Superbowl

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
So I thought the new stuff was pretty good. Probably has a decent chance of going down in history as four of his best songs.

But the mix sucked ass. Where was the friggin' bass?

Any of you lucky enough to have the NE-7/NY-3 square in a pool (that is, if the pool paid off by the quarter)?

Originally posted by chaz:
Great game.

IMO, up until the fourth quarter it was a rather boring game. great defence (esp. NYG) but not much to look at. didn't get interesting until there was about 12 minutes left on the clock.

Originally posted by sweetcell:
i'd definitely take the giants +12
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and i suppose i'd take the under, but not feeling quite as certain about it.

gawddam the lack of online betting. coulda/shoulda/woulda.

As the world champion Giants have won a record 11 road games in a row, they are understandably reluctant to plan a victory parade in the NY metropolitan area. Top cities in contention for the Giants victory parade are Louisville, Columbus, Sacramento, and Miami, with Miami having an inside track due to the efforts of local businessman Don Shula.

Can we please put aside the "Randy Moss is most talented receiver to ever play the game" talk? "Most talented receivers" usually come up big in big games. Moss never has. And, as expected, after the game, he questioned the Patriot's game plan and adopted a "maybe I'll be here next year, maybe I won't" attitude.

Heck, even Art Monk came up big in Super Bowls.

Brian

Who is this "we" you refer to?

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
Can we please put aside the "Randy Moss is most talented receiver to ever play the game" talk? "Most talented receivers" usually come up big in big games. Moss never has. And, as expected, after the game, he questioned the Patriot's game plan and adopted a "maybe I'll be here next year, maybe I won't" attitude.

Heck, even Art Monk came up big in Super Bowls.

Brian

Originally posted by chaz:
Who is this "we" you refer to?

"We"=The Howie Longs, Bill Simmons, etc. of the world.

Brian

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:

Originally posted by chaz:
Who is this "we" you refer to?

"We"=The Howie Longs, Bill Simmons, etc. of the world.

Brian

That would be them, not we.

Originally posted by chaz:
That would be them, not we.

quit trying to reign in his hate, will ya? boy is trying to be more inclusive.

As far as the ads go, I liked the Coke one with Stewie v. Underdog and the very brief, clever allusion to Lucy and the football. The Bridgstone one with Alice Cooper/Richard Simmons and the NFL Network's five months ago ones were good too.

For unintentional comedy, the racist (?) Salesgenie ones were hilarious. I was almost expecting a Little Black Sambo version in the fourth quarter.

Brian

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:

For unintentional comedy, the racist (?) Salesgenie ones were hilarious. I was almost expecting a Little Black Sambo version in the fourth quarter.

Yeah, I was shocked at these myself.

Time has a blow-by-blow recap & commentary of all the superbowl commercials (with ability to watch them too). whoever that reviewer is needs to grow a pair, and a sense of humor to go with it.

why do you say that?

Originally posted by sweetcell:
whoever that reviewer is needs to grow a pair, and a sense of humor to go with it.

Originally posted by sweetcell:
Time has a blow-by-blow recap & commentary of all the superbowl commercials (with ability to watch them too). whoever that reviewer is needs to grow a pair, and a sense of humor to go with it.

For someone who took it upon himself to review pop culture, he sure didn't know his shit. He didn't understand Chris Kattan's cameo in a Pepsi ad. Wasn't that Roxbury skit done a dozen times on SNL?

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Any of you lucky enough to have the NE-7/NY-3 square in a pool (that is, if the pool paid off by the quarter)?

My buddy and I won this square in our pool. 50 bucks a square and we hit the 7-3 one. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
why do you say that?

growing a pair: ok, maybe i was being harsh here but i found his comments wimpy and effeminate. he was clearly anti-meathead, and i like my commercials with an air of meatheadedness so we were bound to disagree. his refrain of "where are the women?" didn't resonate with me.

growing a sense of humor: i watched the game in a room with 40-50 people in it. everything that he pointed out as being un-funny, strangely enough, were the ones that got the biggest laughs (like the clydesdale/rocky montage). and he lost me as soon as he didn't get the roxbury reference.

he was coming from a industry-insider "did the commercial" work point of view (most in evidence in his iron man commentary: "So yeah, I'd say it did the job", and his Claratin assessment). i tend to take a less academic aproach to enjoying ads, and not worry about rating their effectiveness as marketing tools. probably the true origin of my disagreement with his assessments.

Why does the qb almost always get the mvp?….the mvp last night was the one who caught the ball between his hand and his helmet that gave the giants the first down to keep the winning drive going…everyone knows I'm no fan of the game, and only watched Tom Petty at half time, then the last two minutes (which took 40+ minutes to complete btw) while I was waiting for House to start…but my god, credit were credit is due, that was some skill to keep hold of that ball Manning the qp had thrown it three feet above his head.

the whole quarter got manning the mvp. if anyone else should have got it, maybe tuck

Manning was awesome. A lot of his throws were perfectly delivered and a qb that leads a game winning TD drive with 2 1/2 minutes left of the Super Bowl is almost by definition the MVP.

Tyree's catch was unreal - and also set up by Manning making a great play to avoid the sack and find him.

Tuck, Osi, and Strahan all could have won or shared MVP as well. Or Shockey who looked like he was putting in solid drinking exhibition in the suite.

Originally posted by Mobius:
Or Shockey who looked like he was putting in solid drinking exhibition in the suite.

It looked to me like he was enjoying a nice glass of Chardonnay.