Posted on 02/01/2009 6:53:40 PM PST by andrew roman
Once upon a time, Super Bowl commercials weren't exactly super. Of course, Super Bowl ads weren't quite as pristigious as they are today. Products like mint shaving cream, Bic ballpoint pens and Clamato flavored juice from Motts aren't exactly the type of products we have come to associate with Super Bowl advertising.
Forty years ago, when the Colts and Jets met in Super Bowl III, the primary products advertised during the NBC broadcast were not cars and beer.
It was cigarettes.
Here is a sampling of some of the commercials that aired forty years ago during the broadcast of Super Bowl III. (There's only one cigarette commercial included).
This is the fourth of four clips I am sharing from the Super Bowl III broadcast.
It is 4 minutes, 29 seconds long.
(Excerpt) Read more at romanaround.net ...
HATED the classic Coca-Cola rip off info-mercial. It wasn’t even funny.
However, the rest of the game is ROCKIN’! :) Gotta go!
Talk about a stroll down memory lane!
A showroom full of 1969 Barracuda’s and Fury’s!
The year Neil and Buzz became household names.
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I watched at the old Stillwell Hall at Fort Ord.
Vinegar Joe would’ve been proud of Broadway Joe.
My favorite commercial this year was the Denny’s Superbowl commercial offering the FREE Grand Slam breakfasts. Guess where ol’ PJ and wife will be eating breakfast this Tuesday?
I’m stunned Clamato juice did not catch on.
Dunno if I’ll make it in time for breakfast, but I’m thinking seriously of hitting Denny’s for lunch Tuesday (they’re offering it until 2pm, right?).
1000 coupons per Denny’s. I think they will be gone by lunch.
Looking back, the commercials were kind of boring.
But there’s a link on the left side of that page that is a decent read: “obama lied, the economy’s fried.”
“Change has, indeed, descended upon Washington - just like the new President of the United States promised. In that sense, he has been true to his word. Otherwise, with all due respect, the President - only ten days into his “Yes We Can” makeover of the country - has lied to the United States.
I assure you, I do not use that word lightly. This is not “Bush Lied, People Died” bumper sticker twaddle. (More on this in a moment).
If George W. Bush’s anti-conservative approach to spending could be characterized as a nagging cough, Barack Obama’s spendulous plan is Stage Three Pancreatic Cancer.”
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ff (7 1/2 yo in 1/69, and I admit I don't remember watching the game [I didn't follow sports with any real closeness until beginning 1971])
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