Super Bowl Ugly on All Levels

Chris delivers a scathing critique of this year’s Super Bowl spectacle. In his no-holds-barred rant, he takes aim at $38 million Jeep ads, disjointed commercials, and a halftime show full of empty gimmicks. Markowski compares today's ad game to old Mad Men pitches and laments how modern NFL advertising is missing the mark on quality and creativity. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
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investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Super Bowl pretty ugly at all levels. Yeah, the game
was game was bad. Okay, that happens from time to time.
But you know, often they find a way to keep
you engaged. Maybe the commercials are going to be half
interesting again. I spent most of the evening doing prep work. Anyway. Yeah,

(00:44):
there's a great mad Men episode. They Dom Draper and Roger.
They go to some party, they get some ad award
kleios I don't even know, something like that, and they
come back to the offers hammered, hammered, and Dom Draper
is there. He's got to give a pitch, he's got

(01:06):
to give a pitch for life cereal, and he's given
a pitch and he's just hammered. He's like, burp, it's funny,
and he's trying to give this pitch. And then the
people in lives here like, well, we like it, but
it's a little heady, and you know, they everybody, you know,
they see the count executive there sees that, you know,

(01:27):
he's drunk and wants to get the life Ceerial people
out and Donald come back to you a little bit later,
and Don just starts coming up with these ridiculous pitches.
It was like the commercials from yesterday. My god, I
mean CeAl really, I like his music. I do. I
like a lot of the few as arms are fantastic.

(01:47):
What did you do? Man? Yeah, an actual will see that.
You know, I did not have that on my card
as something that was gonna happen. Most of the commercials,
quite frankly, I didn't even know what the hell they
were selling. I didn't know. And again, if I don't know,

(02:08):
if they're you know, these are just how bad ad
execs are in this day and age. I you know,
if I was the CEO of some of these companies
and I saw what was put out you didn't have
a hand on that, I'd be firing people left, right
and all over the place. You know, some people are thought, well,
you know that Harrison Ford ad for jeep and it
was you know, raw raw America jeep ads. You know,

(02:31):
they spent that entire at thirty eight million dollars thirty
eight million dollars. The problem with Jeep and the reason
why they've been doing so well is their jeeps are
too freaking expensive. But I'm going I spend sixty five
seventy grand on a Jeep Wrangler for crying out loud.

(02:53):
Yeah yeah, And they went in with that electric crap too.
That didn't work out too well. Again, I'm trying to
calculate my head how many jeeps they got to sell
above them, beyond what they were going to sell anyway
to justify spending thirty eight million dollars on a freaking advertisement. Actually,
one one ad I found clever was the the David

(03:15):
Beckham ad with Matt Damon. That one was kind of
clever Stella utoa, but overall just horrible. And that the
half time show. You know what I was doing during halftime?
I was texting my kids halftime shows that were good.

(03:38):
Remember you two back in two thousand and two, after
September eleventh, the show that they put up prints. I
remember what, I can't remember what your princes did his shay,
I mean, off the charts. I don't even know what
in the world I was wrong. Again. Roger Goodell makes
like twenty five thirty and again I get at the

(03:59):
NFL prints money in today's day and age, live sports,
whatever it may be, and it's where the advertising dollars go.
How do you how do you think that that would
resonate with the entire country. You couldn't have found something
I don't know that maybe might appeal to almost everyone.

(04:21):
I did one song, that's it when I'm wrong, one
song I recognized. I don't know Kendrick Lamar. It was
the song from Black Panther. That was it. I don't
know what he was trying to do a type of
artsy crap while all of a sudden, Serena Williams is
dancing around up there. I find out later it's kind
of a diss to drink again. What is with these

(04:42):
dishes of other artists that you guys love doing nowadays?
I don't get it. Don't get it, you know, I
don't recall the Stones writing a disc track to the Beatles,
you know, led Zeppelin wasn't right and disc I mean,
it's just so stupid. But anyway, in today's day and age, again,

(05:02):
stupid seems to rain in any way shape, metaform, but
overall pretty ugly on all levels. Watchdog on Wall street
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