Eh. The commercials, other than the Simpsons MasterCard bit, weren't much to look at this year for my money. But I guess it was the breast the ad agencies could do.

A boob job on the boob tube. Makes me glad I switched to the Nat Geo eps they were showing on MSNBC.

Janet Jackson?
Latoya Jackson?
Could it have been Michael Jackson?
Favorite commercials were the Bud Light farting horse, and the AOL/Orange County Choppers.

Ed

Breast? I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention to the halftime show...although breasts rarely get by me.

I concur with the farting horse, although my favorite ad, also from Budweiser, was the sideline official catching all the guff from the coach, then shifting to his training ground: his shrew of a wife.

*True*

No dear, she's nothing like you. Seriously.

Normally, I'm a Maker's Mark advocate.

But just before the third quarter, I found myself at the bar, ordering a......

(wait for it)

....... buttery nipple.

Must've been a Pavlovian thing, I dunno.

Jim
Sloop New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Whoo, boy, MTV and CBS are spinning like tops.

And that sun on her nipple looks nasty, I can't believe it didn't hurt.

Drudge has a close-up.

Come on, it wasn't that good.

The breast, I mean. It was a good game.

Unbelieveable. Not the breast, the complaints about it. My only complaint is that it wasn't on long enough. Not even two seconds before they cut away. What a gyp.

Why does anyone complain about this? Jeebus. Can't we back off just a tad from the puritannical nuttiness?

BTW, thanks for the pointer to drudge. He also has an animated version of the "event". I'm sure the footage will be available on the web soon, if it isn't already.

Where was Terry Tate? There was supposed to be a new commercial - did I miss it?

CS

I think we all saw who can provide real entertainment, as opposed to poorly scripted nonsense and toilet humor.

LOSER= MTV. The halftime show was a disgrace, and an amateurish one at that. I'm glad millions of 10 year olds got to see that last night.

LOSER= TV and advertising. With the exception of the Ford GT spots, the commercials were dogs. I dont think I've ever seen so much bad toilet and crotch humor. Way to be creative guys.

LOSER= CBS. An awesome game is going to be overshadowed by Janet-gate and grandstanding by MTV. They just pissed off the NFL and about 100 million parents. Nice.

WINNER= NFL. Proved that sports may be the last refuge of decent entertainment in America. Can win even bigger by rolling out the lawyers against CBS and MTV and proving that thay're committed to family friendly entertainment.

i agree with david on the puritanical nuttiness. hell, you (and your kids) can see as much breast on any public beach, and lots of butt too...the prudes need to get over it!

Um... "neither team failed to score"?

K

I thought there was a brief moment of promise at the very beginning, when the marching band was playing. "Could it be," I said, "that we'll be treated to actual entertainment this year?" Then the horns and drums gave way to Puffy Dilly Daddy Diddy or whatever he calls himself these days, and I wept.

By the way the streaker wasn't REALLY trying to streak, he just had costum failure too.....sheesh

This year: one naked boob, one naked buffoon, and half a dozen ads for hard-on pills.

Next year: watch explict farm lolitas and enlarge your manhood...

The difference between Star Trek's Borg and the Jackson family? One is a collective of grotesque, mindless automatons dedicated to the destruction of human civilization, while the other is a fictional alien race. Why the Borg reference? Janet's using Borg implants. See www.kgb.com.

David and timmac,

I take it neither one of you are parents? (At least, I sure hope not.) Some people don't want their children taught that it's perfectly ok to rip off other people's clothes, especially when it's without their consent. (Whether or not they planned it is irrelevant. They acted it as unplanned.)

For that matter, here's another clue that you appear to have missed: you're nto God, and you're not the dictator of America. Whether or not you like the rules is utterly irrelevant as to whether or not people should follow them. You want to see the rules changed, work within the political process to change them. If it's not that important to you, then quit your bitching.

There are plenty of "less puritanical" societies out there. They're also less productive, and accomplish less. You want to live like that, great. Move there. But don't insist everyone else must live like you want to live, which is what your whining amounts to.

Greg D, I was not whining. And I never said I was either G-d or the dictator of America. I never insisted anyone live like me either. Read what I said again. I made a small call for what I consider to be sanity, I didn't say you had to agree. Jeebus.

I am not a parent, true, but I would like to think that I could explain the difference between television and real life to my children. Children are bombarded with images much worse than that one every day, especially if the caregiver watches the soaps. Guess what? It's the parent's job to put it in perspective.

david,

It's painfully obvious you aren't a parent. You're right that the issue is control. Parents have to monitor what their children see and do, but what happens when TV executives simply throw out the rulebook and turn prime time TV into softcore porn hour?

There was no warning, disclaimer, or hint that the halftime show would be inappropriate for kids. There was no contextual or rational reason to expect sexual innuendo or nudity. It's a FOOTBALL GAME on network TV.

Look at the net and listen to the news. Millions of parents and their kids were ambushed by Les Moonves and whatever screwjob runs MTV last night and a whole lot of them are seriously PO'ed. (yes, despite their pathetic "apologies", it was scripted)

My email to the NFL is on it's way. The jist is, "stop acting like you're the sport of mentally retarded wife beating drunks or you can bet that me and my family will be watching a lot of baseball and hockey next fall." And yes, I attended a game and watched plenty on TV this year.

Ditka pitching Levitra is one of the worst ads in years. First, they establish throwing the football through the tire as an oh-so-subtle visual metaphor for sex. Then Ditka throws the football through the tire, turns to the camera and says, "You gotta looooove that!" Ugh.

The entire half time "show" was just out of control. I knew it was going to be terrible when I heard it was Janet. She can't sing live - for crying out loud. Then when Nelly (or how ever you spell it) couldn't stop playing with himself I just had a feeling it was going to get much much worse. Then the finale - I was speechless. I'm not a parent and I'm still really ticked off about the whole thing. And the commercials - what the hell were THEY thinking. I worked for a company that has always done a GREAT job on the ads placed during the "Big Show". What demographics where these companies shooting for anyway? It was all just disappointing. That goodness the game was great! Otherwise it would have been a complete waste of a perfectly good Sunday Nite.

The part that puzzles me is that everyone is so excited about children seeing breasts. What do you do, blindfold babies while they're breast-feeding?

With CBS having Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake hosting the Grammy Awards show, it's safe to change the name to what everyone is thinking after the Superbowl. It will now be called the "Grab These" Awards.