rssOur List Of The Best Super Bowl Commercials

"Best" is always in the eye of the beholder, but we have our own list of what we feel are the best commercials shown during the super bowl.

If you think we missed one off our list, send us an email and we may consider it.

Along with videos, we have also made a list of some of the more "notable" ones.

10. Budweiser “Frogs” (1995): Three frogs, perched on a log outside a bar, croaking, “Bud … Weis … Errrrrr.”

9. Xerox “Monks” (1977):

8. Tabasco “Mosquito” (1998):

7. EDS “Herding Cats” (2000):

6. McDonald’s “The Showdown” (1993):

5. Monster.com “When I Grow Up …” (1999):

4. Reebok “Terry Tate: Office Linebacker” (2003):

3. E*Trade “Monkey” (2000):

2. Coke “Mean Joe Greene” (1979):

1. Apple “1984” (1984):

Notable Super Bowl Moments

* 1973 – The first famous Super Bowl commercial was for Noxzema featuring legendary New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath.

* 1973 – Master Lock ran the first of their long-running advertisements showing a sharpshooter shooting at and hitting a Master Lock in a failed attempt to open the lock.

* 1977 – Xerox introduced the 9200 high speed duplicator system with Brother Dominic duplicating documents in a medieval monastery.

* 1980 – A spot for Coca-Cola featuring Pittsburgh Steelers All-Pro defensive lineman "Mean Joe" Greene, who is offered a Coca-Cola by a young fan and tosses the kid his game-worn jersey as repayment. However, according to ESPN, this ad never debuted during the Super Bowl.

* 1984 – Perhaps the most renowned Super Bowl ad ever, the ad for Apple's Macintosh followed a 1984 theme. Directed by Ridley Scott, the ad featured a woman wearing track-and-field clothing sprinting into a large auditorium and hurling a large hammer into a screen right before security guards can subdue her. On the screen was a large Big Brother-type of face speaking to a massive assembly of drone-like people. His last words were "We shall prevail," before the screen explodes and leaves the audience enraptured in gazing at the spectacle. The ad ran just one more time on television, perhaps compounding its renown.

* 1985 – Generally considered unsuccessful, The Apple "Lemmings" ad is shown featuring many PC users walking to their doom over a cliff.

* 1990 – Ridley Scott directed an ad for the Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo. The ad depicts a dream sequence with the driver in a Twin Turbo 300ZX, competing against an unknown enemy. First the 300ZX races a motorbike, then a race car, and finally a jet fighter plane. At that point the plane is about to catch up to the 300ZX before the two turbochargers of the 300ZX "kick in", greatly increasing engine power and the car accelerates away from the plane. The ad was only run once due to complaints that it promoted street racing. Nissan ran another popular Super Bowl ad for the 300ZX in 1995.

* 1993 – In perhaps his most famous ad, Michael Jordan and Larry Bird play a game of HORSE for a McDonald's Big Mac and fries. The game is made more interesting due to the increasingly complex set of obstacles set for both players.

* 1995 – Nissan again ran a commercial for the 300ZX (which they advertised in 1990). The ad featured the car as a toy driven by a G.I. JOE picking up a Barbie-like doll. Despite being a popular advertisement, Mattel successfully sued Nissan to take the ad off TV.

* 2000 – Year of the dot com commercials

* 2009 – Joe and Dave Herbert from Batesville, Indiana create a Doritos commercial where one employee makes a wish come true by throwing a snow globe against a vending machine glass and breaking it (which was done in one take), and another worker using the same snow globe to hit his boss in the "family jewels". The ad earned a US $1 million payday as the number one ranked ad in the annual USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter survey from Doritos' owners, Frito-Lay as part of their annual "Crash The Super Bowl" contest.

* 2009 – Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu is involved in a spoof of the 1980 Coca-Cola ad where a kid tries to give him his Coke Zero, but the two Coke brand executives which usually appear in Coke Zero ads and overzealously defend their brand suddenly appear and take the bottle. Polamalu tackles one of them, drinks the Coke Zero, then rips their dress shirt off and tosses it to the kid.

* 2010 – In an ad for Snickers candy bars, a man with little energy is said to be "playing football like Betty White," with the 88-year-old actress in scene, supposedly as the man, being tackled for comedic effect.

* One of the most famous Super Bowl ad campaigns has been the "I'm Going to Disney World!" ads for the past 20 years.

* Bud Bowl

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