Super Bowl Sunday! 02/05/12

[Billy's Little Trip]

I know music sites aren't packed with the sportiest of characters, but who's watching?
Question of the day 1: Giants or the Patriots. (heck, I'll make a poll)

Question of the day 2: Super bowl food. Are you making any? If so, take a pic or two.

I will be making my chili lime taco de pollo patata (chicken potato taco). It's something I've done my best to duplicate from a taqueria in Arizona we go to when we go wakeboarding there. The place is famous for it and it's always a big hit at my house. Pics to come when I build them.

[Paco Del Stinko]

I'll be watching. Not a huge sports fan, and I don't have/won't pay for cable. So it's off to my girlfriend's house to watch and cheer on the Patriots. (Not setting up Mr. Ray with all that "rooting for" business ) Yeah, Tom Brady is a gazillionaire and married to a so-called super model, but that Eli Manning needs a smackdown. He can never be forgiven for sniveling when he was drafted to the Chargers: "But...wah wahh...daddy.. I don't wanna play for them. Wah!" But really, I hope for a close, nerve-wracking game, and hope it's not a blowout on either side. Some drama, ya know?

Food will be nothing cazy, I'm watching my figure. But there wll be glorious beer, amen. GO PATS!

[Lunkhead]

I'm not going to watch. I'm going to try to take advantage of the fact that most everybody is at home at the TV to go out to places I normally wouldn't go on a weekend, like the Apple Store at the mall, and the new Guitar Center.

[inevitableguy]

Some friends of ours throw a Super Bowl party every year that's more about drinking wine, eating cupcakes, and paying attention to the commercials than it is about the game. That is where I will be.

However, I was born and (partially) raised in New York, so GO GIANTS!

[Spud]

You forget the " couldn't give a flying fuck" option in the poll.

[roymond]

I'm not going to watch. I'm going to try to take advantage of the fact that most everybody is at home at the TV to go out to places I normally wouldn't go on a weekend, like the Apple Store at the mall, and the new Guitar Center.

Ditto. NYC is great on SB Sunday. All the low life are off the streets.

[JonPorobil]

You forget the " couldn't give a flying fuck" option in the poll.

Where's the "Like" button on this thing?

[Billy's Little Trip]

You forget the " couldn't give a flying fuck" option in the poll.

LOL. It's there now.

[fluffy]

Last night I made quiche. So today I am eating quiche.

[RangerDenni]

Gone to see my brother at a party. We're close so I'm happy.

[Caravan Ray]

I actually saw a little bit of this on telly. Jeez Louise - how freaking boring.

I mean - I get the whole homo-eroticism thing. Sure - seeing genetically modified humanoids poncing about in helmets and their little sisters pants is highly arousing - but why is it so fucking slow?!?!?

You get about 10 milliseconds of somthing actually happening - then it is all dancing and patting each others arses and time for an ad break! Or worse - some old git comes out dicking about with a tape measure. WTF?!?!? Can't these nancys just play? And keep playing without having to stop all the freaking time?

[roymond]

Apparently that's called a "strategy" game. Yeah, I watched the last 2 25 minutes.

[Caravan Ray]

No - Test Cricket is a strategy game.

Gridiron football just seems to be an advertising campaign with a few rare and tiny bits of unrelated and over-padded physical activity

[king_arthur]

Some friends had a party that we went to, pot luck sorta thing with lots of bottles of wine being opened and such. I didn't really care about the game, although, as football games go, this was a good one, came right down to the wire. (CR, I think you're confusing football with soccer, where people kick a ball back and forth for 90 minutes and if the final score is 0-0 it still counts as a game . Somebody put a bunc of "shrimp on the barbie" that were really good, he didn't make nearly enough of those.

Don't think I paid any attention at all to any of the commercials. Thought the halftime show was actually the best part - Madonna is lookin' and sounding mighty good for 53 years old! What's the consensus on whether she was actually singing or lip syncing? 'Cause if she was actually singing all that stuff live while doing all that dancing as well, that was really good!

Charles (KA)

[rone rivendale]

Some of you people who only watch the Super Bowl and no other American Football games:

It isn't usually 10 seconds of game and 5 minutes of commercials. It's only at the Super Bowl that this happens. It's the biggest sporting event *3 out of every 4 years and so advertisers pay a buttload of money to be seen worldwide.


*that was for the 'futbol' fans in the board and your *yawn* World Cup.

[fluffy]

I just watched Rifftrax and such all day. And I also saw some of the ads on Hulu, which were mostly underwhelming. Although I do like that the Toyota Camry Reinvented ad allowed for people to be, you know, gay. (Even if both versions of the reinvented couch were kind of tasteless.) Nothing was particularly memorable, though, except seeing how badly Matthew Broderick has aged.

Also, now I hate GoDaddy even more than before.

[roymond]

I thought the Clint ad was fabulous.

[Billy's Little Trip]

I thought the commercial with the college kid that thought he got a new Camero for graduation, was hilarious.

edit: Better to just watch it.
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The awesome award goes to OK Go's "needing Getting" song for the Chevy Sonic.
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For those that remember, these are the guys that did the treadmill music vid, which is also pretty cool, in a less grand way, but cool none the less and a better song in my opinion.

[Caravan Ray]

(CR, I think you're confusing football with soccer, where people kick a ball back and forth for 90 minutes and if the final score is 0-0 it still counts as a game .

But they do actually "kick a ball back and forth for 90 minutes". Something actually happens. And the same 11 players (generally) play the whole game - they are not running off to have a rest every five minutes.

It it the constant stopping that makes gridiron virtually unwatchable

[Caravan Ray]

Some of you people who only watch the Super Bowl and no other American Football games:

It isn't usually 10 seconds of game and 5 minutes of commercials. It's only at the Super Bowl that this happens. It's the biggest sporting event *3 out of every 4 years and so advertisers pay a buttload of money to be seen worldwide.


*that was for the 'futbol' fans in the board and your *yawn* World Cup.

I don't think there are any soccer fans on he board. And I don't think the superbowl is seen "worldwide". There just happened to be a replay on last night here late on one of the dodgy free to air digital stations. It didn't carry any of the advertising - it just had constant stoppage where the ads would have fit in.

It's the biggest sporting event *3 out of every 4 years

Huh?!?! WTF?!?! In the USA maybe. Not to the other 96% of the worlds population.
The Australian cricket team has just finished a 4 Test Match series against India (kicked their arses). I would guess that almost every day of those 4 matches would have had a bigger audience than the superbowl (there is a lot of people in India).

[HeuristicsInc]

constant stoppages - yeah, the biggest problem with american football. this is one reason why i prefer hockey
seriously, somebody scores, they go to ads. they come back, kick the ball, go to ads. come back... blah blah
but i did enjoy the superbowl game. it helps to dvr it so you can fast forward through the boring bits.
-bill

[Caravan Ray]

constant stoppages - yeah, the biggest problem with american football. this is one reason why i prefer hockey

Another sport that would have a much bigger audience than gridiron - because of it's popularity in India, Pakistan, south east Asia and Europe (and one of the sadly few sports at the moment that Australia is current World Champion in)

seriously, somebody scores, they go to ads. they come back, kick the ball, go to ads. come back... blah blah
but i did enjoy the superbowl game. it helps to dvr it so you can fast forward through the boring bits.
-bill

Yes - I actually really like the idea of gridiron. It could be a great game. It is essentially just a Rugby code. I tend to prefer Rugby League, which has more set play than Rugby Union - but League still maintains a flow from the play-the-ball and has multiple phases and opportunistic play. But gridiron takes set play to a ridiculous extreme. It is all set play - there is never any second phase flowing on from the set play. Once the ball stops - that's it! Then they form up an start again.

I always cracks me up when I see retired Australian Rules footballers who go to the US and become millionairs by being specialist kickers in professional gridiron teams. That is all they do. Wander out onto paddock half a dozen times a match - boot the ball - then wander off again. Nice work if you can get it.