Super bowl thread

[Drowzy_Shooter]

Who do y'all have?


I got patriots to win, but I want the giants.

[RedSonRising]

I have no credibly way to analyze US football in the slightest, but I'm in New York, and I'm putting my faith in the Giants just because. Hope it's a good game.

[DDR]

I have rolled up some joints, and waiting for it to start. It's funny because 4 years ago I moved to the city I'm living in, the match was Patriots vs Giants, and now that is my last year here is once again the same teams.

Anyhow I don't go with either team, I just watch it because it reminds me of when I lived in the USA.

[Sasha]

Wandered into the BBC broadcast just now, saw the singing of the anthem, horrible and impressive at the same time. Pretty much like most big US things actually.
Might smoke some and watch a bit too, although mostly as a curiosity. Never got the rules although I had the same watching the 6 nations this evening...

[Ele'ill]

I don't even know who's in the super bowl this year but I hope whoever it is wins.

[Sasha]

What's up with the towels hanging out of all their pants?

[Drowzy_Shooter]

What's up with the towels hanging out of all their pants?

Their to wipe the sweat off of your hands with. It's just tradition to tuck it there.

[Sasha]

Why do they keep breaking? I get nothing of this....
NASCAR, basketball, icehockey and lacrosse I get but this is even less understandable than baseball.
This constant play breaks and a thousand players are annoying...
I'll shut up now...

[Bronco]

Pats have been a shambles so far, hope they lose

[Prometeo liberado]

Why do they keep breaking? I get nothing of this....
NASCAR, basketball, icehockey and lacrosse I get but this is even less understandable than baseball.
This constant play breaks and a thousand players are annoying...
I'll shut up now...

Don't even make me start "The ballet and prose of baseball" thread. It's the on http://th303.photobucket.com/albums/nn139/faris55/th_rob21.jpg
(http://media.photobucket.com/image/roberto%20clemente/faris55/rob21.jpg?o=89)
(http://media.photobucket.com/image/roberto%20clemente/faris55/rob21.jpg?o=89)ly reason for me to get out of bed in the morning.

[Ele'ill]

Why do they keep breaking? I get nothing of this....
NASCAR, basketball, icehockey and lacrosse I get but this is even less understandable than baseball.
This constant play breaks and a thousand players are annoying...
I'll shut up now...

Yup, it's really ridiculous. One play that usually sucks every fifteen minutes for like ten hours.

[Sasha]

Their to wipe the sweat off of your hands with. It's just tradition to tuck it there.

looks rather weird, reminds me of this tag like game we played as kids where you had to snatch a ribbon out of each other pantbelts.

but i give up, there is nothing to keep me intrested, the runs and tackles are cool but the constant breaks are getting to me, i'm going to watch some MMA dvd i lended from a mate...

[Bronco]

I think it's an awesome sport, it's not the sort of thing you can sit down knowing nothing about and enjoy it though I don't think, it's actually really tactical and strategic, and there's a heck of a lot of skill involved in it. I'm also a big cricket fan though so breaks in between the action in sport is something I'm used to :D

[Sasha]

cricket, dont get me started on cricket, the only cricket i would spend any time on would be Brockian Ultra-Cricket (nerdy browny points if you know what that is without googling it)

[Bronco]

cricket, dont get me started on cricket, the only cricket i would spend any time on would be Brockian Ultra-Cricket (nerdy browny points if you know what that is without googling it)

Never heard of it, had to Google I'm afraid, sounds a bit different to the type of cricket I normally play

[Comrade Samuel]

http://vimeo.com/m/35003246

Thought it was funny, definitely not worth a whole topic though.

[Drowzy_Shooter]

Nice job Pats.

After the safety, I thought they had no chance.

[Rafiq]

Super bowl is counterrevolutionary

[Comrade Samuel]

Super bowl is counterrevolutionary

Really? Other than being a cesspit of advertisements and other bourgeois gloriousness or as I call it completely normal for pretty much anything thease days I cant really see why.

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

Super bowl is counterrevolutionary

Life is counterrevolutionary

I really don't care who wins, I actually may go play Xbox for an hour

[Prometeo liberado]

Focus people baseball is almost among us once again. The purest an most noble of sports!

[Os Cangaceiros]

The Patriots lost, yes!

[Bronco]

Awesome finish to that game, Eli does it again! Always nice to see the Pats lose, all the more so in the biggest game of the year

[pastradamus]

Delighted the giants won. Always have been a giants fan but Im delighted their ridiculously rich chairman gets a bonus in this the fakest of sports.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Haha, the fakest of sports? Oh boy.

[gorillafuck]

oh god all the unhappy facebook statuses. times like this when living in new hampshire sure bums people out.

[bcbm]

mia giving the finger and saying 'i dont give a shit' during halftime was the best part of the game. also the only part i saw, what good timing of my break at work

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[pastradamus]

Haha, the fakest of sports? Oh boy.


Yes, they spend more time on commercials than breaks. Whats not fake about that? Since when is that sport?

Dont get me wrong I like it as a sport. But thats just a commercial wank fest.

[Metacomet]

Yes, they spend more time on commercials than breaks. Whats not fake about that? Since when is that sport?

Dont get me wrong I like it as a sport. But thats just a commercial wank fest.

I don't mind watching it in person at the amateur (college) level.

But ya............NFL is tooooooooooooo much

[DDR]

What's up with the patriot hatting? Are their hools fas or what?

BTW, how it is possible that some people in the USA sais that football (soccer, the real stuff) is boring? At leats they are running for the most part of the game and there's only one commercial break. Sure I love adds, but NFL is too much.

[Jimmie Higgins]

I don't have the time to follow sports and I look at people who can have in-depth discussions of prospects for teams and strategies and stats the same way they look at me when I go on about Zombie movies and Spiderman mythology [/nerd]

But I love a good game of US Football, Football/Soccer, or baseball. Tennis is greek to me, 15 love wtf? Golf is boring as fuck - baseball can be too, but at least you don't have to whisper while watching it.

Anyway, watched the game from the 2nd quarter on and it was a great game for being relatively low-scoring. That big turnover for the Giants and watching the Pats go ape shit in their last offensive push was exciting as fuck. Also had my favorite last names of pro-sports players: Woodhead and Ochocinco. Madonna Lol. Too bad MIA will have to wait another 25 years until she's Half-time material in her own right.

[manic expression]

What's up with the patriot hatting? Are their hools fas or what?

BTW, how it is possible that some people in the USA sais that football (soccer, the real stuff) is boring? At leats they are running for the most part of the game and there's only one commercial break. Sure I love adds, but NFL is too much.
Patriots fans are seen as really annoying (sore losers too) and their coach is a proven cheater. All in all they're not a likeable team.

And yeah, I enjoy American football a lot, but the amount of commercial breaks is ridiculous.

[Bronco]

That's the good thing about the BBC coverage of the game here in the UK, no adverts whatsoever :thumbup1:

[Landsharks eat metal]

I don't even know why I bothered to watch it. I didn't pay attention to the game. I don't like either team, but I hate the Patriots more. I mostly watched it for the creative commercials (makes me feel like the worst leftist in the world...) and to gain access to the snacks. After halftime, I used the time that the game was on to study. Didn't even bother with the halftime show.

The Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet is way more awesome.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Patriots fans are seen as really annoying (sore losers too) and their coach is a proven cheater. All in all they're not a likeable team.

And yeah, I enjoy American football a lot, but the amount of commercial breaks is ridiculous.Not to mention it's just hard to back a team called the Patriots. It's easier to support a team called the Raiders :D




...well not that easy at all to support them specifically, but the name is better at any rate.

[Olentzero]

Not to mention it's just hard to back a team called the Patriots. It's easier to support a team called the Raiders :DOh, it is on now.

You can take the man out of New England... :lol:

[thriller]

Ehh, fuck the Giants for beating the Packers, but I'd rather have them win then the Patriots, so it's alright

[Die Neue Zeit]

Yes, they spend more time on commercials than breaks. Whats not fake about that? Since when is that sport?

Dont get me wrong I like it as a sport. But thats just a commercial wank fest.

Being where I am, try the Grey Cup instead in the upcoming 2012 season, ending in late November. The game is more fast-paced, and there isn't much in the way of commercial lunacy.

[Olentzero]

UPDATE: I just got this link (https://twitter.com/#%21/thinkprogress/status/166335337889660928/photo/1) on Facebook from a friend out Denver way. Suffice it to say if the likes of Rush Limbaugh gets invited to the owner's box... fuck the Patriots.

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

Delighted the giants won. Always have been a giants fan but Im delighted their ridiculously rich chairman gets a bonus in this the fakest of sports.

you must have never played the game

[Decolonize The Left]

you must have never played the game

Give me a break man. Football is a lame, sissy sport that tries to make itself seem super-tough. You give any football player a rugby outfit and we'll see how tough they really are. Or perhaps they want to lace up and skate on ice only to have a toothless maniac pound them (legally) into a solid wall?

Football is a lame sport, which can be interesting at times due to years of social conditioning. But it is not as tough as it claims to be. This isn't to say that dudes don't get seriously injured all the time, or that the average player's span in the game is a mere 3 years, it's just to say that it's not all that and a bag of chips. It's, maybe, a bag of funions.

Baseball is, of course, the best sport ever.

- August

[Bronco]

Give me a break man. Football is a lame, sissy sport that tries to make itself seem super-tough. You give any football player a rugby outfit and we'll see how tough they really are. Or perhaps they want to lace up and skate on ice only to have a toothless maniac pound them (legally) into a solid wall?

Football is a lame sport, which can be interesting at times due to years of social conditioning. But it is not as tough as it claims to be. This isn't to say that dudes don't get seriously injured all the time, or that the average player's span in the game is a mere 3 years, it's just to say that it's not all that and a bag of chips. It's, maybe, a bag of funions.

Baseball is, of course, the best sport ever.

- August

Ah come on, it's not really a "sissy" sport, I dunno why people always make the comparison to rugby either to try and judge the "toughness", they're very different sports and if the kind of tackles they do in American Football were ever allowed in Rugby there'd be crippling injuries every week, and a lot more deaths as well. It can be a brutal sport and there's been some horrendous injuries in the past, it's not uncommon for players to be left pretty much permanently damaged by playing. Couple of years ago a Bears tackle came out and said he wished he never played the game because he's a complete wreck and can barely walk now at 56.

Sure rugby and ice hockey are tough sports too, but in different ways, I think it's a good job the NFL implements as many safety measures as they do

[Sasha]

Ah come on, it's hardly a "sissy" sport, I dunno why people always make the comparison to rugby either to try and judge the "toughness", they're very different sports and if the kind of tackles they do in American Football were ever allowed in Rugby there'd be crippling injuries every week, and a lot more deaths as well. It can be a brutal sport and there's been some horrendous injuries in the past, it's not uncommon for players to be left pretty much permanently damaged by playing. Couple of years ago a Bears tackle came out and said he wished he never played the game because he's a complete wreck and can barely walk now at 56.

Sure rugby and ice hockey are tough sports too, but in different ways, I think it's a good job the NFL implements as many safety measures as they do

It is actually all the padding and helmets and such that make it such a damaging sport in the long run, its like the difference between muaythai and professional boxing, getting knocked out clean by a knee to the face is just better for you than 12 rounds of repeated blows with gloves...

[Os Cangaceiros]

I don't know why people focus on the "toughness" of it when trying to decide how "real" the sport is, lol. Football requires a good amount of athleticism beyond just dudes smashing into each other. There are football players out there who can run forty meters faster than olympic gold metalist runners.

[bricolage]

I still don't really understand all the rules but I enjoyed it. I agree about all the advert breaks though, shit is boring.

So someone here described the Patriots as the Man Utd of American Football, is this true? Although this does rely on someone knowing about Man Utd and English football too.

[Bronco]

It is actually all the padding and helmets and such that make it such a damaging sport in the long run, its like the difference between muaythai and professional boxing, getting knocked out clean by a knee to the face is just better for you than 12 rounds of repeated blows with gloves...

Oh right, surely the pads do help though, remember reading somewhere that the number of deaths was ridiculously high before they were introduced


I still don't really understand all the rules but I enjoyed it. I agree about all the advert breaks though, shit is boring.

So someone here described the Patriots as the Man Utd of American Football, is this true? Although this does rely on someone knowing about Man Utd and English football too.

From a British point of view I'd say it's sorta similar, pretty sure they're the most supported team in the UK because they've achieved a lot of success in recent years where the interest in the sport has grown, and they've also probably got the best QB in the league with Brady so they could be though of as a bit of a "glory" team but it's rare that a team will sustain such a level of success in the NFL as Man Utd have done in the Premier League. They're one of the richest "franchises" (God I hate that word) as well, just behind the Redskins and Cowboys. They're hated by a lot of people too, partly after "spy gate" where it turned out there head coach had been secretly filming the other teams signals on the sidelines, so if you had to pick a Premiership team to compare them to I guess Man U would be the one, although you could say that about the Dallas Cowboys as well probably

[pastradamus]

you must have never played the game

Nope. Im from Ireland.

Its not the actual sport that I dislike but the absolutely crazy commercialism of it.

[Die Neue Zeit]

Give me a break man. Football is a lame, sissy sport that tries to make itself seem super-tough. You give any football player a rugby outfit and we'll see how tough they really are. Or perhaps they want to lace up and skate on ice only to have a toothless maniac pound them (legally) into a solid wall?

Football is a lame sport, which can be interesting at times due to years of social conditioning. But it is not as tough as it claims to be. This isn't to say that dudes don't get seriously injured all the time, or that the average player's span in the game is a mere 3 years, it's just to say that it's not all that and a bag of chips. It's, maybe, a bag of funions.

Baseball is, of course, the best sport ever.

- August

I don't know what to make of your sporting TV tastes. One moment you diss, then I can bring up a half-rebuttal north of the border, and then you dare put the Coolest Game On Earth in the company of a cricket rip-off! :p

"American football" sucks compared to the real thing, but "Canadian Football" could give rugby a run for its money.

Baseball is the cricket rip-off, and the Coolest Game On Earth doesn't have as many toothless maniacs these days.

[DDR]

From a British point of view I'd say it's sorta similar, pretty sure they're the most supported team in the UK because they've achieved a lot of success in recent years where the interest in the sport has grown, and they've also probably got the best QB in the league with Brady so they could be though of as a bit of a "glory" team but it's rare that a team will sustain such a level of success in the NFL as Man Utd have done in the Premier League. They're one of the richest "franchises" (God I hate that word) as well, just behind the Redskins and Cowboys. They're hated by a lot of people too, partly after "spy gate" where it turned out there head coach had been secretly filming the other teams signals on the sidelines, so if you had to pick a Premiership team to compare them to I guess Man U would be the one, although you could say that about the Dallas Cowboys as well probably

Now I undestand why I felt some kind of simpathy with the Patriots. I'm a Real Madrid fan myself and that explains a lot :laugh:

[Drowzy_Shooter]

I'm kinda ticked somebody said football was a "fake" sport. Trust me, play a football game (or maybe 3 in a day, like I did once) and you'll know at the end of the day, it's not fake. I've played tackle football for a long time, and I don't think it's cool for somebody to call it "fake".

[Jimmie Higgins]

So someone here described the Patriots as the Man Utd of American Football, is this true? Although this does rely on someone knowing about Man Utd and English football too.I wouldn't say it's true. The team has only been successful in the last 10 years, before that they were a joke. I don't know if there's an analogue in American Football. A closer American analogue might be in baseball with the Yankees. Maybe the Dallas Cowboys come close in American football, but I hate them so I don't want to admit that :lol:

[Jimmie Higgins]

Give me a break man. Football is a lame, sissy sport that tries to make itself seem super-tough. You give any football player a rugby outfit and we'll see how tough they really are. Or perhaps they want to lace up and skate on ice only to have a toothless maniac pound them (legally) into a solid wall?

Football is a lame sport, which can be interesting at times due to years of social conditioning. But it is not as tough as it claims to be. This isn't to say that dudes don't get seriously injured all the time, or that the average player's span in the game is a mere 3 years, it's just to say that it's not all that and a bag of chips. It's, maybe, a bag of funions.

Baseball is, of course, the best sport ever.

- AugustHocky is the worst televised team sport in the US. I grew up in California - down with hockey and it's elitist playing surface of fancy frozen water. Pfft.

[bricolage]

I wouldn't say it's true. The team has only been successful in the last 10 years, before that they were a joke. I don't know if there's an analogue in American Football. A closer American analogue might be in baseball with the Yankees.
I just watched Moneyball so now I can pretend I know more about the Yankees than just caps :cool:

[Sasha]

down with hockey and it's elitist playing surface of fancy frozen water. Pfft.


you think icehockey is elitist? try your hand at fieldhockey here in europe, only polo and croque might be more posh.
nothing triggers a primal class-war rage feeling than if i see someone walking with a field hockystick..

[Olentzero]

You ever really swung a croquet mallet? It's a modern-day warhammer is what it is.

[Sasha]

You ever really swung a croquet mallet? It's a modern-day warhammer is what it is.


nope, but a squatter i know came from a very posh background when he became involved in the scene and aparantly in the 80's he always took his hockeystick to confrontations and was at least as effective as the punks with their steelpipes :lol:

[Invader Zim]

The question we must ask our selves of this 'sport', does anything in the entire canon of human invention match American Football for sheer, mind-numbing tedium?

Why the fuck do they stop for a chat every few seconds?

[Jimmie Higgins]

Professional darts. Now that settles it.

[Os Cangaceiros]

you think icehockey is elitist? try your hand at fieldhockey here in europe, only polo and croque might be more posh.
nothing triggers a primal class-war rage feeling than if i see someone walking with a field hockystick..

oh god yes. Fuck lacrosse.

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

Give me a break man. Football is a lame, sissy sport that tries to make itself seem super-tough. You give any football player a rugby outfit and we'll see how tough they really are. Or perhaps they want to lace up and skate on ice only to have a toothless maniac pound them (legally) into a solid wall?

Football is a lame sport, which can be interesting at times due to years of social conditioning. But it is not as tough as it claims to be. This isn't to say that dudes don't get seriously injured all the time, or that the average player's span in the game is a mere 3 years, it's just to say that it's not all that and a bag of chips. It's, maybe, a bag of funions.

Baseball is, of course, the best sport ever.

- August
FYI I play hockey too. And I'm usually the guy checking someone face first into the boards

And I never dissed rugby

[Sasha]

oh god yes. Fuck lacrosse.

Lacrosse is still better than hockey...

[9]

volleyball > every other sport ever.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Lacrosse is still better than hockey...

nuh-uh.

(assuming we're talking about ice hockey, not field hockey)

[Sasha]

Field hockey is whats called hockey here

[Os Cangaceiros]

What's ice hockey called?

[Yuppie Grinder]

I wouldn't watch a super bowl, put I'd gladly smoke one!

Also, stop calling handegg "football".

[Sasha]

What's ice hockey called?


Icehockey

[Pirate Utopian]

I love M.I.A.

Also this;

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[Olentzero]

Also, stop calling handegg "football".Oh my God, I am so stealing this.

[manic expression]

oh god yes. Fuck lacrosse.
Don't be mad that you can't LAX. :laugh:

[Jimmie Higgins]

The best sports are Football, Futbol, Basketball, and Ms. Pacman. The only hockey that doesn't suck is air hockey. Settled.

[Drowzy_Shooter]

Not that it's relevant, but my (female) cousin play vollyball on scholarship for a school. Also, my (non related) uncle is the tied for the tallest player in the NFL at 6'9.