But at least for the suites, are a high percentage of those owned by corporate entities and companies who can write down the expense on them to marketing budgets?
rshetts
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The whole purpose of those commercials is to present an unrealistic fantasy that drives people to strive to reach that unrealistic fantasy and thus become better consumers. You can’t buy that Lexus but you can spend more on other shit to compensate for your sad existence.
SlyFrog
1649
Some of them are so painful. I for some reason really hate the one where the wife buys like a his and her pair of socks or something, and then the husband surprises the wife with his and her trucks. Where we are then supposed to find it adorable that the wife just fucking dominates the dude and claims the truck she wants, in about the most ungrateful display of Christmas spirit ever.
Nothing beats the already incredibly in shape woman being given the Peloton, however. So far as I can see they took that one off the air pretty quickly (but not before it was mocked by SNL and others).
The one I despise the most is the “gift yourself” one, with the woman dancing and singing “I Love It” and then the “To James from James” and the “I was good this year” bullshit. I want to punch all four of the actors in the face repeatedly.
And yet the ad is obviously effective, given how well I remember it.
Well, those ads are paid for by the car companies, not by “Big Economy.” However, they do have that secondary affect.
The primary purpose is to brand themselves as elitist. I mean, a married couple buying a vehicle is using massive collective assets and doing so apparently without consulting one another in these ads. The idea is now to have consumers associate those brands with the ridiculously wealthy people who can do that, as it raises its cache.
Overall car sales have barely recovered in the US to 2000 levels after cratering in 2008-9 despite a consistent rise in of-age population. The most profitable car sales are on new cars, so companies do everything they can to capture that market. To your point about “better consumers,” however, the car companies will make similar-looking cheaper models (not just trims) and hopefully sway wanna-be elitist owners into spending their hard-earned cash at one of their dealerships even if they can’t buy the vehicle in question.
No hate for the McDonald’s commercial, where a white couple decide to mug a black woman for her toy car?
Eh, welcome to the end of the year as Steeler and Philly fans say “get in line”.
Haha I hadn’t thought of it that way, but I can certainly see why you could.
I was just assuming they would be asking her where she found it.
Lantz
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Thankfully I have not seen that one. Bears game was DVR material this week.
Yeah, the Eagles current Wide Receivers are JJ Arcega-Whiteside, Greg Ward, and Rob Davis. The latter two are practice squad players (Ward a converted QB) and A-W was junk for most of the season. The third TE Josh Perkins has been running routes just as an extra body.
To pile on top of the poor Eagles fan… running backs do seem to just grow on trees (unlike wide receivers). On of the 49ers’ main weapons at RB this year has been a career special-teams guy.
Meanwhile, the Seahawks are apparently going to meet with Marshawn Lynch later today.
Wow, I hadn’t heard it was season ending yet. Oof. Wilson did not look good yesterday. While I absolutely understand the injury situation, he’s worked with less.
The play calling felt really strange to me yesterday. Move the pocket. Manufacture some space to get there ball to his playmakers (Lockett and DK with no receptions going into 4th quarter…wth). They miss Dissly and Britt so much (and Brown yesterday…Jones looked like a turnstile out there). And the defense hasn’t been the same without Diggs.
In the end, they weren’t expected to have this kind of record this year anyway, but this odd going to wind up feeling like a wasted opportunity.
Skipper
1660
Came here to mention the same. The NFL Twitterverse exploded this morning with that news. I mean, I love Marshawn as much as anyone but the situation must really be dire to pull back in an unpracticed vet. He was willing to talk, by the way. The dollar signs must have been quite large.
It’s hard to imagine he’s in anything close to game shape. I don’t see Pete putting him out there if he isn’t. But if by some miracle he is, it could turn into one hell of a story.
Seriously, we have little choice. Right now Travis Homer is the only RB on the roster who isn’t on or headed to injured reserve. And, hey, at least the fans will go nuts with Marshawn back.
I’m wondering why Thomas Rawls hasn’t been called. He’s available, and you gotta think a guy like him would be keeping in shape for another opportunity.
Oh wow.
Have you guys seen this movie?
I just watched it last week, so it’s still fresh in my mind. I kind of like the end of his story being that he came back briefly to play for Oakland before they move out of Oakland, because he grew up there. By the end of the film I was rooting for him so hard, even though I’m a fan of the Seahawks, I wouldn’t want him to get more head trama or injury because he came back to football.
Plus, every team’s practice squad is available to raid, as long as they put the guy onto the active roster.
Yeah, those are funny. These young people are in expensive high-rise condos with a fabulous all-window view and the centerpiece of this fabulous living space is an…exercise bike.
Good question. I love T Rawls. @gruntled they need someone that knows the offense already, who can step in and play.
