How about that Super Bowl this year? Did you watch it? Were you shocked at the result?

I know some Minnesota Vikings fans were wondering if Sam Darnold would fail to deliver in the big game. Others were wondering why the Vikings ever got rid of him.

For me, I was just hoping that it would be good, exciting game, and to tell the truth I didn’t truly care which team won. Although I really did think it would be a very defensive game and the scoring would not get real high.

But actually, I was probably as much interested in seeing the Super Bowl commercials as I was the game itself. It is something that makes it difficult to take bathroom breaks in the game, so I wind up hitting pause on the TV remote, and thus I end up watching the game a little after the plays actually happened.

I also rate the commercials, and have done so for a quite a few years, so I tried to keep up with them again this year. I mean, if advertisers are going to spend millions upon millions of dollars to create and air these commercials, the least I can do is watch them.

My assessment this year is that a lot of the commercials were about artificial intelligence (A.I.) and a lot of the others were created by A.I.

So here are some of the commercials I gave a plus mark to, meaning I found them entertaining.

But first, I need to make a full disclosure. I am an old guy. I know, right? But that means I am going to like things that old guys like, and maybe not what younger people like. So that also means I liked a lot of the commercials that harked back to the good old days. Now, let’s get started with my favorite Super Bowl ads.

1. I loved the Xfinity commercial where their Wi-Fi saves Jurassic Park, with some A.I. From the original movie.

2. Same goes for the Budwieser Clydesdale saving a baby bird that grows up to become an eagle that rides on its back. Again, some A.I. was involved.

3. The Michelob Ultra commercial where Kurt Russell, who played Herb Brooks in the Miracle on Ice movie, is an old cowboy who helps current Olympians, was great.

4. Dunkin Donuts Good Will Dunkin commercial with a bunch of old actors (all A. I. I am sure) from old shows and plus Ben Afleck as Will, ending with Ted Danson and Tom Brady. It was quick and funny.

5. The funniest commercial, by far, was the one with Ron Gronkowski and George Kittle about relaxing your tight end. And it was for getting prostate cancer screening. A very hilarious commercial about a really serious subject.

6. Lays Potato Chips, where the young woman is going to take over the potato farm. I thought of it as a continuation of the one about the little girl who plants a single potato, protects it, then harvests it. Same little girl now grown up?

7. Dove, with their “The Game is Ours” commercial about girls in sports.

8. Chris Hemsworth in an ad for Alexa, which is A.I., thinking that A.I., and Alexa, were out to kill him. I loved it, until he caved in and started to like Alexa at the end.

9. NFL ads that promoted kids thinking of themselves as champions, and one that had them believing that each kid is special.

10. A commercial for a new Steven Spielberg movie called “Disclosure Day.” Steven Spielberg making an alien movie? Who’d have thunk it… Might have to go check it out.

There you have it, my top 10 Super Bowl commercials, which are in random order. I read somewhere there were 57 commercials during the super bowl, all costing at least $8 million each just to run. There were commercials that I either didn’t like or just plain didn’t get, or just plain seemed dumb. Like for Liquid Death, Square Space, T-Mobile, State Farm, Nerds and others.

You probably wonder what I thought of Bad Bunny and the halftime show. Well, I guess the polite response is that I just didn’t get it. Again, I’m an old guy and my Spanish is very limited. I have seen some comments from folks who loved it and from those who hated it.

I guess I didn’t love it or hate it. I just thought I was not a member of the audience that it was intended for.

So I took a break from watching commercials – and the game – during halftime and got some snacks and took a bathroom break.

And then I already started wondering if the Vikings will ever be in the Super Bowl again. And is there any possibility at all that they would ever win it.

Well, there is always next year…