Who are you and what have you done with Dave?
I'm actually really enjoying watching World Cup here. I mean, I watch World Cup when it's on but generally am indifferent to sports in general. But being here in England means that there's a lot of excitement around it. It's very different than big sporting events in the US. It's everywhere here and for the most part, people want to watch the ( Read more... )
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A question from the baffled German: why on Earth would anyone specifically want to watch the commercials? Are Super Bowl commercials somehow super special or something?
I always considered commercials to be something to endured. And what I saw of US commercials during our visit there, while interesting from a cultural diversity point of view, was no better than ours, and even more frequent!
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It's one of the single most-watched nights of TV in the US (possibly even the single most-watched night) with the most expensive advertising costs -- a 30-second spot costs $3,500,000 or more (so about of 2.600.000 €). There's even news coverage and analysis of the commercials in the newspapar and office talk is more likely to be about the commercials (and halftime show) than about the game itself (which is, from what I understand, usually dull).
Most regular TV commercials suck, but the Super Bowl ones are...less sucky.
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But "less sucky than regular commercials" somehow still doesn't sound like something I'd deliberately want to watch... *scratches head*
But then, there are whole TV shows about "the funniest commercials of the world" on German TV (or used to be, anyway - I haven't checked in a long while), and I don't feel any inclination to watch these, either, so I just might be the wrong target audience. :-P
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