MyNorthwest’s guide to Super Bowl Sunday

What are you looking forward to on Sunday? The Patriots-Giants match up? The food? The commercials? The comradery?

Whether it’s only about the football, or the get together has just as much meaning, here is your Super Bowl Sunday guide from MyNorthwest.com

Listen

Rob Gronkowski’s impact on Patriots offense

David Boze

I love Super Bowl commercials. Even if the game is boring, I’ll wait around to see if a commercial is a hit. Bathroom breaks are during extra-points, not commercial breaks.

GoDaddy.com commercials consider “seductive” to be, “HEY! Large BREASTS are on our website!!!” LAME!!! This next commercial used sexuality to much greater effect….

See all of David’s favorite 2012 Super Bowl commercials here.

Geekwire

The big game is almost upon us, and of course, there is an app for that.

A new app called “Super Ads” is available on iTunes for $1.99 where you can watch every Super Bowl commercial from as far back as 2006. As new commercials are aired during Super Bowl Sunday, the app will be updated with each ad from the broadcast.

Although Todd Bishop listed it as his “App of the Week”, he says the price might be a bit too steep considering you can find all the ads online for free.

“I was actually reluctant to recommend it for that reason,” said Bishop. “If you really want to see the ads you can go on YouTube and in fact that’s where they get most of their content, even though they supplement it with some extra descriptions.”

>>>Listen to Geekwire

Jim Moore

If you’ve ever tuned into “The Kevin Calabro Show,” I’m sure I’ve mentioned pointspreads and betting on football from time to time.

I don’t bring it up all that often because it still strikes me as a “taboo” topic even though it’s a multi-million-dollar industry in Las Vegas and on the Internet. Part of the mega-interest in the NFL comes from fans who love to bet on the games.

The Super Bowl is the biggest sports-betting event of the year. Most everyone knows the line on the game — the Patriots are favored by 3. The “smart” money will be on the Giants. I’m calling it “smart” money because that’s where my money will be. If the Patriots win by 4 or more, my wager on the Giants will henceforth be called “dumb” money or money that has completely disappeared.

Ready all of the Go 2 Guy’s betting guide here.

Listen

Brock Huard schools Dave Ross about Super Bowl XLVI

97.3 KIRO FM

Super Bowl Parties are fun … but they can also be costly if one of your guests gets into an accident afterwards …

“If someone get hammered at your Super Bowl party and you know it and you let them leave your home and drive, you could be negligent,” said Karl Newman with the Northwest Insurance Council.

Negligence is key in liability suits that could reach into the millions if someone gets in a serious accident.

Newman suggests not being afraid to cut people off if they’ve had too much … and make alternate arrangements for people to get home … and maybe even offering them a place to spend the night.

-Report by Bob Larson

TBTL

Other than football this Sunday, you should only have two other concerns, commercials and food.

The host of the Sporkful podcast, Dan Pashman, is a football fan also concerned with being an excellent host. He says it’s important to make sure your food is something you can prepare in advance and something people can serve themselves.

“Mi casa es su casa!” Pashman tells TBTL. “Take whatever you want, the kitchen is yours, there is hot soup or stew on the stove.”

Whether it means sandwiches that are pre-made or sliced up, or if it’s chili or stew in a crock pot, you should put out the bowls and plates, silverware, and serving utensils before guests arrive at the party.

Find Pashman’s Red, White and Blue nacho suggestions and listen to his interview with TBTL here.

Ross & Burbank

Heading into Super Bowl weekend, it’s important to brush up on your Super Bowl ad knowledge. See how well you do with the Ross and Burbank Super Bowl ad quiz.

1. The famous 1980 Coke commercial with Mean Joe Greene – was the first Super Bowl commercial to:

A) Star a Pittsburgh Steeler

B) Inspire a Made-for-TV movie (“The Steeler and the Pittsburgh Kid” 1981)

C) Lead to a lawsuit

D) Use a new Dolby Sound Enhancement system

2. Super Bowl ad prices have reached a new high water mark this year — advertisers paid an average of $3.5 million each for 30-second spot. What year did Super Bowl ads break the $1 million mark?

HINT – It was the year the Budweiser Frogs ad debuted.

Take the entire quiz and listen to the answers here.

Halftime

Beginning on Friday morning, “Give Me All Your Luvin'” is scheduled to premiere simultaneously across 95 radio stations and on more than 1,600 digital billboards in the United States, France, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Singapore, Belgium, Finland and the United Kingdom, as well as on demand at iHeartRadio.com, Clear Channel’s customized online radio service.

Madonna is expected to perform “Give Me All Your Luvin'” and three other tunes at her Super Bowl halftime performance Sunday in Indianapolis. Her new album “MDNA” is set to be released in March.

– The Associated Press

Read more about the material girl here.

In Indianapolis

East Coast fans are finding Indy’s charm quite disarming. And that’s by design: Indianapolis took the potential clash into account in recent weeks, stressing the need for a human touch as it trained taxi drivers, hospitality workers and volunteers in the ways of nice. Their tips? Make eye contact at 20 feet. Smile at 12 feet. And be sure to urge visitors to “have a super day.”

-The Associated Press