Top 3 Super Bowl Commercials

An ad created by 2 Minneapolis filmmakers was not only the most watched Super Bowl commercial — seen by 116 million people — but also our pick for the “Best Super Bowl Ad.” Doritos “Snack Attack Samurai” was submitted in a Doritos contest and cost less than $1,000 to produce. Another Doritos ad, “House Rules” was second and the Snickers’ commercial featuring Betty White grabbed the third spot.

1. Doritos “Snack Attack Samurai”

2. Doritos “House Rules”

3. Snickers “Betty White” commercial

When Those Saints Go Marching In!

New Orleans’ citizens celebrate their Super Bowl win in a way perhaps only they can. Jazz musicians playing from the back of pickup trucks, riders on public buses chanting the “Who Dat?” cheer, and grown men crying. After so many losing seasons and Hurricane Katrina, was there ever a city that so richly deserved a Super Bowl win?

THIS IS HOW YOU CELEBRATE A SUPER BOWL WIN — Magazine Street in New Orleans moments after the New Orleans Saints upset the Indianapolis Colts to win the Super Bowl

Saints Superbowl Victory Celebration from Cottage Films on Vimeo.

Brett Favre celebrates Cowboys win by singing “Pants on the Ground”

“Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, looking like a fool with your pants on the ground,” starts the song sung by “General” Larry Platt at an American Idol audition.  Brett Favre did his rendition of the song in the Vikings’ locker room after Minnesota’s victory over the Dallas Cowboys.  Plant appeared on The View Monday morning to perform again as the song has become a YouTube sensation.

Watch Brett Favre sing “Pants on the Ground”

Larry Platt’s rendition of “Pants on the Ground” on American Idol

While Favre does a nice post game celebration, he’ll have to bring a little bit more to his pre-game cheers to match Drew Brees. See Drew Brees’ “This is New Orleans” cheer.

A Football Game About Hope (2008)

Gainesville State is a maximum-security correctional facility in Texas with some 290 males ages 12-19 years-old. For the Tornadoes, every game is a road game and the only Tornadoes fans are the ones that come with them. For their 2008 season finale against Faith Christian School in Grapevine, the Tornadoes brought 20 faculty and staff members.

Per David Thomas in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram,

“Faith coach and athletic director Kris Hogan wanted his school to show support for the Gainesville State players, who had earned their spots on the team by serving at least half of their sentence, passing their classes and committing no behavior incidents.

Hogan e-mailed Faith parents during the week requesting that they form a spirit line for their opponents, then asking for some to sit in the Gainesville State stands during the game and cheer the Tornadoes as though they were their team.

Hogan said he wanted to “make sure the kids knew that there were more people on their side than just their faculty at Gainesville State School.”

About 200 Faith fans — possibly more than were seated on the home side — stood and cheered the Tornadoes when their kickoff return team took the field to start the game.”

The support showed to the Gainesville State players had a big impact.  Although the team lost the game, the players according to the coach were, “one step from heaven.”  A great act of sportsmanship staarted by athletic director Kris Hogan made this sports feel good story one for everyone to remember.

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Fort Worth Star-Telgram article by David Thomas

Boise State Football: Trick Plays and Bowl Wins

A 4th quarter fake punt propelled Boise State to a 17 – 10 win over the TCU Horned Frogs in the Fiesta Bowl this year.  Boise State finished the season with an unblemished 14 & 0 record.

It wasn’t the first time Boise State Head Coach Chris Petersen turned to his bag of trick plays to surprise an opponent.  Boise State beat Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl in 2007.  The 43–42 overtime win was highlighted by Petersen’s imaginative play calling at the end of the game including:   A 50-yard hook-and-lateral play call on 4th-and-18 which resulted in a tying touchdown with just 7 seconds left in regulation, an option pass (off a direct snap to a receiver) on 4th-and-2 in overtime, and a Statue of Liberty play for the two-point conversion.  The two-point conversion enabled Boise State to win the game in OT.

To own a 14 & 0 record, Boise State had to play a lot of smart, fundamental football.  It’s refreshing to see a coach who is also willing to take some bold chances with some unconventional play calling when games are on the line.

Boise State’s Fake Punt video

For the the three trick plays Boise State used to beat Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, go here: Boise State’s Trifecta of Trick Plays

Is “The Blind Side” one of the top inspirational sports movies of all time?

The movie “The Blind Side,” based on the book by Michael Lewis, took in an amazing $34.5 million in its opening weekend at theaters. The movie tells the story of Baltimore Ravens’ first round pick Michael Oher. A homeless teenager, Oher was adopted by the Tuohy family in Memphis, Tennessee. Sandra Bullock plays the Leigh Anne Tuohy role, and this movie opened stronger than any other Bullock release. It’s also receiving strong votes from most critics.

But where does it stack up related to other inspirational sports movies? Please comment below and let us know if you think it cracks our list of top inspirational sports movies. Where should it be on the list? Or, should it be on it at all?

Sports Feel Good Stories “Top 20 inspirational sports movies”

1. Hoosiers
2. Remember the Titans
3. Cinderella Man
4. Miracle
5. Rocky
6. Seabiscuit
7. Field of Dreams
8. Rudy
9. Coach Carter
10. Brian’s Song
11. Friday Night Lights
12. Bend it like Beckham
13. Glory Road
14. The Rookie
15. We are Marshall
16. Finding Forrester
17. Bull Durham
18. Chariots of Fire
19. Breaking Away
20. The Natural

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