That Cam Newton/little kid commercial for the Play 60 thing was really cute and funny the first few times I saw it. But like every good thing, they just kept playing it and playing it. By the end of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Football commercials are the worst, especially since we get subjected to the damn things at high volume every week, by the end of each season almost every ad campaign we’ve been subjected to has become almost intolerable. Until this year[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The NFC East is bad. I love it, because I love chaos and clownball and the NFCE brings that in spades, but they are bad. None of these teams deserves the crown. These teams are all bad. They all have cable.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So one of the stories that has creeped up in the shadows this season has been an 11% drop in ratings for NFL programming. The NFL is still a ratings giant, but this sudden drop is big enough to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If there is one sort of kooky downside to being a diehard football fan (and I mean a fan of the sport, not just a team diehard, which I think there’s a difference), is that the Super Bowl is one of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So my pick for worst commercial ad campaign of 2018 is easily the Aaron Rodgers Agents State Farm ads. Just woeful and painful to watch. The whole bit is built on garbage ground. HE’S A SPORTS AGENT…BUT HE DOESN’T GET[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every year there are at least a few ad campaigns that are immediately irritating and played out by week 2. It is one of the obnoxious traditions of football that has only gotten worse as we’ve gotten more ad time.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We are 4 weeks into the season, which means the ad campaigns that all those companies have elected to run for the year have sufficiently lost any charm they might have still retained in week 2. Our current batch of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s always one. Always one. Every damn year some company (usually insurance) makes every commercial break a ticking time bomb until you end up envying Hellen Keller. This year, Burger King earned their crown. Wear it with shame, you assholes.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
