The Dooper Bowl

So another Super Bowl has gone by and this makes something like the third one in a row in which I thought the disgustingly expensive commercials were not at all that impressive. It's been downhill ever since they got rid of the Bud Bowls. (remember those?)

Never mind the game, I wasn't at all that interested. I would have liked to have seen the Eagles win just because the Patriots are creating something of a dynasty, but hey, it is somewhat cool that Boston has a championship football & baseball team in the same year.

Returning to the commercials, what's up with the random Taco Bell ads? I guess they wanted to make sure everyone watching the Super Bowl knows they sell burritos. Here where we were sort of watching, they even had a local commercial for an ambulance chasing lawer. Then there was the weird Olympus commercial, and of course Blockbuster Video aired their ripoff of Netflix. There were a few ads that made me laugh a bit, but for the most part the Monopoly game I was playing (yes, during the game) was much more interesting.

Blah, I guess we'll wait until next year to watch another two teams play in what has become something well outside of football. It's an event that is now an American celebration of money, glamour, advertising, capitalism, and corporate sponsorship.

Oh and by the way, was I the only one who found the exploitation of our current military status and war a bit dramatized? It's bullshit that Fox would use the war in Iraq to add some type of 'flare' to the freakin' Super Bowl. Come on, where have we allowed our perspectives to be carried off to?