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Doritos, Pepsi Max and Religion: An Unholy Mix in Super Bowl Ad Contest Jeffrey Weiss Correspondent Posted: 01/19/11 The NFL playoffs are still underway. But I can already tell you that neither Michael Vick nor any quarterback named Manning will play in Super Bowl XLV. And neither will a particular chips-and-soda ad. The veteran quarterbacks got beat by better teams. The ad, however, was sacked by a rookie mistake: A misreading by the writer about the acceptable use of religion and humor. The ad was actually an entry to a contest run by Doritos and Pepsi Max. The challenge: Make...

From the email responding to my protest: Thank you for contacting us at PepsiCo to share your sincere thoughts. We want to reassure you that the commercial you cited was not one conceived and produced by PepsiCo, and it never aired on television. Rather, it was a consumer submission in our web-based Crash the Super Bowl promotion, in which participants can upload their own 30-second spots for Doritos tortilla chips or Pepsi MAX to be considered for broadcast during Super Bowl XLV. We announced the contest finalists this morning and this consumer submission is not included in that selection. We...

Doritos entry: Feed your Flock by "Feedyourflock"Pepsi Max entry: Pastor Solves his Problem by "Feedyourflock" The Pepsi Company is hosting an advertisement contest. The winner of the advertisement contest will air during the Superbowl and a 5 million dollar reward to the person who submits the winning commercial for the 2011 Super Bowl.. Apparently the current front-running commercial is titled “Feed Your Flock,” and it exploits and mocks the practice of receiving Holy Communion. The video can be seen HERE on Facebook, or HERE on the Pepsi website. The video is borderline (if not completely) blasphemous and Catholic Christians everywhere...