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I’ll start with this… 

Yes, it was absolutely delightful to watch the Philadelphia Eagles lose in excruciating fashion. I dislike that city so much that I rooted for Apollo Creed in “Rocky”.

Truth is, if I were alive in 1776 I might have begrudgingly rooted for the British. If only to stop Ken Howard from singing. (Loved him in the White Shadow though.) 

Philly, a town named after female horses, is a place so vile, so filled with classless and moronic fans, that it is my third least favorite sports city in America.

I hate all their teams. The 76’ers wouldn’t agree to let the Nets into the NBA as part of the NBA/ABA merger unless they gave them Julius Erving. Flyer’s fans booed Santa Claus…

OK, so they lost on a late holding call. Karma! I’ve yet to read that, on the play where Mahomes was reinjured, it sure looked to me that the guy that tackled him gave his leg an extra twist. 

 As the great W.C. Fields once said about Philadelphia, 

“Philadelphia? Fuck that place.” Or something like that.

So yeah, I’m glad they lost. But this post isn’t about the game. This is about the commercials.

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The Super Bowl is the only show on television where I’m forced to take a piss during the actual program so that I don’t miss the commercials. The triumph of American Capitalism. Buying a magazine to read the ads. Seven million dollars a pop and that doesn’t include all the millions they pay for celebrity cameos that barely register.

There were two that I liked… Bradley Cooper and his Mom because it seemed sort of genuine and the NFL: Run With It one with the flag football playing girl. Especially when her mom tried to sucker her.

The Planters: Roast of Mr. Peanut started so well but died. They should have let Jeff Ross just do the whole thing.  As an aside, my favorite Jeff Ross insult of all time, “Cloris Leachman is so old… Shakespeare used to do HER in the park.”

I kinda liked the Mets one. Had that old SportsCenter feel. Plus, Steve Cohen is going for it. Gotta respect it.

The rest? Pretty much meh. However, there were three that pissed me off.

The Caddyshack Ones

Why did they do these?  Caddyshack came out in 1980. I mean I could see it if were an ad for cocaine, but Michelob ULTRA? It was also the perfect example of paying big bucks to celebs to be semi recognizable. That was Tony Romo pretending to be Bill Murray, right? Here's a tip. Don't parody parody. 

John Travolta Singing About T-Mobile

I would rather see Horshack singing about Mucinex or Ken Howard singing about writing the Declaration of Independence and we all know how I feel about that. Plus, I used to like the show Scrubs. They really need to stop overexposing  Zach Braff and Donald Faison. They’re starting to veer into Flo territory.

He Gets Us

The "Angry" one. I take no issue with the concept of selling a religion. The ads were well done and made a good point. 

What pisses me off is that the people behind it includes the Hobby Lobby guy who has done a lot to foster and foment the anger they were showing to begin with. Hobby Lobby was the winner in the, "Corporations are people" and "Money = Speech", Supreme Court decision that opened the floodgates to the predominance of "dark money" in our political system.  Not a fan.  

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That’s about it. 

My only take away from Rihanna’s half time show was that we’ve come a long way from the June Taylor Dancers.

Well, football season is over and all that’s left between now and the Yankee Spring Training opener is a few Josh Hart infused Knick games and looking up who the Russian guy is the Rangers just traded for.  

I’m ready.