Super Sunday: The Super Bowl game VS. The Super Bowl Commercials

Whose side are you on?

The Super Bowl is probably the biggest game in sports. It comes but once a year and features the two top teams from the NFC and the AFC. Unlike other sports, this game is a once-and-done matter. Baseball, hockey and basketball play a series of games to determine the top team. Football has only one game that brings out the best in each team. But there is something that the other sports don’t have. It’s the amazing commercials. Super Bowl Sunday always features the best commercials marketing has to offer. Last year the top Super Bowl commercial was a woman playing tennis with Doritos in the ball shooter. She got knocked down because of the new bolder cheesier taste. There was also a Budweiser commercial that featured an alien disguised as a dog, entering the mother ship. The head alien asked, “What did you learn on earth?” The other alien replied, “Whassuuuuuuup!” It was a killer. Hopefully this year will top last year’s commercials.

Freshman Brent Bailey says, “I don’t follow football as much as other people, but I watch the Super Bowl game because of the hilarious commercials.” Real football fans love the game more than the commercials, but non-football fans just watch the game because of the commercials like some people. So know it’s first and ten from our own 45 yard line. Freshman Erik Troxel says, “I like the commercials a lot better. I like the commercial because it’s probably the only time you’re not serious the whole day. I loved the Budweiser commercial last year, it was hilarious!” That brings us to the 50 yard line, first and ten. “I love the commercials! They are classics. They’re all very funny and it gets you pumped up for the game,” replies Dean Shielly. Okay, now we’re in the red zone, in enemy territory. Come on football fans, where are you? Can you believe nobody likes the game over the commercials? “The commercials are very funny. They are good because the game takes too long,” says Mark Pederson. But Chris Sanford says, “The Super Bowl game is the best! It’s the only time you see two teams playing for something big.” Touchdown! Finally someone who appreciates the game more than the advertisements.

A history lesson: the Rams have won one Super Bowl and lost none. The Patriots were in the 1997 Super Bowl, but lost to the Packers. In the nineties, the NFC had the most wins with nine victories. The AFC has only three wins. Much like the 1991 Super Bowl, this years SB logo will mainly focus on America’s colors. The logo is a picture of America featuring red white and blue, with 36 in roman numerals on it. Everybody is favoring the Rams in fact, according to nfl.com, 56% of the people think the Rams will win. The Patriots are the underdog by two touchdowns. It could be a very close game or it could be a game like the Packers and Rams, where the Packers lost 45-17. Who knows, it could be an upset. Go Patriots!

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