Super Bowl Commercials...A Response

Last weekend the New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts in the one of the biggest sports events in the world- the Super Bowl.

Part of the popularity has been the emergence of the bizarre competition for the best (and most expensive) commercial. It's a curious thing when there is an audience for the Super Bowl just for the commercials.

The commercials are often filled with special effects, celebrities, sometimes animals (anyone remember the beer frogs or mustangs?) and hilarious (to some!) jokes.

This year there were a few commercials that were interesting. The first being a commercial with Tim Tebow, a Heisman Trophy winner (for those of you not in the know, this is given to the best college football player in the US). Tebow's commercial had his mom in it, which is not all that unusual for a Super Bowl commercial (remember those Chunky soup commercials with the good NFL mommies heating up soup?). But the odd piece of it was that it was a commercial for "Focus on the Family" the right wing family group. The message was not as explicit as we thought it was going to be, but the it was there. Had Tebow's mother had an abortion the world would have been deprived of his talents with the Gators. What was ignored was that Tebow was born in Manila, Philippines where Tebow's mom wouldn't have even had the option as safe, legal abortions are not, nor ever have been, offered in that country.

But one of the most ridiculous commercials came from Dodge. I'm not even going to post it...but the gist of it is a bunch of dead eyed guys staring into the camera as the voice over extols all of the 'oppressive' things men have to put up with from their partners. And the Dodge vehicle is his escape, so back off bitch.

This is a response to this commercial (youtube it if your curious to see the original), and it made me smile!