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"Even though two days have passed since the Seahawk&amp;#039;s 43-8 victory in Super Bowl XLVIII, a trail of controversy greater than Peyton Manning&amp;#039;s now taintedlegacy has been left behind. With a record-breaking 111.5 million viewers tuned into Fox on Sunday night, commercials provoked more buzz than the game itself. Plus, ads for the Fox sitcom New Girl, which aired soon after the sporting event, may have brought in the show&amp;#039;s highest audience ever at 25.8 million viewers. The ads reining in the most post-game chatter included Budweiser&amp;#039;s adorable &amp;quot;Puppy Love,&amp;quot; as well as two provocative commercials seeking to praise America&amp;#039;s diversity: Coca-Cola&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s Beautiful,&amp;quot; which aired in the second quarter, and General Mills&amp;#039; Cheerios commercial, &amp;quot;Gracie,&amp;quot; which aired in the first quarter. Coca-Cola&amp;#039;s commercial shattered convention with a chorus of women singing &amp;quot;America the Beautiful&amp;quot; in a variety of languages. Not only did the ad feature various ethnicities, races and religions, but also a same-sex couple hugging their daughter. Some have guessed that the commercial was in response to the company&amp;#039;s failure to speak out against Russia&amp;#039;s anti-gay laws while supporting the upcoming Olympic games. Others felt that the 8 million dollar, 60-second spot was the soda company&amp;#039;s attempt to reassert their gay-friendly stance after receiving criticism for blocking the word &amp;quot;gay&amp;quot; on a recent social media campaign.  At any rate, the multilingual tune garnered more response than the same-sex couple. People took to social media to express their opinion with tweets ranging from calls to #BoycottCoke to praise that #AmericaIsBeautiful. Even politicians joined in the conversation, with former Tea Party congressman Allen West, posting on his blog that &amp;quot;If we cannot be proud enough as a country to sing &amp;#039;American the Beautiful&amp;#039; in English. . .doggone we are on the road to perdition.&amp;quot; Meanwhile, Fox News commentator Todd Starnes tweeted quips like &amp;quot;Couldn&amp;#039;t make out that song they were singing. I only speak English.&amp;quot; The multiracial family staring in the Cheerios commercial also drew in commentary. But, unlike the reaction to Coca-Cola&amp;#039;s ad, conservatives like Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, found room to praise the Cheerios commercial, declaring it the number one on his list of the &amp;quot;top five most family-friendly ads.&amp;quot; Those who criticized the spot were much less heated than the Coca-Cola commenters, posting things like &amp;quot;Ugh,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Maybe next week daddy&amp;#039;ll find a job.&amp;quot; Even less controversial was Sunday night&amp;#039;s post-game comedy, &amp;quot;New Girl,&amp;quot; which became the highest-rated scripted entertainment telecast in the adult demo in three years, when Fox aired Glee. Could Prince&amp;#039;s guest appearance have had anything to do with their record-shattering audience Sunday night? What do you think of the above commercials? And if you watched New Girl, did it deserve its unprecedented ratings? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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