<p class="MsoNormal">Every year millions of people watch the Super Bowl not for the game being played but for the commercials. I would imagine more people can tell you about their favorite commercial than who actually played on the game last year. Even if they commercials are bad people are talking about them.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">These ads are so expensive. A 30-second ad on NBC will be $3 million dollars this year. This is one of the largest increases from year to year. Last year a 30-second spot was 2.7 million. <span> </span>The 2009 cost is double than the usual annual cost increase.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is my favorite 5.4 million dollar ad from last year.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">Another I liked from last year was the Audi R8 commercial that mimicked the famous horse head scene from the Godfather. Actually Audi did a decent job pulling off that scene. I think it was a pretty good ad.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the original scene of Jack Woltz’s bed from the Godfather.(Note: no animals were hurt in making this scene).</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal">Should we be seeing any bank or big three car company ads? If so lets see how well our tax dollars are going to be used this year. I will write a follow-up blog if there are any “Bailout Bowl” Ads.</p>

Written by Mike Slife