Watching the Super Bowl just for the sake of seeing the newest ads has become an openly accepted practice. What was once a ploy used to get more eyes on America’s biggest sporting event is now a multi-million dollar industry whose sheer intrigue rivals that of the big game itself.
From Peyton Manning’s pursuit of the title of greatest quarterback ever to the city of New Orleans rising from the ashes on the backs of their Saints, Super Bowl XLIV has more plot lines than a daytime soap. Still, the biggest talking points leading up to Super Sunday revolves around an ad featuring a kid who has yet to play in the NFL and his mom’s life altering decision.
After the game is played there will be the obligatory discussions of which ads were the best and which were the worst. Every year there are also the handful which will never see the light of day again, forever locked away in a vault with the Zapruder film and copies of Ishtar on betamax.
Some, like this PETA ad which didn’t make the cut for Super Bowl XLIII, won’t even make it to broadcast. Thanks to the modern miracle of the internet, nothing remains hidden for long, allowing us to see ads which have been deemed unfit for public consumption.
Here are five ads that you won’t be seeing this Sunday.
Bud Light – Clothing Drive Gone Wrong
Career Builder – Is Flatulence in the Workplace Considered Harassment?
Go Daddy – The King of Banned Super Bowl Ads Introduces Lola
KGB – Don’t Get Caught With Your Head Up Your Ass
Man Crunch – The Dating Service CBS Doesn’t Want You to Know About
Chris Shellcroft is the lead blogger for Just Blog Baby, occasional contributor on Lake Show Life and an all around righteous dude. You can follow him on Twitter.
