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| By Andy Tarnoff Publisher E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Andy Tarnoff |
| Published Feb. 4, 2009 at 10:14 a.m. |
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Not since Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction has one Super Bowl yielded so many silly controversies. Three days after the big game ended in stunning fashion, tidbits continue to trickle out, some significant and others less so.
Four, however, stand out and are worth mentioning.
Incident! Tucson viewers get a little full-frontal male nudity: This one is making the rounds, and it's just too weird. After the Cardinals' Larry Fitzgerald streaked into the end zone, fans in the southern Arizona city saw a little more streaking, so to speak. On the Comcast broadcast of the game, viewers "enjoyed" between 10-30 seconds of full-frontal male nudity, courtesy of porn star Evan Stone (who, strangely, looks a lot like Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk). "KVOA will continue to investigate what happened to our clean signal and make sure our viewers get answers," said a station rep. A link to the extremely NSFW video clip is here, if that's your thing.
Upside: We'll never have to hear about Janet Jackson's nipple again.
Downside: Lots of little kids will never think of the "ol' pigskin" the same.
Incident! Milwaukee Journal Sentinel declares Cardinals the winner: Memo to JSOnline, "Dewey Defeats Truman" called and wants its headline back. For a brief time, our local paper declared on its site's front page that "Fitzgerald rallies Arizona past Pittsburgh in thriller." That kind of sloppy gaffe was semi-excusable during the days of print deadlines. In 2009, it appears the reporter was spending the remaining 2:33 making a nacho run instead of watching the end of the game.
Upside: Probably not that many people saw the mistake, since if you're relying on a Milwaukee newspaper for your Super Bowl news, you probably don't know how to use the Web.
Downside: Sites like Deadspin.com archive these flubs to reinforce the downward spiral of quality at our local paper.
Incident! Vizio ad crashes Web site: Toward the end of the game, budget HDTV manufacturer ran an ad extolling the virtues of its products. The ad was good enough to get me to click over to its site. Apparently, lots of other people were intrigued, too, as the site promptly crashed. I checked back an hour later and vizio.com was still down. I haven't been back.
Upside: Apparently, Super Bowl advertising works.
Downside: If you're spending $3 million on a 30-second ad, you probably should make sure your Web site can handle the traffic.
Incident! 3-D promotion looks 2D, blurry: A sales associate at Target on Sunday handed me a pair of 3-D glasses so I could watch an ad for a Dreamworks movie, Sobe juice and a show on NBC pop out of the screen. Indeed, I gave it a whirl. And indeed, it sucked. Maybe a few scenes jumped toward me a little bit, but most of the action just looked blurry, off-register and weird. I wasn't left craving more 3-D. I was just left with a headache.
Upside: The gimmick made me watch the commercials twice on my DVR.
Downside: I was so focused on trying to see something 3-D that I can't remember the name of the movie, though I think it has something to do with monsters. I'm still never gonna watch "Chuck," either.
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Posted by geesquared on Feb. 5, 2009 at 3:18 p.m. (report)
Whew! Thank goodness I am not alone in agreeing that the 3D promo was a disappointment. We were at a friends house watching and he did the same thing, rewind and maybe we would catch something, but nothing stood out. I tried to give it another chance watching "Chuck" on Monday night, but was again, unimpressed so I was forced to watch that episode with it all wonky.
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Posted by MKE Reader on Feb. 4, 2009 at 10:41 a.m. (report)
Thank you for saying how awful the 3D thing was. Everyone else was oohing and aahing over it, and I thought maybe it was me. The HD-snobs will probably tell you Vizio is junk, but for the infrequent TV viewer, like myself, it is a good TV at a great price. Costco probably has them cheapest.
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