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The Superbowl was boring. The game played like a midseason inter-conference game. The officiating sucked ass. The commercials were almost uniformly boring and unfunny, except for the MacGyver Mastercard ad, and the town full of stuntmen. The Diet Pepsi ads, in particular, were awful. That said, if you check out the “video rejects” link at … <\/p>\n
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