Rhetorical Analysis: The Super Bowl Commercial

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The Super Bowl is a great way to spend time with your friends and family! What a better way than spending time with your loved ones while watching football? Everyone gets together to abide with the people they love. The Super Bowl commercial “Football is Family” is an outstanding example to promote football.
The commercial does not exactly use logos in a very effective way. In order for the commercial to have logos in it, it would have to have facts in the commercial, showing us that it is a given fact that “football is family”. I do not exactly know when this commercial was aired on television, or who were the two teams playing in the super bowl. Since the commercial doesn’t not give us facts or any kind of expert testimony that Football is family this commercial does not use logos in an effective way.
In this commercial pathos used very well. The makers of this commercial did an excellent job on using babies! Babies are very eye catching because they’re just simply cute. They show the audience that these Super Bowl babies are “born from greatness” and turn out to be someone amazing later on in life, just like the men who play football, in their case the mean who are playing in the Super Bowl. They quote “who’s next?”, as a way of saying which baby is next …show more content…

The commercial uses all types of races showing that football is for everyone. People see the commercial and are immediately drawn to it, like I was. The commercial is promoting football, therefore they used babies as an example to show that everyone is born to be someone great, and to try and convince you to watch football with your family and friends. The lyrics in the songs say “you’re the meaning in my life, you’re my inspiration”, showing that this babies are the meaning and inspiration to their parents, and family members, knowing that they will become someone great in life. The commercial makes you want to watch the super bowl, or just football in

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