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07/02/2021 11:02 pm Â
1 hour of football and 3 hours of stupid commercials. this site is more entertaining
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08/02/2021 2:53 am Â
well said sir! Thats how it is on all of our commercial TV channels here in Australia, regardless of the program.
Always remembered the old late great Bob Hope quote "oh yeah TV commercials, they're the things the program keeps interrupting"!Â
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08/02/2021 7:28 am Â
1 hour of football and 3 hours of stupid commercials. this site is more entertaining
...and the halftime show SUCKED!
Zeeky Banutski
The People’s Republic of Maryland
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Bob Kroupa and Bob Kroupa reacted
08/02/2021 7:49 am Â
I'm not a football fan, but it's exciting for my home town area to have won, and the Stanley Cup too.
Retired in Dunedin, Florida.
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Paul Rouffa and Paul Rouffa reacted
08/02/2021 9:39 am Â
Didn't watch even a second of the game and certainly not a commercial either. Instead I enjoyed watching a movie that I've NOT seen since I was 14 years old in 1965. It was "Convicted" from 1950 starring Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, and Dorothy Malone. I enjoyed it and it was commercial free. Â
I remember when I was just a kid, of course like most folks back then that had TV, we only had 3 or four channels. Shows would be either a half-hour long with a break during a show for two commercials, then back to the show. If it was an hour-long program, we'd have four commercials. Â
I asked my Dad one time, "How come we have to have commercials during a program?", and his response was, "The commercials sponsor the show, so they pay to have their ad to be on". Made sense to me, because in those days TV programming was FREE!
However in today's world with TV having (seemingly) thousands of channels to choose from, and they are NO LONGER FREE, as we pay for Cable, Dish, or shows within those respective packages, and we now have as many as 14 or 15 commercials IN A ROW during a program! Â
And with but the rarest exception, I personally find EVERY commercial an aggravation. But hey, we're the ignorant ones because we PAY for the programing as well as the advertisers who pay to have their product aired. Â
So I enjoyed "Convicted" FREE without interruption. I had a good night! And hey, TV programs back in the day were far better than anything that is on the tube today.Â
George Schire
Oakdale, Minnesota
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08/02/2021 11:23 am Â
The Super Bowl had 25,000 real fans in a stadium that holds three times that amount. The NFL made 30,000 cardboard cutout fans to fill the empty seats and make the game look closer to capacity.
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The cutouts cost $100 each.
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Really? This is the way we have to live? Me thinks that the players are in for a pay cut. A deep one. The beginning of the end of sports as we know it?
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Not only that. The commercials sucked. And the half-time show gave me a headache.
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08/02/2021 12:11 pm Â
Well there were college basketball games on ya coulda watched!😂
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08/02/2021 1:18 pm Â
I cut the cable five years ago and have not regetted it for a moment. I didn't even know that Sunday was Super Bowl. I assume the overpaid players all "took the knee" again. I've read that the halftime show another boring spectacle full of the usual satantic illuminati symbolism. Â
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08/02/2021 5:26 pm Â
I love football and the NFL players are incredibly talented. I always watch Superbowl but never look at the half-time show and always mute the commercials; its the only way I can tolerate the entire spectacle. I rarely watch regular TV anymore (except MeTV) and prefer public television, Netflix and the other no-commercial options. The frequency, general quality and repetitiveness of modern commercials actually makes me angry, I'm embarrassed to say.
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