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POLL: Top Super Bowl Commercial of All-Time

Bud Bowl, Mean Joe Greene, the Bud frogs ... what do you think is the best ad ever to air during the NFL title game?

By Robert Fucci
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February 1, 2012

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Mean Joe Greene is in a good mood after swilling down a Coke from a young fan.

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It's been the game within the game. The hottest topic other than what team won and why. And this year should be no different.

Commercials during the Super Bowl tend to keep football-crazed fans glued to their TVs during timeouts. Not so much for the product, but for the genius writing and creativity.

The hype really started with Coco-Cola's ad featuring Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Mean Joe Greene tossing his grimy game shirt to a young fan in 1980. Since then, we've been enthralled with talking frogs, animated beer bottles, the Big Brother-type ad when Apple announced the release of the Macintosh, and others.

So I started to think about which commercials I thought were the most memorable. Here are my choices for all-time greatest Super Bowl commercials.

Agree? Disagree? Take our poll and tell us what you think is the best in our comments section.

What is the all-time best Super Bowl ad?

(Voting has been closed for this question)

Coca-Cola: Mean Joe Greene tosses his game jersey to a young fan.

15 (29%)
Bud Bowl: Remember coach Corbin Bernsen battling Joe Namath in Bud Bowl V?

2 (3%)
Bud--Wei--Ser: Need I say more?

3 (5%)
Apple introduces the MacIntosh: The scene right out of 1984.

8 (15%)
May the Force be with You: Young Darth Vader doesn't need a key to start the car.

16 (31%)
Pepsi's new can: Cindy Crawford helps show off the new design.

0 (0%)
Bud lizards: They could have been huge!

3 (5%)
Other: Tell us in the comments section.

4 (7%)

Total votes: 51

Your vote will only count once. This is not a scientific poll. View Results Vote!

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