Now that semi-professional video equipment is relatively affordable, many major companies sponsor online contests to submit homemade commercials.

Doritos is one such company, and the winners  get to see their efforts broadcast during the game.

We entered the following spot and actually placed around 32nd out of 1600 or so entries.

Not bad, considering it's online voting, and we don't have 900 friends to blast emails to and pad the votes (no sour grapes there).

I was behind the lens, Dave Pavone produced, and my ex-uncle Jason Gansauer was a dependable PA.