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[ Monday, Feb. 6, 2006 ]

Commercials draw crowds, too

Collegian Staff Writer

Super Bowl commercials, although not the main focus of most football fans, provide a little laughter in between the tense times of praying for a touchdown or cursing at a referee's call.

With revolving refrigerators, bears, streaking sheep and office pandemonium, Budweiser was the king of Super Bowl advertising this year. Its Bud Light commercials got exuberant laughs from students watching at the Big Onion in Findlay Commons.

Ameriquest's ad in which a doctor is assumed to have killed a man was well received with lots of laughter from students at the Big Onion. Godaddy.com also got laughs by making fun of its controversial commercial from last year's Super Bowl.

Giovanni Graziano (freshman-division of undergraduate studies) and Anton Bachman (freshman-education) said the Bud Light commercials were their favorites, especially the one where two men are running away from a grizzly bear.

"The cave man one was funny too," said Graziano, referring to a FedEx commercial in which a cave man is stepped on by a dinosaur.

A group of students watching the Super Bowl on the big screen at the HUB-Robeson Center also praised Budweiser's witty ads.

"I like the streaking sheep one," Nate Herman (junior-chemical engineering) said.

Herman said he always looks forward to the commercials during the Super Bowl, and this year was funny as usual.

Dave Pfister (junior-journalism) said he also enjoyed the Budweiser streaking sheep commercial, but there were others he didn't like.

"The Burger King one rubbed me the wrong way," he said about the fast food restaurant's elaborate musical commercial. He said the king mascot in the ad was creepy. The car commercials in general were not very entertaining either, he said.

Jenn Buchan, who was watching the game during work, said her favorite commercial was Budweiser's streaking sheep ad, but did not like the Burger King musical one either.

"It was stupid," she said.

Some students preferred to pay more attention to the football game but couldn't help being entertained by the commercials anyway.

"I'm not really worried about the commercials," Will Yeager (junior-history) said, dressed in Pittsburgh Steelers gear and holding a Terrible Towel.

Although he wasn't paying too much attention to them, Yeager said the Bud Light revolving refrigerator commercial was his favorite.


 

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