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Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 1, 2014 13:37:06 GMT 2
Today's section should perhaps be re-named "What Other People Are Into", because coming from the UK I of course have no earthly idea just what the Superbowl actually is. Some enormous spectacle involving football, that much I DO know, but .. well, that's pretty much it.
Going by what I've seen on TV, it's pretty much the biggest thing ever, and people would sell their own kidneys for tickets.
So, for anyone in the US of A, I know the Superbowl is tomorrow. Who's playing? Who do you want to win? Have you ever been to a Superbowl before? Is it as inescapable and everywhere as it looks to be on TV?
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 1, 2014 20:25:47 GMT 2
Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos. Don't care. Not many people have. Yes.
I'm not a sports guy any more so I just don't care. Even people who don't care about sports pretend to give a shit when the words "super" and "bowl" get proper nouned. They'll go so far as to say that they only watch it for the commercials. THE COMMERCIALS. Fuck me. I only care about one thing anymore: who is playing the halftime show. Usually it's somebody really legendary like Paul McCartney or U2 or the Stones or Springsteen. This year: Bruno motherfucking Mars. Nothing to see here, folks, except maybe to see that fucktard crooning about "making love like gorillas" in front of an audience of millions.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 3, 2014 0:01:36 GMT 2
Jesus, is that the best they could do? Bruno fucking Mars?? He's responsible for one of the worst singles of all time (the "Lazy Song".. ugh, even writing that hurt). I hope the fans boo him off the stage.
So "no longer" a sports fan? What changed?
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 3, 2014 4:49:37 GMT 2
Too many other things I'd rather do. I used to be super into basketball, but at some point I realized I was just watching it to watch it and would really rather be doing just about anything else with my time. Any one game is like a 3-4 hour commitment and I find the older I get, the less patience I have for something that is only sporadically entertaining at its very best.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 4, 2014 0:56:11 GMT 2
I hear you, man. Sports without storylines? What's the point?
(And for what it's worth, apparently Bruno Mars was pretty damn good).
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 4, 2014 4:54:09 GMT 2
I'll never know, having missed the experience of seeing some little shit whine about being a billionaire and making love like gorillas and stuff. How will I live with myself? This pretty much sums up my view on the importance of sporting events at this point in my life.  |
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Post by Benjamin Haines on Feb 4, 2014 17:29:09 GMT 2
I'd never heard of Bruno Mars before this, but I was impressed with this Halftime Show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu9B0VAouDUBruno Mars wasn't the only performer, by the way. (I won't spoil it in case you don't already know who joined him midway through.) |
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Post by Ben on Feb 5, 2014 7:28:18 GMT 2
I still consider myself a pretty big sports fan, but I used to be a fanatic. The main reason for my decline in interest is that they've been making the games "safer" by policing the physicality and "fairer" by instituting video replays for fucking everything. Half the fun in sports is knowing there's at least a small chance someone will get knocked out cold on the field and that at any given time a referee might fuck up and ruin the game, pissing off millions of rabid fans. Football just isn't that fun for me anymore, though I still tune in almost every Sunday. I think I'm in the early stages of what Trashcanman described. Eventually I'll realize I don't give a shit and fall even farther away. Hockey is the only sport left I truly care about.
Oh, and fuck that halftime show. Bruno Mars can piss off. I'm still holding out hope that two years from now when it's Super Bowl 50 they'll get AC/DC for the halftime show.
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Post by Ben on Feb 5, 2014 7:28:30 GMT 2
Whoops. There I go trying to pad my post count...
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 6, 2014 20:32:48 GMT 2
Duuuuuuude. How have they not had AC/DC yet? Such an obvious choice. There's always MMA, Ben. If all you want is to see someone get ktfo'd there's a sport pretty much dedicated to that pursuit. I kind of love that you look forward to refs making bad calls. That's a refreshing perspective. We used to need to tech kids that life is unfair, but now it's adults who seem to need that lesson.
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Post by Ben on Feb 6, 2014 22:46:57 GMT 2
When the real refs went on strike at the beginning of the 2012 season it was my dream come true. They brought in replacements whose previous experience included large high school games and junior college shit. They fucked things up for four weeks, and the mayhem culminated in the Fail Mary/Inter-touchdown on Monday Night Football for millions to see.  On the last play of the game needing a touchdown to win Seattle tosses one into the endzone and it seems to be intercepted... but one ref signals touchdown and the other signals interception. Over 250 million dollars shifted hands in Las Vegas over the blown call. Fans were so pissed off that the ensuing episode of Sportscenter was the most watched in the history of the show. I was in heaven. And of course if you lived in America and you watched the news the next day you heard all about it. But then they fired the scabs and brought the real refs back. *sigh* Boxing and MMA are on my radar, but I've yet to become a big fan. I prefer high speed KO's. The NFL has all but banned those, but the NHL still allows 30mph collisions as long as the attacking player doesn't launch his body or target the head of the player getting crushed (which arguably leads to even more devastating blows). To bring my long-winded post back to the halftime show, it came out on Monday that RHCP were playing unplugged. Apparently there isn't enough time for sound checks (?) so the Super Bowl planners don't let anyone play live instruments, they just record everything beforehand. Weeeeeeeaaaakkkk. |
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Post by trashcanman on Feb 7, 2014 20:23:20 GMT 2
They should be fucking ashamed.
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