{"id":13988,"date":"2015-01-31T00:10:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T05:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=13988"},"modified":"2015-01-31T00:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T05:53:55","slug":"cats-puppies-deflated-balls-commercials-and-more-its-gotta-be-super-bowl-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/cats-puppies-deflated-balls-commercials-and-more-its-gotta-be-super-bowl-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats, Puppies, Deflated Balls, Commercials and More – It’s Gotta be Super Bowl Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"

And just like that \u2013 here it is, Super Bowl weekend. Before I get this post going, let me set the record straight for you. While I do watch football and enjoy it, I am by no means an expert on the sport. As a matter of fact, the only way I know if a team has done something good or bad is based on the tone of the voice of the announcer. In order to keep up with which team is winning, I have to look at the score posted on the top left side of my TV screen. And if the uniform colors of the teams playing one another are similar, I know even less about what is going on.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that I couldn’t learn the mechanics of the game, I probably could, I just prefer not to. I just beat to my own drum like that. I’ve been to actual games, I ran a football pool at work back in the day, and I\u2019m always a loyal fan to wherever I live at the moment. Which means for the past 21 years, the Miami Dolphins have been disappointing me. <\/p>\n

\"SuperBowl-Rolz\"<\/a>

Rolz might be wearing a Patriots cap, but the only loyalty he has is to the pizza delivery person!<\/p><\/div>\n

Since they are not in the Super Bowl (even though ironically they were one of the few teams that beat the Patriots this year), it leaves me with the dilemma of who to root for. Normally if my home team isn’t playing, I just root for whatever team has a cat name in it, but that logic won\u2019t work this year. And to make matters even more convoluted, Dan and my stepdaughters are from Boston \u2013 clearly that is Patriot territory. Not to mention, Zeuss Catt lives in Boston. But the Patriots are one of the Dolphins biggest rivalries and I just don\u2019t have any connection to Seattle.<\/p>\n

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My cats and possibly a bowl of popcorn… That’s all I really need to watch a football game. Now who’s playing again?<\/p><\/div>\n

I guess I\u2019ll just sit on the couch and watch TV, surrounded by my cats, like I do any other night and see what happens. That\u2019s always a win for me no matter what. And then there is the drama of both #GoDaddyPuppy and \u201cDeflate-Gate.\u201d Personally, I had no idea there was so much to know about footballs. I didn’t care previously and I still don\u2019t care, but if rules are being broken, that\u2019s not right. The only rules that are meant to be broken, are those set by cats. I think we can all agree on that.<\/p>\n

\"3-Zee\"<\/a>

Deflated footballs? What’s that all about? Hmmm…. what about this toy of mine?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2-Zee<\/a>

Zee takes the stuffing in his toys very seriously… Has there been stuffing tampering in the Zee\/Zoey household?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"1-Zee\"<\/a>

He hits himself over the head to determine if the toy has the right amount of stuffing for playtime… Too much and it hurts, too little and it’s just a sad toy without stuffing…<\/p><\/div>\n

\"4-Zee\"<\/a>

The verdict? Whew! No tampering – let the playtime resume!!<\/p><\/div>\n

As far as the GoDaddy commercial about Buddy the puppy that was supposed to run during the Super Bowl and has gotten pulled, that gets me much more riled up than a deflated football. In this ad, Buddy, a Golden Retriever puppy, is seen falling out of the back of a moving pick-up truck, which is already enough of a penalty in my mind. Buddy then manages to fight traffic and heavens know what other elements to find his way back to the only home he knows, whereby he gets the surprise of life to find out his owners are happy to see him, but only because they have sold him on a website they created on GoDaddy.<\/p>\n

The outrage from animal lovers came loud and quick and \u2013 most believed the ad inadvertently promoted puppy mills and immediately a petition was created on Change.org, with thousands of signatures to follow to pull the ad. While I truly don\u2019t believe the ad was created with the intention of promoting puppy mills, it certainly wasn’t created with any indication of\u00a0responsibility either. From allowing the puppy to casually be riding in the back of a pick-up (which is illegal in several states) to not clearly defining if the puppy was raised with a refutable breeder, to the point thousands of dogs and puppies in shelters need good homes, the commercial was an epic fail in every sense.<\/p>\n

I for one am not a fan of exploiting animals for the sake of entertainment (i.e., consumer sales). Perhaps if there were a larger message tucked within the concept, there would be some merit, but there was not. An apology by was issued by GoDaddy CEO and Board Director, Blake Irving, who said the ad was made\u00a0with the intention of creating awareness for small businesses to help them succeed.<\/p>\n

The easy formula of using a cute puppy to pull at people’s heartstrings backfired big time and conveniently, a replacement ad lay in wait. Does anyone win this one? Well, in an ironic sense, public awareness on puppy mills has increased significantly, which is a good thing. Does GoDaddy win? That’s hard to say. Some people will pull their sites from the company to send a message, some might not use them at all for future projects, some won’t care at all, and most people will probably forget about the whole thing in a week or two. Is it all worth the 4.4 million dollars the ad spot for 30 seconds cost them?<\/p>\n

Truthfully, I miss the old days when Super Bowls were just regular super and not the current super, over the top super where the money spent on halftime entertainment and commercial spots could probably cause a significant dent in solving such issues as feeding starving nations, sheltering the homeless, finding a cure for cancer, and funding animal shelters and rescues worldwide. But what do I know\u2026 I still have hope the Dolphins will go to the Super Bowl again one year\u2026<\/p>\n

\"PatsDolphins\"<\/a>

Memories of simpler times… Going to a Dolphins\/Patriot game back in 2009 that the Dolphins actually won! L to R – my son Chris, me, my stepdaughter Crystal, Dan, and family friend, Stephanie. Of\u00a0note – \u00a0even though we were in Miami, I am the ONLY ONE rooting for the Dolphins. Even Chris who has lived in Florida since 1993 was rooting for the Patriots… Take about awkward when sitting in the stadium…<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And just like that \u2013 here it is, Super Bowl weekend. Before I get this post going, let me set the record straight for you. While I do watch football and enjoy it, I am by no means an expert on the sport. As a matter of fact, the only way I know if a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365],"tags":[1265,946,945,258,947,948,944],"class_list":["post-13988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat-humor","tag-cats","tag-commercials","tag-godaddy","tag-patriots","tag-puppies","tag-seahawks","tag-super-bowl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2-Zee-copy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13988"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14002,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13988\/revisions\/14002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}