Mr. Eastwood, I've always liked you, but I have a problem with your Super Bowl ad. See, Clint, it's kind of ignorant to preach about our hurting economy during an ad that:
1. cost Chrysler $16 million ($4m/30 seconds),
2. which ran during an event with one team that last cost $175million to buy,
3. where players, who normally get paid $1M+/year, $9 billion last year in annual revenue and get an additional $88,000/player for winning and $44,000 for losing, a $5,000 ring, plus billions of dollars for product endorsements ($8M/year for Eli Manning, $15M for Peyton), play in a game that
4. goes for $17,000 for some tickets online, $4,000 AVERAGE for regular seats, with
5. $90 million in REPORTED gambling bets, many by
6. fans willing to skip work to attend or stay home the following Monday because of a hang-over while millions are standing hopelessly in unemployment lines and thousands more are homeless because of lay offs and cut-backs...
We're hurting? Really? I don't consider a country full of football fans willing to turn their heads away from such greed and squander as "hurting." That ad was almost as pretentious as the part of Madonna's halftime show where her name was spelled out and chanted by the dancers. And all for a bunch of grown men to throw a ball. I guess I can see how that's much more important than risking one's life arresting gang bangers or fighting terrorists or teaching us how to read and write.
Mr. Eastwood, I've always liked you, but I have a problem with your Super Bowl ad. See, Clint, it's kind of ignorant to preach about our hurting economy during an ad that:
1. cost Chrysler $16 million ($4m/30 seconds),
2. which ran during an event with one team that last cost $175million to buy,
3. where players, who normally get paid $1M+/year, $9 billion last year in annual revenue and get an additional $88,000/player for winning and $44,000 for losing, a $5,000 ring, plus billions of dollars for product endorsements ($8M/year for Eli Manning, $15M for Peyton), play in a game that
4. goes for $17,000 for some tickets online, $4,000 AVERAGE for regular seats, with
5. $90 million in REPORTED gambling bets, many by
6. fans willing to skip work to attend or stay home the following Monday because of a hang-over while millions are standing hopelessly in unemployment lines and thousands more are homeless because of lay offs and cut-backs...
We're hurting? Really? I don't consider a country full of football fans willing to turn their heads away from such greed and squander as "hurting." That ad was almost as pretentious as the part of Madonna's halftime show where her name was spelled out and chanted by the dancers. And all for a bunch of grown men to throw a ball. I guess I can see how that's much more important than risking one's life arresting gang bangers or fighting terrorists or teaching us how to read and write.
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