Profunksticated

Profunksticated has just finished watching the Super Bowl, which had to be among the best he’s ever witnessed. Congratulations to the New York Giants, who beat the vaunted New England Patriots, 17-14, killing the Patriots’ bid for an undefeated season. The 1972 Miami Dolphins, the only other National Football League team to pull off the perfect season, can breathe easier now that their record is safe for one more year.

As you know, the Super Bowl is a showcase for offbeat commercials. I found them mostly lame.

Until early in the fourth quarter. Lo and behold, I see the megolomanical baby Stewie Griffin from Family Guy and Underdog, the original rapping, rhyming canine superhero, dueling in New York’s concrete canyons for a bottle of Coca-Cola.

Stewie and Underdog were depicted as those giant Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade balloons, going after a similarly inflated Coke bottle. However, the helium-filled beverage ended up in the hands of the balloon version of Good Ol’ Charlie Brown.

I loved Underdog, both the animated and inflated versions, as a kid. So this commercial is my hands-down winner. Check it and the other spots here.

Also, I mentioned in an earlier post that I mentored a young lady on refining a business plan for a local competition. I’m happy to say my mentee’s business plan placed third, netting her a cool $500. Yeah, baby! Hope she uses those ends to seed her enterprise, which is a desktop publishing business.

Peace.