An Alternate Superbowl Party
Every year for the past who knows how long, I’ve had a sports ritual when it comes to the Superbowl game. I set my VCR … TiVo … DVR to record from just about 30 minutes before the game’s kick-off and get about 4 hours worth. During the game, I typically go do something or watch a movie. If I am really curious, I tune in the game after about 2 hours to see when it is going to end. At the end or shortly there after, I check the score, the winners, the losers, and then the highlights reel. My goal is all of this lat bit is to be somewhat less of a noob the next day at work.
Once the game is over, I rewind the tape or jump to the start of the TiVo / DVR and start fast forwarding at 16X to find the commercials. I watch each one and hope there is something truly funny. The Budweiser frogs were funning in the beginning … not so much any more. “Cat Herder” was a good one. Even Apple did a nice one 24 years ago.
I no longer have a TV so I had a moment of panic that this year, I’d miss out. Then I realized, my old habits were so 20th century. I’m sure, within about 15 minutes of air time, each commercial will find its way onto YouTube just like the frogs, the cats, and the apple !
February 2nd, 2008 at 18:42
GO get yourself a hulu account…
http://www.hulu.com/beta/webware
They’ll all be up there, plus there is lots of other stuff for you to watch there too.
February 3rd, 2008 at 08:01
I signed up for hulu.com and took around. There was not too much on there but I did find one show to check out. Also, I was reasonably impressed with the brevity of the ads they inserted into the shows - a reasonable compromise to see commercial video over the internet.