Superbowl Thoughts?

[Widget123]

What did everyone think of the Super Bowl last night?  Thoughts on Katy Perry, Missy Elliott, Lenny Kravitz?  Favorite commercials?


I'm not a big sports fan, and I was busy planning hostess so I need to get caught up on a many of the talked about commercials, but I did get to see the Budweiser one with the puppy- not as good as last year's IMO but still cute!  Katy Perry's flames outfit was butt ugly and I was surprised to see Missy Elliott as I consider her a "has-been" but everyone keeps talking about how Missy stole the show.

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I don't like either team so I wanted to see a good game. I told DH I just wanted a good ending and I got that, for sure. Not the one I thought was about to happen either.

LOVED Katy Perry. I was very pleasantly surprised at how good the show was. Lenny Kravitz is just the shit. He has to be one of the hottest, coolest, sexiest men on on the planet. Not nearly enough of him.

Commercials... I give the prize to the Fiat Viagra commercial. We were roaring laughing over that one. Also loved the Brady Bunch Sinckers but I'd already seen that on on the Today show.

[sully326]

It was a really good game. The last 2 minutes blew.my.mind.

The halftime show was amazing. Katy Perry did a great job & Missy Elliott took me back to my high school days. Loved it!

The Fiat Commercial killed me. I laughed way too hard. I can't remember who the commercial was for but the one with the donkey at the end made DH laugh like crazy.

[teenybird]

I don't like football in general, or either team, but we were with friends from Seattle, so they were pro Seahawks. I kinda feel like the Seahawks threw the game away (both literally and figuratively), so for me the ending was actually a bit anti-climactic.

I was kind of disappointed that Lenny Kravitz didn't play anything of his own (just covered part of a Katy Perry song), but was actually really stoked about Missy Elliott. I think she was the best part of the halftime show!

We ended up missing a bunch of the commercials, but at least in the case of the epic fail Nationwide commercial, I'm kinda glad. Heard about it afterward, and it sounds like it would've made me cry...

[mrskblack11]

What a great game. I am a little bummed that the Seahawks didn't put BEASTMODE in for that last play. It was a very entertaining game and that is all I really wanted.

Thought the halftime show was awesome. Katy Perry was fun. The lighting effects were stellar. I thought it was funny that there are people who do not know who Missy Elliot is (Does this officially put me in the getting old category!?!).

I was not impressed by the Super Bowl commercials. No tears (I did miss the Lost Dog commercial). I did think the Fiat Viagra commercial was hilarious. Nothing else really stands out.

[belle0720]

I thought it was a great game! I'm not a big football fan but I consider the 49ers my team, so since they weren't in it I picked the Patriots to root for (because, Tom Brady. Also, Marshawn Lynch annoyed me with his lame interviews). So I was excited with the end and thought Tom Brady jumping up and down like a kid was adorable.

The halftime show got me thinking, does the headliner get to pick who they're going to perform with? Like do they hire Katy Perry and then say we have X amount of money, who do you want to be a part of the show?

The 'Like a Girl' commercial was my favorite. It made me tear up at the end.

[billyhorrible]

Feb 2, 2015 9:59:46 GMT -5 teenybird said:

I kinda feel like the Seahawks threw the game away (both literally and figuratively), so for me the ending was actually a bit anti-climactic.

DH said almost the same thing.  I loved how close the game was, I can't remember one that was so neck and neck for so long, but the ending definitely felt anticlimactic. 

Halftime - I am so NOT a Katy Perry fan.  And I thought her shoes were god-awful.  I couldn't pay attention to anything other than the fact that she should have changed them.  Missy was amazing for me.  It was so great to see her again, I think a lot of the younger generation doesn't realize that she revolutionized music for women in her genre.  Many of the popular artists now wouldn't be here if Missy hadn't paved the way. 

Commercials - Mountain Dew was the winner for me, but only because I loved the dancing dog.  Budweiser had DH and I both crying.  And I love Salt n Peppa!

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Feb 2, 2015 10:30:27 GMT -5 belle0720 said:

I thought it was a great game! I'm not a big football fan but I consider the 49ers my team, so since they weren't in it I picked the Patriots to root for (because, Tom Brady. Also, Marshawn Lynch annoyed me with his lame interviews). So I was excited with the end and thought Tom Brady jumping up and down like a kid was adorable.

The halftime show got me thinking, does the headliner get to pick who they're going to perform with? Like do they hire Katy Perry and then say we have X amount of money, who do you want to be a part of the show?

The 'Like a Girl' commercial was my favorite. It made me tear up at the end.

According to DH, the headliner doesn't get paid; rather, he/she does it for free publicity.  Then I guess they feel out who else would be interested based off of the headliner?

[belle0720]

Widget123 Wow! I guess I assumed that headliners got paid a boatload.

[beersandweirs]

As a Seahawks fan, it was obviously a disappointing loss for us, but they played a good game and we still love them!

I thought the halftime show was fine, the beach balls were a little creepy though...

I feel like so many of the commercials were just trying to needlessly pull at the heartstrings, which seemed disingenuous to me.

[bendherova]

Missy Elliot KILLED IT, I wanted more Lenny and I'm sorry, the dancing sharks were fucking stupid. I was not impressed with Katy Perry.

The commercials were really bad. Sure, there were a few cute ones - the Clydesdale and the puppy, the pac-man budweiser commercial. I liked the Dove for men commercial AND the Jeep Renegade Commercial, but they were so sappy and bad for pregnant women who can't stop crying!!

Nationwide and Nissan can go fuck themselves.

Also, bad call Pete Carroll on the end of the game. However, had it worked, everyone would be saying he's a genius.
but he had time for two plays if a run w/ Marshawn Lynch didn't work the first time.

[bendherova]

Re: Headliner and getting paid - Katy Perry has an album coming out soon (I read this somewhere, and now I'm trying to find the info again), so I can see how she'd agree to do it for publicity. I'm not going to buy it, but I'm sure a ton of teens will!



eta: appears not to be true.  But I'm still looking.  

[gingerbabe]

I didn't watch the game, but wanted to watch the halftime show so I randomly turned on the tv a couple times and happened to turn it on right at the beginning of the halftime show. I was not impressed. I don't really like Katy Perry though. I was not into the super animated bright colored stuff (like the sharks and palm trees). I just felt like some flare was lacking. Maybe it's just my dislike for KP's performance style though.

I really want to catch up on all the commercials people are talking about. I'll go surf the internet and see what I can find.

[erbear]

I loved halftime. Katy Perry was a great choice!

Favorite commercial was the snickers Brady bunch or the like a girl one. Budweiser made me tear up as did the dove men's one.

I hate the patriots so I'm not happy they won. I know a lot of people that know darelle Revis though, so they're happy. I'm more excited Jerome Bettis is in the hall of fame!

[nicolec78]

The special effects at half time were cool.

My favorite commercial was the Always like a girl one.

The end of the game was exciting and a little disappointing.

[mrsdee1982]

Dancing sharks need to be a part of every halftime show from here on out...

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Feb 2, 2015 9:59:46 GMT -5 teenybird said:

I don't like football in general, or either team, but we were with friends from Seattle, so they were pro Seahawks. I kinda feel like the Seahawks threw the game away (both literally and figuratively), so for me the ending was actually a bit anti-climactic.

I was kind of disappointed that Lenny Kravitz didn't play anything of his own (just covered part of a Katy Perry song), but was actually really stoked about Missy Elliott. I think she was the best part of the halftime show!

We ended up missing a bunch of the commercials, but at least in the case of the epic fail Nationwide commercial, I'm kinda glad. Heard about it afterward, and it sounds like it would've made me cry...

im not a huge football fan either but we were at a friend's house from the pacific northwest and they were blown away by how much the seahawks blew the ending. i completely agree the ending was so anti-climactic. 

i thought missy elliot stole the show but that could just be because i love her songs. wished they had showed more lenny kravitz. he is such a strong performer.  was not feeling any of katy perry's outfits. the worst was the hot dog on a stick bustier with the dancing sharks next to her.  what the fuck was that?? i thought her actual performance minus the clothes she wore was great.

the lost puppy commericial i had to look away. it made feel all choked up.

[erbear]

Feb 2, 2015 12:43:48 GMT -5 mrsdee1982 said:

Dancing sharks need to be a part of every halftime show from here on out...

Baby wouldn't stop dancing around after halftime and H and I said she was practicing her shark dance moves.

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This one reduced DH to a puddle of sobbing goo.

[nicolec78]

The Toyota being a dad one got to my DH

[sgarmand]

Feb 2, 2015 12:43:48 GMT -5 mrsdee1982 said:

Dancing sharks need to be a part of every halftime show from here on out...

All I kept thinking was "Go home shark, you're drunk." Still the most entertaining part of the half-time show. I was also amused by Katy Perry trying to go from pop princess to hip hop queen with Missy Elliot. She should've sat that one out. There was no comparing to Missy!

Also, I hated Katy's entrance. It looked like she was trying way too hard to be Katniss.

[blasto!]

Feb 2, 2015 14:49:16 GMT -5 sgarmand said:

Feb 2, 2015 12:43:48 GMT -5 mrsdee1982 said:

Dancing sharks need to be a part of every halftime show from here on out...

All I kept thinking was "Go home shark, you're drunk." Still the most entertaining part of the half-time show. I was also amused by Katy Perry trying to go from pop princess to hip hop queen with Missy Elliot. She should've sat that one out. There was no comparing to Missy!

Also, I hated Katy's entrance. It looked like she was trying way too hard to be Katniss.

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who thought this. The whole thing seemed overly contrived to me, but I'm also with you that she should not have tried to perform with Missy. She looked like a wannabe.

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Feb 2, 2015 14:28:00 GMT -5 @jimbobcooter said:

This one reduced DH to a puddle of sobbing goo.

One of my FB friends was complaining there were so many dad themed commercials but not any mom ones. Im okay with it though, there were other girl ones like the run like a girl, fight like a girl, etc one