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		<title>A Brief Commercial Break</title>
		<link>http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2010/02/07/a-brief-commercial-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather MacAllister</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[commercials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Super Bowl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Super Bowl Sunday? My blog day is Super Bowl Sunday? No one is going to be surfing the Internet on Super Bowl Sunday&#8211;not even me. It&#8217;s my turn to have the gang over so I&#8217;ll be busy making snacks featuring the all-important fat and salt food groups. But forget about the game. Let&#8217;s talk commercials. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img src="http://blazeauthors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/logo_2010-Super-Bowl-300x134.gif" alt="2010-Super-Bowl" width="200" height="34" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3063" /><span class="dropcap">S</span>uper Bowl Sunday?  My blog day is Super Bowl Sunday?  No one is going to be surfing the Internet on Super Bowl Sunday&#8211;not even me.  It&#8217;s my turn to have the gang over so I&#8217;ll be busy making snacks featuring the all-important fat and salt food groups.  But forget about the game.  Let&#8217;s talk commercials.  With advertising time during the Super Bowl going for about $2.5 million for 30 seconds this year, companies want stellar commercials and the ad firms that deliver get almost as much attention as the products.  </p>
<p>Sometimes they get it right.  Some of my favorites have been the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vW9gUmooFg">E*Trade Baby</a>, who&#8217;ll return this year, the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m71m-LBqFQ">Hulu</a> ad with Alec Baldwin, the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS3op_7QVIY">Budweiser lizards</a> taking out a hit on the frogs, and the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWbO-oq6ZPw">dog coaching a Clydesdale</a> so he can make the team next year.  There have been some incredibly bad ones, too.  I&#8217;m lookin&#8217; at you, MacGruber.  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v6StsEKZu4&amp;feature=player_embedded">SoBe?</a>  Football players as ballerinas?  Mutant lizards?  And you want us to drink your product?<img src="http://blazeauthors.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/lbb.jpg" alt="HIS LITTLE BLACK BOOK" width="126" height="200" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3070" /></p>
<p>This year&#8217;s advertisements are listed <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/business/consumer/articles/2010/02/05/20100205super-bowl-advertisers-list-CR.html">here</a>, along with <a href="http://superbowl-ads.com/article_archive/?cat=80">videos </a>if you miss any.  <strong>Come back after the game and tell me your hits and misses.  Tomorrow is okay, too.  As a <del datetime="2010-02-06T20:22:28+00:00">bribe</del> reward, I&#8217;ll give away a copy of HIS LITTLE BLACK BOOK, my March Blaze.  It&#8217;s an Encounters and the first story features a hero deciding on a Super Bowl commercial.  How&#8217;s that for a coincidence?</strong></p>
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