super bowl 50

Favorite Super Bowl 50 Ads

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There didn’t seem to be a huge variety of commercials. Maybe it’s getting too expensive. I found the Amy Schumer, Seth Rogan, Paul Rudd commercial funny and the Hulk/Antman was also a good one. Esurance was also unexpected and funny. I’ve included my three favorites below.

Clever and unexpected from a local company in Upstate New York, Death Wish Coffee:

What I thought was the funniest ad, from Doritos:

This ad about Native Americans was touching and poignant, and thought-provoking. Please watch and share, Proud to Be:

Fandom Friday – Supernatural vs. Super Bowl

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Dean: We’re on the one-yard line here.

Kevin: And, I should have told you this six months ago, but the sports metaphors? You want to motivate me? Magic cards, Skyrim, Aziz Ansari.

Dean: What? Yeah, I don’t know what those words mean.

The definitions so you’re not as clueless as Dean Winchester on this Super Bowl 50 weekend:

Magic cards

Skyrim

Aziz Ansari

Super Bowl Commercials

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For those of us who are not sports fans, or at least not sports fanatics, we watch the game for the camaraderie, the food and, of course, the commercials.

My all time favorite commercial is the Mean Joe Greene Coca-Cola ad. They’re revisiting it with Mean Joe and Tommy Okon, the original kid who catches his jersey. Here’s the original:

Look for the new one on Super Bowl Sunday.

Death Wish Coffee is a local company here in upstate New York who won a Super Bowl commercial slot, sponsored by Intuit Quickbooks. Check them out:

Looking forward to all of the new ones!

Travel – Santa Clara, CA

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Santa Clara lies about forty-five minutes from San Francisco. It’s Levi’s Stadium, ground broken in 2011, and completed in 2014 is the site of this year’s Super Bowl. Super Bowl 50 will be held next Sunday, February 7th between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers. Having friends in both places, I’m at an impasse as to who to cheer on, although the Panthers are in the lead according to my childhood panther, Harvey whose growling can be heard from the living room sofa. As if there was a question, ha!

Santa Clara was incorporated in 1852 after being founded in 1777. Its patron, St. Clare was honored by naming the eighth mission in the California’s 21 Missions. Santa Clara University was built around it and currently contains the mission house and the gardens. The mission, Mission Santa Clara de Asis is currently the chapel at Santa Clara University, originally formed by the Society of Jesus as Santa Clara College, the first higher learning institution in California.

Visit the Silicon Valley Central Convention Center &
Visitors Bureau for ideas on what to see and where to go while you’re in the Bay Area. If that isn’t enough, check out 50 Things to Do in Santa Clara.

The city is also home to several Silicon Valley businesses as well as the Levi’s Stadium being the home to the San Francisco 49ers, possibly to be joined by the Oakland Raiders in the next football season.

Levi’s Stadium, tagline Field of Jeans (oh, how I love a good pun) is obviously named for the iconic, Levi Strauss Company. Their about page on their company website details their history which fits in with how we think of American ingenuity and innovation.