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\"Top<\/a>I have to admit I’m NOT a sports person. To me unless you’re actually playing the sport, or one of your close friends or relatives is in the game, then watching sports events is about as exciting as watching paint dry. There’s one exception — The Super Bowl — and that’s because of the commercials.<\/p>\n

Today I found this list of the Ten Most Memorable Super Bowl Ads<\/a>. They have some of the ones I consider memorable: The Apple 1984 ad, the Go-Daddy ad, and the Zeroxing Monk.<\/p>\n

However, they didn’t list my personal favorite — EDS’s ad on Herding Cats.
\nPerhaps the reason I like this commercial so much is that for years as a software developer\/analyst, help desk support, and all round Jill-of-all-techie-trades, I felt like I was herding cats — big cats, big mutant cats — but cats worth the trouble. So while others may have looked forward to the game, I’m looking forward to the commercials — and I can wait until after the game when they come out on the Internet. Why suffer through that drying paint just to see some great commercials?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to admit I’m NOT a sports person. To me unless you’re actually playing the sport, or one of your close friends or relatives is in the game, then watching sports events is about as exciting as watching paint dry. There’s one exception — The Super Bowl — and that’s because of the commercials. 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