If you watch the Super Bowl you might be watching for three reasons: because of the game, because of the commercials, or both! Regardless of what category you fall into, I thought it would be fun to spend some time exploring, or rather, predicting what kind of Super Bowl commercials we should expect to see since most of them seem familiar and sort of repeat. Without further ado, here are five possible Super Bowl commercials!
1. The animal and its' human friend commercial
We've all seen this commercial, it's both sweet and tacky. It's sweet because it's meant to pull at your heart strings, but also tacky because they are so unoriginal at this point that we half expect them. These commercials usually start off with a kid or an adult or a baby meeting an animal that they bound with. Somehow or another, one gets separated from the other and the commercial revolves around the two reuniting. Eventually, they do and the product's name flashes across the screen. As I've said, even though these commercials are nice, expect to see them shared on Facebook and all over social media for a long time even though they are one in the same every year. Speaking of commercials that have nothing to do with their product, that leads us to my next prediction!
2. Beer ads that have nothing to do with the product
Even though some beer ads show the product or have the product tie with the theme of the commercial well, there are some beer ads that just make no sense. The product name may not appear until the very end with no indication that the ad would be about beer similar to the human/animal ads. Perhaps a family reunites or something strange happens at a family barbecue or party, either way it always ends and is somehow a beer commercial. These ads become so weird and irrelevant at times that they start to fall into a more raunchy category, which leads us to Doritos ads.
3. Weird, violent, or sexual Doritos ads
Doritos ads are either normal or they aren't. I've seen a Doritos ad where two unlikely people boxed over Doritos, did some sort of extreme stunt, or in the craziest example, came out of the womb for Doritos. You read that right, there was a Doritos ad where a baby came out of the womb because it sensed that someone in the room had Doritos with them. Insane, right? I guess Doritos will go as far as they humanely can to sell you the product based on that baby ad, but will it get even weirder, crazy violent, or sexual? Only time will tell, but I wouldn't expect anything less from Doritos.
4. Classic Coke Ads
Maybe this is somewhat of a cop-out pick, but to be fair you knew Coke would show up during the Super Bowl commercials in some degree. I'm sure we'll see some nice ads that focus on sharing or family and maybe some that we've already seen before, but can we just take a moment to appreciate that Coke doesn't go weird with their ads like Doritos or be really vague like any of the beer commercials?
5. Horrible, shameless plugging of the network's shows
Every year FOX, NBC, or CBS shamelessly plugs their shows with tons of short or longer ads for some of the new shows they have coming out and some that already been on. Bottom line is they suck, they all suck. Nothing screams, "desperate for ratings" more than shoving your shows down the mass audience's throats. We get it, it's marketing! Enjoy looking forward to whatever FOX has in store for us in like twenty ads since they are the ones airing the Super Bowl this year.
