Tuesday, May 4, 2021

It's game time!


In 1993 during Super Bowl XXVII on NBC, Bud Bowl had a major change in the fifth edition. The bottles were transitioned to CGI by Pacific Data Images (later PDI/DreamWorks), & the hosts were Ahmad Rashād & Karen Duffy. The previous human hosts in the third & forth editions were the late Keith Jackson, Don Meredith & Chris Berman. Team Budweiser won 4 times in a row, which was coached by Joe Namath after Bud Light's The Illuminator was caught by a Budweiser blimp. Speaking of The Illuminator, it was transformed from a Bud Light truck using a morphing effect by an unnamed Team Bud Light coach portrayed by Corbin Bernsen with a radar. The sixth edition the following year did the exact same thing, this time hosted by Marv Albert & the CGI bottles including The Basher were done by Boss Film Studios. Same thing with the Pillsbury Doughboy, from stop motion to CGI.

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