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Super Bowl XLI Apple Ad?

geerlingguy said:
Instead of an Apple ad, we're getting Prince's (or is it still 'the artist formerly known as Prince?' The logo/stage thing looks ridiculous) lip-synch extravaganza. At least there won't be a Prince wardrobe malfunction... :rolleyes:

Edit: Oh, forgot to mention (for all you foreigners) - the game's actually pretty exciting, with all the rain and slippery pigskins...
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Lip sync? Don't think so. Looked pretty darn real to me.
 
iShak said:
nothin yet ...

but hey this american football is fun (yeah me a brit) .. quite enjoyin the show .. but this guy 'prince' is really takin a piss ... only if i could lay my hands on the bugger ... thought half time shows were meant to be good .. :(
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Well, they could all join hands around the field and sway in unison while singing "We all live in a yellow submarine".

I suppose you'd prefer that :D
 
HAHA. Another misleading add. It started out with:

"For the 30 first years, we've built the worlds leading..........................................trucks."


Grr. And it even took place in a garage or barn... one of them...
 
djellison said:
He looked like a 55 year old house wife from 1950's North East Britain.

Just bizarre.
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hahaha

anyway ... ipod made an appearance just now .. (nissan centra ad)

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flyinmac said:
Well, they could all join hands around the field and sway in unison while singing "We all live in a yellow submarine".

I suppose you'd prefer that :D
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LOL, followed by, "who ate all the pies..."
 
kildraik said:
Haha there was just a commercial on that had pics of timelines of computers that went from old supercomputers to desktops to laptops (the laptop was the only mac) then went to show a 12" iBook...

then it turned into an Acura commercial. Damnit I was ready to be amazed.

:(
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That might be a coca-cola advert, listed as "time line" here.

shikimo said:
Chundles said:
Geeze it looks funny with all that rain coming down, are they playing on synthetic because if that was here it'd be a mud bowl by now - no synthetic turf here.
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real turf in miami stadium. for sure. not sure why it isnt muddier, but i promise its real.
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I was under the impression American football was played only on astroturf. Must be an amazing drainage system.
 
A.F.K.A.P but Now Known as Prince

Sorry Guys , I think Prince rocked .... Maybe this means I'm not over the hill after all ;)
 
Steamie said:
Sorry Guys , I think Prince rocked .... Maybe this means I'm not over the hill after all ;)
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Geez. Agreed! He stood out there in the (purple) rain and played pretty damn well. Sounded good and seemed to be mostly into it.

Good showmanship.
 
wow prince was amazing eh! i thought it was great, and when he started purple rain i was like YES! and did you see all the fans just rush out onto the field? that was SIK!

so is the apple add coming now?
 
Hilda Ogden + $50k's worth of bad plastic surgery + pretending to play an electric guitar in torrential rain....priceless.

Anyhoo - the big guys have started running into one another again so I guess that's half time over :)

Doug
 
samh004 said:
That might be a coca-cola advert, listed as "time line" here.
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That link has a list of advertisers longer than the list that has already advertised, so it seems like it is a list of all of the advertisers for the whole game. Apple is not on the list.
 
samh004 said:
That might be a coca-cola advert, listed as "time line" here.



I was under the impression American football was played only on astroturf. Must be an amazing drainage system.
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nope...obviously all the indoor stadiums have some variety of astroturf, but thats way less than half. even seattles new retractable roof joint has real grass. there was a movement against astroturf about 10 years ago when some studies proved that leg-joint injuries are more prevalent on fake lawns...all the better for sports, IMO, which were meant to be played on the ground, not plastic.
 
samh004 said:
I was under the impression American football was played only on astroturf. Must be an amazing drainage system.
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Nope, played on both. League and Rugby are only played on real grass but somehow American Football players manage to play on astroturf - can't be all that fun getting pummelled into the ground only to find you've got plastic burns on your arms from the "grass."

3" an hour from the surface?! What is it just a big hole with a gridiron-painted net over it? That's really cool.

Wonder how it compares with the newly resurfaced SCG or MCG - they seem to drain like nothing else around. Mind you, neither city has seen 3" in years let alone an hour.... :eek:
 
djellison said:
Hilda Ogden + $50k's worth of bad plastic surgery + pretending to play an electric guitar in torrential rain....priceless.

Anyhoo - the big guys have started running into one another again so I guess that's half time over :)

Doug
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Pretending?

What is all this crud about lip syncing and now pretending to play?

He *was* playing. Watch it again - he didn't get everything right, and you heard that, and it was perfectly in sync.

Did anyone actually watch, or just assuming based on previous performers preference to lip sync and just go through the motions?
 
I don't know when Apple would even air an ad between all these CSI commercials...:rolleyes:
 
flyinmac said:
Well, I suppose what really did it in for me was back in Junior High.

Playing football was mandatory. You had no choice. It was the rule at the local school. They didn't give you any way out of it. All guys had to play football like it or not.

Well, I was willing to tolerate it, and gave it a shot.

All was fine until the coach put me behind the guy with the ball. We were supposed to count off, and then I'd signal him that I was ready for the ball.

Unfortunately, the mandatory signal was that I was supposed to pat his crotch between his legs.

Well, I refused, and told the guy I'd just tell him to give me the ball. Sorry, but guys in tights jumping on-top of each-other and patting each-other's balls (and I don't mean the one being thrown), just isn't for me.

So, I transferred.

I was not about to pat some guys balls every day. Sorry, that's it. I have to draw the line somewhere.
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Still early in the year, but file this one as a "funniest post" candidate.
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I really don't think apple will spend almost 3 million dollars unless they have something worth the expense. Something they could really bank on.

Forget watching football if you don't like football. Just surf for iPhone rumors like every other day.
 
bravedeer said:
new generation iPod. There's probably 20x people in the US who would be affected by an iPod commercial over an operating system commercial. Sorry but most of mac users don't get exicted over the OS. It's just a small group of tech geeks like us that do. So it'd be a waste of money...
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No new iPod will be announced until the iPhone has been launched. It's standard marketing practise to not confuse customers by multiple product launches across various market sectors.

As for no-one being excited about an OS, well normally I'd agree. But at the moment Apple will be wanting to respond to Windows Vista.
 
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