Super Bowl

[n david]

Anyone watch the Super Bowl last night, whether for the game or commercials?

The game was terrible. One of the worst Super Bowl games I've watched in a long time. And the commercials weren't much better. The best part of the evening was the halftime concert with Bruno Mars.

I was impressed with a couple things:

1) Commercials, with exception of a yogurt commercial towards the end of the game with the guys from Full House, were free of the typical sexual innuendo that's usually in most SB commercials. The puppy love commercial with the dog and horse was the best one. Several were patriotic. I liked Coca Cola's "America the Beautiful" commercial, with people singing in different languages. It wasn't until a few minutes ago I learned one of the scenes from the commercial showed a gay couple. I really didn't notice when it played during the game. Apparently a lot of other people were upset that "America the Beautiful" was sung in any language other than English. 'Merica!


2) Halftime concert. In the past, it was marred with wardrobe malfunctions and female artists acting like strippers more than singers. This time Bruno Mars put on a clean and really entertaining show. Wish he could've sang a few more songs. No lip-syncing, no women dancing around on stage. It was great. I thought bringing in the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the end was odd, in fact, if you paid attention, Mars tries singing along at the beginning, then just kind of looks lost while RHCP's guitar player jerks around the stage like he's having a seizure.

Overall, it was refreshing not to be bombarded with sexual innuendo and junk.