Obligatory Super Bowl Post
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.
yeah that Coke commercial was funny. The super bowl was good, altho my hubby pretty much gave me a headache cuz he was rooting for the Giants oh so dayum hard. LOL
Yo, Cat, welcome back! Yeah, I kinda grudgingly was rooting for the Giants since they’re in the same division as my Philly Eagles. I hate that we’re the only team in the NFC East without a Super Bowl ring, and we came so close three years ago against those same NE Pats, but for some lousy fourth-quarter clock management by the Eagles’ coaching staff. (sigh).
Peace.
Comment by aly cat — February 11, 2008 @ 6:03 pm