The Obligatory Super Bowl Post

It's Super Bowl Monday.  The day when every half-wit in America gets to play creative director -- including bloggers.

In order to keep my contrarian credentials, I'm not going to talk about the advertising.

Okay, maybe just a little.

A few observations.

• When does John Madden get back?

• Loved Sean Payton's guts 

• Carrie Underwood missed the note on "...brave" by about 30 yards

• The Who? Really? Glad to see the old formula still holding up -- the bigger the laser show, the worse the music.

• The only spot that made me laugh out loud took 25 minutes to shoot and consists of three people sitting on a sofa -- Letterman, Winfrey, Leno.

• GoDaddy continued its run of alarming witlessness.

• Looks like another good year at the movies for morons. 

• US Census advertising -- the biggest waste of your tax money since... I don't know, the AIG bailout?

• The least expensive spot on the Super Bowl and a good one -- Google. 

• Denny's Free Grand Slam Breakfast -- terrific use of Super Bowl.

• The animation on the baby's lips in the eTrade spots has definitely improved.

• That Tim Tebow thing broke one of my cardinal rules -- no spots with athlete's mothers

• Huh? -- Bridgestone, Kia, Emerald Nuts + Pop Secret, BoostMobile, Doritos, Monster

• Dove for Men? -- Wrong

• Long run for short slide -- CarsDotCom 

• Betty White -- Still funny after all these years

• Dodge Charger -- Politically dangerous. I liked it

• Coke (Simpsons) -- nice

• Clydesdales -- The final thud? 

• Taco Bell (Barkley) & Dr Pepper (Kiss) -- Oy 

• Is the talking animal thing finally over?

• But seriously, when does John Madden get back?