TV Commercials and their Predictable Pattern for 2020
It’s the middle of November and we’ve already been saturated with TV commercials featuring retail companies’ favorite holiday — ummm, the holiday. You know, the one that features a decorated tree and that old, fat guy in a red suit and his flying reindeer.
Oh, you mean Christmas? The biggest holiday of the year that so many merchants love yet so many people will never say out loud for fear of offending people? Yeah, *that* holiday.
We’re not here today to talk about the double-sided face that we see almost everywhere in modern marketing. Instead, we’re just talking about the sheer amount of TV commercials that we observe throughout the year, and how predictable it is these days. And get ready because this next calendar year is going to be especially painful with TV marketing.
November 1st – December 23rd or 24th – CHRISTMAS
As I previously stated, we’re already in the Christmas marketing season. For many companies that started on November 1st, but a few commercials were already spotted back in the middle of October. Just when you think that you’ve had enough of the advertising by this point, it’s going to get worse at the end of next week. Once Thanksgiving arrives, it’s a jailbreak blitz, a full-court press to hit the advertising as hard as possible until Christmas Eve.
That’s one of the reasons why I enjoy Christmas Eve so much these days. Not only is it a day spent with family and friends, and there’s the maximum “holiday spirit” floating through the air, but it’s also like the advertisers finally sit back and take a break. The rush is over. There’s no more shopping for Christmas. The popular items are long gone, lots of inventory is low, and most stores close early so the workers can go home to their families.
I mean, it’s only like what, 53 days or so of heavy advertising getting you to let loose and spend more of your money than you originally planned, possibly going into some amount of debt in the process. That wasn’t so bad, was it? No, of course not!
Take a nice and relaxing nap on Christmas as 2020 is going to be one of the worst years in the history of annoying TV commercials.
The NFL’s (Fake) Salute to America and the Military
This past Monday was Veterans Day, and the NFL jumped on the pro-military and pro-America bandwagon. On Sunday the NFL even conducted one of its live shows from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.
NFL, I ask you one question: Do you think that we are stupid?
It was only a few years ago that professional football players were spotted on the sidelines taking a knee during the playing of our country’s national anthem. They claimed that they were protesting “social injustice” against black people, but what they were really doing was greatly disrespecting this country, those who fought and died for its values, and everybody who proudly stands for the freedoms and opportunities that we have here America.
They chose to make a stance and take a knee during the anthem. They chose their side. Since the league allowed those jackasses to protest America, millions of fans turned their backs on the spineless NFL. I have not worn a single NFL-related hat or shirt since that time, and I doubt I ever will in the future.
NFL’s “Salute to Service”
So why are we supposed to believe that the NFL is being sincere with their “Salute to Service” campaign?
Last time I checked, the NFL is still NOT airing the playing of the national anthem on TV before the football games. The tradition of having the players on the sidelines during the playing of the anthem is gone. It’s DEAD. Because of those asinine protests back in 2016 and 2017 (and its ringleader Colin Kaepernick (may he never play in the league again)), the tradition of honoring America before the games is no longer.
It’s simple. As a whole, there is no patriotism associated with the NFL. Sure, you can find individuals within the NFL who still support the country and those who proudly serve it, but as a whole the league caved and sided with the social justice warriors.
Many of us still remember what those players did on the sidelines. That was *not* their stage for protesting. Every single protester should have been immediately fired for their incredibly disrespectful actions. But no action was taken, the league caved, and we saw their true colors.
And we won’t forget.