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Okay, so we had the Super-Bowl featuring the Seattle Seahawks Versus The Pittsburgh Steelers this last Sunday, and I'm still astounded by how anyone can still watch this shit after all these years.
Never mind that the officiating by the Referee's was so biased in the favor of the Steelers that their uniforms should've been Black and Gold stripes instead of Black and White.
Never mind that most of the commercials sucked to the point of being a Black Hole; sucking all of the humor out of how ridiculous it is for Millions of adults all over the country putting their lives on hold for just a couple of hours of Flag-Throwing entertainment.
Never mind that John Madden's fat, unintelligible ass needs to be put out to pasture... or at least someone needs to take that Ham Sandwich out of his mouth. Do you know how many decades ago he played or coached a Football game? In 1976, that's when... and that was a year before I was born, which makes it a full 30 years since he was relevant in the arena of athletics. Add to that the fact that no other announcer or "Color Commentator" has ever so obviously whored himself out for a buck (Think of all the Madden Games, from the original Nintendo and Sega platforms all the way to the PS2 and XBox), and forged a career in video games based off of just saying, "Boom! Now that's gotta hurt!".
And also ignore the fact that most of the Super Bowl Half-Time shows stink. I mean, who really gives a shit if the old codgers in the Rolling Stones are performing at all, let alone at the most watched Televised program of the entire year? Last time I checked, Hip-Hop music sold the most records in the country during the last year (and in the last five or six years before that), but I don't recall one instance of a Hip-Hop Artist performing during any of the Half-Time shows. Besides P. Diddy (Doesn't Count), Nelly (Also Doesn't Count) and Queen Latifah (Who I think was actually singing instead of performing a Hip-Hop song) the presence of Hip-Hop, regardless of the Billions that the Recording Industry has made off of it has been virtually non-existant. I think it's about time we updated this arcane institution...
I haven't seen a game so frustrating in my entire life, and that says a lot... since I generally don't like watching sporting events in general. I rooted for both teams, since I live outside L.A., and we haven't had a team out here in a decade... so why not just try to enjoy the game?
Boy, I didn't realize how hard that would be... until Seattle's first Touchdown was declined... and then their second Touchdown was declined. And then Roethlisberger was given a Touchdown regardless of the fact that everyone watching the game at home could see that he was stopped in mid-air by the defensive line, and hit the ground just short of the White borderline of the endzone, and then stretched his arms out after he had already hit the ground to make it look like he had actually made it.
Then they bring in the Referee to check out the challenge on the play (a guy who has a mere 23% challenge approval rate) who apparently couldn't see what the rest of us saw: Roethlisberger was desperate, and in his desperation he faked a legitimate Touchdown. And the Ref agreed that it was a good play... what a fucking idiot.
Big Ben was on Letterman last night, and even he said that he didn't think that he actually made it, but he said that even if they didn't get the Touchdown, he would've ran it in on the Fourth Down... but he misses the point. There are lots of Pittsburgh fans out there that feel that, even though their team won, they were robbed of celebrating a legit win. Because, if it weren't for all of the bullshit flags thrown in their team's benefit, the two legit Touchdowns that Seattle should've been awarded, their team could've shown us what they were made of... but they didn't. And because of those calls, they weren't allowed to.
I won't bitch about how I don't like the Steelers, since I have no emotional investment in any of the teams in the NFL. I just think that it's more important to have a clean win based off of sheer skill and determination rather than a questionable or "Dirty" win based off of bias and nonsense. But then again, maybe I'm just dreaming...
Never mind that the officiating by the Referee's was so biased in the favor of the Steelers that their uniforms should've been Black and Gold stripes instead of Black and White.
Never mind that most of the commercials sucked to the point of being a Black Hole; sucking all of the humor out of how ridiculous it is for Millions of adults all over the country putting their lives on hold for just a couple of hours of Flag-Throwing entertainment.
Never mind that John Madden's fat, unintelligible ass needs to be put out to pasture... or at least someone needs to take that Ham Sandwich out of his mouth. Do you know how many decades ago he played or coached a Football game? In 1976, that's when... and that was a year before I was born, which makes it a full 30 years since he was relevant in the arena of athletics. Add to that the fact that no other announcer or "Color Commentator" has ever so obviously whored himself out for a buck (Think of all the Madden Games, from the original Nintendo and Sega platforms all the way to the PS2 and XBox), and forged a career in video games based off of just saying, "Boom! Now that's gotta hurt!".
And also ignore the fact that most of the Super Bowl Half-Time shows stink. I mean, who really gives a shit if the old codgers in the Rolling Stones are performing at all, let alone at the most watched Televised program of the entire year? Last time I checked, Hip-Hop music sold the most records in the country during the last year (and in the last five or six years before that), but I don't recall one instance of a Hip-Hop Artist performing during any of the Half-Time shows. Besides P. Diddy (Doesn't Count), Nelly (Also Doesn't Count) and Queen Latifah (Who I think was actually singing instead of performing a Hip-Hop song) the presence of Hip-Hop, regardless of the Billions that the Recording Industry has made off of it has been virtually non-existant. I think it's about time we updated this arcane institution...
I haven't seen a game so frustrating in my entire life, and that says a lot... since I generally don't like watching sporting events in general. I rooted for both teams, since I live outside L.A., and we haven't had a team out here in a decade... so why not just try to enjoy the game?
Boy, I didn't realize how hard that would be... until Seattle's first Touchdown was declined... and then their second Touchdown was declined. And then Roethlisberger was given a Touchdown regardless of the fact that everyone watching the game at home could see that he was stopped in mid-air by the defensive line, and hit the ground just short of the White borderline of the endzone, and then stretched his arms out after he had already hit the ground to make it look like he had actually made it.
Then they bring in the Referee to check out the challenge on the play (a guy who has a mere 23% challenge approval rate) who apparently couldn't see what the rest of us saw: Roethlisberger was desperate, and in his desperation he faked a legitimate Touchdown. And the Ref agreed that it was a good play... what a fucking idiot.
Big Ben was on Letterman last night, and even he said that he didn't think that he actually made it, but he said that even if they didn't get the Touchdown, he would've ran it in on the Fourth Down... but he misses the point. There are lots of Pittsburgh fans out there that feel that, even though their team won, they were robbed of celebrating a legit win. Because, if it weren't for all of the bullshit flags thrown in their team's benefit, the two legit Touchdowns that Seattle should've been awarded, their team could've shown us what they were made of... but they didn't. And because of those calls, they weren't allowed to.
I won't bitch about how I don't like the Steelers, since I have no emotional investment in any of the teams in the NFL. I just think that it's more important to have a clean win based off of sheer skill and determination rather than a questionable or "Dirty" win based off of bias and nonsense. But then again, maybe I'm just dreaming...
posted by Todd Tobin at 7:29 AM
1 Comments:
I'm not even into football, but smoehow the Super bowl excites me to watch it. Then there was this year. I didn't feel it at all? Was anybody interested. Other than the people who spent AT LEAST $2,000 for a seat. Any like my moomma would say "I spent $3 on that damn hamburger you better eat it all! I don't even want to see a tomato seed left on the plate!"
Super Bore XL was about so lacking I only watched the first half between 'I Love Lucy' commercial breaks and 'Charmed' favorite moments. Thank broadcasters for giving me an alternative...
Now there were some amazing plays. Plenty of BS and some comedy...lie when the big guy (#99) pulled a "hammy" I cracked up on the replay.
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