LOTD: Best Super Bowl Commercials Ever

by Jerod @ 2009-01-29 2 Comments Email Post

Today’s Link of the Day comes from a site I know well and contribute to on occasion: Dallas Sports Fans. Yesterday, Robert wrote about the best Super Bowl commercials ever.

No matter what your team loyalties, the Super Bowl is always a great time for any football fan. Even if you cannot get into the game, or hate both teams, there is still one great part of the game, the Super Bowl Commercials.

Over the years there have been some real gems. Who can forget the â€œWAZZUPâ€ commercial, or the â€œNothing But Netâ€ spot. As you prepare for the big game on Sunday, stop for a moment and re-live some of the best Super Bowl Commercials from the past.

He also included videos of his top picks, including Terry Tate, Jackie Moon, and a pretty controversial (at the time) Snickers ad that may make you cringe as a man. Head on over to DSF to see Robert’s full list and to remind yourself why getting up to leave during the breaks Sunday night is not a good idea:

LOTD: Best Super Bowl Commericals — (Dallas Sports Fans)

(Oh, and so much for the “economic woes” — MoonDog reports that Super Bowl ads this year are still costing $3 million for every 30 seconds of airtime.)

Now, with all due respect to Robert, I feel like there was one big one that he left off. This is understandable, because there have been a ton of good Super Bowl ads, and choosing just a few of them is particularly difficult. However, there is one Super Bowl commercial that simply cannot be ignored or forgotten. I wasn’t even old enough to watch this Super Bowl ad live, but I have seen the video, oh I don’t know, maybe 2,613 times or so.

Here it is, the classic Mean Joe Greene Coke Super Bowl Ad:

Thanks Mean Joe! Gotta love it. It will be interesting to see what the ad agencies come up with this year. I know that a few companies are buying 1-second spots (Miller High Life, for example) and putting all sort of press about it. We’ll see how that works out. I’m sure there will be plenty of funny and entertaining commercials, but we’ll see if there is one with the timeless, classic appeal of the Mean Joe Greene Super Bowl commercial.

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For the record, really found the above post informative and helpful. And I just consolidated my personal account and the MSF Twitter account and took off the auto-feeding. So there will actually be real updates and interaction now. Definitely follow us on Twitter if you are an MSF fan. I’ll be on there pretty regularly and hopefully a lot of our other writers get accounts too.

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