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Look, there wasn't a lot to enjoy this year when it came to Super Bowl commercials. If crotch-kicks, dumb guys and hating on small, Asian nations isn't your thing, you were kinda left out in the cold.
I think we can all agree that the NFL's American Family ad, featuring footage from Happy Days, Seinfeld, The Office was among the best on the evening:
Harmless fun. Unless, of course, you're a nitpicker. Cause if you're a nitpicker, there's SO MUCH TO NITPICK!
First off, The Office folks rooting for the Steelers? Sacrilege for an office full of Scranton folks who are almost certainly all Eagles fans. Except Andy, who as a pretty New England is probably a Pats fan. Which makes it even worse for him...
Next up, Cheers, where Norm is wearing a Pats jersey that he almost-certainly couldn't have next to a Pats logo that didn't exist until the very end of the show's run. I mean, I GUESS this could have happened but all signs point to Norm being a Pat Patriot guy.
Mike Brady comes home to his framed Philip Rivers jersey, which is weird since Rivers was born in 1981, a full seven years after the show ended. Also note the Antonio Gates photo, which is also weird since the dude was born in 1980.
The Falcons and Dukes of Hazzard are good fit. Not a good fit? Using black, which didn't become a Falcons' color until long after them Duke boys were done jumpin' the General Lee.
The most egregious nitpick of them all? ALF as a Carolina Panthers fan. Even if you remove the fact that the Panthers didn't even exist while ALF was on the air, there's the...a Panther is a cat. ALF eats cats. Therefore, ALF would not have rooted for the Panthers. He'd root for the Falcons or some other predatory bird that eats small cats. That's just being scientific.
Are you offended that Modern Family's Gloria, a Colombian, is wearing a Redskins jersey? In this case you're wrong, because there's absolutely no reason you should have even noticed what kind of shirt she was wearing.
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Timelessness of the ad
Is illustrated best at the end of that commercial when the Fonz hits the flat screen TY to make the picture come in.
by PickleTJohnstone on Feb 7, 2011 7:52 AM EST reply actions
Anyone who knows anything about New York
knows that Seinfeld would be a Jets fan, and the Friends cast would be Giants fans. They had that backwards, too.
2009 Did Not Happen
by cjmulrain on Feb 7, 2011 8:32 AM EST reply actions
The jests and gnats play in New Jersey, where they’re idolized by moronic guitos
"Ability without character will lose. The Bills are going to be a team of high character. That stamp I will push very hard. I hope we can convey that to our fans and project something very special to the rest of the nation." - Marv Levy
by BuffaloBlueBlood on Feb 7, 2011 2:12 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
clever
enjoy following the Bills when they move to Toronto.
2009 Did Not Happen
by cjmulrain on Feb 7, 2011 5:06 PM EST up reply actions
Yea, when's that going to happen?
Because Tom Golisano just sold the Buffalo Sabres and afterwards said that if the Bills were ever in danger of leaving the city of Buffalo, he’d be there waiting to buy them, and keep them here.
Also, owner Ralph Wilson Jr definitely has a contingency plan in his will that will see to it that they never go anywhere :)
"Ability without character will lose. The Bills are going to be a team of high character. That stamp I will push very hard. I hope we can convey that to our fans and project something very special to the rest of the nation." - Marv Levy
by BuffaloBlueBlood on Feb 7, 2011 5:36 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Actually...
I worked on this spot all January, and we had to clear with the people in the commercials. And Seinfeld is a DIE HARD Giants fan…not a Jets fan. Also, Joey and Chandler rooted for the Giants, and they refused to be in it, so they made the girls Jets fans.
by Randy Krueger on Feb 15, 2011 11:32 AM EST up reply actions
You forgot that Kramer from seinfeld is a Bills fan! Sporting a Bills jacket and bumper sticker.
After all, they are the only team that plays in New York.
"Ability without character will lose. The Bills are going to be a team of high character. That stamp I will push very hard. I hope we can convey that to our fans and project something very special to the rest of the nation." - Marv Levy
by BuffaloBlueBlood on Feb 7, 2011 2:11 PM EST via mobile reply actions
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