Can't wait until Sunday to catch a glimpse of the Super Bowl commercials you'll be talking about on Monday morning? We've searched high and low for any "Big Game" ads already lurking on the web, and compiled them for you here. At this year's cost of $3 million per 30-second spot, we doubt the guys footing the bill would mind you taking a sneak peek.
Budweiser
This teaser for the Budweiser campaign features the company's Clydesdale mascots galloping through an unfamiliar setting: the wild west. Look for a cameo by Fargo star Peter Stormare, playing a "thirsty gunslinger," when the full campaign premieres on Sunday.
Bud Light
Bud's sister brand, meanwhile, is always good for a raunchy laugh (remember the roommates who chose Bud Light over toilet paper?). Here's a preview of 2011's campaign, called, "Bike-a-Thon." In it, a guy drives a motorcycle around an office. Tell me more! I'm intrigued! (I am not intrigued.)
The 2012 Volkswagen Beetle
Oprah may have given one to every person in her audience, but we still don't know what the damn thing looks like. Supposedly all that will change on Sunday, when Volkswagen unveils its completely redesigned Bug for all the world to see. Meanwhile, enjoy this preview clip of an actual beetle catching air in the forest. Wheeeee. (No punchbacks!)
GoDaddy.com
Down on the ghetto-end of the sponsor spectrum is this year's GoDaddy.com ad (they are an "Internet domain registrar and web hosting company," in case you're wondering), in which the yelling lady from The Biggest Loser yells a lot. She's just so delightful, I'll be sure to use GoDaddy.com for all my future domain registration needs.
Cars.com
The car website's ad features a conversation between animated cars in a showroom, kind of like in the movie Cars. Except without the funny dialogue.
Career Builder
The monkeys are back, this time making you covet your boss's designated parking spot. Damn dirty apes.
Home Away
The web service matches families with vacation rental homes. The Super Bowl spot features a top-secret research location, where families are observed interacting inside glass cages the size of cramped hotel rooms. Things end up badly for a prop baby.
Motorola Xoom
Motorola declares war on Apple's tablet hegemony with this ad, which refers to Apple's own game-changing Super Bowl commercial for Macintosh, "1984." Let's just say that classic ad has nothing to worry about. I mean, really, guys? This is the best you could come up with? Xucks.
Doritos and Pepsi MAX
Lastly, contrary to what Onion Sports Network might have you believe, PepsiCo is ready to roll with ads submitted to its Crash the Super Bowl contest. With $1 million on the line going to one lucky winner, I have to assume that professional ad men are the ones submitting these very slick commercials. Perhaps the Bud "wazzup" guys will be replaced this year by the Pepsi MAX "pshhh" women. That at least seems to be the very calculated intention.
(You can watch it here.)
What do you think of what you've seen so far? Are you impressed? Or less so?
It's not football it's American rugby,football is the sport that you play with a ball(not egg shaped one)and with your feet(and not with hands)
@safi_z: Yeah, americans and "their" football. I don't get it why they called football "soccer". If they just went with football (like the rest of the world) we wouldn't be in this mess.
Just out of curiosity, in a 60 minute “football†game, how much time does the “ball†actually make contact with the “foot�
These are the sort of ads they need for streaming video.
Can't wait. I don't care for the game, but do care for those ads.!
Crazy:) Especially Home Away ad.
Yawn, some ads during an American Football game, no one else cares.