Annoying ads during prime time NFL games

[MJS]

7 hours ago, RaoulDuke79 said:

Peloton only come around during the holidays and from the feelers I've put out, most women aren't overjoyed about receiving exercise equipment for gifts.

Why is it special? It's an exercise bike with a built in TV? That makes it worth over $2,000?

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

2 hours ago, MJS said:

Why is it special? It's an exercise bike with a built in TV? That makes it worth over $2,000?

 

It's a cult.

[judman]

The Bud Light King was never funny to me.  I detest the "Dilly Dilly" catchphrase and hope it has been permanently removed from the campaign. 

 

Bud light is not very good and gives me headaches (as does any beer brewed with rice).

 

The knights remind me of the football robots on Fox.

 

Enough already Budweiser...

[HOUSE]

I hate the girl on the bike

 

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[Royale with Cheese]

6 hours ago, Herc11 said:

Muscularity is only one aspect of fitness. When I was in the Air Force I had a troop that was jacked and cut. Looking at him most would think he was in damn good shape. Dude couldn't even finish the mile and a half run for the PT test. He ended up getting discharged over it because he failed the PT test too many times. Which leads me back to my point, the way a person looks has no revelance to their overall fitness. Whether it be skinny, fat, muscular, whatever. You can't see the health of a person's cardiovascular system by looking at them.

If someone was spinning for a year like the ad suggests, you would have seen muscle in the legs built up.  The bike specifically targets the legs.  That’s like saying someone has been doing curls for a year but hasn’t developed any sort of bicep.  That was my point.

 

 

[buffaloboyinATL]

13 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

I gather there has been backlash because the girl who got the bike in the commercial from her husband said it changed her life over the course of the year and she looks the exact same at the end

I just read an article saying that Peloton has dropped $942 million in value over the past few days because of backlash from this commercial. It is amazing how powerful of an impact social media perception can have on a company these days.  

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/pelotons-stock-price-plummet-wiped-942-million-market-value-holiday-ad-2019-12

 

 

Edited December 6, 2019 by buffaloboyinATL

[YoloinOhio]

8 minutes ago, buffaloboyinATL said:

I just read an article saying that Peloton has dropped $942 million in value over the past few days because of backlash from this commercial. It is amazing how powerful of an impact social media perception can have on a company these days.  

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/pelotons-stock-price-plummet-wiped-942-million-market-value-holiday-ad-2019-12

 

 

That’s craziness. I guess not all publicity is good publicity 

[The Frankish Reich]

13 hours ago, Nick the Greek said:

I cant stand the State Farm stuff. 

 

I hate the Packers and cant stand the national love for them. F-em. 

State Farm = crap. They signed up Aaron Rodgers, a remarkably uncharismatic QB. They wisely decided to make him the straight man in their ads because he couldn't carry the lead (he's no Peyton Manning), and they used Clay Matthews as the comic relief. Then Clay became irrelevant and (gasp!) a non-Packer. So instead of finding a better lead, they overthought things and brought in a competitor for the Aaron Rodgers lack-of-charisma-classic in Mahomes, and had to use some idiot comic actor as the lead as they get ready to phase out Rodgers in favor of Mahomes.

Just stop the idiot advertising and lower my damn premiums.

[BuffaloHokie13]

Not a commercial, per se, but I am legitimately offended by the times when they actively engage my technology. Do not talk to my Siri or Alexa or Google without my permission. 

[Gugny]

I can't stand Rodgers, but I actually enjoyed the old State Farm commercials with his dog and Clay Matthews.  This new character they have sucks and Mahomes doesn't appear to have any natural humor to him.  Those commercials are horrible.

 

I'm with many others re: Mayfield.  If he wasn't such a little prick, the commercials MIGHT be okay.  But he is a prick.  And the commercials don't make me laugh.  AND I still have no idea which company they're for, so they're not even effective.

 

The Lincoln commercials with Matthew McConaughey really get on my nerves.  I think he makes an ass out of himself in every one of them. 

 

Those are really they only three that grind my gears a little.

 

I love Mayhem.  And I love Nationwide commercials with Payton Manning and Brad Paisley.

 

 

[simpleman]

13 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

 

This is a hilariously bad take.?

 

You can't be that out of touch.

 

Unless the last winter you spent in Binghamton was like 70 million years ago.

 

Or you could be smart like my ex was. (Not because she became my ex, lol) She bought a very nice street bike and a top end bike trainer kit that allowed her to use it as an exercise bike indoors in bad weather. A whole lot less than a coupe grand.

 

[1ManRaid]

14 hours ago, YoloinOhio said:

I gather there has been backlash because the girl who got the bike in the commercial from her husband said it changed her life over the course of the year and she looks the exact same at the end

People don't understand there is a lot more to life than how you look.  They skip over the part about her getting up earlier in the mornings, probably has more energy and confidence, etc.  They're hating on her for being naturally thin and an advertising agency can't put in the time and resources to do a legit year long "before and after" of the product with someone showing a real body transformation.  Even someone who is naturally thin or in otherwise decent shape can benefit greatly from stepping up to a dedicated exercise regimen.

 

As for the women being offended by being gifted exercise equipment thing, that's being overblown as well.  What if she had expressed a wish for such equipment to her husband (from what I hear this product is generally promoted around the holidays)?  She'd be hyped to receive an expensive high end unit like that.  They are promoting it toward a niche market, and it's clearly working as their stock price has shot up.

[123719bwiqrb]

Oh yeah that NFL "The Champ is Here" has the worst song?, audio? that I have ever heard.  The strutting people are fine, just use a normal song that grabs your attention.

[Logic]

I'm not sure if anyone's already said this, but....

If I see that "Free phone football free phone football free phone football" commercial one more ***** time, I'm gonna throw my TV out the window.

[123719bwiqrb]

4 hours ago, HOUSE said:

I hate the girl on the bike

 

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...and her little doggie!

[1ManRaid]

1 minute ago, ScotSHO said:

Oh yeah that NFL "The Champ is Here" has the worst song?, audio? that I have ever heard.  The strutting people are fine, just use a normal song that grabs your attention.

What about that vs the WWE ad about an office erupting into violence?  I find it funny how they are careful about never showing a finger being laid on a woman while the men are being pummeled by their female coworkers. 

[Golden*Wheels]

There is nothing I love more than sitting down to watch a game with my 8 year old and having to watch an ad for the latest CBS crime show about rapists, murderers, and child molesters. Though that seemed to be mostly last year. This year it's been commercials for horror-ish show.

 

I'm not a prude. I don't care if a pretty girl sells beer or if my kids see an ignoramus use a bad word. But my 8 year old gets scared by this crime/horror *****. It''s gross.

[MJS]

7 minutes ago, ScotSHO said:

Oh yeah that NFL "The Champ is Here" has the worst song?, audio? that I have ever heard.  The strutting people are fine, just use a normal song that grabs your attention.

I hate that commercial with a burning passion.

[123719bwiqrb]

And as someone who has dabbled in the fringe, extreme ends of certain sports - I understand what the Peloton commercial is going for.  The whole transform your mind & body angle, plus the break thru "boundaries" that you thought were impossible selling point.  But any overpriced exercise thingy is going to play very poorly in a 30 second commercial.  There is a reason why those old P90X commercials were 30 MINUTES long.

6 minutes ago, 1ManRaid said:

What about that vs the WWE ad about an office erupting into violence?  I find it funny how they are careful about never showing a finger being laid on a woman while the men are being pummeled by their female coworkers. 

You obviously need a copy of the Politically Correct Handbook for the Recently Deceased (TM), 2019 Version.

Edited December 6, 2019 by ScotSHO

[SoCal Deek]

Commercials? I switch over to the game mix immediately upon a time out and return to the Bills game when I see the last network promotion wrapping up. (Except occasionally Fansville because the girl in those spots was my daughters college roommate!)

[benderbender]

The Peloton commercial was annoying before any new articles. And it’s been replayed so many times I can’t help but discover new problems with each replay. So many issues:

1) Where did the daughter go? Who is watching her while she CrossFit trains constantly? Does anyone even care? The worst part is that there’s already a kids version.

2) How narcissistic is this character to constantly film herself? Is she supposed to be a YouTuber or a Kardashian? The kicker is that she doesn’t even thank her guy until supposedly weeks later, and she only does it by a video retrospective.

3) Peloton has no awareness when it comes to the cost of housing. Even in their other commercials, every one is apparently aimed at affluent childless females who either married architects, or are one themselves. 
4) 6 am? That’s insanely early? Her makeup is flawless anyway. Good for her. Must be nice. My hair is thinning and I’d like to not care but I still style my Homer Simpson-like 2 hairs so others think I care.

5) I love how the some of the criticism is that she thanks the person who dropped at least 2k on a gift. That is 2019 in a gender fluid sexually non-specific nutshell. 
 

[US Egg]

15 hours ago, Don Otreply said:

Frankly 99.999999% of ads are so poorly conceived and produced that their creators should be beaten about the head and shoulders, every time one is played

Hmmmm......

.....was that a subliminal use of that term. 

 

Edited December 6, 2019 by I am the egg man

[1ManRaid]

18 minutes ago, ScotSHO said:

You obviously need a copy of the Politically Correct Handbook for the Recently Deceased (TM), 2019 Version.

Clearly.  Maybe I'm just wrong thinking it would be sexist to treat people differently because of what's between their legs and not treat all unprovoked attackers the same regardless of gender.

 

"If you're man enough to throw a punch, you should also be man enough to take one."

[Jerry Jabber]

Any Progressive commercial... They're even worse on WGR550

[Herc11]

9 hours ago, Royale with Cheese said:

If someone was spinning for a year like the ad suggests, you would have seen muscle in the legs built up.  The bike specifically targets the legs.  That’s like saying someone has been doing curls for a year but hasn’t developed any sort of bicep.  That was my point.

 

 

Only if they use enough resistance to build muscle tone. Which many women are reluctant to do out of fear of looking manly.

Edited December 6, 2019 by Herc11

[PetermansRedemption]

5 hours ago, Jerry Jabber said:

Any Progressive commercial... They're even worse on WGR550

I don’t know who is worse, Flo/Flo’s feminine male undercover lover or Baker Mayfield. 

[Royale with Cheese]

5 minutes ago, Herc11 said:

Only if they use enough resistance to build muscle tone. Which many women are reluctant to do out of fear of looking manly.

 

Even at the lowest level, the warm up level, you would see something.  They wouldn't get mass but there would be tone and see some definition even if the legs stay skinny.  Muscles are still at work and she's still sweating.  

That woman's legs look like pool noodles.  

[row_33]

be grateful, Canada runs the same 3 ads the whole season

 

 

Edited December 6, 2019 by row_33

[Kiva]

3 minutes ago, row_33 said:

be grateful, Canada runs the same 3 ads the whole season

 

 

This is the USA. Let’s compare Apples to Apples here.  

 

 

 

[row_33]

4 minutes ago, Kiva said:

This is the USA. Let’s compare Apples to Apples here.  

 

 

 

 

i said be grateful... your ESPN is a million times better than the garbage equivalent up here

 

I'd gladly pay $50 a month for ESPN on my cable package

 

[Kiva]

3 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

i said be grateful... your ESPN is a million times better than the garbage equivalent up here

 

I'd gladly pay $50 a month for ESPN on my cable package

 

What is $50 worth is American money. Is it like pesos?

[blacklabel]

I really can't stand "The Champ is Here!" I mean, I'm glad they cut it down a bit as the original, full-length ad has "the champ is here!" being said about 94,000 frickin' times. On Sundays my wife and I will randomly say, "Hey babe, did you know the champ is here?" "Is he? Tell him I'm busy and that he can #*@$ off!"

 

Mayhem is alright. The guy who plays him is Dean Winters, a really good improv actor (he also had a role on Oz). He came up in the Second City in Chicago along with Tina Fey, who cast him in a recurring role on 30 Rock and now she's doing the Mayhem commercials with him. I don't know why I know this random sh*t.

 

With the amount of commercials he's already done, it's pretty clear that Mayfield really prioritizes landing sponsorship and commercial deals. I've heard rumors that the dude is more interested in the fame of being a pro athlete than actually putting in the work and that coaches have kinda had to twist his arm to get him to take on more of a leadership role. Dude thinks because he walked on that he can not put the time in and just wing it every game. 

 

It does seem as though they've tried to scale back on the whole commercial break after a TD, then back for the kickoff, then another break, then back to the game. They still do it at times but they tend to do a picture-in-picture and leave the game on while players just stand around. 

[Herc11]

1 hour ago, Royale with Cheese said:

 

Even at the lowest level, the warm up level, you would see something.  They wouldn't get mass but there would be tone and see some definition even if the legs stay skinny.  Muscles are still at work and she's still sweating.  

That woman's legs look like pool noodles.  

 

You obviously have never seen a marathon runner with that logic.

[Tenhigh]

20 hours ago, Happy Gilmore said:

 

Absolutely.  Eddie Murphy would have nailed that skit.  I can just picture a classic SNL clip in my mind and probably shouldn't mention it here.

Garrett Morris prison musical?

[Nick the Greek]

8 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:

State Farm = crap. They signed up Aaron Rodgers, a remarkably uncharismatic QB. They wisely decided to make him the straight man in their ads because he couldn't carry the lead (he's no Peyton Manning), and they used Clay Matthews as the comic relief. Then Clay became irrelevant and (gasp!) a non-Packer. So instead of finding a better lead, they overthought things and brought in a competitor for the Aaron Rodgers lack-of-charisma-classic in Mahomes, and had to use some idiot comic actor as the lead as they get ready to phase out Rodgers in favor of Mahomes.

Just stop the idiot advertising and lower my damn premiums.

It’s funny how Clay Matthews disappeared as soon as he stopped being a Packer. Sad, actually.

 

That isn’t to say I don’t miss him tho!

[Tenhigh]

11 hours ago, HOUSE said:

I hate the girl on the bike

 

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Yeah, but wouldja?  I mean look at that posture.  And any woman riding a bike that fast in the 40s has to be damn fit!

[Royale with Cheese]

5 minutes ago, Herc11 said:

 

You obviously have never seen a marathon runner with that logic.

LOL...my ex-wife was a marathon runner.  She had muscles in her legs.  Her calves were very defined.  She had a running group of friends who all had muscle tone in their legs. She got into spin because running started catching up with her. 
 

A bike works your legs out a lot more than running.  It’s a push/pull movement so you’re working your glutes to your hip flexor.

 

I played 3 sports in HS and played college baseball.  I now train in mixed martial arts. I’ve been working out at high levels since I was 13.  I kinda have an idea of what I’m talking about.

[Herc11]

3 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

LOL...my ex-wife was a marathon runner.  She had muscles in her legs.  Her calves were very defined.  She had a running group of friends who all had muscle tone in their legs. She got into spin because running started catching up with her. 
 

A bike works your legs out a lot more than running.  It’s a push/pull movement so you’re working your glutes to your hip flexor.

 

I played 3 sports in HS and played college baseball.  I now train in mixed martial arts. I’ve been working out at high levels since I was 13.  I kinda have an idea of what I’m talking about.

So what you are saying is, you dont do traditional "workouts" like cycling, running, weightlifting? I started bodybuilding when I was in my early 20's in the Air Force. I was I also in Tae Kwon Do for about 3 years in my early 20's. I played sports throughout school as well. I converted to crossfit from normal body building back in 2012... I'm no little guy either, deadlift 505, bench 350, squat 405, strict press 245 overhead, ***** 205, and I'm a decent runner (not my strength). Point is I'm no rookie myself. I've been around the gym for a long time and have watched people that workout, especially only cardio, and they dont develop musculature in their legs for the most part. Olympic marathon runners look like frail weaklings and they arguably work their legs, so to say, more than anyone. On top of all this, not everyone's body will react to stress the same. Some people are toned without doing jack, some workout and workout and dont get it. 

[Bray Wyatt]

Well I don’t work out, so I got that going for me

[njbuff]

not so annoying