at least they didn't air the alternate version. *Jimi see's the pepsi machine-- goes into pawn shop.. grabs guitar* Jimi: Yo, can I write a check? Yao: Yao. Jimi: What? Yao: Nevermind.
Budweiser/Bud Light stole the show with their commercials this year. They were head and shoulders funnier than everyone else's.
Yeah, I do. It wasn't very funny, so I didn't think it was a joke and if it's not a joke then how am I supposed to take it.
A friend of mine was supposed to be in a pharmaceuticals commercial to air during the Super Bowl. If it was on, I missed it. Anyone recall any pharmaceutical commercial?
Well, the only pharmaceutical commercials were for erectile dysfunction drugs, so if I was your friend, I probably wouldn't be bragging too much...
How about the subliminal messages in the Mike Dikta Levitra commercial? "Hey I can throw a football thru a tire, just like Levitra helps me stick my Ditka in a hole." Subtle.....
"Will You Be Ready?" - tag line of some ED med commerical during super bowl dontcha just love when Madison Ave uses fear and insecurities to sell products?
I just saw the Britney, Pink and Beyonce PEPSI Commercial and it's everything a SB commercial shouild be I wonder why it was only played in Europe I'll post a direct link to DL it but if that doesn't work you can DL it here, it is a big file (176Mb) but it's pretty good. Link Hopefully direct to download 4 commercial
Just read the site I linked and they've asked not to be hotlinked so if someone could disable the direct link to the commercial I posted that'd be cool. The link to the page is fine and you can still download it from there, it is towards the bottom under the next to last picture on the page.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/2384535 More than 140 million see at least some of CBS' coverage More than 140 million people watched all or part of CBS' coverage of Super Bowl XXXVIII from Reliant Stadium, making it the most-viewed program in television history. CBS reported a preliminary national Nielsen rating of 41.3 with a 63 share, up 1.5 percent from 40.7/61 for Super Bowl XXXVII on ABC. Last year's game had an estimated audience of 138.9 million. It was the highest-rated Super Bowl since Super Bowl XXXIV between the Rams and Titans rated 43.3/63 in 2000. In Houston, the Patriots-Panthers game had a 51.4 rating and 73 share on KHOU (Channel 11), the fifth-highest rating in the country and the fourth-highest rating in history for a Super Bowl host city. The 51.4 rating equates to 950,268 of Houston's 1.8 million television households. Last year's game rated 46.7/65 on KTRK (Channel 13). CBS Sports president Sean McManus said the audience built steadily throughout the broadcast after a slow start, peaking in the final half-hour as the teams scored 37 points in the fourth quarter. The last half-hour had a 53.5 rating on Channel 11. "The tune-in for the game (during the scoreless first quarter) was not as good as the first half-hour last year, so perhaps people were not quite as excited about the game going in," McManus said. "But as I said from day one, if we had a good game that was close in the fourth quarter, we would get an excellent rating. That is what happened. "I could not be more pleased with the quality of the production, and I'm thrilled with the rating." McManus declined to elaborate on the network's previous statement about the controversial halftime show, produced by MTV, featuring Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake. The network apologized Sunday night and said the halftime "did not conform to CBS broadcast standards." Kansas City was the top-rated market for Sunday's game, with a 57.2 rating and 71 share. Greensboro, N.C., was second at 54.1/72, followed by New Orleans at 53.70 and Boston at 52.2/78. Charlotte, the Panthers' home market, rated 49.7/72. CBS did not provide preliminary ratings for its four-hour pre-game show. Hourly ratings in Houston began with a 13.1 rating from 1 to 2 p.m. and climbed to 43.4 for the 30-minute pre-kickoff show from 5 to 5:30 p.m. Channel 11 may have reaped the most benefit from Super Bowl XXXVIII, but KTRK (Channel 13) also drew strong audiences for its local game-related weekend programming. Channel 13, in fact, dominated Sunday morning's ratings with 5 1/2 hours of live news- and game-related programming. From 7:30 until 10 a.m., in head-to-head competition with Channel 11's local game-day show, Channel 13 had a 7.8 Nielsen rating to 6.2 for Channel 11. Channel 13's local coverage outrated the CBS broadcast of Nickelodeon Takes Over the Super Bowl from 10 to 11 a.m. but slipped behind CBS' MTV-produced TRL show from 11 a.m. to noon. The combination of the Super Bowl and CBS' Survivor All-Stars premiere, however, gave Channel 11 the highest news rating of the day, with a 19.6 rating and 38 share for the first 30 minutes of its late news show, beginning at 11 p.m. Channel 11 dominated Saturday's ratings with a 9.2 Nielsen for its prime-time Super Bowl preview, a 12.3 rating for its 10 p.m. news (to 8.6 for Channel 13). Both stations, plus KPRC (Channel 2) did extended news Saturday night, and Channel 11 also won that time slot with an 11.4 rating to 6.3 for Channel 2 and 5.7 for Channel 13. On Friday night, Channel 11 had a 7.1 rating for three hours of Super Bowl-related programming, but Channel 13 won the late news ratings at 12.3 for Channel 13 and 8.8 for Channel 11. On Saturday, a replay of the previous Monday's opening ceremony drew an 8.5 rating and 17 share on Channel 11.
I guess we should of expected this sooner or later.... http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/janetsuit1.html FEBRUARY 5--It took almost three days, but the first lawsuit has been filed in connection with Janet Jackson's breast. A Tennessee woman yesterday filed a proposed class action lawsuit "on behalf of all Americans" who watched the Super Bowl halftime show and were somehow injured by Miss Jackson's adorned nipple. In the below federal complaint, Terri Carlin, a 47-year-old Knoxville bank employee, contends that Jackson's exposure and other "sexually explicit conduct" during halftime festivities caused viewers to "suffer outrage, anger, embarrassment and serious injury." Details of those supposed injuries were not further described in the complaint filed by attorney Wayne A. Ritchie II. Along with Jackson, Carlin has named as defendants Justin Timberlake, CBS, MTV, and Viacom. Carlin's complaint seeks compensatory and punitive damages, though an exact dollar figure is not specified. But it seems billions would be in order since Carlin notes that punitive damages should not exceed the gross revenues of all defendants for the past three years.
Yeah...I thought it was funny. I'm pretty sure that Pepsi isn't truly taking credit for Jimi's genius. Coke still rules...
And the 1st Lawsuit against Janet... http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/janetsuit1.html FEBRUARY 5--It took almost three days, but the first lawsuit has been filed in connection with Janet Jackson's breast. A Tennessee woman yesterday filed a proposed class action lawsuit "on behalf of all Americans" who watched the Super Bowl halftime show and were somehow injured by Miss Jackson's adorned nipple. In the below federal complaint, Terri Carlin, a 47-year-old Knoxville bank employee, contends that Jackson's exposure and other "sexually explicit conduct" during halftime festivities caused viewers to "suffer outrage, anger, embarrassment and serious injury." Details of those supposed injuries were not further described in the complaint filed by attorney Wayne A. Ritchie II. Along with Jackson, Carlin has named as defendants Justin Timberlake, CBS, MTV, and Viacom. Carlin's complaint seeks compensatory and punitive damages, though an exact dollar figure is not specified. But it seems billions would be in order since Carlin notes that punitive damages should not exceed the gross revenues of all defendants for the past three years. (8 pages)
