If the Steelers win:
“They had the weakest road to the superbowl ever: an 8-8 team, a 9-7 team, and a team they beat twice already.”
If the Cardinals win:
“It’s an abomination, they got to rest their starters all season.”
If the Steelers win:
“It’s the officials giving it to the popular team.”
If the Cardinals win:
“It’s the officials giving it to Warner for the endorsements.”
If the Steelers win:
“Big Ben. Worst. Superbowl. Quarterback.”
If the Cardinals win:
“Arizona. Softest. Schedule. Ever.”
If the Steelers win:
“Obviously it’s the superbore, the most boring team won.”
If the Cardinals win:
“97 million people watched a game of touch football.”
What are your favorite whine lines? Beat the pass rush and list yours here.
(Also next writer to say “this steelers defense doesn’t have any legendary players on it. Is missing Troy, Harrison, Farrior as legends in the making. And LeBeau, in his 50th year in the NFL, is a legend.)
(Anyone who thinks that Warner’s HOF credentials rest on this game, hasn’t seen the rise from grocery bagger to three time Superbowler. He’s carried on his arm three teams who would not be there without him.)
(Long time Steelers fan. I believe this game is going to be a blow out one direction or another, because either the Steelers get inside Warner’s head and pick him off three times, or Warner rolls up yardage. Personally, I believe that the Steelers will ball hawk in this game and have a short field, but the Cardinals are much healthier. So I’m taking the over number with confidence, and hoping that the Steelers are on the good side of it.)
Why are all the people in the audience at the Springsteen concert white? It’s like, airport white. Must be all the Citibankers’ kids who got Superbowl tickets.
Oh wait, they have a gospel chorus. And a guy on a cow bell. That must make it all right.
because my patient was watching it. I appreciated the tight pants of the players. They got nice bums, I tell ya
Tolerating prostitution is tolerating abuse and torture of women and children.
With the exception of the final play in the first half, it was until that point a prosaic performance. But then things livened up. There was a recurrence of Unnecessary Roughness and related disorderly conduct, some of which hindered the progress of one or the other teams at a crucial point (as evidenced by an unusual Safety conversion awarded to the Cardinals and providing them two incremental points). Then, a six point conversion by the Steelers in the waning moments of the game required multiple camera angles and a referee review to affirm its validity. An ensuing field goal by the Steelers forced the hapless Cardinals into an appeal to the Virgin Mary, as there was less than a minute available on the clock and they were now down four points.
Alas, these prayers were unavailing. In the final analysis, the margin of victory for the Steelers was fundamentally the result of that propitious interception and energetic 100 yard run at the end of the first half, resulting in an additional seven points for Pittsburgh. That play will be, in retrospect, the source of a lifetime of profound lament and regret for certain of the Cardinal players, so at least you and your patient witnessed the “defining moment”, as it were, of the entire enterprise.
I am leaving out of this analysis the excessive advertising content, which turned the Super Bowl into the Commercial Bowl. Many of these productions were confusing or meaningless, and seemed unworthy of the hundreds of millions of dollars proferred by these companies to reach such a large viewing audience. I trust your hospice patient had recourse to a morphine drip to escape the existential emptiness of these all-to-frequent interruptions of the game.
Let us hope too that your patient witnessed the entirety of the second half, as the battle shifted from one side to the other until the final seconds when the outcome proved favorable to the Steelers. It was an unusually satisfying struggle, as these competitions go, plagued by doubt as to the outcome until nearly all available playing time had expired.
And speaking of expiry (and I write here with no disrespect for the situation facing your nursing charge), your patient will go to his or her Maker having witnessed one of the best such entertainments in the long, XLIII year history of these games. I am using the pretentious system of marking anniversaries as employed by the Super Bowl official governing body itself – it is indeed a wonder that the average American fan can count that high in Roman numerals. Let it not be said that the Super Bowl lacks an ability to educate the hoi polloi.
- eom
“The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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US sports fans in Arizona got a surprise when their TV coverage of American football’s Super Bowl was interrupted by a pornographic film.
Tucson-based KVOA-TV said it was “dismayed and disappointed” after some cable viewers had their match coverage disrupted towards the end of the game.
The company said the material was only seen by viewers of one cable network.
“KVOA will investigate what happened and make sure our viewers get answers,” company president Gary Nielsen said.
“When the NBC feed of the Super Bowl was transmitted from KVOA to local cable providers and through over-the-air antennas, there was no pornographic material,” he added.
Comcast, the cable company whose viewers saw the material, said it was investigating.
Local media outlets reported that they received calls from furious viewers.
The clip showed a woman unzipping a man’s trousers, followed by a graphic act between the two.
“I just figured it was another commercial until I looked up,” viewer Cora King told the Arizona Daily Star.
“Then he did his little dance with everything hanging out.”
The interruption happened just after the last touchdown by the Arizona Cardinals, who lost the match to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau
The choices people have to make these days. Football porn versus advertising porn versus the real thing.
for a summary of the game. Truth be told, though, I have never taken a liking to American football for various reasons. One of them is that I find there is no flow in this game. There are too many ‘standing still’ moments that are boring unless there is a special technique to ‘standing still’ that I’m not aware of. Neither can I get excited about a bunch of men running around trying to pull someone down. And then there’s all that armor they have to wear in order to play the game. It doesn’t appeal to me one bit.
I grew up with soccer. Now that’s a beautiful game to watch even if no one scores a goal. Soccer offers two 45 minute periods of continuous play. One gets to see the players work as a team as well as numerous close up shots of an individual’s magnificent footwork with the ball not too mention some breathtaking long passes. The only protective gear a soccer player wears is a little padding inside his socks. Then there is the added bonus of being able to look at so many gorgeous muscular legs
As for my patient, he was half asleep when I left. It was mostly his son who was jumping up and down and causing a great commotion in the room. The one thing that pleases my patient the most is watching the crows fly by which is what he’s been doing for 30 years. The two days I care for him I watch the crows with him as we sit on the side of the bed together – at 4 o’clock sharp. The excitement never lets up.
Tolerating prostitution is tolerating abuse and torture of women and children.