Jamey Tucker

Beside the Point

Archives

  • July 2018
  • June 2014
  • September 2012
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • March 2007
  • February 2007
  • January 2007
  • December 2006
  • November 2006
  • October 2006
  • September 2006
  • August 2006
  • July 2006
  • June 2006
  • May 2006
  • April 2006
  • March 2006
  • February 2006
  • January 2006
  • December 2005
  • November 2005
  • October 2005
  • September 2005
  • August 2005
  • July 2005
  • June 2005
  • May 2005
  • April 2005
  • March 2005
  • February 2005
  • January 2005

Blogroll

  • My Podcast
  • The Tech Guy
  • What the Tech

Powered by Genesis

Super Bowl Ad Pulled

February 8, 2005 by jameyt

Well this is absurd. The Go Daddy tv commercial that aired in the first quarter of last night’s Super Bowl was pulled from a second airing by the NFL. The spot featured a gorgeous woman in a baby-doll t-shirt testifying before what appears to be Congress. She was asking for permission to run the ad during the Super Bowl.

During the ad, she suffers a wardrobe malfunction when one of the straps of her t-shirt comes undone. You don’t see anything, but I suppose some people found it to be titillating. I thought it was hilarious and one of the best commercials during the game. The “congressmen” were clearly out of breath, one of them even grabbed an oxygen mask.

The NFL saw it, called Fox and cancelled the second airing of the spot. Come on! I know last year’s game and halftime were an embarrassment, but let’s not overreact. Of course, I didn’t think the Andy Rooney spot that was axed before it ever aired would have been offensive to me or my kids.

The experts say Budweiser’s skydiver ad was the best. Also in their top 10 were the Career Builder ads with the monkeys. They were okay, but not that great.

My favorite was the GoDaddy ad, followed closely by the Ameriquest ad where the guy’s on the cellphone telling someone “you’re being robbed” while a store clerk mistakenly thought he was talking to him and sprayed him with pepper spray and hit him with a baseball bat.

My other favorites were the two featuring M.C. Hammer (got to hand it to a guy who pokes fun at himself not once but twice) and I also liked the FedEx ad with Burt Reynolds and the talking bear. Oh, and I loved the P Diddy ad which shows him making a Pepsi delivery truck the latest in bling bling.

I wonder if GoDaddy will be able to use it’s spots on any network ever again? Wonder if they might sue the NFL for cancelling it’s second ad. They spent an awful lot on production for just one run, and now that the Super Bowl is over, the ad may be out of date.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: Misc.

Blogroll

  • My Podcast
  • The Tech Guy
  • What the Tech