One of my favorite parts of the Super Bowl, the World Series and the Olympics is the commercials. Advertisers pay millions of dollars for one play during the game and hope their commercial goes viral, so they pay big bucks for the writing and production and we get to see little 60 second commercials that are more like mini movies
Come Monday morning, there’s a chance a player like Aaron Rodgers or Clay Matthews or Ben Roethlisberger or Troy Polamalu will have etched their name on the Super Bowl MVP trophy with the kind of performance that will be remembered for years to come.
Or, perhaps, a more obscure player will rise to the occasion and leave an indelible mark on the most important sporting event of the year.
Here is our list of the five greatest individual performance in Super Bowl history, with apologies to Jerry Rice, who would have probably snagged the six and the seven spot.
This year, a 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl will cost three million dollars. At that price, any company hawking its product during the big game better hope its ad makes a big impression.
We’ve compiled a chronological list of 10 Super Bowl commercials that went over like a flawlessly executed touchdown. By lodging themselves in our collective consciousness, these ads made the commercials breaks almost as big a part of the Super Bowl experience as the game itself.
The night before Super Bowl I, Green Bay Packers’ back-up wide receiver Max McGee violated team curfew and partied until the wee hours of the morning, figuring he had little chance of playing in the game.
The Super Bowl hasn’t always been so super. In fact, throughout the ‘80s and into the first half of the ‘90s many of the games were blowouts the likes of which are rarely seen during the regular season.
We’ve had better luck with Super Bowls lately, and this year’s match-up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers is about as even as can be.
So maybe Sunday’s game will end up being a classic. But for now we can count down the five best Super Bowls ever played.
-- Contributed by Jeremy Taylor
January 30, 2011 If you've never played a Wii game, I highly recommend it. I have one but don't play it often enough, but there's something therapeutic about smacking a ball that isn't really there or getting a strike in your living room
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J.S Bridwell AG Center - Wichita Falls, Texas - November 13, 2010
I'm not big on cold weather, but this does look like a lot of fun!
