Super Bowl - A Celebration of Excess
Fast food not fast enough for you? Just pull the tab on this and you are happily on your way to gastronomical heaven faster than you can say ?myocardial infarction.?
Yes - it is the Cheeseburger in a Can! Just what your arteries ordered!
After the mind has stopped reeling at the thought process involved in coming up with this latest in a long line of psychotic food treats like Pogo flavored pancakes, the deep fried Mars bar and anything from Jack in the Box, you've got to wonder, will it ever stop?
And the answer is of course, no.
Excess like this will never go out of style while there is that annual celebration that codifies it like no other event, the Super Bowl.
An estimated 1-billion people will tune in worldwide to this super spectacle, meaning there will be about 900-million who have no clue nor care what is happening on the field, but simply want be in on the happening.
Bigger than any other single day sporting event in the world, commercial time this year set back advertisers up to $3-million for a 30 second spot. What are they going to be selling?
Excess of course. If you ate all the fast food advertised during last year's Super Bowl, you would consume 3325 calories, 178 grams of fat and 6910 mg of sodium - and then you would be dead.
However, fast food is not all they are selling. Media Buyer reports 80% of American moms watch the Super Bowl, 60% of which are only watching for the ads. In total an estimated 158 million American's will see Super Bowl ads before, during, or after the game. According to the Retail Advertising and Marketing Association, those viewers will spend a total of $9.5 billion on Super Bowl-related merchandise. That's $60 from every man woman and child in the U.S..
As for those watching the game live, some want to be part of history so bad they are buying tickets online for $20,000.
A seat.
That's a seat in the stands by the way, no comp meal or luxury box and not even necessarily on the 50-yard line. For $20K you think that they'd get a seat on the bench.
As for TV, a record of 94.08 million viewers watched the Dallas Cowboys beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in January of 1996.
This year's killer draw is pretty much guaranteed to blow that staggering number away. The Patriots are attempting to become the first undefeated NFL team since the 1972 Dolphins, but the only way they can get to perfecto-land is by beating the New York Giants, who are from the largest television market in the country.
Then there was that game played on the last night of the regular season, where the Giants gave Tom Brady and New England all they could take leading 28-16 in the third quarter, the Patriots' largest deficit all year. In the end, the Patriots had to storm back to win 38-35 to keep their unbeaten streak alive. 34.5 million people saw that game, the most-watched NFL regular season game since 1990.
The final episode of M*A*S*H in 1983 was seen by 106 million Americans. Hawkeye et al's previously perceived untouchable record may well be in jeopardy.
So, in every which way, this is one big frikin' game! Who is gonna win?
The Patriots.
The reason is simple. The Giants did play the Patriots tough in that regular season meeting, but they haven't really blown out anybody - anybody of note anyway. All their big wins have been close games indicating they have to have pretty much everything go their way to come out on top.
Being thus far perfect, New England has demonstrated a season long ability to win, and on most occasions, win big. When things go their way - it's a blow out. When things don't, Bill Belichick finds a way for them to win anyway (legal or not).
Since this is the Super Bowl, with all its super hype, let's assume both teams come out a little tense. If that's the case, the Giants don't have a chance. That said the Giants appear not too have their hats screwed on too tight, so they should keep it within that huge 12-point spread.
Patriots 34, Giants 24.
The Super Bowl is a major driver for everything that is over the top, like the Cheeseburger in a Can, whose introduction may well be marking the beginning of the end of humanity...
?but what a way to go.
Cheers ? Gavin McDougald ? AKA Couch
Bet early Super Bowl Odds now!
Fast food not fast enough for you? Just pull the tab on this and you are happily on your way to gastronomical heaven faster than you can say ?myocardial infarction.?
Yes - it is the Cheeseburger in a Can! Just what your arteries ordered!
After the mind has stopped reeling at the thought process involved in coming up with this latest in a long line of psychotic food treats like Pogo flavored pancakes, the deep fried Mars bar and anything from Jack in the Box, you've got to wonder, will it ever stop?
And the answer is of course, no.
Excess like this will never go out of style while there is that annual celebration that codifies it like no other event, the Super Bowl.
An estimated 1-billion people will tune in worldwide to this super spectacle, meaning there will be about 900-million who have no clue nor care what is happening on the field, but simply want be in on the happening.
Bigger than any other single day sporting event in the world, commercial time this year set back advertisers up to $3-million for a 30 second spot. What are they going to be selling?
Excess of course. If you ate all the fast food advertised during last year's Super Bowl, you would consume 3325 calories, 178 grams of fat and 6910 mg of sodium - and then you would be dead.
However, fast food is not all they are selling. Media Buyer reports 80% of American moms watch the Super Bowl, 60% of which are only watching for the ads. In total an estimated 158 million American's will see Super Bowl ads before, during, or after the game. According to the Retail Advertising and Marketing Association, those viewers will spend a total of $9.5 billion on Super Bowl-related merchandise. That's $60 from every man woman and child in the U.S..
As for those watching the game live, some want to be part of history so bad they are buying tickets online for $20,000.
A seat.
That's a seat in the stands by the way, no comp meal or luxury box and not even necessarily on the 50-yard line. For $20K you think that they'd get a seat on the bench.
As for TV, a record of 94.08 million viewers watched the Dallas Cowboys beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in January of 1996.
This year's killer draw is pretty much guaranteed to blow that staggering number away. The Patriots are attempting to become the first undefeated NFL team since the 1972 Dolphins, but the only way they can get to perfecto-land is by beating the New York Giants, who are from the largest television market in the country.
Then there was that game played on the last night of the regular season, where the Giants gave Tom Brady and New England all they could take leading 28-16 in the third quarter, the Patriots' largest deficit all year. In the end, the Patriots had to storm back to win 38-35 to keep their unbeaten streak alive. 34.5 million people saw that game, the most-watched NFL regular season game since 1990.
The final episode of M*A*S*H in 1983 was seen by 106 million Americans. Hawkeye et al's previously perceived untouchable record may well be in jeopardy.
So, in every which way, this is one big frikin' game! Who is gonna win?
The Patriots.
The reason is simple. The Giants did play the Patriots tough in that regular season meeting, but they haven't really blown out anybody - anybody of note anyway. All their big wins have been close games indicating they have to have pretty much everything go their way to come out on top.
Being thus far perfect, New England has demonstrated a season long ability to win, and on most occasions, win big. When things go their way - it's a blow out. When things don't, Bill Belichick finds a way for them to win anyway (legal or not).
Since this is the Super Bowl, with all its super hype, let's assume both teams come out a little tense. If that's the case, the Giants don't have a chance. That said the Giants appear not too have their hats screwed on too tight, so they should keep it within that huge 12-point spread.
Patriots 34, Giants 24.
The Super Bowl is a major driver for everything that is over the top, like the Cheeseburger in a Can, whose introduction may well be marking the beginning of the end of humanity...
?but what a way to go.
Cheers ? Gavin McDougald ? AKA Couch
Bet early Super Bowl Odds now!
