The Super Bowl always provides us with interesting commericals.  Here is a list of some of the Best and Worst this year.

The Best-

Snickers — Betty White

Any commercial with Betty White and Abe Vigoda is a winner in our book no matter what it’s about. In this case, the spunky Golden Girl is playing pickup football with the guys, though she’s struggling. “Man, you’ve been riding me all day,” she says before eating a Snickers bar that not only transforms her into a regular guy but also raises Vigoda from the dead. What, “Fish” is still alive? Twenty-eight years after People Magazine erroneously reported his demise, the answer is yes!

Coca Cola — The Simpsons

The Simpson and Coke. Perfect together. Who wouldn’t like to see Monty Burns lose all his money? But the goodness of Coke makes for feel-good ending for all. Big props for a Spider-pig cameo on the swings. –

Hyundai – Brett Favre

OK, Hyundai’s commercials are getting better (with as many as they’re running, the odds are at least ONE had to be good). As much as we’re all getting sick of Brett Favre’s indecision every year, obviously he has a sense of humor about. I thought it was funny when he was saying most of the fans are younger than him, and that was before I noticed it was the 2020 MVP award he was winning. I thought he was talking about the current season. Because he’s already old.

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The Worst -

Focus on the Family — Tebows

There was a lot of controversy over whether this pro-life ad from Christian group Focus on the Family should have run. Well, if the decision was based solely on quality of the ad, then it shouldn’t have run. Mrs. Tebow mumbled and the ad was just lame.

Doritos — It’s a miracle

A guy pretends to be dead so he can eat Doritos while enclosed in a coffin. Huh? Not funny and really disgusting.

Denny’s — Free Grand Slam

Denny’s used this spot to announce its free Grand Slam breakfast promotion. A warning is issued to egg-layers that this will be “a bad day to be a chicken.” The message may be a little scrambled here, but hey, a free meal is a free meal. Eggs over easy, please.

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(Newser) – The Super Bowl is about a lot more than just football, beer, and funny commercials—it also offers a chance to make some of the weirdest prop bets ever. Sam Greenspan lists 11 especially crazy ones—all of which he bet on—on 11 Points:

• National anthem: How long will it take Carrie Underwood to sing? The over/under is 1:42.
• Superdome: How many times will announcers mention Hurricane Katrina between kickoff and the final whistle? The fine print: Only the exact phrase “Hurricane Katrina” counts.
• Basketball connection: Will LeBron James make more free throws on Saturday than there are points in the first quarter of the Super Bowl?
• Kim Kardashian: You know CBS will show her—but how many live pictures, during the game itself?
• Pete Townshend: How many times will the Who guitarist do his legendary windmill move on camera?
• MVP: The choices for whom he’ll thank first include coach, no one, family, God, and teammates.
• Kim Kardashian, part 2: Will her measurements (36-24-39) or her boyfriend Reggie Bush’s total yardage be larger?

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Text messages may be the biggest ripoff in America. It costs 1/3 of a cent for carriers to send a message, but they can hit you with a 20-cent charge on pay-per-text plans. That’s a markup of 6,500%. More bad deals from CNNMoney:

• Movie popcorn, 900%: No surprise here, as theaters make little from ticket sales. “I consider myself working in concessions, not movies,” is a common refrain of owners.

• ‘”Free” credit reports: Just try it. The percentage markup between “free” and $179 a year doesn’t compute, even if you have advanced calculus.
• Advil, 60%: Brand names are nice, “but the cheaper stuff works just as well.” Apparently, the name and “sleek packaging” work.
• Restaurant wine, 500%: One restaurant explains away the difference by touting a “beverage team” that makes sure “the quality of the wine and experience exceeds our guests’ expectations.”
• Textbooks: From 1986 to 2004, prices increased at “twice the rate of annual inflation.”

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Renegade and often naked incoming Mass. Republican Senator Scott Brown now has another feather in his cap:  he has his own action figure!

Wow….first Evel Knieval…and now Scott Brown.

Makes ya proud to be a ‘Murican, don’t it?

Move over, He-Man. Take a seat, She-Ra. Sen.-elect Scott Brown is the new superhero in town. 

Seizing on Brown’s hero status within the GOP following his upset victory in Massachusetts, a custom dolls company has created a new action figure modeled after the truck-driving Republican lawmaker. 

The Boston Herald’s Inside Track column reported that Herobuilders.com will release the Brown action figure on Tuesday. 

“He’s a man of action who stepped into the ring, 30 points down, and in just one month does the impossible,” Emil Vicale, head of the Connecticut-based company, told the Herald. 

The Beltway buff will come in three different versions. 

The “Scott Brown Everyman Action Figure” dresses Brown in jeans, a T-shirt and sneakers. The “2012 Executive” Brown dresses him in a professional, presidential head-to-toe suit. 

And, for “adults only,” the “Cosmo Man Anatomically Correct” Brown dresses the incoming senator in … well, nothing except for a tastefully placed fig leaf. That one is a send-up to Brown’s infamous 1982 Cosmopolitan photo shoot. 

The company specializes in action figures of celebrities and has a full line of politically themed ones — including President Obama, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

 Loveland kicked-off its world-famous Valentine re-mailing program Monday at the Loveland Chamber of Commerce.

Volunteers started stamping Valentines from around the world with a special postmark, which is redesigned each year.

In order to have a letter delivered in time for Valentine’s Day, the deadlines are as follows:

- Feb. 4 for re-mailing to U.S. military overseas or to international destinations

- Feb. 9 for re-mailing within the U.S.

- Feb. 12 for re-mailing within Colorado.

Loveland says Colorado residents can also drop off pre-stamped envelopes at King Soopers and City Market stores which have a Loveland Valentine re-mailing box, at any location in Loveland with a Valentine re-mailing boxes or in the red Valentine mail boxes located inside the lobby of both post offices in Loveland.

He’s been grilled by Congress and blasted by critics, but the chief executive ofGoldman Sachsmay soon have $100 million reasons to smile.

Lloyd Blankfein, who leads the world’s richest investment bank, stands to collect an eye-popping $100 million bonus in defiance of President Obama, according to bankers meeting in Davos, Switzerland, for theWorld Economic Forum.

The prospect of a $100 million bonus would dwarf the $67.9 million Blankfein collected in 2007. It also would come after Obama called such payments “shameful.”

Goldman Sachs refused to comment, but will have to report the pay of its top executives by the end of next month.

 Here is an idea for the Board of Directors at Goldman-why don’t you go ahead and save some of the 100 million dollar bonus….stick it in a vault somewhere .. and then NEXT TIME you drive your company to the brink of the disaster and you need money to save it, you won’t need to borrow the money from ME.

The prank was set up perfectly. A high school girls’ basketball coach in Kansas was told he’d win tickets to the Final Four if he hit a half-court shot while blindfolded. The crowd was instructed to scream wildly when his attempt inevitably failed (because, really, that shot is nearly impossible) so the coach would think the shot went in. For an instant ,he’d think he was Final-Four-bound and then the joke would be revealed. There was just one problem, though: He made it.

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Former NBA player Paul Shirley offers up some harsh words of advice to the folks in Haiti including the suggestion to “use condoms once in a while”.

WOW!

Mr. Shirley?  That sound you’re hearing is the karma police coming for you!

His complete rant here.

Bet it wasn’t anywhere NEAR this cool….or this ridiculous…

(Newser) – Diddy’s son Justin Combs—whose middle name is Dior, by the way—got a $350,000 luxury Maybach car (and, of course, $10,000 to donate to charity) for his 16th birthday this weekend. But that’s not over the top at all—at least not when compared to the other goodies celebrity teens have snagged—finds The Frisky:

• Crystal Audigier: Got two cars for her 16th birthday from daddy Christian.

• Soulja Boy: Got a tour bus for his 19th birthday, from 50 Cent.
• Miley Cyrus: Received the traditional “Sweet 16 Recording Studio” from Billy Ray.
• Joe Jonas: Snagged a motorcycle with sidecar when he turned 19.

For the complete list—why in the world did Frances Bean Cobain’s 16th birthday gift have to do with suicide?—click here.