Top Five Best and Worst Super Bowl Commercials

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Rachael Kriger, Sports Editor

The sounds of bags of chips opening, the smell of pizza, and the bright colors of jerseys only means one thing: game day. However, all of those preparations get more serious when it comes to the Super Bowl. A preparation, besides food, that gets even more serious, or just plain out ridiculous, is the Super Bowl commercials.

Super Bowl 50 delivered some really great commercials this year that had the whole room laughing, but also some that had the masses saying “Huh?” However, at least this year, we didn’t have any dying children. In place, we had the “Super Bowl babies.”

Here are my rankings for the best five commercials from Super Bowl 50.

5. Pantene: “Burly men get gentle”

This one hit a soft spot for me because of DeAngelo Williams. Williams, the Cowboy’s Jason Witten, and the Saint’s Benjamin Watson are all shown doing their daughters hair. The best part? Williams telling her daughter that “strong is beautiful.”

4. Skittles: “The Portrait”

Skittles nailed that portrait of Steven Tyler. Or… maybe they didn’t. Tyler’s reaction to the portrait had everyone in the room I was in laughing.

3. Hyundai: “The First Date”

Any time you see Kevin Hart, you instantly know whatever it is you’re watching is going to be funny. Hart played the role of an overprotective dad, who allows his daughter’s date to take his car. Hart tracks down their every move and watches all they do. The scene ends with a startled young man giving Hart his keys back in fear of his dad antics.

2. Doritos: “Ultrasound”

Easily picked a top three, Doritos did it again delivering the laughs. An ultrasound appointment gets annoying for a wife as her husband is eating Doritos. The husband then notices that the baby in the womb is reaching for the Doritos. The wife and doctor seem to catch on, looking at the screen very confused. The wife then takes the Doritos and throws them across the room which causes the child to come out of her. Note to all the guys out there. If you’re ever expecting a child, don’t eat Doritos at the ultrasound.

1. Honda: “A New Truck To Love”

Definitely my top favorite, the Honda commercial shows sheep in a pasture singing along to Queen’s “Somebody to Love.” When the farmer comes back, the sheep silence, only to have the radio playing the Queen song. Once the truck leaves, the sheep start back up with the singing once more. Sheep singing to Queen? Now that’s a great commercial.

As for the worst commercials of the Super Bowl, and they were pretty bad, Heinz, as hard it was for a Pittsburgh native to pick, was the worst. Heinz’ commercial showed people dressed in condiments costumes to be jumped on by wiener dogs, dressed up as hot dogs. A lot of other websites picked Heinz’s commercial to be one of their favorites, but for myself, and other members in the room, there were a lot of blank faces.

As for other honorable mentions for worst commercial, Mountain Dew’s “Puppymonkeybaby” takes the cake along with Snicker’s “Marilyn,” T-Mobile’s commercial with rapper Drake “The Smiling Sellout,” and the NFL’s “Super Bowl babies.”