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new england is really mass. mass.= romney/kennedy. go giants!
Not the most auspicious beginning for a New England victory…
i’ve heard it said: “safety first”
Have I mentioned lately that Belicheat blows goats ?
me: i wanna make scottbrown and lizwarren cry.
If y’all haven’t seen it, the Feherty show from last night had , Theismann and others and was pretty good.
Had Tebow, Theismann and others.
What’s the line on Madonna showing her weathered tits at halftime? Maybe in support of a newly-released Clorox® Eyebleach ?
Greater than the line on her kissing Nikki Minaj.
Rumor has it the lezzie show is what is on offer this year.
Whatever Madonna does will pale in comparison to what Lady GarGoyle would’ve accomplished. She with the bottomless meatlocker…
Damn. Putzes scored.
dicentra
1/2 time is a baal festival
IS it true that if you play Floyds Ummma Gumma at half speed it syncs perfectly with Madonna’s half time show?
This would be better if she was Tom Petty.
I thought it was Tom Petty. And that he’d been lifting.
Good for her. A flawless performance. Baal and Lady GarGoyle left fuming.
She could bench press Tom Petty and a score of Heartbreakers, likely.
Go Clint
Was that Clint Eastwood doing a commercial for Detroit? And no “Zipperheads” or “Slopes”?
that tag line “imported from detroit” says sumthing not good
Please tell me Eastwood didn’t just tacitly endorse BHO?
next up: “imported from dearbornistan”
That’s the way I heard it jdw.
Hey Clint get offa my lawn.!
Fuck me is there no constant in the universe? WTF?
Is there some kind of game on tonight?
If NY doesn’t get its act together this game is going to stay ugly.
Thor sighting… )
It has been really damn fun having the festivities in town the last couple weeks. I called Tom Brady’s hotel room at 3, 4, and 5 AM today, just to see if he was awake.
coke: save the proley bears. cutting edge 2007.
We gave Detroit to Canada? Yay!
Heh. Love it when Brady sniffs turf.
Is there a delay in the broadcast?
A delay is in place. 1st down in 3 2 1…
Have they trotted out Peyton yet? A photo op in Irsay:s box?
One more quarter to go folks.
Tic, tOK?
Coughlin is going to have to put a quarter in the swear hat.
Um, that’s swear jar…
Now or nothing, junior Manning.
oh my what an ending
Why didn’t Eli run around for awhile on that conversion play?
Heh. Brings a smile to my formerly stone face.
Suck it Belicheat.
good game
The Immaculate Buttflop?
Oh my. I have seen enough to know I have seen too much
Can’t say the Pats weren’t in it right to the end. Hell of a game.
kissing the baal huuum
How does Wes Welker drop that ball? Game sealed if he makes that catch.
Wow.
jdw —
No time comes off the clock on the extra point attempt.
Why Beli”cheat”? I don’t get that.
This was the second Uberbowl in a row that was a good game.
Brady made 2 very not Brady plays tonight – the safety, and the 4th quarter INT.
Leigh – Belicheck is a known cheater, filming opponent practices.
Any game in which the Patriots lose is a good game.
Now, I shall carefully bubble-wrap my Patriot hate and unwrap it in August or so.
I wouldn’t want to break it.
So, two years in a row the (relatively) lowly rise to conquer. What’s up with that?
Best part of the game:
Watching Belicheck run across the field ready to cry. Maybe someone should ask him if he has an idea of how Tiquan Underwood feels now.
The Giants squeaked in for their last SB win, too.
I think it’s fixed.
Thanks, JD. It sounds like he has spies.
Anyone note whether the Patriots played the guy lineman they cut Underwood for?
I don’t have the same Patriot hate so many of you seem to have. If anything, I hate giving New Yorkers an even greater sense of worth. Which is why I like to remind them that the Giants are really a misnamed New Jersey team.
I wanted the Pats to win because I’m shallow and find Tom Brady hawt.
Jeff,
It’s kind of an enemy of an enemy kinda thing with me. Now if it were the Jets I’d be much more conflicted.
It’s more the Patriots fans than anything, and I agree that New Yorkers do not need any more reasons to be proud of themselves. However, I rarely run into Giants fans, but every season I end up running into scads of Patriots fans clogging up my favorite bar in San Diego.
I wanted the Patriots to win because, (very) generally speaking, the Republicans win the White House when the AFC wins the Superbowl.
I’m curious what the correlation coefficient is for that stat. I would doubt it’s inside the margin of a coin flip.
Someone pass this along to Rick Santorum.
And someone else please tell the Romney campaign to stop attacking conservatives from the right. It insults the intelligence of anyone left who has any.
As advantageous as home field advantage: there is no correlation.
Inhofe has been banging that drum for years. No one listens to Jim, unfortuntely.
Conservatives do.
It’s not. 4 AFC wins: (76, ’80, ’84, ’04) 1 D, 3 Rs
8 NFC wins: 4 Rs 3Ds, 1 tbd
Now the last Redskins homegame before the election.
Perfect since ’36
Well, yeah, Jeff. We all seem to be crowded over here in your site. I’m talking about the media and his fellow senators. Me, I get robo-calls from him often.
Are you snowed in? It looks like a pisser o the news.
The advantage of getting tossed out on your ass in ’06?
No one gave a shit about earmarks in ’06.
That’s right! Of course I wasn’t thinking. But can you imagine what sort of new and exciting nuances a rule change would bring to the game? On the conversion attempt only; treat it as a standard play, using the clock. Suddenly, that little-used play becomes much more significant.
Oh, and there’s at least one good reason for my extreme dislike of these Belicheat-led Patriots…
Haven’t seen the Eastwood commercial yet m’self, but isn’t Detroit still poised on the verge of bankruptcy? And yet, somehow, that’s not supposed to count?
“And someone else please tell the Romney campaign to stop attacking conservatives from the right. It insults the intelligence of anyone left who has any.”
But but but he has people who do that from superpacs over which he has no control. When he isn’t saving 14 year olds, i imagine him in some social club whispering orders his consigliere.
Is Zero’s peace prize getting revoked? Now that would bring me a modicum of peace!
That was Tom Coburn, my other senator in 06 talking about earmarks.
The Eastwood commercial was good. Very Good.
So Good that it should have been a Ford commercial, instead of a Gov’t Motors commercial
—the Italian division of Gov’t Motors.
Not snowed in, no.
At any rate, anytime an ad comes out against Santorum — and maybe Mitt’s new buddy Ron Paul will get in on the act — Santorum should just respond with the list of things he doesn’t support that Romney does, from the stimulus to TARP to cap and trade to an individual mandate to gun control. And follow it up with something like, “Were Mitt Romney actually concerned with the conservative bona fides of the Republican candidates for President, he’d be running a series of ads attacking himself.”
“in some social club”
heh, here’s hoping the Paulie character serves him up some lye in his espresso.
OT: on the strength training front, I finally broke 200 lbs.
Unfortunately, to do so I needed an injured bicep and lots of pizza. And new pants.
The shape-up begins in earnest now. Including throwing away the rest of the 7 layer dip and the bbq chicken pizza.
Yes, he should. Who is handling his ads? I can’t remember seeing any or hearing them on the radio.
I don’t hate the Pats anymore. I respect them deeply. But I was happy to see them lose.
Even though I’m not a NY teams fan, in any sport, I did call it for the Jeyentzz in advance. Of course, not being a betting man that doesn’t do me any good :)
It was an exciting game to be sure. Too bad it wasn’t Ravens vs Jeyentzz. But then my wife would have been mad at me for rooting for the opposition!
And perhaps it’s me, but I really didn’t find the commercials all that amusing or impressive. I mean, the Eastwood one was pretty good, and the one at the dog track where the dog that wore the tennis shoes won was funny. But in general? They were all kind of meh…
I’d be curious to hear the critique of the ad types among the commentariat. happy? Abe?
Madonna killed at half-time. Girlfriend is still a goddess.
The M&M commercial with the LMFAO song and the M&M taking off his shell was good.
I didn’t get to watch Mr. Bob I’m not far enough into my diet to trust myself in super bowl situations involving wings and 7-layer dips and pizza and hot links and ice cream and brownies so I trundled down to panera and got a tasty salad and then did grocery shoppings at a mostly empty Ralph’s
The inevitability of Romney obviously is not because he is the best candidate, nor the brightest candidate, nor the truest to a core set of beliefs, whatever they may be, the inevitability comes from his war chest. And come the revolution political office and the powers of doing favors for “friends”, will no longer be for sale.
On a side note, if you beat an Atlanta team in the playoff you have an excellent chance of going all the way.
NY beat Atlanta in the playoffs, Green Bay beat Atlanta in the playoffs, The SF Giants beat the Braves in the playoffs and The Cards edged out the Braves for the last playoff spot. Don’t know if that holds true for basketball and Atlanta onlyrents hockey teams.
I missed the first half of VW’s Vader at the Mos Eisley cantina commercial because my 5 yo was pitching a fit about not getting to watch his Transformers video.
I liked the Budweiser prohibtion add —esp the use of the Theme from The Natural.
Not enough to start drinking Bud… but.
I also liked the Accura commercial where Leno cheats Seinfield out of first dibs on the new sports car. Jet powered flyng squirrel suit….
The half time show was good. Best in years in fact. Still, Elizabeth Taylor had the better entrance.
I forgot about the VW/Vader one; that was clever Ernst. And JD, I also thought the M&M one clever, but alas not as memorable as M&M/Mars would have wished :)
The Acura one was OK I guess, due to the outlandish absurdity, but I’m neither a fan of Leno or Seinfeld really-although Jerry did some great stand up comedy.
Madonna? I really thought that was horrid, but admittedly am probably in the h8ter category there; both of Madge’s pretentiousness and the in-your-face united-colors-of-Benetton feel to her performance.
But, you know, I’m a Philistean :)
Good luck with the diet resolutions Jeff and happyfeet, and my regards to all!
Eastwood ad? Seriously? It was a not so veiled pitch to give Obama 4 more years. “Halftime in America” as in this is the start of the push to let Obama finish the job cause it wad really really bad and he’s got more work to do. Fuck that. Time for the reps to blast a here’s what Detroit looks like ad with the non rosy glassed rah rah truth and ask America if that’s what they really want cause Obama does.
who will the ghost of ted kennedy side with? mittens or baracky? inquiring mimes….
for some old timey: how’s your golf game?
Well Stephanie, when you buy an auto company with the People’s money, I guess you’ve got a right to expect that company to produce a not-so-veiled pitch for your re-election.
Try to look on the bright side.
We’ll be beggin’ coach to kill us.
Plus Madonna? Y’all must be wasaaay into the scotch. She looked like she was about to fall off her high heels and tripped twice. Tentative. Old age is a bitch when you discover your balance isn’t what it used to be and those splits and moves don’t go exactly as planned. Sorry but she sucked. Needs to find herself some old lady heels and leave the platform stilts to Lady Gaga who was probably laughing her ass off at the arthritic performance.
Incomplete thought there.
When we’re beggin coach to kill us, we know he’ll do it.
Played Tuesday Thursday Friday and today. Playing tennis in the am and golf on Tuesday. Shot a 96 98 101 and a 94 last week. Thanks for asking ;)
Gee i thought the Clint ad was a subtle Santorum endorsement because of the manufacturing backbone of america rising from the dead. Like Ricky says will be his first priority.
It’s all in the perception.
Madonna has a leg injury and put on her half-time show for free. She’s a trooper.
she’s worked her ass off for thirty years straight
Muir: Automobile allegory
Gack. Super bowls need manly rock n roll not prissy pop dance music. Or decent country music.
Says something that Madonna is ok and HW jr is persona non grata. spit.
And no over the hill rockers like the Stones. Something fresh like drive by truckers or daughtery
And no over the hill rockers like the Stones.
I’ll drink to that.
No more geriatric acts from the 60s
Boomers down, X-ers up!
Next year, Flock of Sea Gulls!
i tried so hard to be good but tomorrow NG is bringing tasty spinach dip and wings and the links and … her mother in law’s tamales! Tomorrow will be a wee small setback looks like. Albeit a tasty setback.
I’d be curious to hear the critique of the ad types among the commentariat. happy? Abe?
Meh. I generally hate commercials created for the Super Bowl. Too theatrical, if that’s the word. People are actively watching them in an unnatural way, and as a general rule good advertising starts with the assumption that nobody gives a shit and that you’re intruding.
Now now. Tyler wasn’t exactly a shining example of awesomeness at the Pat Broncos game.
Flock of seagulls? Eek.
Boy George FTW. /s
I think it would be cool to see a kick ass marching band at half time. I do enjoy the annual debate over whether the celebritard of the year is lip-syncing or not.
I mainly am just thinking back to what a curb-stomping a healthy Steelers put on the Patriots and longing for what might have been.
“I’ve been asked by some of my friends in the press why we picked Hudson County for this kind of kick off of the campaign. Now I’m sure they asked because Hudson County is the home of Democrats in such great numbers…. No — No and I hope a lot are here. As a matter of fact, I’m the first Republican candidate to come here since 1968.
But the answer to their question is, I’m here because it is the home of Democrats, because I believe today, that in this country there are millions of Democrats who are just as unhappy with the way things are as all the rest of us are.
It’s fitting that on Labor Day, we meet beside the harbors, the waters I should say of New York harbor, with the eyes of Miss Liberty on our gathering and in the words of the poet whose lines are inscribed at her feet, “On the air bridged harbor that twin cities frame.”
Through this “Golden Door,” under the gaze of that “Mother of Exiles,” has come millions of men and women, who first set foot on American soil right there, on Ellis Island, so close to the Statue of Liberty.
These families came here to work. They came to build. Others came to America in different ways, from other lands, under different, and often harrowing conditions. But this place symbolizes what they all managed to build, no matter where they came from or how they came or how much they suffered.
They helped to build that magnificent city across the river. They spread across the land building other cities and other towns and incredibly productive farms.
They came to make America work. They didn’t ask what this country could do for them but what they could do to make this — this refuge the greatest home of freedom in history.
They brought with them courage, ambition and the values of family, neighborhood, work, peace, and freedom. We all came from different lands but we share the same values, the same dream.
Today a President of the United States would have us believe that dream is over or at least in need of change. Jimmy Carter’s Administration tells us that the descendants of those who sacrificed to start again in this land of freedom may have to abandon the dream that drew their ancestors to a new life in a new land.
You’re right. The Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises, of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten. Eight million — eight million out of work. Inflation running at 18 percent in the first quarter of this year. Black unemployment at 14 percent, higher than any single year since the government began keeping separate statistics. Four straight major deficits run up by Carter and his friends in Congress. The highest interest rates since the Civil War, reaching at times close to 20 percent, lately they’re down to more than 11 percent but now they’ve begun to go up again. Productivity falling for six straight quarters among the most productive people in the world.
Through his inflation he has raised taxes on the American people by 30 percent, while their real income has risen only 20 percent. The Lady standing there in the harbor has never betrayed us once. But this Administration in Washington has betrayed the working men and women of this country.
The President promised that he would not increase taxes for the low and middle-income people, the workers of America. Then he imposed on American families the largest single tax increase in our nation’s history. His answer to all this misery? He tries to tell us that we’re “only” in a recession, not a depression, as if definitions, words, relieve our suffering.
Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well if it’s a definition — if it’s a definition he wants, I’ll give him one. A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.
[Crowd chants.]
Thank you. Thank you. Well, all right, thank you. Maybe I should quit right now, but I’ll go on for a few more minutes.
I have talked with unemployed workers all across this country. I’ve heard their views on what Jimmy Carter has done to them and their families. They aren’t interested in semantic quibbles. They’re out of work and they know who put them out of work. And they know the difference between a recession and a depression.
Let Mr. Carter go to their homes, look their children in the eye and argue with them that it’s “only” a recession that put Dad or Mom out of work. Let him go to the unemployment lines and lecture those workers who have been betrayed on what is the proper definition for their widespread economic misery. Human tragedy, human misery, the crushing of the human spirit; they do not need defining, they need action. And it’s action, in the form of jobs, to lower taxes, and an expanded economy that as President, I intend to provide.
Now, call this human tragedy whatever you want. Whatever it is, it’s Jimmy Carter’s. He caused it. He tolerates it. And he’s going to answer to the American people for it.”
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganlibertypark.htm
maybe next year they can get the cast of glee that would effing rawk
HF is scaring me.
I wouldn’t mind a good college band like T a&m doing some of those supposedly impossible cross patterns with some dancers and majorettes and maybe the fag corp doing covers of classic rock. At least the cheese factor would be intentional.
I was just kidding
sorta
Reminder while I’m thinking about it…
Donald and I and Bmoe??? And whoever else in the Atl area are doing a meatup on March 22 at the Gourds show at Smiths Olde Bar off Piedmont. Tix at the smiths website
McG, batboy and all others would live to see all PW Atlanta area folks there. Some of the JOMers are going too. One of the JOMers husbands is in the band. Should be fun.
Contact me at Stephaniegaatl at yahoo dot com. If you are interested.
Flock of seagulls? Eek.
Katrina and the Waves?
I was thinking the FAMU band, get some for real gangsters up in the house.
3/22 is a Thursday? Maybe can do, hard to say right now.
Only if FAMU gets to haze the announcers.
Yeah it’s a Thursday.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s320x320/419930_373124006047515_100000497564612_1538943_1326262340_n.jpg
Link NSENEF.
(not safe for New England fans)
Is there a debate? It seemed so obvious.
Agreed, Leigh. And only one tiny slip-up, Stephanie, so minor that I missed it during the show.
And comparing Madonna to Lady (sp) GarGoyle? Please. I don’t think that guy will ever get a SB halftime show. There’s not enough makeup inna world to properly fix him. )
(And of what use or value, exactly, is this Nicki Minaj creature? I had to ask Daughter if that was a GaGawannabeebuzzthinger, with the bang-cut hair and the make-easy-corpse-identification tattoos on her arm. Perplexing that such a thing ‘makes it’ to stardom, eh?)
National Soros Radio is upset about the brain drain of the US economy… it appears our brightest students are making their own career decisions without thinking first about how best the can serve the State.
that’s so unbelievably creepy that National Soros Radio is so concerned that this realatively small number of elite chilrens are making Bad Choices
cadre hygeine
*hygiene* I mean
oh and also *relatively*
…and somebody always does.
</Eeyore>
Y’all enjoy. ITP isn’t my idea of a universe in which I am capable of having a good time.
I was so glad Brady lost and I don’t ever watch football. Ever since he was prancing around with a supermodel while his gf was giving birth to his son I thought he was a douche. Like Tiki Barber.
ugh. I know most ppl don’t care about that, but I can’t watch or give money to people that I think are vile.
so no political donations this year either. I am kinda worried that I might panic in November and vote for Romney purely out of, well, panic. I’m going to be here every day to keep my wits about me!
What was with the really old cheerleader at halftime?
Ad-wise, I thought Kia had a good one, the Seinfeld-Leno ad was good, the VW ad was good, Chevy scored with its post-apocalyptic truck ad…but my favorite, and the only one I laughed out loud to, was the talking baby who sees his pal inside the newborn nursery “speed dating.”
Caught me completely by surprise.
MaBimbo looked like she was 100 years old compared to the other performers; especially when she stood next to Nikki Minaj. And I didn’t quite get what surrounding herself with rappers was all about…
Maybe just to be “hip”, “edgy”, and “with it”, or whatevz. It all came off as trying a little too hard.
That new Acura NSX is badass.
The Gourds? Love ’em. Their cover of Gin & Juice is epic.
I was jamming my face full of enchiladas and light beer, so I missed most of halftime. But… when I looked, I got the distinct idea that she was desperately afraid of breaking a hip.
Other than that, since I’m on my way to Boston… OH HAPPY DAY! I spent all last week with Patriot fans and I didn’t think I could stand another minute of Masshole triumphalism. And as an Eagles fan I hate the Giants with the heat of a million hells.
Madonna is an icon, Bob.
The Whore of Babylon’s kid sister hangs a poster of the Whore of Detroit in her bedroom?
Hey, Obama is the Egg McMuffin of Presidents!
The Icon of what, Leigh? Superficiality :)
The only thing sadder than an old man who doesn’t understand pop culture is the younger person desperately trying to make the old man understand pop culture.
LMFAO, David Beckham’s pubic hair, naked M&Ms, the obligatory Go Daddy commericals, the Fiat commerical, and several others. Not trying to be a prude, but jeez.
Oh, and a question for the Chrysler division of Government Motors and Clint Eastwood: If it is halftime in America, does that mean it’s game over in America in 2248? Ya know, this trying to be deep and meaningful in catchphrases is harder than it looks.
Icon in Greek means an image or a copy. TIFWIW.
Halftime in America is when the Italians buy in, apparently.
Our reaction to the Eastwood spot was to quote Belushi: “Did we give up when the Nazis bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!”
It being halftime in America would certainly explain the lame ass show we are seeing in DC right now.
“If we can’t find an omelette, we’ll make one.”
#138 – Yeah, I guess the (*)bama Administration qualifies as the Socialist Left’s
nip slip“wardrobe malfunction.”