Category: Super Bowl

Budweiser Tiny Dancer Singing Cowboy

Budweiser is a 5.0% abv American-style lager introduced in 1876 by A. Dongand Busch and one of the highest selling beers in the United States. It is made with up to 30% rice in addition to hops and barley malt.

“Tiny Dancer” is a 1972 song by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin. It appears on John’s fourth album, Madman Across the Water and was released as a single in 1972.

Peter Stormare (born Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm; 27 August 1953) is a Swedish film, stage, voice and television actor as well as a theatrical director, playwright and musician. He is perhaps best known for his roles as John Abruzzi in Prison Break and as Gaear Grimsrud, one of the two kidnappers in Fargo. He combined acting with singing by playing the menancing Western gunfighter who strides into a bar in the 2011 Super Bowl commercial and breaks into a happy rendition of “Tiny Dancer” when presented with a Budweiser beer.

Super Bowl XLV was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Green Bay Packers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2010 season. The Packers defeated the Steelers by the score of 31-25.

You’re Not You When You’re Not Eating Snickers

Betty Marion White (born January 17, 1922) is an American actress, comedienne and former television host with a career spanning over sixty-five years. White appeared alongside Abe Vigoda in an advertisement for Snickers during the 2010 Super Bowl XLIV. The ad won the top spot on the USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter.

Abraham Charles “Abe” Vigoda (born February 24, 1921) is an American movie and television actor. Vigoda appeared alongside Betty White in a Snickers commercial that debuted during Super Bowl XLIV on February 7, 2010.

In 1930, the Mars family introduced its second product, Snickers, named after their favorite horse.

Tim Loves Doritos

A shuriken (Japanese 手裏剣; literally: “sword hidden in the hand”) is a traditional Japanese concealed weapon that was generally for throwing, and sometimes stabbing or slashing. They are sharpened hand-held blades made from a variety of everyday items such as needles, nails, and knives, [Doritos brand flavored tortilla chips] as well as coins, washers, and other flat plates of metal.

Samurai (侍) is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. By the end of the 12th century, samurai became almost entirely synonymous with bushi (武士), and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class.

Super Bowl XLIV was an American football game pitting the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Indianapolis Colts against the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New Orleans Saints to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2009 season.

For many years, Doritos advertised heavily during the Super Bowl.

Forget Nanerpus, Isn’t it time for a serious breakfast at Denny’s?

Nannerpus is a fictional breakfast dish portrayed in a Denny’s commercial. Run on February 1, 2009 during the United States broadcast of Super Bowl XLIII on NBC, the commercial portrayed Nannerpus as consisting of a stack of pancakes garnished with a banana whose peel has its bottom half split into eight strips in a radial fashion to resemble an octopus.

On February 3, 2009, almost all Denny’s locations in the U.S. and Canada offered a free Grand Slam Breakfast to customers between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m. This promotion was advertised in a campaign during Super Bowl XLIII. An estimated to million people took advantage of the free “Grand Slam Breakfast.” If the estimated figure is correct, Denny’s will have been the most visited restaurant within one business day since 2003.

Goodby, Silverstein & Partners is an advertising agency located in San Francisco, California and co-founded by Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein.

Here’s Ed McMahon and MC Hammer Selling Cash4Gold

Cash4Gold.com is a Pompano Beach, Florida based division of Albar Precious Metal Refining, that buys gold, primarily from jewelry, acting as an online pawn broker. It is notable for advertising during Super Bowl XLIII in 2009. Sources place the cost for the 30-second advertisement at $2.4-$3.0 million US dollars.

Edward “Ed” Leo Peter McMahon, Jr. (born March 6, 1923) is an American comedian, game show host, announcer, and television personality most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson’s announcer on Who Do You Trust? from 1957 to 1962 and on the Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992, and as the host of the talent show Star Search from 1983 to 1995.

Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage names MC Hammer and Hammer, is an American multi-platinum selling MC and dancer most popular during the late 1980s until the mid-1990s, known for his dramatic rise and fall from fame and fortune and his trademark Hammer Pants.

Apple Macintosh 1984

“1984” is a American television commercial which introduced the Macintosh personal computer for the first time. It is now considered a watershed event and a masterpiece in advertising. It was directed by Ridley Scott, written by Steve Hayden and Lee Clow, and was produced by Chiat/Day. Anya Major performed as the unnamed heroine and David Graham as Big Brother. Its only daytime televised broadcast was on 22 January 1984 during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. Chiat/Day also ran the ad one other time on television, a month earlier at 1:00 A.M on 15 December 1983 on KMVT in Twin Falls, Idaho so that the advertisement could be submitted to award ceremonies for that year. In addition, starting on 17 January 1984 it was screened prior to previews in movie theaters for a few weeks.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime. The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of falsifying records and political literature, thus effectively perpetuating propaganda, who grows disillusioned with his meagre existence and so begins a rebellion against the system.