A few observations while watching Super Bowl 53…
- Loved the “Twilight Zone” promo with Jordan Peele. Too bad I’ll never see the show because I’m not subscribing to yet another streaming service.
- Congrats to CBS for running the least-funny promos — for every sitcom — since the Geico caveman had his own show.
- I did like the NFL 100 promo they ran after the second quarter. Lotsa people will be going back and freeze-framing it to see who all the ex-players were.
- My wife during the halftime show: Janet Jackson got in all that trouble for showing one nipple at halftime, but Adam Levine can go completely shirtless? Ridiculous!
- My brother-in-law: Well, he was careful to cover his upper body with tasteful art.
- OK, I’ll be the one to say it. We need fewer robots in our Super Bowl commercials, and more Karlie Kloss.
- [midway through 3rd quarter] Tony Romo’s right, the Rams can win this, but he didn’t explain how, so I will. All they have to do is score more points than the Pats. I’m going to use this analysis on my audition for an NFL game analyst job.
- The reactions by the judges to the acrobat acts in the “World’s Best” promos make me think none of them has ever seen a Cirque du Soleil show.
- Somewhere in Europe, a soccer fan is watching his first Super Bowl and asking after three quarters, “Six points??? Are they all this high scoring?”
- Best national commercials: Microsoft’s adaptive gaming controller. Amazon Alexa w/Harrison Ford. Bud’s wind energy. Steve Carrell’s Pepsi’s all right. Google’s Translate. Kia’s Shopper Assurance w/Jason Bateman. Washington Post narrated by Tom Hanks.
- My favorite commercial during the game was this one that only ran in St. Louis, from a local law firm…