{"id":5496,"date":"2014-02-03T16:23:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=5496"},"modified":"2014-02-03T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:26:10","slug":"at-least-the-commercials-didnt-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/03\/at-least-the-commercials-didnt-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least the Commercials Didn&#8217;t Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About the nicest thing I can say about Super Bowl XLVIII is at least the commercials didn&#8217;t suck. The game was awful, an Al Gore speech marathon would have been more entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>It was the most lopsided drubbing I think I ever seen. It was ugly. It was embarrassing &#8212; the 43-8 score doesn&#8217;t begin to tell the story of just how painful it was to watch. The Seattle Seahawks gelded the Denver Broncos last night, there&#8217;s no other way put to put it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway on to the commercials (or at least my top five).<\/p>\n<p>Budweiser won the night two great ads &#8220;Puppy Love&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uQB7QRyF4p4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>and &#8220;A Hero&#8217;s Welcome&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K7L5QByvXOQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At number 3 is Cheerios super cute &#8220;Gracie&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LKuQrKeGe6g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At number 4 is Doritos &#8220;Cowoby Kid&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FHY5pwgCY3w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0 number 5 is Sodastream&#8217;s ad featuring Scarlett Johansson:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zxq4ziu-wrI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is the &#8220;uncensored&#8221; version of the ad. I couldn&#8217;t find the &#8220;censored&#8221; version on Youtube, and frankly I don&#8217;t see why Fox or the NFL had them remove that &#8220;Sorry, Coke and Pepsi&#8221; line from the end of the ad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the nicest thing I can say about Super Bowl XLVIII is at least the commercials didn&#8217;t suck. The game was awful, an Al Gore speech marathon would have been more entertaining. It was the most lopsided drubbing I think I ever seen. It was ugly. It was embarrassing &#8212; the 43-8 score doesn&#8217;t begin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[1336,1338,677,1286,1339,1341,1337,1335,1340,455],"class_list":{"0":"post-5496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-media","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-budweiser","10":"tag-cheerios","11":"tag-denver","12":"tag-doritos","13":"tag-scarlett-johansson","14":"tag-seahawks","15":"tag-seatle","16":"tag-sodastream","17":"tag-super-bowl","18":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-1qE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2179,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/13\/stupidity-fda-calls-cheerios-a-drug\/","url_meta":{"origin":5496,"position":0},"title":"Stupidity: FDA Calls Cheerios a Drug","author":"Jeff","date":"May 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a joke right... 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