The comment text replacement trick has gotten tiresome by now, hasn't it?
Actually, I rather like comment replacement.
Getting rid of the hiking minuteman dude was uncool. Other than that, I am rooting for the Golden Retriever.
Take your comment replacement and shove it up your ass get off my lawn!
Testing the comment replacement: George Will says on one of the Sunday talk shows that the Super Bowl is just about betting and eating, the second highest calorie day of the year, in fact, and, uh, is not what the founders wanted for America.
Genius!
When the original "football sucks" thread happened, I was temporarily delighted by the idea that everyone had spontaneously decided to follow the first comments and write identical phrases. I felt kind of disillusioned when I realized it was just a script.
But abandoning nuance is just wrong, essear.
Actually, I rather liked the Broderick ad. However, that was influenced by the facts that (a) it had nods to Election as well as FBDO, and (b) my friend's little sister was the art director.
Yesterday was the Stupor Bowl here in Mpls. Lots of bicyclists showing up at hipster bars and drinking tallboys out of their messenger bags. At least the weather was pleasant this year, for once.
Also, damn, Todd Phillips has aged a lot in the last 10 years.
7: "I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain. That will allow their great-grandchildren to study athletics, drama, comedy, novels, and the culinary arts."
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Thanks, Sifu!
Don't be an ass, essear.
So anyhoo I'm trying to figure out who the Golden Retriever is in 5. I think I know, but I'm not sure.
Also Eli Manning is a whiny baby who whines.
15: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship,ts, build a wall, set a bone, ... cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly, and throw or kick a football."
7: Baseball chauvinist George Will is famously hostile to football. He once wrote that football combines the two worst aspects of contemporary American society: violence and committee meetings.
George Will's idea of a good time probably involves licking sandpaper and listening to Enya at a moderate volume.
A conservative like George Will ought to be forthrightly enthusiastic about violence, if not committee meetings.
I just thought it was hilarious that he invoked the founders.
Who the hell else is George Will going to invoke? Hermes Trismegistus? Otto von Bismarck? Johnny Appleseed? For conservatives like Will, there are nothing but cheap seats and drunk punters in them.
Dude, nosflow cannot be trusted not to replace comments, so this thread is mostly dead.
Hermes Trismegistus would bet everything on the Giants.
Bismarck and Bill Belichick are basically the same guy.
Dude, nosflow cannot be trusted not to replace comments, so this thread is mostly dead.
I'm not replacing anything.
Topical, from Halford's favorite website.
The National Aviary has first rate eagles but only the small, shitty sort of owls that impress only collectors or birders.
2: Actually, I rather like comment the replacement trick.
Comment I was trying to post and instead getting an error during the "OOPS". So not pwned one bit.
Flying during the SuperBowl. Someone let me know who wins.
America wins today, Stormcrow. America.
I'm glad you're all so positive about this.
Did Matt Lauer really just ask the president if his daughters have the hots for Tom Brady? Have some tact, Lauer.
Which is to say, least crowded flight to Newark ever.
44: That's no surprise: people like speed and efficiency. But the slowly loading pages of old, accompanied by the funky buzz of the modem, had their own weird poetics, opening new spaces for play and interpretation... says the dude who was seven years old when I got my first email address.
The link in 62 is a Rumpus article about all the great dramas playing out in the Super Bowl. It's really good.
I forget how much stupid incidental music goes along with the superbowl.
I forget how much stupid incidental music goes along with the superbowl.
That reminds me... what's the over/under on the number of commercials before we get one that's bone-crushingly misogynistic or sexist?
The middle school girls commercial was kind of funny.
65: For instance, "America the Beautiful" song as a warm-up to the National Anthem.
I was told there would be some football played tonight. Hmmph.
Eli manning isn't awkwardly mouthing the words to the national anthem! He hates America!
Hold everything. I'm not sure I'm ready for some football.
I'm watching the Puppy Bowl, but I'm afraid I'll have to pay for it by listening to requests for a puppy.
Last set of ads:
alexander keith
hyundai (URL: hyundaisasquatch.ca)
investors group
juno awards (to be broadcast on CTV, yay)
You know what's good about commerative coins?
Nothing.
78: You can't get the plaques to tumble in the air.
I guess stormcrow didn't get the memo.
76: Nachos and wings not to your taste?
Today's adventures in awkwardness: noticed the guy getting off the plane in front of me is someone who interviewed me last year for a job I didn't get or even really come close to getting. Said hello and asked how things are going, and he didn't seem to recognize me.
If you thought that the fact that Smash is apparently an American tv show set to run on NBC would prevent CTV from claiming that "CTV's new series, Smash" is going to be running soon, you'd be wrong.
[Also:
1: extremely tiring!]
Phone and flight was boarding. Knew something looked goofy. Unlike essear, full flight. Geography I presume.
First sexist ad, nosflow you sonofabitch.
Man Steven Tyler just keeps getting uglier, don't he?
You guys are missing out on the beer ads set at hockey game between Les Amigos and the Toronto Generals. I'm not kidding.
That ad made The Lorax Battleship seem awful.
(Not kidding that the ads exist, that is.)
Also: I'm finding that I am about as non-interested in this game as I thought I would be, but more interested than in other stuff I could be doing.
The Camaro ad was pretty funny. The Mayan ad was lame but still points for trying.
Man Steven Tyler just keeps getting uglier, don't he?
Yes indeed. I was going to comment on this, but felt it would be wrong somehow.
The Patriots are not playing very well. Boo.
Perhaps the only thing more depraved than spending an evening watching football is spending an evening watching advertising.
Why are they doing shitty things to that tiny, shitty car?
Oh boy, jar jar 3D. That'll pack 'em in.
101: C'mon, you've gotta admit the kickflip was kinda cool. But I did have a flashback to the VW ads with the nihilist from "The Big Lebowski".
SO THE AVENGERS MOVIE IS PRETTY MUCH DEFINITELY GOING TO BE BAD RIGHT NOSFLOW
Oh Bruce Willis I hate you but also I sort of feel bad for you.
I'd like it if the announcers weren't so obviously in the tank for the giants.
That J.P.P. guy is pretty awesome, though.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I like that the game is so exciting that the announcers had the chance to quote a coach talking about the importance of directional kicking.
Watching the game alone at home in non-HD seems pretty lame. Maybe I should go out to a Patriots bar now, during the halftime. Think so? I should.
112: Hey, yeah, what happened to the Bay Area meet-up?
The friggin Star Wars commercial got my hopes up by starting with a shot of Luke on Tatooine. I was all "hell yeah, I'll watch that!", but then it turned out to be the Phantom Menace. Way to disappoint.
Oh my god. How can I look away from this, though?
The Pats right tackle is my second cousin (the 6-8 320 right tackle). Alas, no Super Bowl tickets (we've never spoken).
Say what you want, it's better than the Black Eyed Peas.
Yeah, I have to say, this is kinda awesome.
I have a friend with a very distant cousin on the pats d-line.
I didn't realize Madonna is the same age as my mother. Actually, about a month older.
pretty good halftime show, really. Cee-Lo has a way better voice than Madonna.
How did we go from "Like A Prayer" getting banned from MTV to it being played at the halftime show of the Super Bowl?
#occupydodgeandclinteastwood, apparently?
Remember when Madonna was young? And we were younger?
We were arguing here about whether she'd play "like a prayer." Rhymeswithmaria thought it's too controversial to play. I thought it's America's folk music and is played at almost every wedding I've been to.
So how old before she stops dating 26-year old dancers?
Ditto 126. That was kind of bewildering. The first half of the half-time provided us with the word "LUV". The second half presented choral singers garbed in more or less religious robes. Weird.
I hope the Beethoven estate is getting lots of money for this use of its IP.
Anyone better able than I at finding online video of the halftime show? Either nbc has gotten really good at taking clips down, or the overlap of diehard Madonna fans and obsessive football fans is greater than I thought.
Did I laugh despite myself at the vicious yogurt headbutt? I did.
NBC didn't even bother springing for the kind of fancy "your country is not welcome here" page they have on hulu and other sites:
Access DeniedYou don't have permission to access "http://player.nbcsports.com/SNFPlayer.html?" on this server.
137: I can't help you there, but there was an ad right after the half-time show with Betty White (wearing a bathrobe, or dressing gown) telling people that her eyes were up here, thank you very much. I have no idea what it was an ad for. A bunch of people were flipping around before that; one of the females had very bleached-white hair.
Okay Tom Terrific. Now is the time.
What happened to Tom Brady's shoulder? I missed something.
143: he fell on it. He's fine. He's better than fine. He's Tom Fucking Brady.
ALSO THE COMMENT REPLACEMENT REALLY BLOWS
People over in the crowded part of the terminal just went nuts. Exciting football?
I should have taken the Acela....
@134
From a wonderfully bitchy column:
At first glance, it looked like she might be inappropriately embracing one of her adopted sprogs. Perhaps he'd been sucking on a boiled sweet, it went down the wrong way and she was trying to save his life.
She cannot be dating him, surely! Madonna is 53. He is a mere embryo, a few cells cobbled together, barely formed at all.
Twenty-four-year-old French dancer Brahim Zaibat is touching her bottom which has finally, despite the yoga, developed middle-aged spread.
I've never been sold on Tom Brady. If I weren't on a phone I'd link to myself saying that in this forum right about this time, 2008. Nothing in the intervening 4 years has changed my mind.
I don't understand the comment replacement thing. Should I RTFA?
Trapnel, nosflow is being a jerk. Last year he auto-replaced all comments in that year's SuperBowl thread with "Football sucks" or "Actually, I rather like football." This year he's doing it selectively.
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Parsimon is totally wrong about that. Last year I didn't do anything for the super bowl (that I can recall or find in the MT source). Two years ago I replaced 15% of the comments with "Go Saints!". Two years before that was "Football sucks."
And it is not a jerky thing to do at all, but rather fun.
I wondered when it would happen to me.
I feel like there are pop cultural references I these commercials that I'm missing.
174: Motley Crue was a popular band in the '80s and '90s.
Welker makes that catch 100 times out of 100.
Life was not fucking meaning this asshole.
166: And it is not a jerky thing to do at all, but rather fun.
It is jerky to take away people's words, my friend. I don't begrudge people fun, and a person gets used to it after a while, but it inspires a raising of the middle finger, if you see what I mean.
You've gotta love the time in airports when they start turning off TVs and all the places where you could buy a snack close and the cleaning people start sweeping around your feet and acting you're in the way.
Your words are still there, in the æther.
Goodammmit yes is waaht I mean. P
parsimon!
Your words are also still there if you hit the "back" button.
198: Depends on the browser, I think. Chrome sometimes erases the proto-comment, but Firefox usually keeps it.
Interesting how the let them score strategy has become so widely accepted now by teams in the lead. I've always thought it's only really the right call when down by 1, not when giving up a lead.
Is there a special script for urple's comments?
Is there a special script for urple's comments?
No!
216: Hitler may have saved us all.
Hi. I missed most of the second half putting the boy to bed and sure am glad to be seeing an exciting finish.
What?
This thing with the old guy carrying the trophy through the line of players who all caress it is kinda creepy.
What I meant to say was:
Halford is back from being kidnapped by the guy with the coffin and the youths with the incomprehensible accents! Also, the bird on the car.
I was so sad, and then I bought DJ gear, and that made me feel better. It's really a relief.
Who's DJ and what kind of gear did you buy him or her?
If 228 did not include a silly grammar joke I would answer it.
If I didn't really care about what kind of DJ gear you bought, I wouldn't have taken the time to compose that silly grammar joke, Tweety. It's because I care.
I think Brady/Bellichik will win another Super Bowl. And it will be sweeter because of all they've gone through with the Giants. They are obviously already one of the greatest coach/QB combos in ever. Coming up just short in two of the best games in Super Bowl history adds depth to the whole story.
Of course, a true Pats fan would want to punch me in the face for saying this. Lucky I'm not in a Boston bar.
I was in a maudlin, sentimental mood for the game. I actually teared up slightly for "it's halftime in America" and gave my Pats fan host a sympathetic bro hug at the end of the game. I blame the slice of pizza I ate for making me weak.
How did we go from "Like A Prayer" getting banned from MTV to it being played at the halftime show of the Super Bowl?
Halftime show at Super Bowl LIV: 2 Live Crew, with surprise guest Marilyn Manson . You read it hear first.
Also, what's up with Clint Eastwood doing the Obama re-elect commercial?
Eastwood has long been a political mess. Probably your typical social liberal, economic conservative. A old-school libertarian, likely recently abandoned Ron Paul on race/feminist grounds.
Bah, what a shitty playoffs this year. WTF is going on with receivers all of a sudden not holding on to the ball? Green Bay's loss was maddening, ditto San Fran. I kind of think the Ravens got robbed. That "incomplete" call looked like a play that would have been ruled a fumble had it happened anywhere else on the field. And now I've got to endure talk of Eli's greatness when his biggest talent seems to be some kind of hex to make opposing team drop passes for no apparent reason.
Hey, I paid lots of attention to the Superbowl, so much so, that I was asleep for the entire thing. I'm so Unamerican.
238: Halftime show at Super Bowl LIV: 2 Live Crew, with surprise guest Marilyn Manson . You read it hear first.
If she'd done 'Like a Virgin' we'd have been getting somewhere. Of course, that would have been hilarious ridiculous. Which would have been good.
234: They are obviously already one of the greatest coach/QB combos in ever. Coming up just short in two of the best games in Super Bowl history adds depth to the whole story.
Let me introduce you to some fairly obscure fellows I know of named Roger Staubach and Thomas Landry. I suspect they might disagree with your assessment, at least privately. (There's this other fellow I know of named Terry Bradshaw (that is, 'that old guy on Fox') that has four rings that he could show you.) But hey, at the absolute minimum, Pats fans can say they aren't Vikings fans or God forbid, Bills fans.
The real butthurt here is that the media is going to be running around screaming that in centuries to come all of humanity will be either descendents or clones of members of the Manning family.
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['Because New York, dude.']
Also: {high-fives gswift}
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['I'm sad I don't have an excuse to say 'Fuck you, neb'.']
Roger Staubach and Thomas Landry
Staubach/Landry went 2-2 in Super Bowls, Walsh/Montana went 3-0 (Montana's 4th was under Seifert), Noll/Bradshaw went 4-0, Brady/Belicheck are 3-2 (and still playing) in an era of much greater parity. I think "one of the greatest" is a pretty safe description.
Then there's Lombardi/Starr with 5 titles, but that straddles the beginning of the Super Bowl era and my familiarity gets shaky.
I thought the game was pretty good, but I have pretty low standards for what constitutes a good game (basically, is it competitive until the end?). The commercials, on the other hand, were a total shit show.
The only ones even close to amusing or clever were that Chevy one and the Bud Light one with the beer-retrieving dog.
The Chevy one loses ten points once you realize that a post-apocalyptic world in which your sole source of transport is a Silverado 2500 HD or whatever means you're gonna run out of gas really soon.
And the beer/dog one was cute, but at the end of the day, who besides D^2 wants to drink Bud Light?
Then there's Lombardi/Starr with 5 titles
God bless 'em both, but you can't really compare the job description a Bart Starr or Roger Staubach with a contemporary NFL quarterback. Star threw 23 times in Super Bowl I. Staubach threw 19 times in Super Bowl VI, and 25 times in Super Bowls XII. Last night, Manning and Brady threw 40 and 41 times, respectively, and that was a comparatively low number for both of them.
244.last Otto Graham/Paul Brown made it to their league championship every year of Graham's 10-year career (though 4 were the All-America Conference*, all of which they won), 3-3 in the NFL, the "best" being their 1st year in the league title victory over the LA Rams in 1950 (who had left Cleveland a few years before)--a much better "upstart" story than the later NY Jets one (but lost in the mists of pre-history).
*The Browns and the 49ers came over to the NFL and lasted.
248: Maybe if Manning and Brady applied themselves, they'd learn to rush.
For those of you who mocked the idea of authenticity in music, a question: Does it matter whether the half-time show was lip-synched?
Aren't they all done with "backing tracks"?
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Oh brother.
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256.1: Shockingly.
256.2: Shockingly.
now I've got to endure talk of Eli's greatness when his biggest talent seems to be some kind of hex to make opposing team drop passes for no apparent reason.
Eli in these playoffs -- 9 TD, 1 INT, 65% completions, 103 passer rating. The hex helps, but that's not too shabby on his end either.
I think the fact that the halftime show was pre-recorded is just fine considering the kind of stepping and dancing Madonna had to do.
Hopping up and down on those bleachers while wearing high platform shoes is hard to do! She actually mis-stepped at the top and nearly took a tumble backwards during the number..
Credit to Madonna for looking good while having to demonstrate the nimbleness of a mountain goat. I'da broken my ankle for shizzle.
241: I kind of think the Ravens got robbed. That "incomplete" call looked like a play that would have been ruled a fumble had it happened anywhere else on the field.
Don't know, but it certainly was close (and by the brave new even more hypertechnical interpretations of NFL rules I think you are right) . It should have at a minimum been looked at for official review (no challenge since under 2 minutes)--that it wasn't was BS.
