So I don't watch the superbowl, and thus, NONE of the commercials.

[Beelzebud]

And yet, on Stephanie Miller, they are playing these commercials as if they are actually worth listening to...]

I LOVE Miller, but PLEASE...

Why give these companies free air-time? I dont' want to sit and listen to commercials during the show segment. There are commercials on every 10 minutes to begin with!

Thus this leads to my question:

Why are sports fans so eager to watch advertisments? Some of you people act like these commercials are high-art or something... It's pathetic. You hear just as much about the commercials as the game! So why is it that commercials are crap all year long, but if you put them in the superbowl, people seem to be fooled into thinking they are worth watching?

It baffles my mind... :D

[Kalisiin]

1. Because

usually...the good, FUNNY commercials are saved for the Super Bowl. Only reason I even watch at all is for the commercials, because they are often FUNNY during the super Bowl. Like the one about horse farts a few years back. That was FUNNY!!

[Roland99]

2. "streaker"

:rofl:

[drm604]

3. It's hype.

The only way they can charge as much as they do for the ad time is if they hype the commercials as if they're the second coming or something so that people will actually watch them rather than turning off the sound and discussing the game. At least that's what I think.

[RethugAssKicker]

4. People are sheep!... They have been told that the commercials

are funny and hilarious and the best commercials they've ever seen.

So they do as they are told... Some will watch Super Bowl only for the commercials.

Sort of like a canon. We're told the Mona Lisa is the best painting in the world. So, out of all the thousands of paintings in the Louvre, we make a mad rush to find the Mona Lisa, and marvel at its "supurb quality". And personally, I don't see how its "the best"... but thats what we are told to believe!

[mike_c]

5. it's a crazy bit of mass hysteria that is uniquely American....

I mean really-- think about the hundreds of millions of dollars that are spent to promote and televise the superbowl, the additional hundreds of millions that the atheletes make, and all the time and effort spent. Just how entertaining is watching a bunch of guys chase one another around a field, anyway? So this becomes an event of cultural significance-- I was at the gym yesterday afternoon while the superbowl was on and it was virtually deserted, the streets were empty-- but it's all media driven. That's what makes advertising so expensive during the superbowl, and that same media hype has been applied to the commercials in order to give them some value for the millions that advertisers spend.

Unbelievable.

[myrna minx]

6. I know. Our local NPR usually has a commercial discussion

the day after the super bowl. Yay...free advertising on NPR! That drives me crazy too.