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Watching football last Sunday, my attention was caught by this announcement:

"The Visa Halftime Report is brought to you by Visa."

Duh, would Mastercard sponsor a Visa Haltime Report or Visa sponsor a Mastercard Halftime Report?

But as I thought of it, maybe Visa wants its name to be mentioned twice so the redundancy is kind of intended.

By the way, I was impressed with Visa coming up with "Life takes Visa" slogan. It was indeed a good response to Mastercard's "There are many things money can't buy; for everything else, there's Mastercard." For a year or so, Mastercard had this ad while Visa had nothing to advertise on this line. Then comes the life takes visa ad on tv. It was good.

I'm sure Visa paid tons of money for the team of advertising people who wittily came up with something as smart as Mastercard's mantra.

What is your size?

Here's what Queen Latifah would say: "Healthier."

She is losing weight. Not so much but in her second commercial of Jenny Craig, she's wearing a dress. And the punchline here is healthier, not slimmer.

I remember Queen Latifah's first commercial, it was a lot of promise. Going on, the question is looming. Is she going to be successful, if at all.

Let's watch, wait, and see what happens.

Verizon Commercial -- I don't get it!

The Verizon Commercial, It's the Network, is something that has baffled me for as long as the first time that I saw it. It did stretch the limits of my brain and I still don't get it.

What's with those people following the Verizon subscriber? What network is it talking about? Can somebody explain it to me?