The ads were mostly extremely lame. I only found the FedEx one about the cavemen to even be entertaining. Nobody really put forth any effort, but that might be just liberals having yet another snit about having to have creativity within restraint.
This did not seem to affect the Stones, however, and let me be the first to compliment Bill Cowher, Dan Rooney and the Steelers for gracious and well\spoken, not to mention sincere and heartfelt responses on winning.
Long may they wave.
" I only found the FedEx one about the cavemen to even be entertaining."
it WAS funny. do you know if they can be downloaded anywhere?
The FedEx commercial is the one I missed! I heard my husband laughing out-loud (which doesn't happen THAT often) so I yelled to him, "hey, what'd I miss?!" Yep, it was THAT commercial. Dang.
The Burger King Ad at the beginning was great with the girls making a hamburger. Very creative, fun, eye catching. I loved it and it worked.
And the FED EX was also very good.
Let me first say that I'm not a Seahawks fan. I'm a Cowboys fan so I have no love for Seattle or any other NFC team. But this was the worst officiated game I can remember in a SB. This was arguably worse than the Patriots/Raiders game when the refs sodomized the Raiders in the closing minutes so that the Patriots could 'come back' and win. Seattle had one TD taken away (even the ESPN guys unaminously agreed that wasn't a penalty), they had a phantom holding call after a catch on the PITT 1 yrd line. And even on the one INT that Hassleack threw, they tacked on 15 yards when the SEA QB had the audacity to try to tackle the runner. I was half-expecting the MVP trophy to go to the back judge. If the PITT fans can come up with any plays where they think they were hosed, I'd like to know. But I can see at least 6 plays which the SEA fans could point to which where either drive killers or took points off the board.
This was really a shame because Seattle pretty much did what they wanted to do to Pittsburgh tonight and this should have been a 3 point game the entire time. Seattle made some just unbelievable unforced errors on top of it all like missing two field goals and throwing TD passes a yard out of bounds which could have made this game so lopsided that even a ref on the take couldn't have changed the outcome. If I were the Seahawks owner, I would be asking for the league office to publicly explain how exactly these calls where made. The league apologize to PITT for the blown INT in the Indy game (because PITT ultimately won and it was a no harm/bad call situation).p> It is very suspicious that everybody in the English speaking world (who doesn't live in Seattle) was backing the Steelers. And even with that the line was only 4 1/2 points. It just seemed that despite the Seahawks being clearly able to handle things on offense and defense and yet they still had the game called as though they were accidently successful. Roethlisberger had one big pass and it was a broken play. His big plays came on scrambles when the SEA secondary had him stymied (but props to him for his rushing). Hines (whom I like a lot) made the one big play in the passing game by bailing out that 3rd & 28. And the one single running play which actually worked was designed as a 3 yard dive which miraculously went for 78 yards.
If I'm a Pittsburgh fan, I'm thanking God and Pete Tagliabue right now. But Pittsburgh is a classy franchise and has some great people (other than Joey Porter who is talented but a neanderthal) and this couldn't have fallen into the laps of a better group of people. Enjoy.
Hinz Ward well deserves his MVP award.