Author Topic: The AMERIQUEST MORTGAGE SUPER BOWL? (Read 394 times)

oboe · « **on:** February 06, 2005, 05:58:21 PM »

Looked to be a good matchup, but no thanks. The "Ameriquest Mortgage Super Bowl"? No thanks. Gotta draw the line somewhere I guess, and that was it for me.

Slash27 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 06, 2005, 06:12:54 PM »

I guess they couldnt just run a commercial.

Sandman · « **Reply #2 on:** February 06, 2005, 06:21:36 PM »

Who do you think will win, the Lincoln Financial Eagles or the Gillette Patriots?

Eagler · « **Reply #3 on:** February 06, 2005, 07:38:01 PM »

big money - makes the world go round..

oboe · « **Reply #4 on:** February 06, 2005, 08:54:05 PM »

Unfortunately. Big money has always been influential; but it just seems to be so much more brazen in its egotism nowadays.

Eagler · « **Reply #5 on:** February 06, 2005, 09:32:04 PM »

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Originally posted by oboe
Unfortunately. Big money has always been influential; but it just seems to be so much more brazen in its egotism nowadays.

you only have yourself to blame

after you figure out why it happened, who do you think allowed it to happen?

what was it ... 2.5 MILLION $$$ for each crappy 30 sec commercial, over $83,000 a sec, A SECOND!??!!

no one to blame but ourselves

Sandman · « **Reply #6 on:** February 06, 2005, 09:48:01 PM »

Well... if you're watching network television, you're not a consumer. You're product.

DoKGonZo · « **Reply #7 on:** February 06, 2005, 11:14:52 PM »

Hey ... the SuperBowl ain't all that easy on the corporations either. I mean, they gotta give up 15 minutes per hour of advertising time to let the damn game be played. Think of what that costs them!

Halo · « **Reply #8 on:** February 06, 2005, 11:28:55 PM »

Don't be mean to the sponsors and advertisers. They (gag) deserve (hack, cough) to have their names plastered all over shrines and national icons and major community events.

After all, they are kind enough to us dim-witted dolts that they ram their commercials down our throats and every other available orifice not one but 20 or 30 times a program. Repeating each commercial many times is cheaper than producing different ones. And repetition makes sure us stupidos get the point!

It won't be long before the Atlas Machinery Company Fifth Fleet of the U.S. Navy, the Amalgamated Products World War IIg, and the ClipYou Stationery White House.

And who wouldn't want to be buried in the Dipster Diapers National Cemetery?

But hey, watching the game on cable TV didn't cost a cent beyond the thousands for the TV and sound system and the hundred or so a month for the service. What a bargain.

They who sell the toys make the rules of the game.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 07, 2005, 02:48:36 AM »

I dunno, I think an institution devoted to massive debt is an appropriate sponsor for our main religious holiday.

oboe · « **Reply #10 on:** February 07, 2005, 07:34:57 AM »

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Originally posted by Eagler
you only have yourself to blame

after you figure out why it happened, who do you think allowed it to happen?

what was it ... 2.5 MILLION $$$ for each crappy 30 sec commercial, over $83,000 a sec, A SECOND!??!!

no one to blame but ourselves

Perhaps. But I turned the game off after I was so shocked and disappointed to hear it referred to as "The Ameriquest Mortgage Super Bowl". It was the first Super Bowl I have not seen since I started watching pro football in the early 70s. I saw it happening with college bowl games (the "Tostitos Fiesta Bowl"??!!) but the loss of the sanctity of Super Bowl name was the one that really drove it home for me.

I have noticed this season while watching some games that the game action is already in progress when we are returned from the commerical break. Sometimes it's an extra point or a punt return that is clipped but nevertheless its football action that is not broadcast. And that is just plain wrong.

I have always enjoyed sitting down on Sunday afternoon or Monday night to watch a good game, but I tell you I think I might be done after this. It just made me see how insidious the whole advertising world is. btw, I'm not the target market for Lexus, Cadillac, Viagra, Cialis, Enfamil or whatever so it was always lost money on me anyway. Most of the time they never tell you what the drug is for, and the list of side effects is often longer than the original commercial message. No wonder drugs are so expensive.

I have friends who, after their TV broke, replaced it with a TV monitor (no broadcast receiver inside). They hooked it up to their DVD player and now their TV-type entertainment is limited to renting movies. I'm mulling that plan over pretty seriously.

Eagler · « **Reply #11 on:** February 07, 2005, 07:44:59 AM »

LOL

ad sales is the way of the world

doesn't your DVD have previews for other DVD's?

you can run but you can't hide

buy a tivo, wait 45 minutes after the start of a program and zip thru the comercials - it'll save 15 minutes of ur life for every hour you send in front of the boob tube

Meatwad · « **Reply #12 on:** February 07, 2005, 08:40:46 AM »

This may of just been on my channel, but I didnt see any commercials al all during the game. Just straight through football.