Super Bowl XIV

the ability to reach out to as much of their audience as possible. For almost as long as TV has been around, big companies have spent endless amounts on commercials to air during the super bowl. With the increasing number of people watching every year, it is a prime time for anyone to market their product. However, competition has become so tight that people have been needing to find new and creative ways to interest their audience. One of the longest running strategies has been using well known athletes in their commercials. These appeals to the audience help cement the idea of how character and time play a huge role on how a commercial is interpreted by the public. Due to their highly regarded status among corporations, Coca-Cola was able create one of the most well known commercials of all time by using a strong sense of pathos. Companies and marketers take careful execution on the exact details of when and where their commercials are aired. Preferably, they want time slots during telecasts where viewership peaks, to the cost of the price being much higher. While the ad originally debuted on October 1st, 1979, it didn’t reach national attention until Super Bowl XIV on January 20th, 1980. The ad featured “Mean Joe” Greene of the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers were freshly off a super bowl win, and well onto another. The commercial was part of Coca-Cola’s “Have a Coke and a Smile” campaign. The commercial takes place in a stadium’s tunnel after a football game. Greene…

from the website, Spoil Sport, talks about several sports that cause environmental damage. He lists sports that use fuel such as NASCAR, skydiving, boat racing and any sport that gets a large crowd such as soccer. If many people want to watch the sport it means that many people use fuel to go to where the sport is played and that is not good for the environment. Merchant also says blood sports such as hunting are not good because they involve violence. Snow sports that use a great deal of…

Over one-hundred and eleven million people watched the Seattle Sea-hawks take on the Denver Broncos during the two thousand and fourteen super bowl. Every year the Super Bowl is the most-watched program on television. Many of the people watching over see the talent and amount of creativity involved in the coaching, commercials, and halftime show. Creativity and coaching often go hand in hand. Coaches possess a different set of skills for their area of work than most other people who work in…

Over 110 million people watched Super Bowl 50 when the Denver Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers 24-10 (Kissell 1). People gathered all across the country with their family and friends to watch the two best teams in the NFL battle it out on the gridiron for supremacy. The Super Bowl is a prime example of the power of sports. Family and friends were united together to watch the game. Also, youth that watched the game observed the power of hard work and what one can accomplish if they set…

well which was also owned by a Georgia Tech graduate. Campus Accomplishments There were dances and concerts on the Georgia Tech campus. Dionne Warwick, Ray Mr. Rogers, and the Kingston Trio were some of the people who would come perform. The Yellow Jackets had a great record those seasons and were a bowl team every year. In 1962 the team went to the Blue Bonnet Bowl. Some players had charged things to the room after they lost the game. The people who had over charged the account had to repay…

Tom Brady, a prominent quarterback for the New England Patriots, is one of the National Football League’s (NFL) greatest quarterbacks to have ever played. He excelled in both Football and Baseball, and gave up the opportunity to play professional baseball and attended the University of Michigan instead. Tom Brady led his team to an Orange Bowl victory and set himself up to be selected in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft. A year later, after the starting quarterback for the Patriots was…

important forms of communication human’s use on a daily basis, even if it is not realized. The Super Bowl Baby Legends Ad aims to make the audience, which consists mainly of teenagers, adults, some children, and some elderly to see “Football is Family” when they think of the NFL. In America, since football is a highly popular sport at high schools and colleges, it becomes a habit for fans to watch football. Football is watched almost every day of the week by all different people, and has been…

When comparing professional and college football even though they are the same sport they are different in their own ways. Professional is a chance for a player to have a career and make money, while college is a chance for a player to make a name for themselves. Although professional has football sunday and super bowl parties, it doesn 't offer the same ambiance as college football. College football is all about tailgating, rivalry, and trying to find tickets for the next big game. Money is a…

In its times, “Brian’s Song” was the most iconic made-for-TV movie. ABC strategically placed its premier, utilizing the concept of “flow” to cross-over their normal, stereotypical male Monday Night Football audience, towards the broad audience they were striving for their prime-time football games. Doing this allowed Monday Night Football to become a “consensual space”, thanks to the high viewing rates of the connecting film. These ideas worked with the themes of the movie to construct a…

(NFL History by Decade.) The teams that make it to the Super Bowl are not permitted to play in the Pro Bowl to prevent injuries.(NFL History by Decade.) The Pro Football Hall of Fame opened up in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter enshrinees.(History: Chronology) Every year at the end of the season they elect a certain amount of people to join the Hall of Fame.(History: Chronology) The Pro Football Hall of Fame Game is an annual National Football League exhibition game that is…