The Super Bowl is Sunday. It is a big deal for football, entertainment, advertising and Saints fans. If you enjoy the NFL, thank Steve Sabol. His stories created it.
Sabol is 67 now. He became famous by turning football into art (according to Joe Posnanski in Sports Illustrated his week). It is a great story if you haven’t read it in the Scorecard section. (more…)
An old friend of mine, Peter Kaufman, recently invited me to a function where it was my job to be a panelist, talking to a fairly large group (who paid to get in – more for the drinks than the entertainment) about Super Bowl commercials. I was supposed to be a critic, comic, commentator – something along those lines. I did this job last year and for some inexplicable reason, I was invited back. I suck at this job, by the way. (more…)
After two mechanics did the lip-shimmy up the chocolate shaft of a Snickers bar while working on a car and ended the ordeal with a kiss during the Super Bowl commercial snoozathon, a particular group got offended and started complaining, and Mars apologized and yanked the spot “forever.” (more…)
Here’s my annual breakdown of the game and the commercials and the halftime show. Wait. What’s that smell? Oh, it’s the commercials. I thought somebody had left a cheese log out since the college bowl games. All in all, not a good year for our biz on the big one. A nice spot here and there, not unlike the plays in game. A lot of drowning, wet ideas and fumbles as well – not unlike the game. Here goes in order. (more…)
A really quick look at yesterdays Super Bowl game. (more…)