Super Bowl Fifty-Eight TV Ads
Part of the fun of watching the game and halftime show is taking a look at the advertisements. This year, celebrities were highlighted in many.
The biggest loser was Home-dot-com, who paid over $21 million for three lackluster spots.
The ads produced by the NFL may have been the best. Two aired were creative, entertaining, and portrayed a great message. NFL Character Playbook and NFL International provide many benefits to communities and their youth.
I thought Dunkin Donuts ran the funniest ad using Jennifer Lopez, her husband Ben Afflack, and Matt Damon. The men were referred to as donut kings.
State Farm Insurance enlisted celebrities Arnold Swartzenneger and Danny DeVito. Unfortunately, fun was made how Arnold talks – in particular the way he pronounced the word neighbor.
Cell phone companies T-Mobile and Verizon made a strong showing. Beyonce was featured by Verizon. Two spots were run by T-Mobile. The first had multiple celebrities in compromising situations during auditions. Laura Dern’s role was particularly funny.
Volkswagen used nostalgia of the first Beetle through history to the current VW models. Neil Diamond’s music added a lot.
Usually, snack food and beer companies have the best ads. Neither the appearance of LL Cool J nor Payton Manning could save the effectiveness of the Coors nor Bud Lite ads.
What was your favorite Super Bowl commercial?
$11 million per minute was the 2021 cost of a SB LV commercial.
It was great to see Samuel L. Jackson (Verizon), Joe Montana (pour a Guiness stout), Dolly Parton (Square Space), and Wayne’s World (Uber Eats). The ones that made viewers think and laugh are most memorable.
Note that movie and television trailers did not qualify. Such as Paramount Plus that must have spent fifty million dollars in advertising.
Our honorable mentions include:
Tide: Jason Alexander demanding that a teen wearing his image on a T-shirt “give him his face back.”
Cheetos: Kutcher repeatedly accepting his wife’ s (Mila Kunis) lies about eating them despite all the evidence around the house.
Doritos: Matthew Mac-con-a- hey not being himself until he eats a chip. The commercial ends with him stuck inside of a vending machine.
Pringles: A space capsule in the sea is ignored as search parties are preoccupied with celebrating with the potato chips.
Bud’s Lemonade Seltzer Water: It is raining lemons so hard that people are knocked off bikes and a couples’ wedding reception is trashed.
Doordash: Featuring Big Bird and other characters from Sesame Street/
Past President Obama Defeats ‘Soon to be famous in prison’ D.J. Trump
Milwaukee, Wisconsin – August 19, 2020 – Democratic Party Convention Address –
Former President Barack Obama slammed his successor in his speech for the Democratic convention, saying that President Trump “hasn’t grown into the job” of being president “because he can’t.”
Mr. Obama delivered his strongest rebuke of Mr. Trump yet from the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. Mr. Obama, who rarely critiques the current president by name, did not hesitate Wednesday night.
“For close to four years now, he’s shown no interest in putting in the work; no interest in finding common ground; no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends; no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves,” Mr. Obama said.
But Mr. Obama also made the case for Biden, a man he worked alongside over two terms in the White House.
“For eight years, Joe was the last one in the room whenever I faced a big decision. He made me a better president – and he’s got the character and the experience to make us a better country,” Mr. Obama said. “And in my friend Kamala Harris, he’s chosen an ideal partner who’s more than prepared for the job; someone who knows what it’s like to overcome barriers and who’s made a career fighting to help others live out their own American dream.”
The former president urged Americans to make a plan, today, tonight, to vote.
“You can give our democracy new meaning. You can take it to a better place,” he said. “You’re the missing ingredient – the ones who will decide whether or not America becomes the country that fully lives up to its creed. That work will continue long after this election. But any chance of success depends entirely on the outcome of this election.”
Read the full speech here or watch it:
The Good – Bad – and the Ugly Aspects of the Pence-Trump Administration
it is so written in July 2020 (Foggy Bottom, D.C.) – Nothing much too good about the last 3.5 years *except for $1.2K check. Bad is all the deaths in America and Kurds in Syria.
Ugly is the rest of it.
To be continued until mid-January 2021 . . .
Republican Convention Initiative to Nominate Candidates that have a Better Chance to Help the Party Nationwide
July 16, 2020
Repubs are upset and very worried that without coattails, they will lose local, state, congressional votes. . . tens of thousands of Americans have died recently. Trump cannot expect to win women vote due to his history of exploiting them and his public demonstrations for decades of bigotry.
Approved GS Retouch tweaked BG 003 “Ernst Blue” FULL SIZED
Good News: Prevailing Westerly Winds are Blowing Hard Toward White House – Time to Eject the Ideas of Trump Around the Covid 19 Virus, Gun Controls, School Openings, etc. etc. etc.
Hoax of the Day from DC – Discredit medical science and spin the truth and reality. Instead, promote the babble of a former TV game show host as if he is an authority on the Centers for Disease Control.
Mr. Trump’s haughty new york attitude is not healthy or reasonable. It would be better if we had no president in the White House than continue tomorrow with the Pence-Trump Covid 19 Task Force.
This author has a native New Yorker as a roommate. We both have emigrated to Northern California where a more balanced attitude prevails in the populace.
Yes, the good news is that the winds of health and safety are blowing toward our nation’s capital… if only Trump and his ball-less staffers would listen and take immediate action.
Please respond with specifics of how to implement plans.
Trump Commuted to 14-Day Quarantine in South Florida
Mir-a-Lago, Florida – July 11, 2020 – PRESIDENT TRUMP, BARON, AND FIRST LADY SENTENCED TO MANDATORY FORTNIGHT STAY –
The Sun~Chronicles report that the reigning Governor of the “Sunshine State” must enforce the ‘first family’ 14-day quarantine due to legislative action in Tallahassee.
Air marshals have grounded the aged Air Force One on the tarmac and a motorcade was awaiting Mr. Trump and his entourage following their less than successful fundraisers, which followed the president’s luckless participation in a meeting focusing on drug trafficking.
Much of Mr. Trump’s message fell on deaf ears.
The audience questioned the president’s judgement about many issues other than illicit drugs: Covid 19, gun control, schools, social injustice, and the nerve of Trump to commute the criminal sentence of fellow New Yorker ROGER STONE.
There have been more than 60,000 new cases of Covid 19 most days this past week.
The president’s lack of leadership and good judgment has been questioned by examples every day. His priorities are misplaced. His inaction, particularly on both domestic and foreign policies have been inexcusable.
The 14-day ban from being in the White House may be great for the United States.
The president’s chief-of-staff is considering having Donald where mittens at night so that he will not be able to tweet idiotic statements.
WH Fact Checkers Having a Field Day with Trump, Pence, and New Press Secretary Statements since last Monday
Presidential tweets from Camp David this weekend are adding to fact checker burn out.
We should figure that everything from the White House between May and November is a political speech propaganda. Consider this: Over 30 thousand lies have been communicated since January 2017 and countless misleading statements have been made.
The rules for the Trump Administration have been different from the prior 44 presidents. Now in an election year, things will get not better, as will the death toll associated with Covid 19.
It could be amuzing how Trump will put a positive spin on death.
The list of others to blame is also increasing.
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