I am so unbelievably mad at MacDonald's. In Canada, unless you have a satellite dish you can't watch the 'Merican Super Bowl ads live during the game (thanks CTV). Instead, we got treated to promo after promo letting us know the the Olympics start on Friday (again, thanks CTV, I hadn't heard). So yesterday after work I went through all the ads. Some were humourous, some were not, and one made me mad. Not the Tim Tebow (that was a little over hyped), none of the Go Daddy ads (even though I can't fucking stand Danica Patrick and I think they need a new gimmick), not the Doritos Funeral, or the Bears/Boost Shuffle, or that fucking E*Trade baby that everyone seems to like. It was the MacDonald's commercial that ran before before kickoff with Dwight Howard and LeBron paying homage to the Bird/Jordan "Showdown (Nothin' but Net)". I mean I like the concept and the execution and the punchline was hilarious, but it made me think of the real dunk contest. The one LeBron promised to be in this year if other superstars were in it, too. Well, Kobe's got a bad back and a broken finger, Melo's got a bum ankle, Vince Carter's got a bad shoulder, D-Wade's got a bad wrist (among other things I'm sure), and Brandon Roy still out with a bad hamstring. Not exactly an armada of superstars left to take part but there are still All-Stars like Derrick Rose, Gerald Wallace (who is competing), Amar'e Stoudemire, Kevin Durant, and the two stars of the of the MacDonald's commercial. I think the NBA and the Player's Association need to come to an agreement where they let the fans vote in who they want to see in the dunk contest just like they do for the game itself and the only veto a player can have is if he's injured or recovering from an injury (and I don't mean "injured" like NFL players say to get out of the ProBowl, they need to have either missed some time or it needs to be well documented like Kobe's finger) or he's over 30 (let's be honest, some guys just lose their hopps). There's no reason the healthy players I just mentioned shouldn't take part and fuck you MacDonald's for making me think about what could've been.