The Best Super Bowl Ads

A look at some of this year's best Super Bowl commercials.

Feb 8, 2010— -- Were the months of preparation, organization, sweat and tears worth it? Even though they never took the field, Super Bowl Sunday was one of the biggest days of their careers. No, not the fans or the coaches, the team owners or even the hotdog salesmen. On the biggest night of football, it was the advertisers who were biting their nails the hardest.

Would there be there enough viewers to make the millions of dollars they paid for a 30-second commercial worthwhile? Would their ads be talked about for days to come at the watercooler, like the Budweiser frogs or Coca-Cola's famous 1980 Mean Joe Greene ad? We look at a few gambles that paid off.

Snickers and the Golden Girl

Letterman, Leno and Oprah walk into an Ad

No Waste for Google

Doritos' Dog Has His Day