Marshall’s Weblog

Pregame commercials: Way to many Blockbuster commercials. People do not trust Blockbuster anymore. Why did they spend a fortune to try to compete with Netflicks??? (BAD)

Pregame Festivities: Stevie Wonder and ensemble cast entertains crowd. Procession of all the living Superbowl MVP’s (GOOD)

5:45 PM: FedEx commercial. Caveman A tries to send a package attached to a Pterodactyl, which is promptly eaten by a T-Rex. Caveman A returns to a cave where he explains to Caveman B — his boss — that the package was not delivered. The boss asks Caveman A if he used FedEx, Caveman A says “No”, Caveman B responds “Your Fired”. Caveman A pleads for his job explaining that “FedEx hadn’t been invented yet” to which Caveman B says “Not my problem”. (HILLARIOUS)

6:04 PM: First Quarter over. Pretty boring — Pittsburg no first downs and 3 punts, Seattle 2 punts and a TD taken away with Offense Pass Interference. Seattle 3 Pittsburg 0. (BAD)
6:04 PM: Jackie Chan appearance in a Pepsi Commercial. No sighting of a monkey commercial yet. (GOOD)

6:16 PM: Pittsburg gets first First Down followed by second consecutive first down on an end around (ABOUT TIME)

6:18 PM: The monkeys have been sighted! CareerBuilder.com is back, this time with a room full of monkeys partying and listening to Quiet Riot’s Come on Feel the Noise. (GOOD)

6:20 PM: Phillip Seymor Hoffman (GOOD) as the baddie in MI:3. (INDIFFERENT)

6:26 PM: Chris Berman doing play-by-play for Tim Allen’s Shaggy Dog remake. (SHOOT ME)
6:26 PM: Kermit the Frog in a Toyota Hybrid commercial. (GOOD)

6:34 PM: Rothlisberger scrambles on 3rd and 28 and completes a catch at the 2 yard line to Hines Ward. (GOOD)

6:38 PM: Commercial for Poseidon, remake of 1972’s The Poseidon Adventure. Looks really lame. (BAAAAD)

6:40 PM: Rothlisberger runs an options to the Goal Line. Ref calls TD but the play is under review. Looks close but it should stand as a TD. (GOOD)

6:43 PM: Call stands. Pittsburg 7 Seattle 3. Less then 2 minutes left in the first half.

6:56 PM: Sprint Commercial. Friend beans another Friend in the face with his cell phone claiming that in addition to being able to watch TV on his phone, it also is a crime deterrent. (GOOD)

7:04 PM: Can ABC fill the Superbowl with any more commercials for their stupid shows? They seem like they are really hurting for ratings. 4 straight during one span at halftime. (BAD BAD ABC)

7:32 PM: Willie Parker goes 75 yards for a TD on first drive of the second half. Pittsburg 14 Seattle 3. Game over??? Longest rush in Superbowl history. (GOOD)

7:35 PM: More ABC Commercials!!! (AARG)

7:43 PM: Fabio’s back??? I thought he fell of the face of the earth, like Axl Rose or Vanilla Ice. (PUSH)

7:50 PM: A giant robot and dinosaur give birth to a Hummer ?!? (WEIRD)

7:53 PM: Kelly Herndon picks of pass and takes it 78 yards to the Pittsburgs 20. Seattle back in the game ??? Longest interception in Superbowl history. (GOOD)

8:27 PM: Gadget Play. Randell El throws a 60 yard TD on a WR reverse play. Pittsburg 21 Seattle 10. First TD thrown by a WR in a Superbowl (GOOD)

8:30 PM: MacGyver! Richard Dean Anderson is back — in a Mastercard spot. (COOL)

Overall, the game was pretty boring and the commercials, with the exception of a few, were sub-par. Leave it to a Disney Corp production to screw up the Superbowl commercials, which many casual viewers actually watch for. ABC ran way too many spots for their own shows, something which I don’t recal ever seeing on previous Superbowls to the extent at which we say this year.

I spent some of the duller moments reading Freakonomics, which I just picked up. It is very interesting so far and I made a good dent in it over the course of the game.