Mike Hughes on TV

My Super Bowl view: It was definitely the best one ever.

It was tough, taut, muscular, kinetic. It was filled with action, excitement and stardom.

Also, the game was OK.

What I'm talking about, of course, is the Bruce Springsteen halftime show. In Super Bowl halftime standards, it was twice as good as the Rolling Stones, three times as good as Paul McCartney. Even if Janet Jackson's exposure had been doubled, Springsteen's show would have been better. Maybe.

The hour-long "Office" that followed the game was also a winner. It started wonderfully, faded a little during the "roast" portions, then ended well. The mini-movie inside the episode was only so-so -- Jessica Alba, who was supposed to be one of its stars -- was barely in it at all, but the rest was often terrific. 

Some other Super Bowl thoughts:

1) It's supposed to be called the Bridgestone halftime show, which is OK with me, because I loved the Bridgestone commercials. Especially the Mr. Potato Head one. The worst part of any car accident is when your lips fall down a cliff.

2) We're also supposed to refer to the G halftime report, but I won't. I really don't like the notion of changing Gator Aid to G. As far as G is concerned, I think it's a spot, not a drink. I'm just glad Pepsi didn't turn into P.

3) Speaking of commercials, I've got to go now and drive a car wildly. That's the collective effect of car commercials and "Fast and the Furious" ads.

4) My favorite commercial, though, was from monster.com. (The boss gets the moose head in his office suite; the worker gets the rest of the moose. Most people know the feeling.) Or the witty take-off of Coke's Mean Joe Greene commercial.

5) Incidentally, this Super Bowl XLIII included movie ads for "Land of the Lost," "Transformers" and "G.I. Joe." Did somebody lose the L and think this was Super Bowl XIII?

6) You probably noticed this already, but Faith Hill and Jennifer Hudson are great singers.

7) I get tired just watching a supersized lineman run 100 hards with an interception. When they run it over and over, I'm exhausted.

8) NBC listed only Andrea Kremer as working the sidelines, but it had a second person. She instantly broke two rules: When covering a football game, don't mention F. Scott Fitzgerald. If you do, don't give the impression that you have no idea who he was. Except maybe that he wrote a Brad Pitt movie.

9) Speaking of NBC, there was immense creativity in it promos. I'd like to see more of that in the NBC shows.

10) That was more than fair. Kurt Warner got a trophy before the game started. (It was the Walter Peython being-a-nice person award.) So he didn't need to win the game, did he?