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04 February 2007
Thread for people who DO care about the Superbowl→[More:]I'm excited! Super Bowl Sunday is one of my favorite days of the year. Good food, parties, commercials, football, YAAAAY! GOOOOOOOOOOO COLTS!!
I care! I love the commercials and the half-time show. Although, I have no idea who is performing this year.
Football is engrained into by being, even if I don't always follow the game. I grew up watching football, some of my earliest memories are of my father yelling or hooting at the television. Family baby showers aren't complete without a Miami Dolphins onesie. And my husband lives for football. There's no escaping, I can't help but to get into the spirit. It looks like it's going to be a party of two tonight. I am running up to the store to buy some munchies. I'm thinking homemade nachos, buffalo wings, and of course beer!
At least for right now. In a few hours there will be lots of "GET HIM!" and "GO GO GO GO GO!" which I have discovered, this season, are pretty much the only two things I yell at the television.
At least for right now. In a few hours there will be lots of "GET HIM!" and "GO GO GO GO GO!" which I have discovered, this season, are pretty much the only two things I yell at the television.
What, no 'I'm blind! I'm deaf! I wanna be a ref!"?
(I was at the bar a few eeks ago watching football and a linebacker somehow managed to intercept the ball and ran for the endzone. Some wit yelled "RUN FAT BOY RUN!!" from the back of the room. I love bars.)
No, I don't harass the referees. That seems too mean. I don't even actually like it all that much when they tackle people really hard, and watching the games with a neurologist has actually made that worse, because now I imagine all the ridiculous damage they're doing to themselves and each other every time I hear the helmets smacking into each other.
So I like to encourage fast running and gentle tackles, or even running someone out of bounds (especially if it makes the cheerleaders scatter, cuz that makes me giggle) and to assume fairness and honesty from the refs.
Yes, I know, I'm such a girl. :)
Though I did kind of like watching Urlacher launch himself at people from inconceivable angles in the play-off games. So maybe the bloodthirst will emerge.
Yeah. If my Giants can't win, I always root for the old school team*. And my beloved Remote Sports Bar has the aforementioned $25-kickoff-to-final-whistle-all-you-can-eat-and-drink deal, so I supect we'll be beating up fire hydrants on the way home.
(back in my retail daze, I had a customer who was a dead ringer for Mike Ditka. I told him, and he said "Yeah, and I'm from Chicago, too. I got a lot of free drinks out of this face")
I'm glad that someone else recognizes that you can be a geek and still be a football fan. I work in an office of the geekiest software engineers and we are almost all huge Steelers fans but maybe there's just something in the water (or beer) here in the 'burgh.
I'm cheering the Bears just because they are not a team that used to play in Baltimore or Cleveland.
I hope you're all watching the Puppy Bowl! It's a great one! Lots of cute little puppers jumping around! I've got it on picture-in-picture while I watch a What Not To Wear marathon.
I have to admit I'm not a big sports fan, not snobby about it I can watch awhile and enjoy it, but don't miss it if I don't. As such, its been a few years since seeing any part of the Superbowl, channel surfing today I stopped on some of the pre-game hoopla out of curiosity.... Did they change the name of the Superbowl to the Super Pizza Hut Bowl? I was a bit surprised at the level of integration of the advertisement, all that for crappy pizza. I wonder how much they are paying for all that embarrassingly orgasmic corporate por PROmo?
One reason I love the Super Bowl is that I love all mid-level holidays. You know, days that aren't as high stress as Christmas, but always will include some sort of celebration- Fourth of July, New Years Eve, etc. I love a good celebration!
And what are people eating/drinking? I had some Tuna Noodle Helper for lunch, along with a Mike's Hard Lemonade, yum yum. Later I will be eating lots of chips and drinking more Mike's Hard Lemonade!
I'm listening to paulsc's jazz and have WNTW on mute. Thanks for the reminder TPS. I always forget to watch the American version. I am *obsessed* with Trinny and Susannah.
The kids are at the movies with their aunt. My husband is working. It's a lazy, peaceful Sunday. Tonight I am eating nachos and drinking beer. I will probably cook up a couple pork chops that are marinating so the kids can have a proper dinner.
I am watching kittens and baking chocolate chip cookies. Also, I just got a haircut, so I am flip flip flipping my hair. Please, someone stop me. This is not appropriate football day behavior.
I just have to say those new mics the talking heads are using are ridiculously stupid looking. Like some kind of giant black mole growing from their face or something.
Hello, TV execs? We're not impressed by headset mics anymore. Most of us already have more functional ones that look cooler. Also, TV production has been using nearly invisible clip-on mics for decades. Trying to "tech up" the production values by having your talent strap on incredibly dorky looking mikes is just ludicrously goofy.
I mean, really. This is coming from someone who owns and has worn a hobbyist-modified wrist-mounted computer of vintage origin. I own a large array of ballistic nylon holsters and pouches, and a duty belt to hold them. I have written an email from the toilet. I read Gutenberg Project Jules Vernes etexts on a palm and other portable media devices. I have seriously considered the purchase of a head-mounted display and chording keyboard.
I am literally just about as unapologetically dorky as they come.
And yet I'm still outdorked by you jocky meatheads with your little "beauty spot" bead mics. Whatup?
It was over before it even started. I didn't even have to boot a second computer. ;)
I must say again though that those mics are going to drive me into an aspie nerd rage the likes the world hasn't seen since Theo de Raadt forked OpenBSD from FreeBSD.
I was going to make some cheese dip and corn chips and watch but I am going on very little sleep (yeah, never went back to bed after sleeping about two hours since early yesterday morning) and my stomach has been fucked up since sometime last night. So I doubt I will mess with it. It meaning the food and maybe the game too.
I made a great chili tonight, with shredded cheese to go on top. And strawberry ribbon muffins for dessert.
I'm doing my best, TPS, to best that other thread!
Hey, anyone know why Muhsin Mohammed seems to be the source of booing? I could have sworn I heard booing when he was introduced as a captain, and again, just now, when he caught that TD pass.
Are these ads stupid or what? First the gay kissing snickers commercial then the Budwieser commercial that had nothing to do with beer or anything else in particular.
careerbuilder must have been when i went to feed the cats. but the snickers one was extremely stupid. so was the blockbuster "mouse" commercial. get some new ideas.
Hey, anyone know why Muhsin Mohammed seems to be the source of booing? I could have sworn I heard booing when he was introduced as a captain, and again, just now, when he caught that TD pass.
This game so far has been full of action. And The Colts are winning!!! Yaaaaaaaay!
Apparently my sister and one of her pals went to South Beach for all the excitement. My father is convinced someone is just going to give them Super Bowl tix, and that they'll be there. So if you think you see my blonde sister, you aren't imagining it!!!
I saw him a few years ago on the Musicology tour. I thought it was pretty terrific -- he did a kickass cover of "Whole Lotta Love." I, too, would like to hear a full-length version of "Best of You."
Well, he got rid of the bandanna, initapplette -- there's one very happy Prince fan in the audience.
Unfortunately the way they do these "made for TV" showcases these days is that they only pick/allow/hire the pretty people to go down on the field to "enjoy" the concert. Which is why the audience probably seemed to be composed of mostly young white blonde girls pogoing around without any sense of rhythm whatsoever. Said eye candy is usually staged at the front of the stage, stationed in groups around the camera. Also if you watch carefully you can see the high security, color-coded wrist ID bands they use to identify "participants".
Long story short, whoever got the bandana probably didn't even know who Prince is until yesterday.
It was great fun. And we all had it. Facts: 1)the audience was evenly split, well all except the sissy that kept switching teams. 2)the women in the group kicked some serious ass. 3)I drank more beer than anybody else *burf*. 4)Prince is a prince. 5) commercials sucked. Especially the one making fun of foreigners. *Up yours fuckah* 6)I got to learn some interesting new words during the incessant fumbling, intercepting, sacking --I'd blush but I can only imagine what they mean. heh.
Question: What was the commercial with Beckamt that appeared during the pregame show?
And now I really need a decent source of income, so I can acquire all the Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl Champions memorabilia that my shallow, crass, commercialist heart desires.
I also am making up for my lack of participation in the thread last night so we can bump up the comment count and beat that other thread-who-shall-not-be-named.
the best post super bowl party food is chips and two day old bean dip. throw in some fake salsa de queso and half a dozen limes, and its like you're reliving the game.
i'm glad tony dungy is thinking about coming back to the colts next year.
but since he won the big game, he might not have any desire too. he says football is in his blood but not having to deal with manning would be a great day.
i'm pretty good. i feel a little light headed and the new cat tried to make out with me after I brushed my teeth. He enjoys toothpaste. oh, and did you hear he has a name now?
well, his gf wanted Sputnik so my roommate then started naming every US space program. Mercury, etc etc. He became very patriotic. So they decided on Apollo. I think they also decided on that because we were all watching a history channel show and they mentioned Apollo a lot.
he spent the day wandering around and trying to steal chula's food. also seemed to be trying to over run chula's scent markers. they're going to both be allowed to run around tomorrow....i wonder what'll happen.
well, they've seen each other and they both meow at each other through doors. and they hiss when they see each other. chula seems the most curious. apollo seems to think alot of himself.
i'm sure they'll get along. they both love to sit on laps and run on laptops so they have a lot in common.
I don't know if it's possible to "wow" the person who created an industry while giving them a presentation on that industry, but I'll try. I think she's gonna be so glad I'm doing it in her place she won't care. Or she'll TRY not to care.
Sigh, I wish I could put some dancing smilies in that thing. I'm actually sort of scared I'll be doing the presentation, and something weird will pop up on my screen- IM from some weird Mefi friend ("PenisOnMyFace") or reminder on Outlook ("It's Time For You To Pull Poops From the Dog's Butt"). These are the things I worry about.
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