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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: Method of Madness on 02 Feb 2014, 15:41
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Here's a thread. Not off to a good start :(
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If I were at home I'd probably be watching Puppy Bowl instead, but I'm at the lab and Puppy Bowl isn't broadcast online.
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The Puppy Bowl is over and I missed it.
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Am I the only one on this forum wanting Seahawks to win? I guess being in Seattle a lot last year and having a Seahawks fan as a boyfriend coloured me. Not watching it though because I'm going to bed soon, there are several limits to how much I care about sports and staying up past my bedtime is one. That said, go hawks!
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I just know I'm not enjoying this game.
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Am I the only one on this forum wanting Seahawks to win? I guess being in Seattle a lot last year and having a Seahawks fan as a boyfriend coloured me. Not watching it though because I'm going to bed soon, there are several limits to how much I care about sports and staying up past my bedtime is one. That said, go hawks!
No, your aren't the only one who is in favor of them. I don't mind the Broncos but I hate their divas.
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Jeph is making some hilarious tweets about the game, the facts are worthy of The Onion :-D
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Am I the only one on this forum wanting Seahawks to win? I guess being in Seattle a lot last year and having a Seahawks fan as a boyfriend coloured me. Not watching it though because I'm going to bed soon, there are several limits to how much I care about sports and staying up past my bedtime is one. That said, go hawks!
No, your aren't the only one who is in favor of them. I don't mind the Broncos but I hate their divas.
Their divas?
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Am I the only one on this forum wanting Seahawks to win? I guess being in Seattle a lot last year and having a Seahawks fan as a boyfriend coloured me. Not watching it though because I'm going to bed soon, there are several limits to how much I care about sports and staying up past my bedtime is one. That said, go hawks!
No, your aren't the only one who is in favor of them. I don't mind the Broncos but I hate their divas.
Their divas?
Manning and Welker. Manning is a temper tantrum drama queen and Welker seeks out the spotlight every chance he gets.
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It's not a very ... Exciting game, up to this point.
And Bruno didn't help.
Sad manningface is sad.
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10 years going and Joe Buck has his record intact- cheering over a minor play as if it was the greatest thing to happen while giving a major play the brush off, pretty easy to tell which team he is really going for not even trying to show any semblance of unbiased announcing :roll:
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Denvers endzone is like Snookis vagina, surrounded by orange and easy to get into. Comedy!
(https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t31/1836628_729249960474412_629689998_o.jpg)
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This game is pathetic. I am definitely looking forward to gifs of sad Manning face.
At least half time was good for once.
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Halftime wasn't that great imho. And the game was kinda boring. But it was great watching it with some guys here in the Fachschaft and that was great. The other two who actually know American Football and I are considering to meet and watch more often.
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I wish I was just bored. That was painful.
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Not interesting from the beginning of half time. That ... Was bad.
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Really regretting starting this thread.
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The 80's called. They want their one-sided Super Bowl back.
I had romantic obligations to root for the Seahawks this year.
Bruno Mars didn't suck as much as I thought he would, but I had pretty low expectations to start with. I was dissapointed the Red Hot Chili Peppers only had one song.
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Woo! Glad I didn't bother watching!
Comment of the night: "We've secretly replaced the Broncos with a JV intramural flag football team. Let's see if the fans notice."
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My daughter works tech support for DirecTV.
She called with a migraine. Superbowls are mandatory all-hands-on-deck days, and she can't get early release for sickness.
:cry:
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I think the Puppy and Kitten Bowls had better action.
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I think Denver would have had a chance in the Puppy Bowl. Those puppies don't look very tough.
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I hate the puppy and kitten bowls. They just make me feel alone.
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You know, I was actually for the Hawks, but still, this game felt like this to me:
(http://i.imgur.com/jdq3asn.gif)
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That game left me and my bank account feeling very, very smug
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You bet on the Hawks?
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I didn't even know who was playing... But I guess the Year of the Horse was not auspicious for the Broncos...
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what Broncos, they never showed up
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That first play from scrimmage was the defining moment for Denver for the night.
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relevant
(http://i.imgur.com/Fb20BM8.jpg)
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This just in: Peyton Manning tried to throw his uniform jersey to a kid who gave him a Coke after the game.
It was intercepted by the Seahawks.
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Okay I'm sure it's good Seahawks won and all but now my boyfriend won't stop talking about football. Although I guess that would have been the case if Broncos won too, except then he would have been sad and now he's happy, so this is preferable. Good on Seattle for winning something sports related for the first time in decades, though!
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Man as bummed as I still am about the Broncos losing some of these images are funny.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hx4L2bprKBM/Uu8m9T5MdCI/AAAAAAAAV9k/8iuSw_kA_eM/s1600/mom%2Bcan%2Byou%2Bcome%2Bget%2Bme.jpg)
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ahahaha that is awesome.
I know jack shit about football and I knew that the Broncos were going to lose before halftime even started.
Also, there was a serious lack of pepper in the halftime recipe. I know I should be grateful for whatever I can get but that small taste was just not enough. However, considering all the Top 40 crap out there, I am thankful that the Halftime Powers That Be chose Bruno Mars. I can actually sit through most of his songs!
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It should have been slayer with a cameo by Miley Cyrus.
It was in my dreams.
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Based off this year's show, it'd probably be Miley Cyrus with a cameo by Slayer.
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So everyone can agree the Broncos fucked up, lets talk about the commercials. My favorite was probably the Muppets one.
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Yes! The Muppets were fantastic. The Doberhuahua was pretty great too. :-P
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Agreed. I was also a fan of Colbert's two-part pistachio commercial.
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I am utterly baffled by what happened last night.
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That means you fit right in with the Denver Broncos offense. :D
A small note to our friends not in the US and Canada: what happened on that first play by the Broncos is not supposed to happen.
Odd note of the day: this was the first time in Super Bowl history where one of the teams didn't attempt a field goal or point-after kick at any time during the game.
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The Full House yogurt commercial was also hilarious.
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On Superbowl XLVIII (http://www.economist.com/node/21595671) from The Economist of all places.
Incidentally, why are Superbowls numbered in Roman numerals? Nostalgia for gladiatorial combat? To give the bulk grunt a veneer of civilisation? The BBC displays the copyright dates of its programs in Roman numerals, but I always assumed this was to show off their obsolete classical education. Or to conceal the fact that the show is an ancient repeat....
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Nah, it's done to give it authenticity. Authentic things ... are counted in roman numerals.
Can't think of any right now ...
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I haven't paid attention in a few years, but I think the release year of all American movies were shown in Roman numerals.
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They are.
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It says something about the lopsided nature of the contest that more people are talking about the multilingual Coke commercial today than about the actual game.
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Well the game was shit but I found a pub lock in where you just had to put £20 behind the bar and then it was all the alcohol and chicken your body could handle, so all in all hell yeah American football.
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The story of the Roman Numerals was to give the game some faux importance. The name is actually derived from a children's toy ball, one that was owned by the daughter of Lamar Hunt - who happened to be both the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs and part of the group that facilitated the AFL-NFL merger in 1966. When he saw his daughter bouncing a solid rubber ball around the house, he asked her what it was. "It's a super ball, daddy," was the reply. And, as a "bowl game" had come to mean an important post-season game in the college ranks, Hunt suggested the name to Rozelle and the NFL. They didn't go for it at first, but the informal name stuck and the third one was officially called "Super Bowl III". It was favored by sportswriters who didn't like saying "Third NFL-AFL Championship Game" constantly.
The trophy wasn't given a name until Super Bowl V, when it was called the Vince Lombardi Memorial Trophy, after the deceased former head coach of the Packers and Redskins. Unlike many other trophies, the Lombardi Trophy isn't a traveling trophy; the NFL makes copies of it for each Super Bowl.
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The trophy wasn't given a name until Super Bowl V, when it was called the Vince Lombardi Memorial Trophy, after the deceased former head coach of the Packers and Redskins. Unlike many other trophies, the Lombardi Trophy isn't a traveling trophy; the NFL makes copies of it for each Super Bowl.
Not true, each year a new O'Brien Trophy is awarded for the NBA Finals champion and a new Commissioner's Trophy is awarded to the World Series champion. Only the Stanley Cup doesn't get remade yearly.
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It says something about the lopsided nature of the contest that more people are talking about the multilingual Coke commercial today than about the actual game.
Nope, that's about right for a Super Bowl...it's been more about the commercials than the actual game for at least 20 years if not longer.
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The trophy wasn't given a name until Super Bowl V, when it was called the Vince Lombardi Memorial Trophy, after the deceased former head coach of the Packers and Redskins, and patron saint of Football, gruffness, and generally being a goddamn American.Unlike many other trophies, the Lombardi Trophy isn't a traveling trophy; the NFL makes copies of it for each Super Bowl.
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Of course, the Stanley Cup wasn't created by owners of sports teams, so there's that.
Even though I love football and I'm a big baseball fan, the Stanley Cup >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the Lombardi Trophy >>> the Commissioner's Trophy.
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I honestly didn't even know there was a trophy for winning the World Series.
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The trophy wasn't given a name until Super Bowl V, when it was called the Vince Lombardi Memorial Trophy, after the deceased former head coach of the Packers and Redskins, and patron saint of Football, gruffness, and generally being a goddamn American.Unlike many other trophies, the Lombardi Trophy isn't a traveling trophy; the NFL makes copies of it for each Super Bowl.
Yes, yes, we know. Come on, my good man, I'm from WISCONSIN. "Lombardi" still evokes thoughts of success, winning, pride, and superiority.
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I honestly didn't even know there was a trophy for winning the World Series.
Yeah, it's that weird trophy with 30 flagpoles and pennants atop each one.
Commissioner's Trophy:
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2689/4059041244_fb249c356c_o.jpg)
O'Brien Trophy:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/NBA_Trophy2.png)
Lombardi Trophy:
(http://wordpressdev.nepatriotsdraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/lombarditrophy.jpg)
Lord Stanley's Cup:
(http://www.hhof.com/graphsilver/trophy_stanleycuplg.jpg)
Please keep in mind - the Stanley Cup is not shown to scale, because it is HUGE.
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Yes, yes, we know. Come on, my good man, I'm from WISCONSIN. "Lombardi" still evokes thoughts of success, winning, pride, and superiority.
I've never really had the "root for the local team just because they're the local team" thing. I mean, it's sort of what I do for baseball, but the only team I actually care that much about is almost 2000 miles away from me.
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you guys, if your answer to 'what was the best commercial' wasn't 'the one where the dad saves the son hella times' you are wrong
I was really pissed every time I saw a Super Bowl commercial that was already used as an ad on YouTube
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It says something about the lopsided nature of the contest that more people are talking about the multilingual Coke commercial today than about the actual game.
Nope, that's about right for a Super Bowl...it's been more about the commercials than the actual game for at least 20 years if not longer.
I've noticed a change in the genre of commercials. 90's Super Bowl commercials often relied on slapstick, while newer commercials are more dramatic.
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you guys, if your answer to 'what was the best commercial' wasn't 'the one where the dad saves the son hella times' you are wrong
I was really pissed every time I saw a Super Bowl commercial that was already used as an ad on YouTube
Weren't they ALL released on YouTube a week or so in advance?
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I honestly didn't even know there was a trophy for winning the World Series.
Yeah, it's that weird trophy with 30 flagpoles and pennants atop each one.
One for each team in the league, pennants have been strongly linked to baseball for decades with the two teams earning pennants for winning their respective leagues.
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not all of em, Method. most were not. but the Jaguar English-people-as-Hollywood-villains one, the Budweiser soldier's welcome one, and the Chevy "I Believe In Miracles" cow breeding one were all released early, and it pissed me off royally to have spoilers for the best advertising I'm gonna see all fucking year.
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I mean you didn't have to watch them. The only one I saw before the game was the Budweiser puppy one.
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I didn't have a choice, it wouldn't let me skip.
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Oh wait, you don't mean a Youtube video specifically for the ad, you mean a pre-video ad? In that case...why the hell are you watching YouTube without AdBlock?
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I #4got to install it :C
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A small note to our friends not in the US and Canada: what happened on that first play by the Broncos is not supposed to happen.
As a longtime fan of the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes in the GFL, you don't say...
It was great to find some other people here who also know a bit more about football. I taught a good friend of mine the most basic rules before the game, so he would at least understand what was going on. He was very happy about it. And after the first twelve seconds of the game I was glad I had explained what a Safety is as well.
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I have a mental block about football. I can't understand the rules to save my life, no matter how many times they were explained.
I think it has to do with HS gym. The only thing we did outdoors was football. I transferred in, and had never been exposed to the game (my junior high was all about soccer).
Was thrown on the front line with absolutely no explanation of jack shit. Got pummelled, had no idea WTF I was supposed to be doing, watching, objectives, rules, nothing.
I hate the game. Literally.
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Only because your first experience led to 'concussion-like symptoms'.
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My middle school gym teacher did that too. It was flag football, no tackle, but still - he assumed we all knew the rules already and just said "blah blah counts as a first down, GO!"
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I grew up in Georgia, so I have an almost innate understanding of the simple rules of football. the more obscure shit? pfffft I don't have to care, there's refs for that
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Football has plenty of obscure rules that the majority of casual fans don't know about.
For example, most people think the clock stops when the ball carrier runs out of bounds, but this is only true in the last 2 minutes of the first half, the last 5 minutes of the second half, and the last 5 minutes of any overtime period. During the rest of the game, the clock is paused until the umpire spots the ball.
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Whoa, apparently there are umpires. Weird, I thought "umpire" just meant "baseball referee".
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Referee, line judges, umpires, back judge...
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Referee, umpire, line judge, side judge, field judge, back judge, and head linesman. Each has their own function, and Wikipedia is your friend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_%28American_football%29
In baseball the home plate umpire (or umpire-in-chief) used to be referred to as the referee because he also had to keep score.
The original rules of basketball stipulated the use of an umpire and a referee.
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Pretty much the perfect response. Still bummed that the Broncos lost, but I can't be mad about this:
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The ultimate "Scoreboard" response.
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Why the hate for Sherman again? That's a very nasty response to a positive tweet.
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Oh, no, I think it was incredibly classy of Sherman. It is the best kind of reply to that kind of thing, akin to Patrick Roy and his "Stanley Cup rings" comment.
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Right, any dislike I have for Sherman is for his team beating my team. I have nothing against him as a person and yeah, it was a great tweet to start and like I said, the best possible response to that guy.
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Why the hate for Sherman again? That's a very nasty response to a positive tweet.
Mainly some racist idiots calling him a thug