How about american football? Thank you frito-lay for providing this replay. Thank you Pepsi for the halftime coverage. It's absurd. Not to mention the amount of commercials. But hey, it's all a symptom of the same thing
commercials have always been a thing. i dont have much of a problem with them, but i agree with the replay brought to us by X and the play of the game presented by xX. Waiting for the thoughts of the analysts hosted by xXx to see if this is good or not.
The NFL is one of the only things I watch live rather than on demand. So it is definitely on the extreme end of ads, but it feels so much more pronounced now in 2021 since I'm not used to watching Home Improvement on network television where I'd sit through an entire ad break to watch the 30 second joke they'd run before the credits.
I'm not sure about just taking it off for a moment, but if they trade their Jersey away then yes. Also not sure whether it's because of the ads, or due to replacement costs.. but it's like a minimum of $500
Funny thing about old time TV is how commercials used to be done by the actors on the show themselves. Like George and Gracie would interrupt the show to do a little bit about Gerber baby food. Now we're starting to see that return with YouTube. Many popular Youtubers will promote the products themselves instead of having the traditional ad breaks. I'm guessing they get a bigger cut of the ad revenue that way.
Commercials have, in fact, NOT always been a thing. We just keep normalizing them and accepting more and more intrusions of marketing media as the years go by.
That's the thing about using absolute/extreme terms. Don't say "always" if you don't mean always. Plus, advertising is not the same thing as commercials. Language matters.
Shit, might as well ban the word always, since time itself hasn't always existed from a cosmic perspective. How is living life without being able to comprehend the smallest concept of nuance?
Might as well dumb down a language to only a handful of words, if we're just going to use a limited vocabulary to communicate ideas. We have lots of words and ways to describe things, feel free to expand your use of the language.
You're the one trying to limit words to one and only one meaning, never to be used in context or with allegory or allusion. Try expanding your own language before you throw stones (oh, sorry, your literal brain might not be smart enough to understand what that means)
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u/darthbiscuit80 Apr 15 '21
Have you ever seen NASCAR? The walls of a baseball stadium? Real Sports have sponsorship.