Mikestradamus

Well that was a fun Super Bowl to watch. I am sure there are a handful of people out there celebrating how they predicted the Giants to win the whole time. Of course, no one can be happier or could have been more accurate than Plaxico Burress, the New York Giants wide receiver who a) caught the game winning touchdown and b) predicted earlier in the week his team would win 23-17, which caused the Patriots to mock his brashness.

The final score? Giants 17, Patriots 14. No one could have been more accurate than his prediction.

That being said, anyone can guess and sometimes get right the Super Bowl winner. In fact, some camel in New Jersey predicted nine of this year's 11 playoff games correctly, including the Giants win tonight over the Patriots.

Speaking of animals doing things that humans do....

The close reader of this blog will note that I inadvertently came absurdly close to predicting the outcome of tonight's Budweiser commercial. I'm talking about the ad where a dalmation trains a clydesdale to get in good enough shape to become a Budweiser clydesdale (set to Rocky music). In the end, the horse makes the Budweiser team, and ends up giving the dog a high five.

Those of you who know me well, or have read my rants before, know I hate, hate, hate ads that have animals acting like people. It's trite, overdone, and quite frankly, really lazy writing on behalf of the ad agencies. Yet people must love these ads because they continue.

So, I ranted about this before, and in that rant, I almost incidentally predicted the dog on horse high-five. See for yourself. Seventh sentence/fragment. Third paragraph. It's all there. Back then I even made it one of the labels for the post, just as I did for this one. Granted, I never said "horses high fiving a dog," but I came about as close in my prediction as Plaxico did in prediction of the score.

This would be from October 4, 2007

I can't stand commercials with animals acting like people. I blame CGI and the Super Bowl for the mainsteaming of this style of TV advertising

This evening during 30 Rock or The Office there was some ad with a bunch of monkies riverdancing. Really? Is that the best our creative talent, earning six figures can do?

I left the room half way through the ad. I did this in part out of protest, but also to get some more food. So I don't know what the ad was about. But it doesn't matter. Cheetas doing the macarena. HORSES HIGH FIVING. Penguins riding their Harlies to Sturgis. A squirrel farts and points to the squirrel next to him to pass the blame. It took me 30 seconds to come up with those ideas. They all suck, but some hybrid of these ideas will air during our next Super Bowl. When will it stop?!?!?!

Me and Plaxico. We should go into the psychic business with Dionne Warwick.