The Bud Bowl was a stop motion animated Super Bowl advertising campaign first aired in 1989, and sporadically during the 1990s. It served as an advertisement for Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser family of beers. It featured anthropomorphized Budweiser bottles playing a football game against Bud Light bottles.
Bud Bowl I was aired in 1989 during the telecast of Super Bowl XXIII. It was originally created in the D'arcy Masius Benton & Bowles Account Service Dept by Tom Gooch and Rich Lalley who were looking for a way to strategically be involved with the Super Bowl. David Henke and Bill Oakley of D'arcy Masius Benton & Bowles were the creative team behind the original Bud Bowl. The 3D computer graphics promotional spots preceding the game commercials were made by San Francisco Production Group. The stop-motion filming process was painstaking, involving eight hours of work to produce just three seconds of footage. [1] Bud Bowl II was shot with stop motion animation by Broadcast Arts in NYC. Bud Ice and Bud Dry would make appearances in later Bud Bowls. Beer bottles with the voices of Terry Bradshaw and Tom Landry (the latter of which was topped with Landry's distinctive fedora) also made appearances. It has been jokingly said[ by whom? ] that the Bud Bowl was actually more exciting than the Super Bowl itself in some years. Starting with the fourth edition, a consumer contest was tied to the commercials, with game pieces distributed in the product packaging. Gambling on the outcome of the Bud Bowl was also common, despite the fact that some people knew the results before the actual airing.[ citation needed ]
In later years, Bud Bowl was retained as an advertising promotion, but in different forms. Beginning with the fifth edition, the bottles were transitioned to CGI by Pacific Data Images (later PDI/DreamWorks). In the sixth edition, the CGI bottles however were done by Boss Film Studios. In 1996, it served as a contest only. Game pieces with football plays written on it were distributed, and viewers with the winning play on their piece won. By 1998, it was mostly removed from television. Bud Bowl was used often in static store display promotions, and/or contests. By 2002, it was attached to a series of local events, such as concerts, festivals, and "block parties," taking place at the host city of the Super Bowl in the days leading up to the game. [2] [3] [4]
| Bud Bowl | Super Bowl | Year | Score | Announcer(s) | Coaches | Notes |
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| Bud Bowl I | XXIII | 1989 | Budweiser 27, Bud Light 24 | Bob Costas & Paul Maguire | An alternate ending of the first Bud Bowl was a cutaway to the movie Heidi. This was a reference to the Heidi Game. [1] Another alternate ending was an incident where 2 players were picked up by a man from the fridge, abruptly ending the game at 24-24. | |
| Bud Bowl II | XXIV | 1990 | Budweiser 36, Bud Light 34 | Brent Musburger & Terry Bradshaw | The Bud Light coach was an impersonation of Bear Bryant. | At the end of the "game", the slogan "Nothing Beats a Bud" was unveiled. |
| Bud Bowl III | XXV | 1991 | Bud Light 23, Budweiser 21 | Keith Jackson & Don Meredith with Chris Berman | Bud Bowl III was actually between Budweiser vs Bud Light with Bud Dry as their star QB for Bud Light. The end of the game was a parody of The Play from the 1982 Big Game. | |
| Bud Bowl IV | XXVI | 1992 | Budweiser 27, Bud Light 24 | Chris Berman | Unlike previous Bud Bowls, this one featured a man looking for his ticket, which his wife had tossed in the trash. | |
| Bud Bowl V | XXVII | 1993 | Budweiser 35, Bud Light 31 | Ahmad Rashad & Karen Duffy | Joe Namath was the coach of the Budweiser team, and Corbin Bernsen was the coach of the Bud Light team. | |
| Bud Bowl VI | XXVIII | 1994 | Bud Light 20, Budweiser 14 | Marv Albert | Mike Ditka was the coach of Budweiser team, and Bum Phillips was coach of the Bud Light team. | Bud Bowl VI featured the first appearance by a can of beer in the game. The can scored a touchdown, but was ejected from the Bud Bowl shortly thereafter for excessive celebration and foul language. |
| Bud Bowl VII | XXIX | 1995 | Budweiser 26, Bud Light 24 | Chris Berman | ||
| Bud Bowl 8 | XXXI | 1997 | Budweiser 27, Bud Light 24 | Howie Long & Ronnie Lott |
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