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Best Super Bowl Commercials
If neither of your teams are playing
Super Bowl Sunday, or if
the game doesn’t produce the level of excitement you
were hoping for, at least you can count on the
commercials to keep your interest. One of the things the
Super Bowl is known for is its zany and creative ads
that play throughout the game. I’ve done a little
research and taken the liberty of listing my top five
best Super Bowl commercials to provide a little walk
down memory lane for you Super Bowl ad lovers.
1. Budweiser Frogs (1995)
I don’t care if you’ve never touched a drop of Bud’s
golden goodness, it is nearly impossible not to crack up
at its Super Bowl lineup. Do you remember that little
swamp filled with crickets, fireflies, and Bulfrogs. Is
it just me or do those frog croaks sound like “Bud”
“Weisssss” “Errrrrr”? Every elementary kid to adult in
the world was wearing this one out for the next month.
2. McDonald’s Showdown (1993)
As a big Larry Bird fan, this one is one of my personal
favorites. Michael Jordan and Larry Legend going
head-to-head in the greatest game of “Horse” of all time
and the winner takes home a Big Mac. “Off the floor, off
the scoreboard, off the backboard, no rim,” Bird says.
Jordon counters with a shot off the Hancock Building and
says, “off the expressway, over the river, off the
billboard, through the window, off the wall, nothing but
net.” I would love to see another round of this one.
3. Budweiser Clydesdales (1996)
I’m realizing that I would be easily satisfied with five
Bud ads as the best Super Bowl commercials of all time.
This one really sticks out in my mind though. A team of
Clydesdales go head-to-head in a game of pick-up
football. Someone asks is they always do that after
seeing a horse boot the pigskin through the uprights. A
cowboys answers, “they usually go for two.”
4. Master Lock Marksman (1974)
This one takes us back 34 years and makes the list, not
because of its immediate humor, but because of its
increasing humor and familiarity. A sharpshooter fires
at a padlock hanging in the center of a bullseye and
puts a bullet through it. The lock takes the shot and
does not break. This ad airs, with only slight
variances, for the next 21 Super Bowls and the lock
never breaks. It’s one of those you had to see to get
the full effect of its impact.
5. E*Trade Monkey (2000)
I know you guys haven’t forgotten about this commercial
to kick off the new millennium. Two stupid guys and a
monkey clap along to cha-cha music in a garage until we
get the punch line: “well, we just wasted 2 million
bucks. What are you doing with your money?” It was a
great play on the cost of Super Bowl ad spots. This was
easily the cheapest Super Bowl ad that year showing that
simple is often better.
January 22nd, 2008
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