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This Sunday, for the 47th time, two teams will meet in the biggest sporting event of the year to determine the next Super Bowl Champion. And regardless of the numbers that the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers put up, it is guaranteed that big numbers will happen elsewhere on Super Bowl Sunday. Check out the infographic below to see just how outrageous the stats are related to advertising, food consumption, ticket prices and more. Also, quiz your friends on some "Big Game" trivia, and for more visit Super Bowl 2013 from TicketCity. ...
The famous athletes who really knew how to sell.
by Christina Austin We recently compiled lists of the best and worst ads from 2012. It's instructive to see just how much better modern advertising is compared to "modern" advertising from 40 years ago. So we flipped through the pages of "The Male Mystique," a book about vintage men's advertising by Jacques Boyreau, and picked out the worst ads from men's magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. Some of the brands, like Gordon's gin and Lee jeans, ran ads that would be regarded as parodies today. Others, like the defunct Broomsticks pants company, appear to have doomed the brands they were trying to ...
