Re: read my super bowl post

can't remember if i did this or not already. but if i did,
then rhett musta liked it.
anyway, here ya go you northwest beer brewin strip club capital of the US resident.

Pitt 24
AZ 3

i posted this twice on purpose. bet 2-1 pitt by three touchdowns and you'll be rich!



Post Edited (01-29-09 17:23)

No way, bro. I say Pitt 24-20.

i feel ya. but i figure ole pop werner won't make it through the first half.

Then Larry Fitzgerald will throw touchdowns to himself....

pitt 20
az 13

Post Edited (02-15-10 20:12)

reinteration period...
Go forth and be bold ye three touchdown gamebreakers.
Pittsburgh got lotsa them too.

anti up girls,
I got pitt by three TD's

Careful, folks. Remember, the Pats were the heavyweights going into last year's Super Bowl ... undefeated and all that. We know how that turned out.

That Steelers defense is ferocious.

I'm not much into the wagering, but I'd take Pittsburgh BIG.

And remember that Warner's team was heavily favored in his last Super Bowl appearance, but a combination of an idiot head coach who was too convinced of his own genius to adjust his game plan in light of it failing spectacularly, officials who turned a blind eye to blatant muggings on field and probable Belichick cheating sent him home a loser and an exile in the wilderness for the better part of a decade. So he's got something to prove, and the guy thrives on ferocious defenses.

Ahem. Let me note that my prediction was pretty damn close. It was an exciting game, which is always fun.

I have to say that even though I am not a Bruce fan that was the best Super Bowl halftime I have ever seen.

The game was good, though I would have rather the game ended with a hail mary to Fitzgerald.

27 AZ

13 Pitt

big ben is falling down

Pittsburgh in a blowout (score unspecified)

The blood and guts will make you swoon...
All over the road: Technicolor!

Please, Bruce, don't play Glory Days.

I saw Bruce close a solo show in 2005 with Suicide's "Dream Baby Dream."

Post Edited (02-15-10 20:12)

pretty damn close rhett?
you fucking called it, four fucking points!
like chico esquela (garrett morris) i should stick to baseball.

game was ok.

referees kept it close on a counta the pain those (nearly two fucking hours worth- but they ALL had either violence or some sort of dickheaded random offensiveness attached ) commercials inflicted upon us.

we need to assemble all those fuckwad commercial making pricks in one place, then tell N Korea, ok go ahead with those test missiles. Here are your coordinates.



Post Edited (02-03-09 15:23)

OK, I dont give a damn if I sound like some kind of naive demagogue: It pisses me off that The E Street Band faked their performance during the half time show. Why cant they just play the god damn songs and have the sound quality be a little worse but the performance be more authentic? That's the second major event in a month (see also the Obama inauguration) where world-class entertainers faked the music. Has the entire concept of live music jumped the shark at this point? Are events so big, and concert/event tickets so expensive, that the trade-offs of genuine live music are no longer considered acceptable? Is it nothing but pre-recorded backing tracks and auto-tuned vocals from here on in? Some sophisticated culturist will inevitably lecture me about making a fetish out of "authenticity" or some such grad-school jive talk, but come on!

"Too big to fail", indeed. How about: "Too big for live music" ?

I think you may have hit the nail on the head in your last statement. Music was not the point of either of these events - Springsteen and YoYo Ma were merely sideshows. It's not like the crowds were there to see them - they were merely distractions, a break in the action, so to speak. Whether they were performing live or not is immaterial to the events in which they appeared.

If these were actual concerts, where people paid money to see the performers and hear the music, then yes, damn right they should be playing live. But they weren't - they were a presidential inauguration and sports' biggest annual game, where the music was ultimately unimportant.

dear don delillo said that super bowl sunday is the equivalent of the mexican day of the dead


one does not become US's finest novelist on mere novels alone...

When you have 12 minutes of precisely timed live television, a stage full of performers, instruments, amplifiers, effects pedals, microphones and cables that were just shoved onto the field, ready to fail, surrounded by lighting equipment, cameras and fireworks, and no margin for error and no ability to pause or restart a performance...well, you'd be insane to put your faith in it all working. Forget any idea of sending out a roadie to fix a bad cable or blown fuse. It's not an option.

Having done my share of live audio engineering I can tell you the chances of having a significant, noticeable failure under those circumstances is high. Very high. And with 95 million people watching--nearly 1/3 of the entire US population--there are huge incentives for not taking those risks.

I'm yelling at the TV: "Do Johnny 99, Do Johnny 99" but they didn't. That was kinda sucky for fake too.

All the more reason to bring back marching bands. The Super Bowl halftime extravaganza is one of the more irritating turds that's been shat forth by American culture in the last couple of decades.

I generally refuse to watch the Super Bowl at all out of protest over the halftime show and this truly bizarre fascination with THE COMMERCIALS. What the fuck kind of deranged society gets itself worked up weeks in advance quivering in anticipation over friggin' commercials? Jeepers J. Christmas!!!!! I can think of few things more pointless, and hell, I have to spend 24 hours a day being myself, so I know a thing or three about pointless idiocy. But even I draw the line at getting excited about OMIGOD! THE NEW COMMERCIALS and spending a week afterwards trying to decide which ones were the best. Here's a clue - unless they're performing a useful service like posthumously making Nick Drake the star he deserved to be in life, they all fucking suck.

(Actually, as countless "to the contrary" posts on this board when people are hating on musicians for selling their songs to commercials will attest, I don't really mind commercials. But actually getting excited about a night full of new ones? Feh.)

I'm a calm soul in general, but the moronity that has come to accompany the Super Bowl in the last 15 or 20 years pisses me off. Goldurnit, I remember the good ol' days when it was on on a nice Sunday afternoon and was over in time for dinner and that nice Jackie Smith was dropping passes in the end zone and losing the game for Dallas. Those were good times.



Post Edited (02-05-09 21:52)

face it, the half time show was a 12 minute commercial for Springstein's new album.................
The Sprint "Roadies run the world" commercial was cool, if I was forced by gunpoint to pick.

> face it, the half time show was a 12 minute commercial for Springstein's new album...

Then why did the set include only one song from the new album? More like a 12-minute commercial for his upcoming tour. Which, given the current state of the music business, makes more sense.

It was a typical Super Bowl Sunday at my house. I was watching the game, and my wife was in the study, or in the kitchen, or just about any other room of the house. Whenever the game came to a station break, I hollered "Ad!" and she came rushing in to watch the commercials. When the game resumed, so did whatever she'd been doing before the station break.

As for the commercials, I remember that several of them made us laugh. Today, the only one I can remember is the E*Trade one, with the two babies. It doesn't seem as funny as it was at the time.

why did the set include any songs from the new album? Everyone at Chez Madi asked during his show: "Is this a new song, hmmmmmm guess I'll get the new cd, I like this....." Mission accomplished Columbia!

Actual guests at Superbowl party: 17
Those who bought the cd this week: 7
Those who called to inform me Lux Interior died: 6
Those who went out with me to drink because Lux Interior died: 0
Those who liked the Sprint Commercial: 17