Ho, hum. The Superbowl is over? Great. Time for more pressing issues.

Andy Milonakis hit it right on the head when he sang, “The Superbowl is gay.”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8pxMXiYaNk It used to be that you’d watch the game for the commercials.  Now at least the games in the past two years have been compelling enough to actually watch them for themselves, but the commercials are god-awful.  I love to criticize commercials, and will do so in future posts.  But I’m too tired from staying up past my bedtime to watch the end of this game to mention that only the Castrol grease monkey had it all: an easy-to-understand spot, humor, and the right length.  I HATE commercials where, for example, the guy gets hit by the bus.  Funny.  I understand that no actors were actually harmed in the filming of this commercial.  So WHY THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE TO SHOW HE’S OK???  Who are you appealing to?  What, the violent act of him being hit by a bus (stomped by a dinosaur, etc.) is OK if he winds up living???  No, if I’m walking down the street and somebody kisses the front bumper of a Septa bus, there’s going to be police, ambulances, and a lead story on the 6 o’clock news.  But this is a commercial, not a documentary.  It’s comedy.  Who are the suits appealing to?  I can understand that companies may not necessarily want a shock/cringe comic to do a commercial for them.  But this kind of stuff is harmless.  Nobody is having nightmares about runaway transit vehicles.

Now that football is out of the way, we can finally make way for spring training.  Because what’s more important than Opening Day?  Especially with a new Yankee Stadium coming online…as Derek Jeter said, it’s time to make new memories in the new stadium.