Attention assignment editors and media pundits: Can we PLEASE stop wasting column inches and air time discussing Super Bowl commercials?
It’s giving free publicity to corporations rich enough to afford air time during the Super Bowl. It’s a stupid news media cliche, like articles about Krispy Kreme grand openings and Black Friday sales at Wal-Mart.
Besides, anyone who watches the Super Bowl “for the commercials” is a cultural moron, and needs to be hidden away from public view.
The commercials are NOT the best part of the Super Bowl. This is a myth perpetrated by the corporations that benefit.
The excessive hype and marketting does NOT enhance the Super Bowl experience. The commercials were intrusive. Any break in the action was filled with a paid message. This was the greatest contest the Super Bowl has seen in decades, and everytime I looked up, they were hawking something.
Excessive greed is ruining sports, and the Super Bowl is the prime example. Was anyone there who was not a reporter, a celebrity or someone with a ton of money to throw away? Normal people cannot afford tickets to regular season games, let along a big event like the Super Bowl.
Next year, I’m boycotting any product or service that buys an ad during the Super Bowl.
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Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
How about you boycott the NFL and watch something less commercialized then.
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You are comparing the "commercialization" of this site with the greed-fest that is the Super Bowl?
Over-generalize much?
Greed-fest? That's capitalism, Billy. Are you against capitalism and the free market?
There are exactly three paying ads on this site right now.
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