtime!
After the game, Mecole Hardman, who caught the pass to win the game, admitted that he blacked-out after the catch. He remembers the quarterback hugging him "we won! we won!" but the memory was so shocking that he himself couldn't believe it. Cute story.
Travis Kelce's Mom is a little bit of a celebrity herself, last year both of her sons were on opposite teams and she got a lot of interviews around it. You know the cameras really want to focus on Taylor Swift behind her, but let's not forget about Mom.
Awww! A ton of people who had never even thought about football before get to feel really happy now. As Taylor Swift's boyfriend won another Superbowl. This guy is winning in so many ways. I mean, yeah the Superbowl is nice, but c'mon... that's Taylor Swift! That's the real winning catch.
Did we mention that the Superbowl was in Las Vegas this year? What are the odds for that? Get it? Because of all the betting? I'll point out the bad editing for the end shot of the broadcast where they got the backside of their Superbowl LVIII logo in front of the fountain. Label-to-camera! Who cares about the pretty fountain? You gotta see that logo! Busted!
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