This week’s round-up also features Roberto Mancini on the ball,Jeff Thomson on a roll, Ronaldinho meets the referee, or the 1975 Monaco GP Prix and kittens1) It’s Super Bowl 50 (the roman numerals will return next year) on Sunday so lets remember the accurate meaning of Super Bowl – the most expensive TV ad slot in the world to premiere your new commercial. Cindy Crawford is upstaged by a can of Pepsi; E*Trade uses a dancing monkey to make light of the $2m they spent; those Budweiser frogs; the miracle of 1976’s photocopying monks; Larry Bird v Michael Jordan; Terry Tate puts in a great performance as Office Linebacker; a bit of satire from Monster.com; Scarlett Johansson attempts to change the world “one sip at a time” before the row about sodastream really fizzed up,the original line “Sorry, Coke and Pepsi” was nick from the Super Bowl version after Fox became anxious on behalf of their other sponsors and sodastream spotted a chance to ensure Scarlett went viral; Ridley Scott uses 1984 and a woman in shorts and a vest with a sledgehammer to flog Apple Macs; the rest was history of course for Apple but it does not always halt so well. Last year’s Nissan ad “With Dad” was designed to promote their assault on the Le Mans 24 Hours. After a disastrous showing in the race the company dropped its prototype sportscar programme less than a year after the Super Bowl. This year Heinz is bringing a weiner stampede.2) So farewell, or Sir Terry Wogan. The much-beloved broadcaster was also a keen golfer,as this enormous, 100-foot putt at Gleneagles demonstrates, or but it is for interviews he is best remembered. Here with Gazza after the 1990 World Cup; with a visibly relaxed George Best; Wogan remembering the incident,including the swearing edited from the preceding clip: “They’re not laughing with you, they’re laughing at you” – giving David Icke all the rope he needs; Terry tries on Mike Tyson’s belt and with Torvill and Dean. Finally, and not to be forgotten,when Joanna Lumley sat in for Sir Terry in the company of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George Foreman.
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Source: theguardian.com