The Super Bowl has grown into so much more than a championship game since the very first game on Jan. 15, 1967. The football game itself has become the event within the event. Commercials are what some people enjoy most about the Super Bowl experience.
There were great ads throughout Super Bowl Sunday this year, most of it was familiar; fast cars, Doritos, cute babies and hot women. However, there were a couple of commercials that stood out from the crowd, and some that were not so great.
The best commercial in my opinion was Taco Bell’s “Viva Young.” The commercial was set to the Spanish version of “We are Young” by Fun. It consisted of “Mr. Goldblatt” and his elderly posse on a night they would never forget. After sneaking out of his assisted living home, Mr. Goldblatt and his accomplices snuck out for a great night. They invaded private pools, lit illegal fireworks on the people’s porches and finally collapsed on the hood of their classic muscle car after eating some Taco Bell.
The worst commercial in my opinion was Go Daddy’s “Perfect Match.” The commercial featured supermodel Bar Refaeli in a slow motion zoomed in kiss with nerdy, tech guy Jessie Heiman.
It took the producers 45 takes to perfect the kiss. I thought the commercial was right out gross. The gross part about it wasn’t the nerd kissing a supermodel; it was the audio and sound effects of the kiss. In my opinion Go Daddy took the commercial a little far.
The funniest commercial of 2013’s big game was Oreo’s “Cream or Cookie” commercial. The cream vs. cookie brawl was funny because it was chaotic, and made the actors whisper about “cream or cookies.”
Basically, the commercial entailed two guys who started arguing about the best part of an Oreo cookie. Is it the cookie or is it the cream? Then, an all out brawl broke lose. The best part was when the police came in through the wall, pulled out a blow horn and whispered, “You guys have to stop fighting, we’re the cops!”
Despite the positive and negatives of the Super Bowl, the game day commercials will always have a place in the hearts of non-football and football fans across the globe.