The refs certainly didn't help the Seahawks, who I think were screwed out of two separate touchdowns. Oh well. At the end of the day, it's just a game. This was the first Superbowl where I actually cared about the outcome of the game. Usually my main focus is watching the commercials.

In general I really wasn't that impressed with this year's ads. The past few years have been pretty weak on the whole, but as usual there were a few standouts.

Budweiser certainly knows what they're doing. All of their spots were great-the revolving refrigerator was my personal favorite. Other companies should learn something from the Budweiser ads: if you're going to spend 2 million dollars for every 30 second spot, then don't just run the same commercial several times. Remember last year's Ford Mustang ad? It was a good commercial, but they ran it like 5 times. Why not spend a little bit extra to produce separate commercials for each timeslot? Thankfully this year there were only a few repeat commercials.

I loved the Ameriquest spots- the one with the doctor killing the fly and the other one with the woman on the plane. I have mixed feelings about the Burger King commercial... and the Fed Ex caveman ad didn't really impress me either (last year their commercial with Burt Reynolds was my favorite). The two Career Builder spots were okay, as was the one for Sierra Mist.

Did Pepsi even run their "brown and bubbly" campaign by a test audience? Worst. Slogan. Ever. It's pretty gross. The only Diet Pepsi commercial that I enjoyed was the one with Jackie Chan.

The commercials for Hummer, Go Daddy and Emerald Nuts all sucked. Finally, seeing the trailer for yet another crappy Disney/Tim Allen movie made me die inside. Seriously, when was the last time Disney OR Tim Allen made a decent movie? When you combine the two of them things are bound to go wrong.