{"id":107,"date":"2008-02-01T10:27:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T16:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2008-02-01T16:29:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T22:29:33","slug":"super-ads-at-the-super-bowl-xvii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Super Ads at the Super Bowl XVII"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/?p=107\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>By Lloyd Frazier<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/superbowlxvii.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"193\" alt=\"SuperBowlXVII\" src=\"http:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/superbowlxvii-thumb.jpg\" width=\"146\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Let&#8217;s face it.&#160; Once again, this season&#8217;s football finale will most likely be anti-climactic.&#160; The real action happens during the playoff games and there were some very good teams this year.&#160; We all suspect the New England Patriot&#8217;s will run away with this game.&#160; Maybe not in the first half, but definitely by the end of the 3rd quarter.&#160; There is another kind of &quot;Super&quot; event that happens during the 3+ hour extravaganza &#8211; televised advertisements.&#160; Go Daddy really pushes the envelop and it will really be interesting to see what the sports car driver aka Go Daddy girl, Danica Patrick, will be exposing this year.&#160; Danica is hot!&#160; Last year, Ford was pushing the Ford Escape Hybrid with their green spokesperson&#8230;er&#8230;spokesfrog, Kermit.&#160; GM caused a stir with the constipated, politically correct crowd after the airing of their commercial where a robot throws itself off a bridge.&#160; Seems the ads take on more press time after the game then the game itself.&#160; Although, the &quot;equipment failure&quot; debacle at half-time where Janet Jackson shows some skin overshadowed everything a couple of seasons ago.&#160; Maybe Janet was finally proving she was not Michael in drag.&#160; Yes, Virginia, they really are two separate persons.&#160; What a let down.&#160; Super Bowl ads are not so much about selling as they are about planting a seed in your mind to get you to remember that brand.&#160; The advertisements are meant to be as outlandish as possible to impress their brand deep into your memory.&#160; How many times have you reminisced about past super bowl ads when watching the game?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This year, Audi is coming back for the first time since 1991.&#160; They have a very ambitious plan to sell over 1 million vehicles worldwide in 2008.&#160; Audi is going to be pitching their badass R8 sports car using actor Alex Rocco in a &quot;Godfather&quot; theme ad.&#160; Hyundai will be attempting to shed their budget label with their new Genesis luxury model.&#160; The other usual characters like Ford, GM and Toyota will be making an appearance with their wares as well.&#160; The biggest challenge will be overcoming the clever beer commercials.&#160; They always make the biggest impression and are talked about around the office water cooler on Monday morning.&#160; Will we actually remember the car and truck ads by the end of the game?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">All in all, the Super Bowl is always the great American tradition that it has always been for 41+ years.&#160; Have fun this Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lloyd Frazier Let&#8217;s face it.&#160; Once again, this season&#8217;s football finale will most likely be anti-climactic.&#160; The real action happens during the playoff games and there were some very good teams this year.&#160; We all suspect the New England Patriot&#8217;s will run away with this game.&#160; Maybe not in the first half, but definitely &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/?p=107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Super Ads at the Super Bowl XVII&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoramblings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}