Super Bowl
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herveusWoot! The Steelers got a thumb!
The lot of us thought Ben Roethlisberger should have been named MVP for his diverse acts. Most of us thought that the ball really did just touch the plane for his rushing touchdown, and we were impressed by the block he laid on a Seahawk in that reverse -> flea-flicker touchdown play. Not to speak ill of Hines Ward, mind you... And I'm not surprised at the vigor of the block laid on Ben during that interception run-back, after his tackle on the fumble return in the Colts game...
I'm a mite annoyed at the article in the post. They don't mention that block Roethlisberger made that contributed to the touchdown pass. At least John Madden made sure to highlight it...but then, he would notice that.
I thought there were two different "best commercials".
The United ad was really neat. It got top marks for the "high-brow" commercial. Really nice. No ROFLMAOTIP or the like, but just a really fine production, very much in line with their ongoing image ad campaign. On further reflection, it was an interesting combination of production values. On one hand, it had the very flat but layered look characteristic of low-end cartoons, but the layers were each nicely wrought, and the "writing" was excellent.
The Dove commercial was interesting, but many of the women were manifestly annoyed at Dove, given how much energy they have spent over the years hyping the unrealistic (and ultimately boring, IMHO) expectations of female appearance. A comparison was drawn between that and Phillip-Morris making anti-smoking advertisements.
On the other end of the spectrum, in homage to Moe, Larry, and Curly, the FedEx commercial had us falling out of our chairs. It was hilarious...
The MacGyver ad didn't suck either, being strong competition for FedEx.
"The Streaker" was amusing.
The lot of us thought Ben Roethlisberger should have been named MVP for his diverse acts. Most of us thought that the ball really did just touch the plane for his rushing touchdown, and we were impressed by the block he laid on a Seahawk in that reverse -> flea-flicker touchdown play. Not to speak ill of Hines Ward, mind you... And I'm not surprised at the vigor of the block laid on Ben during that interception run-back, after his tackle on the fumble return in the Colts game...
I'm a mite annoyed at the article in the post. They don't mention that block Roethlisberger made that contributed to the touchdown pass. At least John Madden made sure to highlight it...but then, he would notice that.
I thought there were two different "best commercials".
The United ad was really neat. It got top marks for the "high-brow" commercial. Really nice. No ROFLMAOTIP or the like, but just a really fine production, very much in line with their ongoing image ad campaign. On further reflection, it was an interesting combination of production values. On one hand, it had the very flat but layered look characteristic of low-end cartoons, but the layers were each nicely wrought, and the "writing" was excellent.
The Dove commercial was interesting, but many of the women were manifestly annoyed at Dove, given how much energy they have spent over the years hyping the unrealistic (and ultimately boring, IMHO) expectations of female appearance. A comparison was drawn between that and Phillip-Morris making anti-smoking advertisements.
On the other end of the spectrum, in homage to Moe, Larry, and Curly, the FedEx commercial had us falling out of our chairs. It was hilarious...
The MacGyver ad didn't suck either, being strong competition for FedEx.
"The Streaker" was amusing.
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Date: 2006-02-06 04:48 pm (UTC)