Goodbye (and good riddance) to NFL 2006-2007

The most amusing thing about the Super Bowl is all the people who haven't seen a single snap of a single game all season who make their authoritative pre-game predictions, "Oh, the Bears are definitely gonna win", "The Colts have a better team and they deserve it." Really? Name me one player on their team. Tell me why they "deserve it".

Silence.

That glorious silence lasts only until the game starts (at which time the "which team is which" questions invariably crop up from the aforementioned prognosticators) and the first commercial break hits and everyone gets on the edge of their seats for the first of the vaunted Super Bowl commercials.

What a waste of time and money.

Anyone who watches enough television over the course of the year knows the commercials during the Super Bowl are no more entertaining than commercials the rest of the year. The good part about them is that they are not really designed to sell you product or brand, they are usually just designed to entertain by companies who know you will eventually buy their stuff anyway (GM, Coca-Cola, Budweiser, etc).

Far too frequently, people remember the commercial they liked, but don't remember the product. The only Super Bowl commercials I've really remembered over the years have been Budweiser ads, particularly the original Bud-weis-errr frogs & the "wasuuuuuuup" guys (before they jumped the shark), but I don't know if there is a product on the market that I am less likely to ever purchase. So in the grand scheme of advertising dollars, is the most effective ad the one that is most entertaining, or the one that is most likely to entice you spend spend spend, even if it's not entertaining?

Ultimately, you're still just watching commercials, which 364 days a year we all make an effort to avoid. You have all been brainwashed.

I say good riddance to this NFL season because it brought me an embarrassing, revolting 2-14 season from my beloved Oakland Raiders.

Dear NFL,
When you come back next season, please bring me a Raiders team that, unlike this year, will actually win more games in the regular season than in the preseason.

Sincerely,
Jason