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The Top 5 Super Bowl Ads of 2014


I have to admit that this Super Bowl was sort of a pathetic game because it the Seattle Seahawks demolished the Denver Broncos 43-8. The match was a blowout. Seattle's defense won the championship, I mean, no question about it. The whole team was on fire and was totally prepared for the game. I mean, Malcolm Smith, a linebacker, was the MVP for the Super Bowl.

But, however, everybody watching the Super Bowl on television are excited to see the advertisements. It was kind of a mixed year for advertisements, but I did find 5 very good commercials which are different from each other in terms of tone and the target audience. Here they are:

5. KIA

I don't know why not many people love the commercial, but I thought it was entertaining and funny at the same time. Laurence Fishburne basically reprises his role of Morpheus from The Matrix to perform something unexpected towards the end. The advertisement basically just focuses on how cool the car is.

4. Microsoft

There were a lot of inspirational advertisements centering on a soldier coming home in a Budweiser Ad and cancer awareness in a Toyota ad, I recall. But, I chose the Microsoft ad because the commercial shows us how people with disabilities are able to not lose hope but to live with the help of advanced technology. It shows gratitude towards the engineers' and computer scientists' hard work on how we are today.

3. Cheerios

I don't know what is wrong with everybody commenting the negative aspects of an interracial family. It's just a damn commercial. The commercial is cute, but I did like the payoff at the end of the commercial of how their daughter was bargaining in exchange for an additional member of the family. Who eats Cheerios? Families, right? So, the ad is geared towards families in general.

2. Radio Shack

I recognize some of the people in the ad but there were moments in this Radio Shack ad that were just downright hilarious. So, the whole set-up was basically a homage to the famous people and fictional characters in the 1980s trying to get their own Radio Shack back since most of the equipment is obsolete. But, again, this was a funny commercial.

1. Budweiser

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will admit, as an owner of a dog, that this ad got to me. Let's think about this commercial for a second. How are they selling this advertisement encouraging people to get beer? What's the mascot of Budweiser? A Clydesdale. So, there is a Clydesdale in a commercial forming a friendship with a puppy. They become BEST BUDS. I mean, best buddies can have a beer when watching a game or having a conversation. However, we all learned that a puppy will get anybody sold in a commercial. But, I thought it was the best out of the ads, but, marginally over Radio Shack's ad.

Honorable Mentions:

Budweiser

We always pray and want any soldier to come home.

Audi

The moments with Sarah McLachlan just had me laughing.

Volkswagen

I guess we know who will benefit from an actual customer reaching 100,000 miles in a Volkswagen. Good job, engineers!

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