Coffee Klatch

You’ve heard of Grand Theft Auto, Redneck Rampage, and other similar games where you get points for assaulting and killing people. I blogged about one such game last fall.

Well, I have to give kudos to the Coca-Cola company for one of their Super Bowl commercials. The whole commercial looked like one of those kinds of games, with the main character walking down city streets where all kinds of crimes were being committed and bad things were happening to people. But instead of contributing, the guy was helping people, doing things like recovering and returning a lady’s purse that had been stolen, picking up a bag of money dropped by a security guard and returning it, and all with a bottle of Coke in his hand. At the end, he opens a car door and grabs the guy inside, pulling him out. You think he’s going to steal the car, but instead he gives the guy a bottle of Coke and clinks bottles with him.

All the while, the music playing in the background had lyrics that said: “Give a little love and it all comes back to you.” and something about “you’ll be remembered for what you say and do.”

Great for Coke!! Thanks to them for presenting a positive message to the millions of Super Bowl viewers.

If you want to see all the various commercials from the Super Bowl, visit http://cbssportsline.com/superads.

It has been clearly explained that Super Bowl games are no longer played in cold weather stadiums unless they’re domed. The reason is because the weather is so much of a factor when it’s freezing and snowing and all that. I thought that meant that domed stadiums were the only places they’d have the Super Bowl games.

So the game’s in Miami this year and it’s pouring rain. Just in the first quarter of this game there were three turnovers and a missed extra-point snap which were all because of (mostly) the rain making the ball slick. Not to mention the tons of missed tackles because the runners were wet and slippery. Or the fact that so many of the camera lenses were covered with raindrops, making it hard to see.

If the powers that be are wanting to take the weather out as a factor, so we can see a more “honest comparison” of the two teams, then they need to restrict the Super Bowl games to ONLY domed stadiums. The other option is to stop favoring warm-weather teams and allow the games to be at ANY location. I’m not one to complain about rules, but I AM one to complain about inconsistent enforcement of rules.

For me, I’d just as soon have the Super Bowl games be “real” games and be played anywhere, regardless of the climate. Football’s different from other sports like basketball or baseball in that the games are played in all kinds of weather. That’s just part of the game. If that’s the case, they the Super Bowls should be played the same way–in ANY kind of weather. Even in Green Bay or New England. THEN you’d have an accurate picture of the football teams.

Either way, pretending to sterilize the Super Bowl setting but allowing rain to be a factor is inconsistent and wrong.