That is correct. Super Bowl XXIV was and still is the
most lopsided point spread difference in game history. That's right, on
January 28, 1990 the San Francisco 49ers were pitted against the Denver
Broncos for an ultimate 55 to 10 victory...a 45 point spread difference.
San Francisco's 55 points were the most ever scored by one team, and their 45-point margin of victory was the largest ever. The 49ers are also the only team to score at least eight Super Bowl touchdowns and at least two touchdowns in each quarter (only missed the extra point attempt).
But there's another reason that Super Bowl XXIV was more than a lopsided score. For me, it was a dream come true. 'Cause this Super Bowl, we had a Dog-in-the-Race...On Camera no less. Yes, this year marks the 35th anniversary of the "Humongous Gas & Electric" spot
for the Oil Heat Institute. I never knew that there was a OHI, but boy am I happy there was...is. The Humongous spot was now super recognizable...once upon a time. I played an 'on camera'
character named: Bob Davis - number 247-27A. He was a wimped-out customer type who was calling the big,
bad Gas & Electric company 'cause there wasn't any heat. And the Big Brother Conglomerate could care less and treated Bob just like the lowly number he was. Check it out below.
I had a ball doing the spot and had a chance to work with Bill Bryden, no that's not him as the bald dude in the video, but the star voice of those "Oxy Five" (prepubescent pimple) spots. We went from cloud nine to cloud ten when we learned later that year the spot had won a Clio, the Ad Industry's Oscar equivalent.
So that's one millennium...not to be outdone we had some luck in this millennia with a spot in Super Bowl 54 in 2020.
Not as Bob, but Oh'bother - Pooh. We were featured in ad agency - Fantastic Plastic's
TV spots or end tags, played on Superbowl LIV, February 2nd, 2020. The
VoiceOver was for the Damson Auto Dealerships in the Southeast half of the
country. We managed a Winnie-the-Pooh sound-a-like that was in good
form. Here's the full Damson Automotive Grp spot with its run a few months earlier.
We blogged about some of this last year. Then, it was more about my new step-dad, who coincidentally also had a Super Bowl dog-in-the-race as well. He was a creative directors creative director. An original Mad Man. It's been more than a bit freaky to be reunited with my birth mom. To learn that she married the coolest dude in advertising was like - Good Gosh. Do you believe my step-daddy came up with the Leggo-My-Eggo slogan or This Bud's for You, Coke is It or my mom's all time fav - Fly the Friendly Skies of United ? Way...Cool!
On the United spot, that's
the voice of a tinder Gene Hackman, in the day, paying tribute to the
inspirational words my step father coined against the vibes of a
Gershwin sound-track, that instilled a campaign at the ad agency Leo Burnett. “ Fly the Friendly Skies of United” was first introduced in 1965. The tagline was used for over 30 years before it was retired when the airline parted ways with the agency.
Check it out at: This Bud's for You
Also check out Don't Die. It's being offered as a Sundance contender.
Don't Die is film about centimillionaire Bryan Johnson, a 46-year-old tech entrepreneur, who's obsessed with letting AI determine his health regimen to de-age himself.
He has spent millions on a team of
experts with the goal of making his organs look and act like those of an
18-year-old through a strict diet,which he combines with a one-hour
exercise regimen, a rigid bedtime routine, blood transfusions and daily
health tests.
Just Completed for Apple-Tv - Stefan had let me know about a docu-series called Con Queen. He did the Main Title Animation, along with graphics & animation - Not a bad feather either, to be picked up by Apple.
Eternal Values
is another docu-series Stefan has completed about a new age
cult of supermodels in the 90s, run by Frederick Von Meiers. As a cult
leader of the group Eternal Values, Frederick Von Mierers, claimed to be
an alien from the star Arcturus. Mierers believed in impending doom and
that he and his fellow aliens had been sent here to help earthlings.
And Monkey Business (not a remake of the 1952 version with Cary Grant nd Ginger Rogers) is a doc about the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT scandal. Stefan's on the job but aspects are still in development. We'll follow up as soon as we hear further. Or you can always go to Stefan's IMDb page.
