RealClearSports.com compiled the top 10 annoying commercial ads for Super Bowl XLIII.
3. Coke Zero: Mean Troy
Why tamper with a classic? For some reason Coke Zero felt the need to remake the “Mean” Joe Greene Coke commercial that is thought of as one of the greatest ads of all time. The updated version, which features Troy Polamalu, will not receive the same acclaim. The whole thing seems forced, and at the end, they try to save it with violence, but even that wasn’t well done.1. Budweiser: Clydesdale Circus
Pick any one of the Budweiser commercials. For some reason the people at Bud continue to think that we care about their horses. In the most annoying of the ads they detail the ancestry of one Budweiser Clydesdale, who happens to be Scottish, despite representing an original American company. In another one, a Budweiser Clydesdale is driven by love to follow a dancing show-horse to the circus, and run away with her. Unless their plan is to make the viewer so angry that it drives them to drinking, we’re not sure what they are thinking.
I’m with RCS.com on the Budweiser Clydesdale Circus ad. Enough with the horses already, huh?
But I thought the Polamalu commercial was pretty funny and I didn’t find it annoying at all, although I understand why some would be perturbed that it messed with the classic original. The CareerBuilder.com “Tips” commercial (which ranked No. 10 on RCS’s list) was more annoying than most of the ads aired Sunday night.
