There’s going to be a whole lot of commercials aired this Sunday for the Super Bowl. Some of them will be controversial and tell you not to kill babies (even babies you own!) and some of them will just feature hot chicks, beer and people getting hurt. But what you won’t see are the commercials below — because the commercials below are a special kind of commercial — they are banned commercials. Sent out of the veritable Eden that is the Super Bowl by the hard hand of God (CBS) for their transgressions — be it for being too violent, too sexy, or too Sodom and Gomorrah-ey.
CBS has finally accepted a Super Bowl commercial for a video game called Dante’s Inferno by Electronic Arts — but it wasn’t easy. EA had to agree to change their ”Go to Hell” tagline to a much more family friendly, “Hell Awaits” — even though CBS still kind of preferred their own version of the tagline: ”Hell Awaits Pro-Choicers.”
Did you know that Florida’s Tim Tebow is not only a quarterback dynamo but also alive because his mother didn’t kill him? It’s true! In fact, it’s so true that CBS will allow a conservative group called Focus on the Family to air a 30-second ad in which Tebow’s mother tells the amazing story of how she didn’t decide to get rid of her son… and then drinks a Pepsi!
The first Super Bowl 2010 commercial is out and it’s not even February! Thank you, Lord Internets, you have served us well. Click to see it in all of its almost unrated goodness…
You may have heard the stories and it’s true, it’s all true — there will be no Pepsi commercials in Superbowl 2010. Normally, this wouldn’t huge news but Pepsi has had a 23-year tradition of advertising during the event. The company was even the biggest advertiser at last year’s broadcast and has often made the Super Bowl the center of its marketing strategies.
