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Professional football team owners tend not to be celebrities. Most of them go about their business cheering or scowling from the luxury box overlooking the field. Jerry Jones is admittedly a different character, mingling on the field more often than not...

The Minnesota Twins marketing team certainly does a good job making fun commercials that will inspire a chuckle. From Jim Thome as Paul Bunyan to fans triple-dog-daring a visiting Angels fan to stick his tongue to a flagpole, the team pretty consistently puts out fun commercials together.

We all remember the Budweiser Clydesdales, right? Those magnificent horses pulling a carriage fit for a king? Well, it looks like we’ll be seeing them again during the Super Bowl 2012 commercials.

Super Bowl ads tend to have more longevity than traditional commercials thanks to their large budgets, creative freedom and overall goal to keep you glued to the TV between quarters. Some, however, aren't remembered for the joy they brought but rather for the public outcry they produced.

Trick shot videos are popping up all over the internet these days and Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash makes a pretty unbelievable one that combines both his basketball and soccer skills (he was a footie star as a youth, FYI) in this ad for Chinese athletic apparel company Lu You. This definitely isn’t a guy you’d want to play in H-O-R-S-E. Now the question is, did he make it in one take?

In what we’re pretty sure is not a real show, but rather a clever viral video promotion, Peyton and Eli Manning don extreme mustaches and use tight spirals to enforce laws on the Direct TV drama ‘Football Cops,’ which is allegedly “coming this fall.” In the trailer for the series, the Manning brothers show off their substantial acting chops, and blurt out campy catch phrases such as “Hit him in th

Rachel Bilson would rather be eating ice cream. Or at least she would be in this ad for Magnum Ice Cream. This destined-to-go-viral commercial spoofs a fashion shoot - and also advances the ridiculous notion that a chocolate ice cream bar would be allowed anywhere near a fashion shoot.

If you've been watching pro basketball lately, you've probably seen one of the NBA "Encouragement" promos, in which fans go back in time and tell younger versions of players like Steve Nash, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant all about their subsequent basketball careers. In this two-minute video, the technology behind the Steve Nash spot is explained.

This year, a 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl will cost three million dollars. At that price, any company hawking its product during the big game better hope its ad makes a big impression. We’ve compiled a chronological list of 10 Super Bowl commercials that went over like a flawlessly executed touchdown. By lodging themselves in our collective consciousness, these ads made the commerci