Super number of ads

NEW YORK (AP) - February 9, 2010

If you thought Sunday's game had an awful lot of commercials, a tally by a research firm would prove you right.

Kantar Media says this year's Super Bowl had nearly 48 minutes of ads.

To put that into perspective, a football game has 60 minutes of official playing time, so the ad time came up just 12 minutes shy of actual pigskin action.

And, in case you're wondering - that is a record for the most ads in a Super Bowl.

It's nearly 3 minutes longer than last year's total, which set the previous mark.

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