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 [...]
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 – [...]
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.”
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 [...]