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Pizza Hut Salutes Quarterbacks for Their 2013 Super Bowl Commercial

Emerald Catron — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:41:10 +0000

We're having a 'Usual Suspects' moment here. The whole time we've been hearing quarterbacks yelling "hut," we thought it was a football thing. Turns out it's just been one gigantic advertisement for Pizza Hut the whole time.

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Taco Bell 2013 Super Bowl Commercial 'Viva Young' Features a Grandparents Gone Wild

GuySpeed Editors — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:02:42 +0000

The Taco Bell 2013 Super Bowl commercial is hopefully a glimpse into our future.

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Budweiser's 2013 Super Bowl Commercial Tugs at the Heartstrings With Baby Clydesdale

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:06:51 +0000

Like they typically do, Budweiser will be featuring their famous Clydesdales in one of their 2013 Super Bowl commercials. We're still not quite sure what they signify. (Budweiser: so good even a giant horse will drink it?)

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Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd Compete In Samsung's 2013 Super Bowl Commercial

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:49:21 +0000

Funnymen Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd will be promoting Samsung in the electronic giant's 2013 Super Bowl commercial.

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Hey Everybody, Beyonce Can Actually Sing the National Anthem

Emerald Catron — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:22:06 +0000

Beyonce decided that the time to address whether or not she was lip-syncing the national anthem at the presidential inauguration is now. You know, when everybody's already forgotten about it. Thanks for the reminder.

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Beck's 2013 Super Bowl Commercial Features a Singing Fish

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:50:25 +0000

Beck's is introducing their new beer Sapphire with a commercial during the 2013 Super Bowl.

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This Weekend in Sports: Super Bowl XLVII and UFC 156

Joe Student — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:25:52 +0000

The Super Bowl, the most watched television event of the year, is scheduled for Sunday. Several other interesting contests highlight the upcoming sports calendar. Here's what to watch this weekend:

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Hyundai's Super Bowl 2013 Commercial Features an Epic Playdate with The Flaming Lips

Sarah Shahzad — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:20:04 +0000

Hyundai's Super Bowl ad features a family on a fun-filled excursion made even funner by owning a Hyundai and having The Flaming Lips accompany them with a theme song.

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'SNL' Skit About Ray Lewis Crying Made Ray Lewis Cry

Mike Sampson — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:19:43 +0000

Ray Lewis, NFL linebacker and the center of a lot of the focus surrounding the 2013 Super Bowl, is a very, uh, emotional guy. He screams and shouts and dances and is prone to crying. Naturally, with the Super Bowl approaching, 'SNL' took notice of this and included a bit on Weekend Update that featured an overly emotional Ray Lewis (Kenan Thompson) who can't stop crying. Ray Lewis himself saw it and...? He cried.

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10 Strange Facts About The Super Bowl

KC — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:27:03 +0000

The Super Bowl has become just as big a part of our American culture as Thanksgiving and the 4th of July. I ask myself why it has yet to be considered a national holiday? It is not just about football, but also about the gathering of friends and consuming food. So much food that antacid sales go up 20% the day following the big game.

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Kate Upton and The Devil Star in Mercedes' 2013 Super Bowl Commercial

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:02:12 +0000

Mercedes is pulling out all the stops in their 2013 Super Bowl commercial. Not only does the spot feature celebrities like Willem Dafoe, Usher and Kate Upton, it also features the classic Rolling Stones song 'Sympathy for the Devil.'

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'Mayhem' Changes History in Allstate's Super Bowl 2013 Commercial

Sarah Shahzad — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:32:59 +0000

The Allstate insurance company's Super Bowl offering for 2013 is yet another example of their philosophy of terrifying customers into buying insurance. Dean Winters returns as the embodiment of "Mayhem," which, we are told, is everywhere.

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Watch the Taco Bell Ad That Was Banned for Upsetting Vegans

Sarah Shahzad — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:43:28 +0000

Taco Bell was forced to retract its anti-vegetable commercial for promoting its 12-pack of tacos. The ad opens with the narrator deriding vegetables, saying "Veggies on game day is like punting on fourth and one — it's a cop out."

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Super Bowl XLVII Preview — Baltimore Ravens vs. San Francisco 49ers

Joe Student — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:00:16 +0000

The Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers will meet in Super Bowl XLVII at the Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday to decide which team gets to hoist the Lombardi Trophy as the champions of the National Football League.

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Kaley Cuoco Grants Wishes in Toyota's Super Bowl 2013 Commercial

Emerald Catron — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:53:24 +0000

This Toyota commercial has got all the necessary ingredients for a big hit at the Super Bowl. There's Kaley Cuoco from 'The Big Bang Theory,' music by Skee-Lo and a guy in a rabbit suit. We're betting there's no shortage of men who don't mind imagining Cuoco as a wish-granting genie. You know, because she could like make enormous trays of nachos appear whenever. Not for any perverted reasons. It's the Super Bowl. Let's keep it clean, fellas.

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Kia Introduces Space Babies and 'Babylandia' in Their Super Bowl 2013 Commercial

Emerald Catron — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:14:36 +0000

We wish our parents had been as imaginative as this guy when we were growing up. When we asked where babies come from, we were usually answered with a suspicious look, or, if we were really lucky, an admonishment to eat all of our dinner.

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It's Seniors Gone Wild In Taco Bell's 2013 Super Bowl Commercial

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:39:01 +0000

In Taco Bell's 2013 Super Bowl commercial we meet Bernie Goldblatt, an older gentlemen who is being wished good night by an aid at the Glencobrooke Retirement Home. Or so she thinks he is going to sleep. In fact, Bernie's night is just beginning.

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5 Gutsiest Calls in Super Bowl History

Joe Student — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:30:38 +0000

With a championship at stake, every play called in a Super Bowl is magnified. Regardless of the risks, some coaches have gambled by calling unconventional plays in the season's biggest game.

Here are the 5 Gutsiest Calls in Super Bowl History:

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Volkswagen's Controversial 2013 Super Bowl Commercial Has a Jamaican Flavor

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:55:09 +0000

Volkswagen's 2013 Super Bowl Commercial takes place in a nondescript office building. Despite the location, the island nation of Jamaica manages to be the star of the spot.

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Axe's 2013 Super Bowl Commercial Proves There's Nothing Better Than an Astronaut

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:53:54 +0000

For AXE's 2013 Super Bowl commercial, the body spray company strays a bit from its typical formula of good-looking women who are inexplicably in hot pursuit of average men.

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