Top 10 List of The Best Super Bowl Commercials

This Sunday is like no other for football fans, it is Super Bowl Sunday. Even if your favorite team has been eliminated, like my San Diego Chargers, you still can have a good time at a Super Bowl Party. There are a few things about this event that separate it from a typical Sunday Football day. For starters, you have the host site which goes to great lengths to showcase the city, and promote tourism. The weather sometimes can have an adverse affect,  unless you live in the host city and don’t want everyone moving there because other cities have horrible weather (see Pittsburgh).

The best thing about the Super Bowl from a home viewer’s perspective are the commercials. The fact that they spend over a million dollars for a thirty second commercial, you expect greatness. People talk about the commercials more than they do about the actual game most of the time. Here are my Top 10 Favorite Super Bowl Commercials:

1. Budweiser holds the record for consistancy. I will just say whether it is a group of frogs croaking Bud-Wei-Ser or the “WhaaaaaaSup” guys, they make us stop talking and watch their spots…even if you have a cold Coors Light in your hand at the time.

2. Coke ran the “Mean Joe Greene” ad in 1979, but you can’t argue that this ad still holds up. The little kid in the tunnel gives Mean Joe Greene his coke, and in return Joe tosses him his jersey. Classic.

3. Pepsi had a beauty with the “Two Kids” staring over a fence as Cindy Crawford drinks her Pepsi. That ad would make you switch from Coke to Pepsi.

4. McDonalds “The Showdown” with Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, where they had to call the shot in a shooting contest for a Big Mac. For a long time after this ad ran in 1993, people still would say the catch phrase “Nothing but net”.

5. EDS “Cat Herders” was just so ridiculous that it was hard not to like it. Cowboys, rough and leathery talking about the difficult job of being a cat herder. Brilliant.

6. E*Trade – Money coming out of the wazoo. Somewhat gross thinking about someone with money coming out of the wazoo, but it worked. We just love our potty humor.

7. Monster.com – “When I Grow Up” ad. You would think the kids would say when I grow up, I want to be a doctor or race car driver, but they respond with “I want to be a brown nose” and “I want to be in middle management”. Sometimes the truth hurts, but it is still very funny.

8. Pepsi’s Diner ad (1995) where the Coke driver and the Pepsi driver sit side by side at a diner. They share pictures of their kids, while Get Together is playing on the jukebox. Then they trade sips of their drinks, and the Coke driver won’t give the Pepsi back. Things get ugly from there.

9. Master Lock ran an ad in 1974 where they shot a padlock hanging from the center of a target, and shot a bullet through the center of the lock, and the lock absorbed the blow and held tight. Simple, yet effective advertising.

10. Budweiser Clydesdale commercials. They tug on your emotions, and they get better each year. They are the King of Beer Advertisers.

Those are my favorites, what are yours? Don’t forget to watch the Super Bowl this weekend, and keep an eye open for the best commercials this year. Watch the video of the Top 10 Super Bowl Commercials from 2008 here on MiraMesa.Com.