For those of you who don't know, I've been a huge football fan since I can remember and ever since 1st grade or so I thought Super Bowl Sunday (and the following Monday) should be national holidays. I mean Super Bowl Sunday is one of the biggest party days of the year behind, New Years, Halloween, and Christmas. It's not just the game that makes the Super Bowl a great day; it's everything that comes with it: the commercials, the halftime show, the pre game festivities and the other types of programming other stations come up with to try and compete with the Super Bowl.
This year, however, stunk! (for lack of a better listener friend term) I strongly dislike both teams but that's how it is most years. I can normally put up with that. I can put up with a bad football game too because I know in a month I'm going to greatly miss my favorite sport taking up all my weekends. But Super Bowl XLVI was anything but super. The pre-game build up was lacking. Maybe that's because as a Packer fan I was bitter about the teams in the game, maybe it's because ESPN doesn't know how to cover sports anymore. Either way it was lacking (besides The Dan Patrick Show.)
The game was ok. Not the worst in memory but certainly not in the top half. But that's fine, the Super Bowl is supposed to offer other means to excite and entertain, mainly with the commercials. This year, they were awful. I only laughed once or twice. The best two commercials this year were the Dodge commercial with Clint Eastwood and the NFL Evolution commercial. One other note, Budweiser, you wasted millions of dollars on unfunny unoriginal ads, you're better than that.
I actually enjoyed the halftime show for the most part. I thought Madonna looked great doing some pretty cool dance moves. The addition of Cee Lo Green and LMFAO was cool too, brining in a more modern feel to Madonna's older songs. The only thing I didn't like was the fact that they were odiously lip syncing but I can get over that.
There were two things that did keep some respect to one of my favorite holidays Kelly Clarkson did an amazing job with the National Anthem. She didn't try to do too much with it but still made it her own. It doesn't hurt that she remembered all the words too. The other thing that was great was Puppy Bowl VIII. If you don't think little puppies playing with each other on a miniature football field isn't one of the cutest things you ever you need to check your pulse, you might be dead. Of course the problem with that is a bunch of puppies playing shouldn't have to save what I think is a great holiday, normally.
This year, however, stunk! (for lack of a better listener friend term) I strongly dislike both teams but that's how it is most years. I can normally put up with that. I can put up with a bad football game too because I know in a month I'm going to greatly miss my favorite sport taking up all my weekends. But Super Bowl XLVI was anything but super. The pre-game build up was lacking. Maybe that's because as a Packer fan I was bitter about the teams in the game, maybe it's because ESPN doesn't know how to cover sports anymore. Either way it was lacking (besides The Dan Patrick Show.)
The game was ok. Not the worst in memory but certainly not in the top half. But that's fine, the Super Bowl is supposed to offer other means to excite and entertain, mainly with the commercials. This year, they were awful. I only laughed once or twice. The best two commercials this year were the Dodge commercial with Clint Eastwood and the NFL Evolution commercial. One other note, Budweiser, you wasted millions of dollars on unfunny unoriginal ads, you're better than that.
I actually enjoyed the halftime show for the most part. I thought Madonna looked great doing some pretty cool dance moves. The addition of Cee Lo Green and LMFAO was cool too, brining in a more modern feel to Madonna's older songs. The only thing I didn't like was the fact that they were odiously lip syncing but I can get over that.
There were two things that did keep some respect to one of my favorite holidays Kelly Clarkson did an amazing job with the National Anthem. She didn't try to do too much with it but still made it her own. It doesn't hurt that she remembered all the words too. The other thing that was great was Puppy Bowl VIII. If you don't think little puppies playing with each other on a miniature football field isn't one of the cutest things you ever you need to check your pulse, you might be dead. Of course the problem with that is a bunch of puppies playing shouldn't have to save what I think is a great holiday, normally.
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