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Top three Super Bowl commercials

Top three Super Bowl commercials

On Super Bowl Sunday, there are two types of people in America: those who watch the biggest football game of the year to actually watch the biggest football game of the year, and those who stick around for the puppies and celebrities that grace our screens in between the tackling. As one of the latter, I thought I’d share the three commercials that I think made touchdowns of their own this year.

1. Bud Light’s Real Life PacMan

Besides the sheer awesomeness of a life-size PacMan game, the work that went into these 90 seconds earned it a spot on my list. According to the behind the scenes video, everything was done to the scale of the original maze. The creators even accounted for the floating quality of the ghosts by having them wear roller skates under their costumes.

  1. Always #LikeAGirl

This commercial evoked emotions, but what set it apart in my mind from all of the other tear-jerking ads of the night was that it turned those emotions into a call to action to “make #LikeAGirl mean amazing things.” Unlike many others, this commercial had a mission, and to that I say: mission accomplished.

3. Budweiser’s “Lost Dog”

With Budweiser’s ad about an adorable yellow lab getting lost and equally adorable clydesdales rescuing him being the most watched Super Bowl spot this year, it should come as no surprise that it was my favorite, too. This commercial shows that no matter who the friendship is between – man and man, man and dog or horse and dog – one friend will always have the other’s back when he or she is in a rough patch (or in this case, a field where hungry wolves are lurking). Besides, the ad is just too darn cute to not love eternally.

 

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Claudia Chen, Features Editor
From the time she could talk, Claudia Chen ’16 was always keeping herself busy whether it was scoring points on the tennis court or writing stories and poems. At a young age Chen ’16 knew she wanted to be a writer. She would write poems and stories on whatever she could get her hands on. She said, “One time I tried to write a novel and I was so excited”, Chen ’16 said while laughing, “70 pages into it and I swear it made zero sense.” This her second year writing for Inklings and she couldn’t be more excited to bring her love of writing to Inklings. She believes that Inklings is a great opportunity to practice her writing skills in a realistic sense. When Chen ’16 isn’t writing you can find her on a tennis court. She hasn’t played for Staples tennis but she’s hoping to in the spring. She likes to de-stress on the tennis court and have a good time. She sounds like your all-American girl but that’s not the case. Her parents were born in China resulting in Chen’s first language being Chinese. It doesn’t just end there; her grandparents come from Austria. She loves the idea that she comes from so many different cultures. As hard as Chen ’16 works, she wants to make the most of junior year and have a good time being an upper-classmen. As hard as she works on her serves in tennis and critiquing her writing skills she says what she hopes to get out of life is, “It sounds cheesy but I want to know that I made a difference in at least one person’s life.” That’s a goal we should all strive for. Claudia Chen ’16 could not be more excited for what her junior year holds.