Of Super Bowl Ads, Risk, and Politics

What a game?

I thought there at the end that the Colts had put Brett Favre into the game to do his best Brett Favre impression. Instead, it was Peyton Manning throwing the game ending interception. Peyton Manning! That same immaculate and indescribably incredible son of New Orlean's own Archie Manning. Conspiracy?

But who knew Drew Brees was so damn good?

And who knew that the Super Bowl ads were going to be so terrible? But more on that later...

An onside kick to open the second half was, in hindsight of course, the most brilliant play in Super Bowl history. Had the outcome gone any differently, there'd be a bounty out for Sean Payton's head. Especially after that debacle of a play on 4th and goal just a few minutes earlier. Instead, that guy who coaches the Colts held a look of shocked disbelief on is face from that moment on. Indeed, I'm certain he is still wondering just what the hell happened. I mean, he had Peyton Manning under center!

Which brings up a good point: Risk.

Risk can lead to monumental success, or terrible failure. There cannot be one without the other. And so, men must take chances. In business, in sport, in love. How many of us would be married today had we not taken that absurdly self-aggrandizing step of asking a woman to dedicate the rest of her life to us? And how many of us would be married if that girl had not taken the even more ridiculous, and self-basing chance of actually agreeing to such a proposal?

Which is why the government is so terrible at Super Bowl ads. They have no skin in the game. That is, you and I paid for a bunch of Hollywierd lefties to pretend they were a part of the private sector inadvertently ripping off the Government. Imagine that, the private sector stealing from the government! Hahahahahhhhhaaaaaa! Ahem. Sorry. Where was I? Oh, yes. 2 million tax payer dollars were used to promote the census during the Super Bowl. The census. During the Super Bowl. 2 Million. Dollars.



By all means, give these people our health care!

But at least the ads were free of any draconian references to Nazi Germany, right? Except, were they?



Is this ad brilliant parody, or a glimpse into an algore future? Perhaps Both? It wasn't funny, if that was it's intent. But it did make the entire green cult look silly and petty. But then, I'm not sure if that was intended or not either. The take home message that conforming to totalitarianism is A-OK was a little puzzling. And will it sell any cars?

I suppose we will find out. (See above about taking risks)

Meanwhile "Who Dat" is fast becoming the most annoying phrase on the planet. But at least "pants on the ground" has been supplanted. And it would also appear that the damage inflicted on New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina will only be slightly worse than what is being predicted from the combination of Mardi Gras and a Super Bowl victory. I'm certain FEMA is warming up the school buses as we speak.

But don't worry. There is a light at the end of this dark wintery tunnel: pitchers and catchers report February 18th.