30 Seconds in to the future

From the Journal Now (Winston-Salem Journal)

 

In 1987, the science-fiction satire Max Headroom depicted a media-obsessed future in which television commercials were reduced to one-second bites.

Welcome to the world of tomorrow. During Sunday's Super Bowl, Miller High Life will show a series of one-second commercials. But let's hope they don't have the same effect as the "blipverts" on Max Headroom, which over-stimulated sedentary viewers and caused them to explode.

Since Budweiser is the official beer sponsor of the Super Bowl, MillerCoors had to go to individual NBC affiliates to buy airtime. Hank Price at WXII confirmed that the ads would air here, and that MillerCoors had bought four seconds of airtime. He said that the station does not discuss the rates it charges advertisers, so we don't know if they paid 4/30th the going rate or more.

 

OK, so I do not have my jetpack that I was told I would have when I was a kid (40 years ago), but stuff from 20 years ago is now coming true....  this is weird.  Here is hoping that those watching will not explode!

Mayors bet food on Super Bowl - Yahoo! News

BOSTON (Reuters) - When the New England Patriots and New York Giants face off in Sunday's Super Bowl American football championship, the mayors of their home towns will have an edible wager on the line.
Enormous amounts of food are at stake in the traditional bet this year, and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have pledged to donate their winnings to homeless shelters and other charities.
A win by the Patriots, giving the team a record-setting 19-0 season, will bring Menino a hefty smorgasbord of New York delicacies, including pastrami sandwiches from the Carnegie Deli, pizzas from Staten Island and Caribbean-style beef patties from the Bronx.
If the underdog Giants win, Bloomberg will be sent a package including 42 pounds of Dunkin' Donuts coffee, 100 cups of clam chowder and 144 Boston cream pies

Mayors bet food on Super Bowl - Yahoo! News

What a nice thing to do.  It is great that while we are wolfing down all our food this Sunday, that some people who really need it will get some food.  I think that both of them should give it no matter who wins. 

Still I hope the Dunkin' Donuts etc. get the distribution

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They said it was a media circus at the Superbowl

I really did not believe them though....

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So that you do not have enough to worry about.

` NEW YORK - For rabid fans of the New York Giants and New England Patriots, this Sunday's Super Bowl won't be just a game. It may be a health hazard. Heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies doubled in Munich, Germany, when that nation's soccer team played in World Cup matches, a new study reports. While history suggests European soccer fans can get a bit more worked up than the average American football fan, doctors think there are some valid warnings to be shared.

Super Bowl could be heart health hazard - Yahoo! News

You know, drinking too much water could kill you but we do not have health warnings on it.  Yes a person with a sedentary lifestyle could have a heart attack but so could I walking down a stairs.  Get over it people, When your time has come, it has come.  If you do not take care of yourself, expect a death when you least expect it.

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What was she watching??

Super Bowl Ads of Cartoonish Violence, Perhaps Reflecting Toll of War - New York Times:

"No commercial that appeared last night during Super Bowl XLI directly addressed Iraq, unlike a patriotic spot for Budweiser beer that ran during the game two years ago. But the ongoing war seemed to linger just below the surface of many of this year’s commercials."

I am not sure if I was watching the same game that this watcher was. Seems like some people will drag the war into anything. It is articles like this that mix things that do not belong together that really need to be stopped by the press if they want to maintain their objectivity.

Ever wonder what happens to the t-shirts that were made for the loosers of the Superbowl?

Far Away, Super Bowl’s Losers Will Be Champs - New York Times:

"The Super Bowl will end about 10 p.m. Sunday, and by 10:01 every player on the winning team — along with coaches, executives, family members and ball boys — could be outfitted in colorful T-shirts and caps proclaiming them champions.

The other set of championship gear — the 288 T-shirts and caps made for the team that did not win — will be hidden behind a locked door at Dolphin Stadium. By order of the National Football League, those items are never to appear on television or on eBay. They are never even to be seen on American soil.

They will be shipped Monday morning to a warehouse in Sewickley, Pa., near Pittsburgh, where they will become property of World Vision, a relief organization that will package the clothing in wooden boxes and send it to a developing nation, usually in Africa."

This is cool that they would do this. It would be just as easy to destroy them, but instead, someone has a shirt and cap to wear that needs them. Thanks for thinking of the other half of the world NFL.