Archive for February, 2009

As regular readers of this blog know, I’m a big fan of good advertising. Ironically, the “Super Bowl of Advertising” is…um…the Super Bowl itself. In fact, there are quite a number of people who watch the game, not for the game, but for the ads. This year, I have to admit, I’m kinda torn. While I’m a die-hard Cowboys fan (in spite of players like T.O. and other crybabies, and the embarrassment that is Jerry Jones), I’ve loved the Steelers since I was a kid. I grew up in Shreveport, the home town of Terry Bradshaw. While Terry is almost a decade older than I am, we both had the same high school history teacher (and consider this a grok shout-out to Martha Watson, wherever you are). Terry used to show up several times a year, to visit Ms. Watson, which, for a high school kid, was like having royalty descend on your school. By that time, he’d been with the Steelers for a few years. (I actually got to see him play an exhibition game at the start of his rookie year, in Shreveport, against the then-Boston Patriots.) At the time, he was still a couple of years away from the first of his two Super Bowl rings. So, for no better reason than I like my fellow Shreveporter Bradshaw, I have to pull for the Steelers. On the other hand, I’ve always felt sorry for the Cardinals. From the time when they used to be a part of the Cowboy’s division, the NFC East, the Cardinals have, historically, been a league joke/doormat/afterthought. Not today. With the “on any given Sunday” axiom in the NFL, it’s possible – although not likely – that the league’s perennial patsies Could Go All The Way. Stay tuned. Read the rest of this entry »