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What makes a good Super Bowl commercial?  One viewpoint : A good commercial does four things well: It’s funny, it’s memorable, it compels you to buy the product, and it leaves you with a more favorable view of the brand . Read that article, it says that GM: No Way Norway , with Will Ferrell, Kenan Thompson and Awkwafina as the best.  Said Amy Schumer's Hellmann's Mayo  was the worst.  All of them can also be seen in this article .  Frankly, I don't agree.  Here is a top ten video .  Also not my choices. A highlight was a pre-game poem by Amanda Gorman .  A Super Bowl first.  She is definitely changing the game of poems. But the Super Bowl was also more than ads and poems:  About those propositions: The national anthem took 2 minutes 16 seconds. Anyone who took my advice and picked KC to win the coin toss and deferred would have won $5 on a $100 bet, or 5 cents if you could have bet $1. If you bet Blue as the Gatorade color at the end of the game, your  $100 would have resul

Super Bowl Sunday is a wonderful day for me.  No politics, ignore the pandemic and be somewhat pious.  So I will start with  comedy .  Sure, that was an atheist, but it was funny. So let me balance this near blasphemy with the most popular religious song in history.  According to this source , it is Amazing Grace , by John Newton.  Absolutely beautiful.  Watch it. But the voice sounded female?  I searched and found this John Newton film, one hour and twenty minutes long, called, The True Story of Amazing Grace  ( the whole movie ).  I checked Rotten Tomatoes, and there was only one film called Amazing Grace , and reviewers only gave it a 26 rating.  Benedict Cumberbatch and Albert Finney star, and TTSOAG did not have them.  Plus, AG was almost two hour long. So went to Wikipedia , and found out that John Newton was born nearly 300 years ago in London, first worked on slave ships, and himself became a slave, of Princess Peye of the Sherbro People ( now Sierra Leone in Africa ).  Newto