Commercials are the life's blood behind television programming. In fact, there was a time when the commercials became just as entertaining as the National Football League's Super Bowl.

We had some extra time, so we set out on a journey to find some of the best drag racing-themed commercials. Here's a good number of what we found.. Watch them all because there are some downright entertaining pieces.

Travel back in time to 1971, to the season finale, the NHRA SuperNationals at Ontario Motor Speedway. The new Ontario Motor Speedway was a crown jewel amongst race tracks, and the competition the NHRA brought along was just as precious.

You'll see the early years of the Funny Cars, as well as the Pro Stockers with Dick Landy cameos.

This video truly takes you back to racing the way it used to be, nearly fifty years ago.

Travel back in time to a race track located 30 miles outside of Joliet, Illinois, where match racing was king.

US 30 Drag Strip in Gary, Indiana was an experience indeed, with the grandstands and the pits more entertaining with its betting and fanfare than anything else.

"It was probably more dangerous outside of the car than inside," Top Fuel racer Luigi Novelli said with a laugh. "There was a lot of betting going on there. There was some bullets flying from time to time too."

This video features nitro action from Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, WI. There are some classic rides in here including the Funny Cars of Gene Snow, Fred Mandoline and Kelly Chadwick. The dragsters include Ma and Pa Hoover and other Midwestern regulars.

This video is a textbook 1960s drag racing documentary featuring everything good about the straight-line sport back in the day. It's educational and plays off of the mystique of drag racing vehicles.

The Hurst video features footage from the '65 NHRA Winternationals in Pomona, Spring Nationals in Bristol, Tenn., and U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis. You'll see the dragsters, Super Stocks, and Factory Experimentals.

The documentary is chock full of legends, including Don Garlits, Don Prudhomme, Hurst Hemi Under Glass, Ohio George Montgomery, Bill Lawton and more.

This classic video follows the legendary Don "the Snake" Prudhomme and Tom 'the Mongoose" McEwen on a match race tour throughout the midwestern United States. Lots of dry hops and candid interviews with the legends of Funny Car racing.

Go for a few rides in this Old '57 Chevy, currently has a SBC 350 with old iron heads, aluminum rods, Wiseco pistons. Doug-Nash 5-speed, Ram clutch, 9"-Ford with 5.67 gears. First started running the car in Modified Production in 1972

Travel back in time during the early years of drag racing broadcasts.

This 1975 U.S. Nationals appeared as a part of ABC's Wide World of Sports. Much of the show is spent speaking of safety and technical aspects of championship drag racing.

Now, this is a blast from the past! We've happened across in our extensive collection. This video appears more to be a documentary, much of which is shot at the last AHRA event hosted by Thunder Valley Dragway in Bristol, Tenn.

Much of the video follows the Mickey Thompson Mustang Funny Car driven by Danny Ongais in the formative years of the division. Travel back in time, because there's something for everybody in this old school visit.

BeeLine Dragway, located just outside of Scottsdale, Az., played host to the American Hot Rod Association (AHRA) Winter Championships on the final weekend of January 1964.

In this rare video, Art Malone turned low ET of the meet with an 8.03 run, but top eliminator was won by Ron Goodsell driving Bob Sullivan's "Pandemonium V" fuel dragster.

There's all kinds of footage in this classic video.