Super Bowl time is almost upon us and with it a veritable plethora of clever television commercials (which is the only reason I watch the Super Bowl). Super Bowl ads also have the reputation of being the most expensive television commercials for the year. However, this year that is not quite as true this year because, for the second time in history, prices for Super Bowl ads have dropped from the previous year.

Given these hard times, I'm curious about which sponsors will even run commercials for the game. Big names like GM and Pepsi aren't even advertising. It would be sort of cool if AT&T and Verizon would continue their ad war through the Super Bowl.

For that matter, I wouldn't mind seeing some more swipes between the Scripps Networks and Cablevision, but that doesn't seem likely. Besides which, there is only so much Bobby Flay one can take.

So which Super Bowl commercials have been your favorites, historically?