The Morning Tailgate for Feb. 3: Best, Worst Super Bowl Commercials

Now that every Super Bowl XLIII commercial has been sent across the office twice-over, many have offered opinions of this year’s bests and worsts. We’re not here to award the "ceremonial tailgate bratwurst" to our favorite commercial. No no. Quite frankly, we thought most of them sucked tailpipe. However, midway through the first quarter, a series of three ads from “Last of the Lost,” Doritos, and Castrol contained different variations of monkeys, and it was a proud moment for primates across the globe. That said, we’re going to give a whole plate of sizzling weenies to the market research team in charge of gauging public interest prior to the Super Bowl. They identified that the people want monkeys. They’re correct. We do want monkeys. Lots of them.  It made the subpar Super Bowl commercial a little less nauseating.   Bonus Monkey Coverage In our list of the all-time commercial greats, we have E-Trade’s ‘99 Super ... (link)