I thought I’d give the posts about the Crash the Superbowl contest a break for a while but Doritos just added a new batch of last minute uploads. That brings the total number of entries to 4023. Yeesssh. That’s a lot. I pretty much have given up on watching them all but I have been browsing. And in my browsing I saw this spot that features the real Flavor Flav!





Is that insane or what? It was just a matter of time before someone tried to make the finals using a “celebrity,” I guess. But the above commercial is a huge waste of Flavor Flav! He’s just sitting there. It’s not funny or interesting and the Doritos don’t even get more than a few seconds of screen time. I imagine it’ll be a real turn off to the judges since it’s pretty obvious that the folks behind this entry assumed that having Flav would be enough to propel them to the finals. But I think if Doritos wanted Flavor Flav as a sponsor, they would have gone out and hired him on their own.

Oh, the entry is listed as being submitted by “FlavorFlav.” However, someone in the comment section states that Flav did not write or direct the spot. He says that “two 25 year olds from Los Angeles, Matthew and Marthinus,” created the commercial. If Flavor Flav HAD actually made this entry himself it’d be many times more interesting to me.

UPDATE: The New York Post covered Flav’s entry into the CTSB contest and they imply that Flav himself created the commercial. They even got a response about the entry from someone at Doritos. Here’s the entire blurb from the Post:

Flavor Flav must be hard-up for cash. We hear the VH1 reality show star and erstwhile rapper is trying his hand as a TV commercial director as part of Doritos’ annual “Crash the Super Bowl” ad contest, in which users are asked to submit their own ads to compete for a $1 million prize. “He did this totally randomly and unprovoked,” says a source at the company. “And it’s actually pretty damn good.”

This is an interesting story and it’s just the type of thing that shows like TMZ would love to cover because it includes good video they can use. I wouldn’t be surprised if Flav’s entry was on TV a few times this week. That’d be great for Doritos but not so great for the team that made the spot. Dortitos will get lots of free advertising but the entry will get over-exposed. Who would consider a commercial to be the best of the Superbowl if they already saw it on the news in November? Maybe Doritos should just buy it right now and start airing it. It wouldn’t just be a commercial then, it’d be a story worthy of some news coverage. I also read today that Flavor Flav is more than $180,000 behind in his taxes. Man, imagine the story if Doritos paid Flav’s tax bill in exchange for that commercial!