Entries tagged ‘Super Bowl’
- 12.3.10Super Bowl Lacks Beer
The Super Bowl® commercials have always been at least as popular as the game. People who don’t really watch football (I usually get bored around the 3rd period) watch the biggest game of the year so they can see what the ad wizards have come up with for $6 million dollars a minute (actual guesstimated rate). And what of beer?
- 02.1.09Troops in Iraq Get Beer for the Super Bowl
U.S. troops in Iraq will be allowed to drink two beers apiece for the Super Bowl, after the U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. Ray Odierno, issued a waiver of the U.S. military’s strict prohibition on alcohol imbibing in the war zone.
- 01.21.09Conan O’Brien and John Turturro Peddle Brew
Is star power enough to sell beer in hard times? For this year’s Super Bowl, Anheuser-Busch InBev and Heineken will be targeting beer drinkers with spots that feature Conan O’Brien and John Turturro.