Are sports commercials getting worse... [Archive]

WickerBill

01-17-12, 09:24 PM

...or am I just getting super old?

1. AT&T: "so five seconds ago". Smarmy much? Unwatchable. Makes me want to distance myself from the company.

2. Ford Trucks "motor trend". Worst play on words ever. Retire Denis Leary immediately.

3. Miller Lite "one more and I have to take your man card": is every man who drinks this beer 9 years old mentally?

4. Lee Jeans "make my butt look good": ARGH. Take your hat off you overexposed cow-intestine-feeler.

There are other horrible ones but not as horrible as these... at least to me. Which ones did I miss?

TravelGal

01-17-12, 09:31 PM

My mind numbed after reading that list so I can't think of any others. I haven't seen all of those, mercifully, but I'll agree that the "man card" was about the dullest (and faintly insulting) thing I've seen in a long time.

Spicoli

01-17-12, 09:42 PM

I like the Nissan Frontier that does the barrel roll and sticks its landing. :thumbup:

McLovin that 1.

Andrew Longman

01-17-12, 10:25 PM

My neighbor has very nice things about his new Ford pick up.

Other than that, the biggest issue with the ads you list is that the products are for crap. Run away fast kind of crap. Very difficult to make a compelling ad under those circumstances. :gomer:

But go back over the years. There were an awful lot of awful ads for everything from Schlitz Malt Liquor T8bUnsxUf3Uto Schlitz Light KQv9FB1t3ooto MatercardFnNq-UGhVrc

The real problem is you are watching sports in the wrong country/hemisphere, MX145Tu4MHY

nrc

01-18-12, 12:53 AM

dando

01-18-12, 01:18 AM

The Coor's Light spots with the outtakes from coach pressers are the worst commercials ever. :thumdown: :thumdown: :saywhat:

-Kevin

chop456

01-18-12, 02:38 AM

T-Mobile commercials with the boy that looks like Liv Tyler.

TravelGal

01-18-12, 02:40 AM

If you had a decent DVR you wouldn't have to watch commercials. :gomer:

I do stop for the ones that look funny flying by in fast-forward but generally they end up being stupid. The most stupid I've seen are the Dish commercials with the stupid giant cowboy hats. Evidently Dish's demographic is about 12.

I do enjoy the Allstate Mayhem commercials.

Exactmundo but every once in a while we're actually watching a sporting event live. As in, when we miscalculate and catch up to live action.

I, too, stop when I see something that catches my eye. I tried that big-hat thing once and couldn't figure it out at regular speed either. I happen to like JACK in the Jack in the Box commercials so I'll stop for those and, though I'll lose whatever credibility I might have had, I love the original KIA ad with the hamsters. Hey baby. :D But the succeeding ones get worse and worse.

Gnam

01-18-12, 03:15 AM

I though State Farm was smart to use Aaron Rodgers for their commercials before the Packers choked.

Kobe Bryant's nike commercial goes a long, long way for a joke.

+1 for the Mayhem ads. "You're good. :thumbup:"
:laugh: everytime.

WickerBill

01-18-12, 08:03 AM

The Coor's Light spots with the outtakes from coach pressers are the worst commercials ever. :thumdown: :thumdown: :saywhat:

-Kevin

YES. Those are #5.

I do like the Mayhem ads, especially him yelling "RECALCULATING!!".

nrc... my DVR is superior to yours now. You need to just accept this. I think this whole topic came up because I was watching the games live at someone else's place and the commercials were mostly new to me precisely because I am mostly watching via DVR when home.

Insomniac

01-18-12, 09:38 AM

Insomniac

01-18-12, 09:39 AM

Napoleon

01-18-12, 09:50 AM

I do like the Mayhem ads . . .

Those are pretty good.

Indy

01-18-12, 10:07 AM

I don't want to say that the average pro football viewer has an IQ of 80, but I will say if the marketing people are doing their jobs right, then their commercials imply that the average pro football viewer has an IQ of 80. It seems to me that the commercials years ago were more clever. Perhaps our steadily declining American standards have something to do with that.

Accourse, i kould be wrong abowt that.

SteveH

01-18-12, 10:32 AM

T-Mobile commercials with the boy that looks like Liv Tyler.

We may have to agree to disagree on this one.
Borderline NSFW (http://thesocialnewspaper.com/man-cave/carly-foulkes-makes-me-want-to-mytouch-wait-30-photos/)

Napoleon

01-18-12, 10:51 AM

We may have to agree to disagree on this one.

I am with you on this one. She is very pretty IMO.

Don Quixote

01-18-12, 10:58 AM

I'm with chop on this one. Twelve year old boy. :gomer:

http://thesocialnewspaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Carly-Foulkes-TheSocialNewspaper.sized_.jpg

TKGAngel

01-18-12, 11:26 AM

The ads that I can't stand are local/regional ones, like the MSG Boomer & Carton Show promo, the hyperhydrosis ad with Miss Rachel's wet hands, etc.

I love the Geico piggy ads and the Traveler's campaign with the dog.

SteveH

01-18-12, 11:33 AM

I like the DIRECTV eye patch ad

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MoCartt

01-18-12, 11:35 AM

Aren't ALL commercials getting worse???

:laugh:

Indy...you may be right...dumb down is big!

TrueBrit

01-18-12, 01:06 PM

Yeah the whole "man up" thing with Miller *****e is annoying..especially seeing as how dire the actual product is...

'Mayhem' is good fun.

Diet Dr. Pepper is good and sexist...*rollseyes*

Cavemen are past their 'sell-by' date...

The Nissan ads highlighting the things their trucks can't do confuses me? If you show it doing a barrel-roll, but then post a disclaimer saying it can't do that, why did you bother to pay someone to produce that for you? That would be like me as an ad agency going to a washing-machine manufacturer and selling them on an ad showing their product making coffee, with a disclaimer then saying that it doesn't in reality, actually make coffee...Seriously, what's the f*****g point??

TravelGal

01-18-12, 01:17 PM

Cavemen are past their 'sell-by' date...

Thank you! In any form.

California cheese or milk or something has a slew of cavemen looking incredibly unappetizing for their job promoting a food product.

Napoleon

01-18-12, 01:19 PM

Another one I love is that cartoon tiger on the Cheeto's ads.

SteveH

01-18-12, 01:45 PM

Buffalo Wild Wings ad concept is stale. Changing the weather to blow off work. Worked once but not in multiple versions.

Ankf00

01-18-12, 01:58 PM

...or am I just getting super old?

1. AT&T: "so five seconds ago". Smarmy much? Unwatchable. Makes me want to distance myself from the company.

this is awesome sauce, probably b/c i'm a smarmy little ****, myself. even if i'm a technological luddite.

3. Miller Lite "one more and I have to take your man card": is every man who drinks this beer 9 years old mentally?

get the high schoolers & frat boys and you have a lifetime of steady drunk revenue

nrc

01-18-12, 02:12 PM

nrc... my DVR is superior to yours now. You need to just accept this. I think this whole topic came up because I was watching the games live at someone else's place and the commercials were mostly new to me precisely because I am mostly watching via DVR when home.

Bah! You've been drinking the DTV Kool Aide for too long. People are flocking, flocking I tell you, to grab up the new DirecTV TiVo which adds almost nothing over their last TiVo from 7 years ago. :gomer:

Anyway, a TiVo Premiere Elite would more than remedy any shortcomings of my old Series 3 relative to whatever box DTV happened to drop off for you.

Gnam

01-18-12, 02:33 PM

The Nissan ads highlighting the things their trucks can't do confuses me? If you show it doing a barrel-roll, but then post a disclaimer saying it can't do that, why did you bother to pay someone to produce that for you? That would be like me as an ad agency going to a washing-machine manufacturer and selling them on an ad showing their product making coffee, with a disclaimer then saying that it doesn't in reality, actually make coffee...Seriously, what's the f*****g point??

I understood it when the Loch Ness monster swallowed a Toyota Tacoma and spit it out. Total fantasy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCe-1LYj_4o

But, the Nissan one where it pushes a dune buggy up a steep, sandy slope looks plausible enough that the disclaimer at the end is like an insult. "Did you really think our truck could really do that? Dang you're dumb."

Maybe the whole campaign is designed to lower expectations.
"Hey it's a just a truck."

EDwardo

01-18-12, 06:38 PM

Spicoli

01-18-12, 08:39 PM

The Nissan ads highlighting the things their trucks can't do confuses me? If you show it doing a barrel-roll, but then post a disclaimer saying it can't do that, why did you bother to pay someone to produce that for you? That would be like me as an ad agency going to a washing-machine manufacturer and selling them on an ad showing their product making coffee, with a disclaimer then saying that it doesn't in reality, actually make coffee...Seriously, what's the f*****g point??

What's the point? Its cool, and its fantasy, and it made you talk about it. Think of the demogrphic they are looking at capturing, and there is your answer: Outside loving, not much coin having, easy going, sense of humor having males aged 20's thru late 30s'?

That truck won't appeal to NFL/NASCAR meatheads who "like a rock" Bob Seeger anyways.:thumdown:

that's my guess.

nissan gtp

01-18-12, 09:09 PM

Dogs love trucks. Youtubeit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IwUcbq-93w) :laugh:

Insomniac

01-19-12, 09:36 AM

I am with you on this one. She is very pretty IMO.

T-Mobile commercials with the boy that looks like Liv Tyler.

I'm with chop on this one. Twelve year old boy. :gomer:

http://thesocialnewspaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Carly-Foulkes-TheSocialNewspaper.sized_.jpg

I don't think she looks like a boy, but I think her dresses make her look better.

Spicoli

01-19-12, 02:14 PM

Buddy Rice would hit that.:thumbup:

chop456

01-19-12, 02:40 PM

Bag of antlers.

grungex

01-19-12, 08:10 PM

I don't think she looks like a boy, but I think her dresses make her look better.

Anything to cover up that belly button. :yuck: :gomer:

WickerBill

01-19-12, 10:55 PM

the t-mobile girl is so 12 seconds ago.

TrueBrit

01-20-12, 05:11 PM

No one has mentioned the presumably Tebow inspired commercial shown once during the Nags-Pats game. It featured a bunch of little children reciting a verse from the bible. The same verse that rainbow headed guy used to hold up during televised sporting events. proselytizing a religious point of view during a sporting event just rubs me the wrong way.

That really pissed me off...."For god so loved the world he gave his only son"...and you then beat him half to death and nailed him to a tree...:shakehead

If you want to worship an invisible sky wizard that watches over everything you do, and there's ten things he REALLY doesn't want you to do or else he will send you to live in a lake of burning fire until the end of time, but he loves you unconditionally, and he also always needs money, fine. But do me a favour and keep it to yourself...

devilmaster

01-20-12, 05:15 PM

If you want to worship an invisible sky wizard that watches over everything you do, and there's ten things he REALLY doesn't want you to do or else he will send you to live in a lake of burning fire until the end of time, but he loves you unconditionally, and he also always needs money, fine. But do me a favour and keep it to yourself...

Thank you George... :)

Methanolandbrats

01-20-12, 05:25 PM

That really pissed me off...."For god so loved the world he gave his only son"...and you then beat him half to death and nailed him to a tree...:shakehead

If you want to worship an invisible sky wizard that watches over everything you do, and there's ten things he REALLY doesn't want you to do or else he will send you to live in a lake of burning fire until the end of time, but he loves you unconditionally, and he also always needs money, fine. But do me a favour and keep it to yourself...

Agreed. And if there is a sky wizard, I would hope he/she/it has more important things to do than tend to a self-rightous prick throwing a football.

TKGAngel

01-20-12, 05:35 PM

Agreed. And if there is a sky wizard, I would hope he/she/it has more important things to do than tend to a self-rightous prick throwing a football.

That's a different spin on the "God is in the tub" philosophy. Like when you're a kid and you're mom is in the tub, you should let her be and enjoy her alone time unless someone is dying/dead/missing a limb.

Don't forget that the super pacs will inundate televised sporting events this fall.

I wouldn't be surprised if the SuperPacs did lots of local buys around the Super Bowl and Daytona 500 in advance of the primaries in key states. Or is that too early for Super Tuesday?

Methanolandbrats

01-20-12, 06:47 PM

That's a different spin on the "God is in the tub" philosophy. Like when you're a kid and you're mom is in the tub, you should let her be and enjoy her alone time unless someone is dying/dead/missing a limb. :saywhat: I'm gonna have to read that a couple more times.

TKGAngel

01-20-12, 08:17 PM

:saywhat: I'm gonna have to read that a couple more times.

Try this: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=god%20is%20in%20the%20tub

Methanolandbrats

01-20-12, 08:22 PM

Try this: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=god%20is%20in%20the%20tub

Were you a philosophy major?

cameraman

01-20-12, 10:44 PM

I wouldn't be surprised if the SuperPacs did lots of local buys around the Super Bowl and Daytona 500 in advance of the primaries in key states.

And I'll watch all TV via DVR and not see a single one.

TKGAngel

01-21-12, 09:34 AM

Were you a philosophy major?

No, but I did go to a Jesuit college that required 9 credits of philosophy to graduate.

And I'll watch all TV via DVR and not see a single one.

Good plan, but I can't watch sports on a DVR delay.

Insomniac

01-21-12, 12:00 PM

No one has mentioned the presumably Tebow inspired commercial shown once during the Nags-Pats game. It featured a bunch of little children reciting a verse from the bible. The same verse that rainbow headed guy used to hold up during televised sporting events. proselytizing a religious point of view during a sporting event just rubs me the wrong way.

Don't forget that the super pacs will inundate televised sporting events this fall. I fully expect a barrage of annoying and deceptive ads.

I don't think there is any doubt the ad was linked to Tebow-mania.

Not sure if you remember, but last year they rejected an ad featuring Tebow and his Mom talking about making the choice. They will also reject all political ads from SuperPACs. TKGAngel is right though, look for local ones.

Indy

01-21-12, 12:54 PM

I am OK with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY

High Sided

01-21-12, 01:20 PM

I don't think she looks like a boy, but I think her dresses make her look better.

i think she looks just dandy with nothing at all. ;)

http://thesocialnewspaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Carly-Foulkes-TheSocialNewspaper-5.jpg

nrc

01-21-12, 03:00 PM

Pretty face, but B&W and artful pose hide the fact that she's underfed.

High Sided

01-21-12, 05:20 PM

been dvring the australian open this past week and it being late night they keep running commercials for porn tv, only $8 a month. :gomer:
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Spicoli

01-21-12, 05:54 PM

been dvring the australian open this past week and it being late night they keep running commercials for porn tv, only $8 a month. :gomer:
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How can you argue with that?:D

WickerBill

01-22-12, 09:09 PM

This forum is the Egg McMuffin of racing forums.

Andrew Longman

01-23-12, 12:57 AM

I'd like to add to my hate list any promo EVER on Fox for any of their programing (excepting maybe Simpsons/Malcolm in the Middle) and apparently any ad for any movie run during an NFL game

nrc

01-23-12, 02:32 AM

I'd like to add to my hate list any promo EVER on Fox for any of their programing (excepting maybe Simpsons/Malcolm in the Middle) and apparently any ad for any movie run during an NFL game

I'm depressed. Action movies were my last reason for going to the theater and now they all seem so stuffed full of ridiculous, poor quality, CGI that they may as well be cartoons.

And I think we can add the E-trade baby to campaigns that should be retired immediately.

Rex Karz

01-23-12, 08:36 AM

And I think we can add the E-trade baby to campaigns that should be retired immediately.

Needs more coat hangers.

Indy

01-23-12, 09:42 AM

Christ, anything with a talking baby freaks me out. And clowns. And people in masks.

I have some issues. :gomer:

Napoleon

01-23-12, 09:18 PM

Not sure if you remember, but last year they rejected an ad featuring Tebow and his Mom talking about making the choice. They will also reject all political ads from SuperPACs. TKGAngel is right though, look for local ones.

There have been some large ad buys on the local level with graphic antiabortion ads.

stroker

01-23-12, 10:59 PM

I'm waiting for a resurgence of the Teaberry Shuffle.

That, and Big Fig.

Damn, I'm old...

cameraman

01-24-12, 09:36 PM

We should be so lucky as to get Herb Alpert...

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Opposite Lock

01-25-12, 12:52 AM

"You want to know what my favorite run of the day is?"
:flame:

(should be followed by):

"No, you self-centered ****. Now why don't you beer me, *****? And don't forget the ******* lime."

:D

PS: I got to see Herb Alpert live (for free) at Petrillo (Grant Park, Chicago) in 1997. Only photo (someone else's) that I could find isn't embeddable, but viewable here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/durhamskywriter/5385036757/