Every year we gather in groups at a local meeting place. Gather lots of food and drink. Bring money in case we want to bet. Cheer. Yell. Laugh. Cry. We let our emotions spill out for the better part of four or five hours.
The Super Bowl is the most watched night of television each year. The two best teams from each division, AFC & NFC, compete in the final game of the NFL. Advertisers pay nearly $3 million for a 30 second ad. That’s how many people watch.
So you’d think that paying such a large sum of money for an advert and so many people get to watch it, you would prepare something funny, entertaining, something above the status quo. Something we’re going to remember, something that will ring in our heads next time we’re buying a beer, soft drink, snack food, looking for a job, buying a web site, etcetera.
This was not the case for during Super Bowl 43. It pains me to say this on a number of levels, but the commercials this year were crap. I can think of one or two commercials that stick out in my mind as being decent, but the rest were crap, and have actually made me not want to purchase products. Good commercials from Doritos. I think they seem to deliver each year. Budweiser though, your clydesdales might have been entertaining five or six years ago, but today they dont’ cut it. We get it, you’ve shoved it down our throats and now every time we see a horse like that somewhere we think, oh the Budweiser horses. But for the simple fact that your commercials were not entertaining, or well thoughout, or funny, or anything above the status quo, which means I don’t expect to see that caliber of commercial each Sundayd during a football game, for those reasons, I will not buy Budweiser for year. Thats’ right.
I am boycotting the purchasing of Budweiser specifically b/c they spent so much money on their Super Bowl spots, yet couldn’t produce a single entertaining, above the status quo, commercial.
The other company that kind of got on my nerves was GoDaddy.com who I register hellobos.com with, but i digress. We are all aware of what GoDaddy does. They use sex to sell internet domain names and hosting services. But what they do is say that their commercial will continue at GoDaddy.com. Thinking people are going to log onto their web site to see the other 30 seconds that wasn’t aired during the Super Bowl. GoDaddy, let’s get serious. I don’t want to log onto your web site for any other reason than to buy domain names. Why? Because thats what you do. You don’t make entertaining commercials, you don’t sell sex, you simple provide a cheap and easy way to buy domian names. Stick to that. I applaud you for buying time to advertise your company and get your name out there, because I don’t see too many dot coms doing that anymore, especially domain name services like GoDaddy. So props for that. But please, don’t make me log onto your web site to watch the rest of your boring commercial featuring Danica Patrick who in my personal opinion couldn’t give a dog a bone.
