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Good quote from a good show (Futurama).

Today we apply this lesson to this Snickers Super Bowl ad:

Everyone I know, myself included, found this commercial pretty funny; enough so that later it was one of the few commercials we seemed to remember. Well, the Snickers and the Rock Paper Scissors ad that I forgot what it was for until I just watched it again. However, not everyone liked it:

“That Snickers, Mars and the NFL would promote and endorse this kind of prejudice is simply inexcusable,” GLAAD President Neil Giuliano said in a statement.

Link to the article.

I think this is just a statement to try to make some organization seem relevant. This wasn’t prejudice ad; it was just an attempt at humor to get someone to remember a product. Get over it.

To me this ranks up there with the anti-drug people having a problem with the Toy ‘R Us supposedly promoting inhalant use. People are just hypersensitive and know they can get themselves and/or their organization some press so they make a big deal out of nothing.

More Super Bowl XLI Ad Commentary

So anyway, for the most part I was unimpressed with this year’s Super Bowl ad collection so I don’t have a lot to say about it.

Notable Super Bowl XLI Ads (in no particular order):

1. Emerald Nuts “Boogeyma n”

This was just weird, I love it.

2. Garmin Super Bowl Commercial

This one appealed to my inner Godzilla fan with the cheesy monster battle and cheap-looking set, another good one.

3. New Steak Grilled Taquitos

I like talking animals, this one was pretty decent.

4. But He Has Bud Light

Nice “B” horror movie vibe and it was funny too.

5. Snickers Super Bowl Ad

“Do something manly”

More Disappointment

Something else I was unimpressed with, Puppy Bowl’s Kitten Half Time Show. Yeah I watched some of it, wanna fight about it? Anyway, I think everyone agreed, the dogs were definitely “on” something because they were way more active in Puppy Bowl III than they were in Puppy Bowl I or II.

There seemed to be a few dogs with inferiority complexes too, they were all over the place running, jumping, biting, and maybe even a little light humping the other puppies. But overall I’d say it looks like the Puppy Bowl is becoming more popular/well funded than it was in previous years. I wont be surprised when Puppy Bowl V rolls around…

OK, this is my last Super Bowl related post; I’m sick of thinking about it so this will be quick.

Let’s start off by stating a couple things I thought before the game. First, the Bears would win. I was wrong. Rex would have a good game. I was wrong again.

Going into the game I thought the Bears would have to score at least 30 points to win, I was right about that. So really the defense giving up the 29 points wasn’t too big a surprise. What was a surprise was how badly the offense stunk it up, Rex’s two fumbled snaps and numerous bad decisions when passing. I say numerous because it wasn’t just the two picks I thought were bad, he floated a couple passes that were incomplete/caught by a Bears receiver so they were mostly unnoticed.

Do I think the Bears need a new QB? I’m not sure. Should the team look into other options for QB competition in camp? Yes. I read something about possibly getting Jeff Garcia or trading for David Carr. All I can say about Garcia is a lot of teams will be looking at him, and I don’t really want him to be the Bears QB. He’s too old, and I think his Philly success was more of a fluke than something to realistically expect out of him for an entire season. I really don’t know enough about Carr to have an opinion on trading for him, and right now I’m more looking forward to the Cubs season than the next Bears season.

That’s it, this blog post is over! Now comes the hard part, trying to not post on the Bears until around the draft at the end of April.

To me, you’re just trying to sell papers,” Grossman said. ”It doesn’t matter.”

“It’s frustrating when some of you guys don’t put too much thought into it and you’re just trying to go off the fans’ reaction or you don’t know much about what we’re doing on offense. Just realizing how ignorant some of you guys are — and I don’t mean that necessarily in a bad way. I mean, like just understanding that you may not be correct and accepting that fact and not paying attention to it much.”

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/240367,CST-SPT-bear02.article

I’m glad that Rex said this. It gets tiring constantly having people dump on you the way every writer or person with a blog or fan that caught five minutes of Sports Center the other night. Add to that a week of every sports writer plus just the casual sports reporters at the Super Bowl media fiasco this week repeating the same question hoping to be the one that makes you “slip up” and admit to being terrible. Finally enough is enough and Rex got his chance to speak his mind, to an extent, and took it.

It seems like everyone brings up the five crappy games Rex had, but no one remembers the good games he had during the season. People will bring up that Griese or Orton should be playing instead. Lets not forget Griese hasn’t been impressive at all this year, and Orton’s terrible, QB rating last year of 59 and has thrown more career picks than TDs. Grossman is your best shot as he gives you some semblance of a real quarterback on average, but has the potential to be a deep threat at any time.

Anyway, I’m tired of the Rex stuff, this will be the last post on Rex hate/love ever (hopefully) or at least next season if you want to be realistic.