{"id":268,"date":"2008-02-04T09:11:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T14:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2008-02-04T09:11:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T14:11:31","slug":"super-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Super Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summary is for the first half of the game only, I presume that the second half was similar.  I don&#8217;t know, I didn&#8217;t watch.   I saw a football game once.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(<\/em><\/strong><em>The following list came from Jan <\/em><strong><em>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u25cf 5:15 (CST),  New England came out of the tunnel    &#8211; 5 commercials followed<br \/>\n\u25cf  Star Spangled Banner sung            &#8211; 7 commercials followed<br \/>\n\u25cf  Coin toss                    &#8211; 2 commercials followed<br \/>\n\u25cf  Teams come onto the field; no action        &#8211; 1 commercial<br \/>\n\u25cf Kick off; with 14:55 left first qtr.        &#8211; 1 commercial<br \/>\n\u25cf Player down with 10:47 left first qtr.        &#8211; 3 commercials<br \/>\n\u25cf Field goal with 6:12 left first qtr.        &#8211; 4 commercials<br \/>\n\u25cf  Kick off; New York to New England        &#8211; 3 commercials<br \/>\n\u25cf  End of first quarter                &#8211; 5 commercials<br \/>\n\u25cf  NE touchdown with 14:57 left 2nd qtr.        &#8211; 4 commercials<br \/>\n\u25cf  Kick off to NY                    &#8211; 4 commercials<br \/>\n\u25cf  Interception with 11:53 left 2nd qtr.        &#8211; 5 commercials<br \/>\n\u25cf  Giants stop NE with 10:00 left &#8211;            5 commercials<br \/>\n\u25cf  With 8:36 left 2nd qtr.                 &#8211; 3 commercials<br \/>\n\u25cf  With 6:59 left 2nd qtr.                 &#8211; 3 commercials<br \/>\n\u25cf  With 5:00 left 2nd qtr.                 &#8211; 1 commercial<br \/>\n\u25cf  With 2:30 left 2nd qtr.                 &#8211; 5 commercials<br \/>\n\u25cf  Giants punt to NE with 1:50 left        &#8211; 3 commercials<br \/>\n\u25cf  Time out Giants with 1:35 left            &#8211; 2 commercials<br \/>\n\u25cf  Time out NE with 0:59 left            &#8211; 1 commercial<br \/>\n\u25cf  HALF TIME<\/p>\n<p>They said there were 64 commercials in all; each must have  played at least once during the first half with some playing twice.  Of course, I did not keep track until the teams started out of the tunnel&#8230; can you imagine how many played before that in the pre-game show???<\/p>\n<p>If you <strong>want <\/strong>to see all the commercials, you can go <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.aol.com\/nfl\/superbowlads\" title=\"SB Ads\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks Jan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, what is claimed to be the biggest sports broadcast of the the year consists of more commercials than game time.  <em><strong>This does not compute!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summary is for the first half of the game only, I presume that the second half was similar. I don&#8217;t know, I didn&#8217;t watch. I saw a football game once. (The following list came from Jan ) \u25cf 5:15 (CST), New England came out of the tunnel &#8211; 5 commercials followed \u25cf Star Spangled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curent-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}