I watched the game....not the half-time show. So I missed the Madonna episode and the fancy finger of some gal in the show. Naturally, this morning....the big hype is the last few minutes of the game, and this finger episode. I went back and looked at the video of the finger episode.....and yeah, she knew precisely what she was doing.
NBC stood up to apologize....mostly because their seven-second squad of guys who were supposed to black-out problems in the half-time show....didn't work right. So, Grandma got a couple of seconds of some gal in fancy outfit, giving the finger, but she probably didn't even realize it because she's got a 24-inch TV and it comes in fuzzy off the antenna. Grandpa probably did see it.....but it probably took him three minutes to fully grasp that she was giving the finger to the crowd. Uncle Karl missed it....mostly because he was in the bathroom for most of the half-time show. Your buddy Louis.....did notice it fully....only because he bought a new 62-inch LCD TV.
Frankly, I'm probably of the old crowd that mostly watches the game, for game reasons. I just don't have the desire to watch the half-time show....mostly because it's just a draw for folks to watch to catch the commercials.
Adding to this mess is the pre-game episode where Matt from the Today Show ended up interviewing the President, as part of the whole game episode. Matt wanted everyone to know that he was going to ask more questions.....which would only be seen at 7AM on Monday......again, another gimmick to draw you to their morning commercials.
Not to lean against the Super Bowl.....but it's starting to become something less than just a championship game. Maybe those NCAA guys will eventually figure this out and hype down their mess.
Oh, and the Clint Eastwood Chrysler "half-time in America" commercial? It's probably a decent commercial, but frankly....it wouldn't make me want to buy a Chrysler. Chrysler has been stuck at the half-time point for thirty years....sadly. And I don't see this helping much.
0 comments:
Post a Comment