Topic: WE LIKE SPORTS (Read 591312 times)

scarred · « **Reply #1950 on:** 06 Feb 2011, 22:37 »

Yeah, that was not a very well-played game, but still entertaining.

Inlander · « **Reply #1951 on:** 06 Feb 2011, 22:43 »

Having watched an unusually large amount of American Football this season thanks to the fact that there are several games a week now screened on free-to-air TV in Australia, it seems to me that this Superbowl was a perfectly entertaining, everyday game of football, rather than an actual Event game, such as last season's. Not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but not one that's going to be remembered by anyone who's not a Packers or a Steelers fan for very long and nothing really to distinguish it from any other game of the season other than a lot of fireworks and a half-time "extravaganza" and people who kept saying "Superbowl" a lot.

scarred · « **Reply #1952 on:** 06 Feb 2011, 23:17 »

You basically hit it right on the nose, there.

johnny5 · « **Reply #1953 on:** 06 Feb 2011, 23:54 »

i was pretty pleased with this game, won multiple bets

won on who actually won
won on the over/under (took the over)
won on over/under on how long the singing of the national anthem took

350$ earned!

but yeah, not an "instant classic" because of the turnovers and the comeback drive fizzling out

look out! Ninjas! · « **Reply #1954 on:** 07 Feb 2011, 02:48 »

Quote from: Inlander on 06 Feb 2011, 15:29

Ugh, I'm really starting to feel the Fox in this Superbowl coverage. "This is so much bigger than just a football game." No it's not!

Yes Michael Douglas. An annual sporting competition is comparable to getting out of the great depression, the civil rights movement, the space race, and the fall of the USSR.

Because AMERICA! or something. I dunno, I had stopped paying attention.

Patrick · « **Reply #1955 on:** 07 Feb 2011, 02:51 »

Who the shit was in charge of volume levels for the halftime show performers

Like, seriously, how the fuck did that person ever get a job doing anything ever

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #1956 on:** 07 Feb 2011, 13:02 »

Quote from: Inlander on 06 Feb 2011, 17:25

Amazingly, the Black Eyed Peas halftime show was even more awful than I'd anticipated.

It certainly was the worst since ... well, last year's really.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #1957 on:** 07 Feb 2011, 13:10 »

Quote from: Patrick on 07 Feb 2011, 02:51

Who the shit was in charge of volume levels for the halftime show performers

Like, seriously, how the fuck did that person ever get a job doing anything ever

Yeah seriously I'm calling that someone had better have been fired over that, because jesus they managed to somehow make the Black Eyed Peas sound worse than when they're properly mixed. I didn't need to hear Fergie try to sing in the first place, but having her cut in and out repeatedly in too loud vocals over the barely audible music for the first 3 minutes and I'm pretty sure the bass was completely non-existant.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #1958 on:** 07 Feb 2011, 16:00 »

I also love that one of the giant letters completely malfunctioned, spelling 'LOE' on the middle of the field.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1959 on:** 07 Feb 2011, 16:14 »

Quote from: Dimmukane on 07 Feb 2011, 16:00

I also love that one of the giant letters completely malfunctioned, spelling 'LOE' on the middle of the field.

Dudes and lady are fans of Kameron Loe, what is is there to say?

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jwhouk · « **Reply #1960 on:** 07 Feb 2011, 16:33 »

Quote from: Dimmukane on 07 Feb 2011, 16:00

I also love that one of the giant letters completely malfunctioned, spelling 'LOE' on the middle of the field.

You noticed that, too. Good. That helped make it worse than even I thought.

I'm thinking next year, they'd be better served to ask Up With People to do a retro-themed show.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #1961 on:** 07 Feb 2011, 17:33 »

Nah, they should just use their voodoo powers to bring back Frank Sinatra from the dead. And then have his junk hit a camera.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #1962 on:** 07 Feb 2011, 22:09 »

Quote from: Inlander on 06 Feb 2011, 22:43

Having watched an unusually large amount of American Football this season thanks to the fact that there are several games a week now screened on free-to-air TV in Australia, it seems to me that this Superbowl was a perfectly entertaining, everyday game of football, rather than an actual Event game, such as last season's. Not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but not one that's going to be remembered by anyone who's not a Packers or a Steelers fan for very long and nothing really to distinguish it from any other game of the season other than a lot of fireworks and a half-time "extravaganza" and people who kept saying "Superbowl" a lot.

I'm pretty much with you on that one. I'm just happy Aaron Rodgers has a ring, because I used to watch him play in college all the time and also he's not a rapist. Go Bears.

jwhouk · « **Reply #1963 on:** 08 Feb 2011, 04:22 »

You were doing good until that last word.

scarred · « **Reply #1964 on:** 08 Feb 2011, 11:57 »

nah dude. He's 115% in the right

Storm Rider · « **Reply #1965 on:** 08 Feb 2011, 12:06 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 08 Feb 2011, 04:22

You were doing good until that last word.

No, I meant these Bears:

Watching him and DeSean Jackson torch defenses for a couple years was pretty awesome.

Inlander · « **Reply #1966 on:** 08 Feb 2011, 14:07 »

Upon reflection I think a large part of the reason why the game felt just ordinary was the two teams playing. Even a casual NFL watcher like me knows that it's not exactly unheard of for the Packers and the Steelers to be vying for a championship, so instead of the excitement of last year's first-time ever victory for the Saints, this year we just had "Oh hey, it's these guys again."

I mean obviously last year's game was just a more exciting game, too, but I think it's a factor.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1967 on:** 08 Feb 2011, 14:30 »

I was going to recommend a last place game, winner getting first pick in the draft, but does anyone really want to watch Browns v. Panthers?

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #1968 on:** 08 Feb 2011, 15:37 »

... two teams so steeped in incompetence? Hell, yes, I'd watch. Make it a drinking game: drink on interceptions, fumbles and drops.

scarred · « **Reply #1969 on:** 08 Feb 2011, 16:10 »

Sign me up, too.

Alex C · « **Reply #1970 on:** 08 Feb 2011, 16:36 »

I feel like the Browns would blow the Panthers out with Colt McCoy starting. As bad teams go, they were pretty frisky-- they weren't a last place team this year at all, actually-- and they beat the Panthers despite having to start the interception machine that is Jake Delhomme.

jwhouk · « **Reply #1971 on:** 08 Feb 2011, 19:13 »

Actually, the NFL did have an "exhibition bowl" at the end of every season in the 1960's. The runners-up in each division (back in the two-division NFL days) played in what was officially known as the Bert Bell Memorial Playoff Bowl. In 1967, when the NFL moved to a four-division setup, the losers of the league semi-finals played in the game. The game was set for the week after the Championship game, and the week before the Super Bowl.

That game was called, in the most "polite" terms, the Toilet Bowl. The Detroit Lions won three of the 10 contests.

Inlander · « **Reply #1972 on:** 08 Feb 2011, 21:08 »

Okay America, I want to know something.

Why bowls?

Alex C · « **Reply #1973 on:** 08 Feb 2011, 21:53 »

It's because of the shape of the stadiums. We didn't always have big massive stadiums just for football and obviously the biggest games were held in the biggest venues.

Jimor · « **Reply #1974 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 01:07 »

I'm going to guess at the etymology without consulting Wikipedia or whatever, but I think it has to do with the fact that The Rose Bowl the post-season college game is played in The Rose Bowl the stadium. I believe it was also one of the first post-season invitational games, pitting the winner of the (then) Pac-8 against the winner of the Big 10. The "Bowl" part got detached and used as an appendage to other games in the same way that "gate" got detached from Watergate (simply the name of the hotel broken into) and used as the general suffix for scandals in American politics. There were other college stadiums also named "-bowls" of course (Cotton Bowl, Orange Bowl), and some of them also hosted eponymous post-season games which probably gave a boost to the phenomenon.

And that's enough work put into a post that can probably be shot down with a simple Google search.

amok · « **Reply #1975 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 09:23 »

Alternate explanation: English sports tend to have 'cups' as prizes. American Sports roughly tend to be just bigger, stupider versions of english sports. ('foot'ball/rugby, baseball/rounders, etc.). 'Bowls' are just big, stupid 'cups' without handles. Q.E.D.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1976 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 09:26 »

I'm sure you already know, Tommy, but Aston Villa loaned out Eric Lichaj to Leeds for a month. Good young player. American as well.

Alex C · « **Reply #1977 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 09:41 »

I know the Britons have been doing things longer than Americans jokes give some people huge stiffies, but they genuinely make me feel insulted.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #1978 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 12:15 »

Also putting quotation marks around football might be the most insufferable thing I've ever seen.

scarred · « **Reply #1979 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 12:17 »

They're just bitter because a bunch of farmers and Frenchmen managed to defeat the Queen's army.

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #1980 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 12:22 »

And the Dutch!

Everyone always forgets the Dutch...

McTaggart · « **Reply #1981 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 16:29 »

Do people still use the word 'gridiron?'

Alex C · « **Reply #1982 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 16:54 »

I do within the context of this thread when comparing one to another. Otherwise I just go with NFL or whatever.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1983 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 17:13 »

THEY BARELY EVEN USE THEIR FEET

Inlander · « **Reply #1984 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 17:44 »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28word%29#Etymology

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1985 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 18:46 »

BUT THAT MAKES PRETTY MUCH EVERY BALL-SPORT "FOOTBALL"

Inlander · « **Reply #1986 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 19:05 »

Not polo though, you pleb.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1987 on:** 09 Feb 2011, 19:10 »

polo? what's that? do you mean horseball?

Patrick · « **Reply #1988 on:** 10 Feb 2011, 03:41 »

Or perhaps splashball?

CardinalFang · « **Reply #1989 on:** 10 Feb 2011, 04:35 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 09 Feb 2011, 19:10

polo? what's that? do you mean horseball?

I think you'll find it's referred to as Hoofball.

The Seldom Killer · « **Reply #1990 on:** 10 Feb 2011, 04:58 »

Quote from: Inlander on 09 Feb 2011, 19:05

Not polo though, you pleb.

But horses have feet, therefore still played on foot.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1991 on:** 10 Feb 2011, 05:54 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 09 Feb 2011, 13:21

Quote from: Storm Rider on 09 Feb 2011, 12:15
Also putting quotation marks around football might be the most insufferable thing I've ever seen.

Entirely appropriate to distinguish it from actual football though, unless you prefer the equally nauseating prefix "American" to be used every time.

Tell the band that.

Inlander · « **Reply #1992 on:** 10 Feb 2011, 06:33 »

Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 10 Feb 2011, 04:58

Quote from: Inlander on 09 Feb 2011, 19:05
Not polo though, you pleb.

But horses have feet, therefore still played on foot.

Naturally I wouldn't expect any of the riff-raff around here to be familiar with hovercraft polo.

Men, on horses, on cushions of air. The very height of modern decadent sporting sophistication.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1993 on:** 10 Feb 2011, 07:19 »

Old time hockey at the Garden last night. The Bruins won a goal-filled, fight filled game against the Canadiens last night, featuring a score that jumped from 3-3 to 5-4 in under two minutes, a goalie fight (well, kinda), and a brawl in the last minute of the third that resulted in a total of 93 penalty minutes.

Interesting facts, thank you ESPN: It was the first time a Montreal goalie got in a fight and gave up 8+ goals since Patrick Roy in 1986 and 1995, respectively. That is the only time someone will ever compare Carey Price to Patrick Roy.

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #1994 on:** 10 Feb 2011, 08:19 »

Gotta love it.

valley_parade · « **Reply #1995 on:** 12 Feb 2011, 07:16 »

Jesus fucking christ, Rooney's back on form.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #1996 on:** 12 Feb 2011, 10:50 »

I like the celebration is soccer some dudes do where they just run as hard as they can in a direction. Nothing else, except they might wave their hands around like a dunce, but principally they're just bolting, usually with the rest of the team bolting behind him trying to congratulate him. But nope, dude just keeps running.

amok · « **Reply #1997 on:** 12 Feb 2011, 11:17 »

The derby was more interesting than I was expecting (had money on <1.5 goals, oops). Although I wasn't sure what was going on at times because I was watching on some crappy Greek internet stream and the commentator kept mistaking every Man City player (especially Yaya Toure) for Pablo Zabaleta which is just

jwhouk · « **Reply #1998 on:** 12 Feb 2011, 19:53 »

Wait, wait... ManU is UNDEFEATED? In EPL Play????

Dazed · « **Reply #1999 on:** 13 Feb 2011, 14:55 »

Pitchers and catchers reported today.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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