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December 5, 2008 8:00 pm CST

Super commercials? Bah -where’s Warren Wallace?

by Charlie Turner

I'm Charlie Turner co-host of the syndicated, mostly NASCAR radio show On Pit Row. Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. Oh yeah, Steve is an idiot.

February 4, 2008 2:00 pm CST 2 Comments

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I think that the Super Bowl was as much about the commercials as it is the football game for most non-east coasters.

That’s the way it has been around the day job for me today. Sure, there was some talk about a pretty great game, along with griping about the fact that all we’ll hear from the talking sports-heads for the next eight months is how great the New York Football Giants are. As if the Yankees-Red Sox bias wasn’t enough to turn Middle-American stomachs.

That part didn’t really last too long though. After about an hour of game talk the topic switched totally to the commercials. You know….

“Which one was you favorite? That dancing gecko - Thriller spot was hilarious. No, no, the caveman spot with the bottle-opener did it for me…”

Nobody does geckos and cavemen better than the Geico people. Their Warren, or is Lauren Wallace commercials are still my favorites. There was no sign of Warren during the Super Bowl, but I have to believe Geico has some new adventures of Warren Wallace in store for us over the next couple weeks - I hope.

In fact the only NASCAR spot that I saw was the one by Fox for their Daytona 500 broadcast, and it was pretty cool. I guess there was a Dale Junior Amp Energy Drink commercial, but I missed it just like Bob. You can check it out at the Ranting and Raving blog.

Where’s Warren?

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