Have you ever looked at those animated robots on FOX football games and ads. Initially they looked good when they first started using them.

Now, and I don’t think I need to say it, they just look outstanding. It is really easy to forget they are animations. In truth if they didn’t look like robots, you just might get carried away and think of them as human.

For those unaware, I do jump at the chance to call out bad advertising. However, I also like to call attention to good advertising. In this case, it makes me wonder who came up with the idea of robot football players.

Don’t know about others but I like the idea. Not only that, they carry it out so well. I actually enjoy watching them.

I have noticed that advertisers have a tendency to speak to a products weakness. For instance, when they advertise that something is reliable, I have suspicions it isn’t.

In one instance the advertiser got it right and every time I get a cold, I’m thankful. For years and years I bought the other kind of tissue and suffered the proverbial Rudolf nose.

The first time I heard the ad, I went out and bought some of the Puff’s tissues and I haven’t had sore nose sinse. To be sure, I sniffled and sneezed, but I have not had a sore or red nose.

Okay, call me over-sensitive. I admit it. Still, I am wondering why they didn’t come up with the idea decades earlier.

Several times now, I have noticed that during interviews with football coaches, there’s always an unopened bottle of a softdrink. I would tell you the brand but the didn’t pay me as they likely paid the coach. No fee commercial here.

The thing is, the bottle is never opened. It brings the question to mind, are we supposed to be led to believe that that coach drinks that particular softdrink. I mean, someone likely very carefully set that bottle there beforehand, then removed it after. This, of course, may very well all take place with or without the coach’s knoledge.

My suggestion, then bottle should be partially empty. Maybe even, a glass with the beverage and ice. Thing is…something should be there implying that it is cold and that the coach has or is going to drink it.

Please tell me if I’m wrong.

Of course we all know what the world’s most important invention is, the wheel. There is simply nothing that is used so much everyday in so many ways. It’s a shame there were no patent offices back then.

Oh yes, the second most important. We all know that. I use mine so frequently every day, I simply can’t keep track. Of course, it is the mute button. Not one advertiser can get their childish ads past my mute button, that is, assuming another invention holds up – the battery.

And I never leave my eazy chair.

A man waiting in a dermatologists office with, apparently, a mascot painted on his face. A kid keeps looking at him.

Finally, the man explains, “I used the wrong paint.” The commercial goes on to explain it was a “rookie mistake.”

I suppose it could happen. I don’t know, maybe the commercial was prompted by something that actually happen. At any rate, I loved the little story and I do like Snickers too. The problem is they rarely last that long.