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Cirque Du Soliel has been facinating audiences with their non animal circus for years. They will certainly add a special touch to the Super Bowl festivities this year in Indianapolis. We are uncertain what to expect this year in comparison to last year's wild show with space alien black eye peas. The costumes may be outrageous, but the acrobatics are sure to be first class!

Cirque Du Soliel has a wide assortment of shows that travel the globe. However their website is unwilling to show us what they plan for this special event. They are also teamed up with a recent rival of Madonna - Sir Elton John. The troupe has a promo for a free song download from Elton. The song, Whenever, inspired by Zarkana is available for a limited time. Check it out after the Superbowl!

Also anticipated or at least rumoured at this year's superbowl is the hip sensation LMFAO. Well, it's more like Wierd Al meets a synch machine. Regardless, they are a lot of fun and that's what the Super Bowl is all about. Right? If you haven't heard LMFAO on the radio yet then you simply haven't had your radio on. Wiggle wiggle LOL.

Commercials for cars. Commercials for kids. Commercials for athlete's safety. Well, it's not your usual yada yada yada, so to speak, since the cost of Super Bowl commercials is about $7,000,000 per minute. Not a bad job if you can get it. So what you see, between the touchdowns and tackles and what you hear between the passes and punts will be a hard sell and soft sell of what makes us or part of what makes us Americans.

The Super Bowl, Super Bowl XLVI, will be brought to you by NBC in all its grass staining the glory.

But a new presentation is upon us with the game being brought to us via online media. You can now tune in at Verizon.com, NFL.com, and by picking up different phone applications. No longer are the days of fumbling through AM radio stations for the game while you are en route to pick up a bag of tasty snacks, dips and carbonated consumables. Technology will keep you tuned in! You won't even miss the commercials.

GoDaddy.com with the ISP and domain registrar will once again promote dual slots. One will feature health and fitness guru Jillian Michaels and the other will feature Go Daddy girl Danika Patrick in the introduce the pussycat dolls. Please remember Web content may not be rated.

With more than 100,000,000 viewers expected to tune in, and many using multiple screens such as smart phones the viewers of sites like cars.com can use the popular Shazam application to tag the ad when it air and the car shopping site will donate $1 to 1 of 7 charities with a total donation up to $100,000.

Sorry, cat lovers, not only are Volkswagen, Anheuser-Busch, and sketchers placing dogs in their Super Bowl spots but dogs are mostly the stars. The most highly anticipated hound is from Volkswagen. Look out for Darth Vader. This time Volkswagen's star is a 3-year-old Australian shepherd and St. Bernard mix. The beer giant Anheuser-Busch has used dogs in the Super Bowl commercials for years. This year you will also see Budweiser's iconic dalmatian for just a moment. Make sure to stay tuned as we're promised a surprise for Bud Lite. People have always had a special relationship with dogs. This year, Paramount pictures, Universal and Disney pictures will delight us with dogs of their own. Got to see it to believe it!

During the later part of the third quarter stay tuned for director Peter Berry and a walk-through of the evolution of the game, the rules and the equipment from football's beginnings on a muddy field in Canton, Ohio. Back in the early days of football there were no helmets or pads. The NFL and the players union are considering a plan to allocate a large portion of money to medical research into issues such as concussions and orthopedics. One goal, and a very good goal, is to continue to come up with ways to make the game safer.

There are too many commercials for this short article, but if you've read this far. I'm sure you could go for a nice cool, cold, ice cold, frosty, delicious, bubbly, tasty Pepsi. And, some delicious Doritos on the side. These guys will run two 30 second ads during the game. Pepsi has been a winner with some of the most popular commercials during the Super Bowl.