Taking aim at the best and worst of movies and television.
If you're a regular DFW.com reader, you know we love telling stories in NCAA-style brackets. (That's actually how we picked the name of our first kid!)
So naturally, when the annual discussion of Super Bowl ads came up this year, we couldn't resist seeding our favorites into a Sweet 16 of Super Bowl ads.
Despite all the hype surrounding them and the millions spent on them, very few Super Bowl ads are classics. But a few instantly come to mind, like MacIntosh's groundbreaking 1984, and Coke's Mean Joe Greene. But it took some head-scratching -- and a little bit of digging before we narrowed our field to 16.
Among them you'll find classics but also some recent ads, such as that hilarious Snickers commercial featuring Betty White and Volkwagen's The Force, and, of course, no bracket would be complete without at least a few Budweiser commercials.
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As with any bracket, some deserving teams got left out. Call them the Bubble ads. (Feel free to tell us who we missed in the comments below.) But much like in the NFL, not every 8-8 team can make the playoffs (sorry, Cowboys fans).
Click on the links below to watch the ads -- and cast your vote! Since this is a bracket, we'll be eliminating ads as we go along; first-round voting ends at noon Monday.
(1) MacIntosh, '1984' vs. (16) Doritos, 'Pug Attack'
(2) Coca-Cola, "Mean Joe Greene" vs. (15) CareerBuilder.com
(3) Snickers, "Betty White" vs. (14) Pepsi, "Gotta Have It"
(4) Budweiser, "Clydesdale Respect" vs. (13) Chrysler, "Imported From Detroit"
(5) Volkswagen, "The Force" vs. (12) Xerox, "Monks"
(6) Budweiser, 'Wassup' vs. (11) Monster.com, 'When I Grow Up'
(7) Wendy's, "Where's the Beef?" vs. (10) Budweiser, "Frogs"
