The St. Louis Cardinals are my favorite baseball team.. I would never root for another team.. But I don’t know what the hell they’re trying to accomplish with these commercials. Isringhausen will eat your hot dog? What’s that got to do with playing like a Cardinal?

This next video is a little better. What is Rick Ankiel?:

If you figure out the point of this video, let me know. Fredbird working out with the team:

This is sort of a Cardinal and the egg situation. Did they make these shitty “commercials” in anticipation of a bad season, or are they gonna have a bad season because of these shitty commercials? Too late for this season but next year the Cards need to ask the Twins to help them out in the promo department.

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I thought the Shaquille O’Neal as a jockey commercial during the Super Bowl was one of the better commercials.. Based on the visual of big ass Shaq riding a horse.. I like to think of Shaq being a jockey as a metaphor. The horse actually represents Dwyane Wade or Steve Nash.. And the finish line represents the NBA championship.. Meaning, the only way Shaq gets the prize is on the back of somebody else.

Check out how the conversation that Steve Nash and Leandro Barbosa will be having whenever Shaq puts on his new Suns uniform:

Tags: Shaquille O’Neal, Steve Nash, Dwyane Wade, Leandro Barbosa, NBA, youtube, commercials, utube

Justin Timberlake has teamed up with Pepsi and Amazon to giveaway a boatload of prizes. I guess JT served his Super Bowl suspension for the wardrobe malfunction and is now welcome back in the club. Janet Jackson? Probably not.

The game and the commercials are what will be talked about on Monday. The commercials have been prettay shittay the last couple of years. Seeing Justin Timberlake repeatedly deliver his package to the mailbox post was good for some cheap laughs.. But is it good enough to win you any money?

Which Super Bowl commercial will have a higher rating on USA Today’s annual Ad Meter?
Budweiser 1/2
Go Daddy.com 3/1
Pepsi 6/1
McDonald’s 9/1
Victoria’s Secret 8/1
Other 2/1

Victoria’s Secret would seem like a good bet..

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You can barely get through a commercial break without seeing Peyton Manning. He’s hawking anything moving. His endorsement deals have Manning signing off on cars, insurance, gatorade, cellphones, and hospitals. Peyton’s motto seems to be “You make it, I’ll promote it…For money.” I can’t knock him because it’s paying off.

He earned $13 million in endorsements in 2007, a 13 percent jump from $11.5 million last year and a figure good enough to place Manning 9th among U.S. sports celebrities and first in the National Football League.

Peyton Manning seems like a swell guy, and I’m glad he’s gettin money, but why is he the most marketable guy in the NFL? You would think that Tom Brady and LaDainian Tomlinson would be more Madison Avenue friendly.. As a matter of fact, on the surface you’d think anybody short of Michael Vick would be better at slangin product than Peyton Manning. You’d be wrong. I’m no fan of his pre-snap histrionics, but #18 is money when he’s in front of the camera for cash.

Manning endorsements now top $13M. Courtesy of the Indy Star

Tags: Peyton Manning, NFL, Indianapolis Colts, Endorsements

After checking out the commercials by the Minnesota Twins and the Toronto Blue Jays, the Texas Rangers decided to drop a few of their own. Let’s go to the video tape:

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That was a commercial for a baseball team? Ok Texas, you’re off to a bad start. Let’s give it another try.

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The kid falling over was funny but what’s the point of the commercial? Let’s give the Rangers one last chance.

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Better than the first two but still far from good. The biggest problem I have is the lack of star power. Where are the players? I would say that the commercials are killing attendance, but Seattle had better commercials and they’re barely pulling more people than Texas. The Twins and Blue Jays fall behind the Rangers in the attendance standings and they both had solid spots. The Rangers better enjoy the fans now because nobody’s coming out to the yard after the fire sale.

Part of being a big time athlete are the endorsements you get. There’s the shoes, sodas, and video games. Everybody can’t be “on the cover” so that leads to athletes teaming up businesses in the local community.

Brian Dawkins seems excited about his opportunity:

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I’m an Eagles fan but that’s hard to watch. Here’s Bernie Kosar slangin add-on heat pumps.

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I guarantee Charlie Frye is trying to order an add-on heat pump as I type this. Bernie’s a pretty bad actor, but he nailed the “it’s pure comfort”/toss ball to self part of the commercial.

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If you only take one positive from the NBA playoffs this year it should be that advertising works. I don’t have the ratings from the latest airing of TBS’ “House of Payne”, but episode 1 did incredibly well and the 2nd episode was basic cable’s #1 sitcom telecast of all time. OF ALL TIME. In fairness, I have never seen the show, and I have nothing against anybody that has anything to do with the program BUT.. Are you serious? “House of Payne”?!? Did all of those spots during TNT’s NBA broadcast drive the nation to watch that show? Was there a drawing for $500 million bucks during the middle of the broadcast?

I won’t judge a book by it’s cover but I’ll judge a tv show by it’s commercials. To put it nicely, the commercials sucked. I thought they were supposed to highlight the good parts of a show with commercials. HOP ads made me cringe. The commercials made me set a tivo reminder not to watch TBS the entire day that the show airs… And I don’t care what the hell the rest of you are watching, I won’t be tuning in for “House of Payne”.. I’ll stop short of saying I’ll never watch because the show’s creator Tyler Perry got TBS to sign up for 100 episodes… There is a God. And he loves him some Tyler Perry.

If HOP is pulling numbers for TBS, what’s a show produced by Kenny Smith and Jamie Foxx gonna do? You can listen to Kenny talking about the new show here.

TBS and Tyler Perry Brings Major “Payne”. Courtesy of EUR Web

Kenny Smith Interview. Courtesy of Sports Interview

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