I enjoyed the Super Bowl yesterday. It’s a much more enjoyable time when you aren’t worried about your own team winning. So, I’d like to share with you some of my feeling and reflections on this years event.
RWD’s Super Bowl Observations:
When it comes to scoring, teams from Pittsburgh are granted a Groundhog Exception. As long as the shadow of the football can be seen in the end zone — the touchdown is counted.
However, this gives them six more weeks of winter.
No touching in the end zone. Any touching will be counted as offensive pass interference.
Is it me, or were some of the most exciting passes the ones that ended in interceptions?
Seattle has one fugly uniform. With the teams recent success, hopefully they can stop shopping at Honest Al’s Football Uniform Outlet.
Stealer fans greatly outnumbered Seattle fans. It must have been tough on them. Especially with all the Steeler fans snapping towels at them.
Mick Jagger is an international star. But if I were to dance like that, I’d be accused of being intoxicated. And uncoordinated. And really, really old.
The Stones are at the point in their career where they can “dial it in.” I could swear I saw Keith Richards napping.
In a perfect world, they would have had the music in the background and kept the camera on the pretty girls in the audience.
Speaking of intoxicated; I have decided to boycott Radio Shack because of their commercials. By spending money at their stores, I would be enabling what can only be considered a serious drinking problem. Who signed off on those horrible commercials?
Commercial: Girl with horrible accent: This is the Ipod. Buy me this ipod, it’s great. It’s got “I” and it’s got “Pod.” Oh, and accessories. BTW, can you see my herpes blister?
Sweetest commercial. The Budweiser Clydesdale where the baby horse is pulling the Budweiser wagon, and the momma, and poppa are right behind pushing. Too sweet..
Weirdest Commercial: Burger King. You have all these dancers dressed as pieces of hamburger, tomatoes, onions, and what not. In the end, they all pile on top of each other onto a bun. I wasn’t sure if I was viewing a salad or an orgy. I was waiting for a big squirt of mayonnaise.
Stupidest commercial: The Don’t be too Quick to Judge commercials. (slaps his knee) Gee, a woman ends up straddling a guy on an airplane flight. How edgy. How bold. How stupid.But then again — maybe I shouldn’t be too quick to judge.
BTW, what product was that? I don’t know, but at least there was no mayonnaise.
John Madden is an excellent football announcer. Frank Gifford would do better if he spent most of the game asking, “What do you think, John?”
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Congratulations to the Steelers. They had a great season, a hard fought playoffs and a wonderful game yesterday. That was an excellent peformance. What do you think, John?
UPDATE: Correction. The announcer with John Madden was not the horrible Frank Gifford: it was the horrible Al Michaels. Thanks for the correction from reader Vic.
Two points:
The Seahawks won 17-14 if you fix the two worst bad calls.
The MacGyver commercial was the best, and certainly worth of mention. It’s available online now.
MacGuyver is the only person who could possibly beat up Chuck Norris, using only an old toothbrush, a tub of bacon bits, and a surge protector.
I liked the caveman FedEx commercial best. Funny when out of frustration he kicked the little dinosaur, hilarious when he was then stepped on.
Two reasons I didn’t mention MacGuyver:
1. His show was from a looong time ago.
2. How do you spell MacGuyver?
But I’m glad you liked it. The part about the sock was funny, especially when you see him buying a new one at the store.
He always looks like that.
Seeing as how Frank Gifford probably spent the game at home in a drunken stupor to avoid listening to Kathy Lee, I think you actually got your wish there. Al Michaels, on the other hand, should go back to doing voiceovers of himself in movie remakes of the 1980 US Olympic Hockey team win.
Don’t Judge too Quickly was Ameriquest, Ducky. The Answer was Ameriquest.
You forgot the Vault scarecrow commercial. Any spot that ends with a robot firing at a bunch of hippies instantly becomes comedy gold.
I hate John Madden.
Don’t get me wrong: he’s entertaining as hell. (Anybody remember when he shoved his hand into a Turducken on live TV?) But he annoys me.
That’s why I had extended bouts of great angst yesterday when he kept agreeing with me and repeating everything I said: “There was no hold! … He didn’t push off! … etc.”
I HATE IT when he agrees with me. It makes me question myself.
the horrible Al Michaels
One of the most bizarre phenomena on earth is the fact that one of the violinists for the Emerson String Quartet (Eugene Drucker) is a dead-ringer for Al Michaels. It is deeply disturbing to be listening to, say, the Beethoven “Serioso” in live performance while expecting one of the violinists to say, “What do you think, John?”
Okay, this was one of my stranger posts.
Speaking as a Seattle fan, the bad refereeing didn’t bother me as any team worth their mettle would’ve been able to overcome most of the calls. I more bothered by Seahawks fans who insist that this is further evidence that the NFL is fixed. To which I say, “If the NFL really was fixed, why in the world would the Seahawks be in the Superbowl in the first place?”
Anyway, the FedEx caveman commercial was great. Followed maybe by Kermit in the Ford commercial (gotta soft spot for the little green guy).
The groundhog comment? Fecking hilarious! As a PA girl, I totally got it.
Horrible Al Michaels? Have you listened to a game announced by the most-awfulplay-by-play-announcer EVER Brent Musburger? now THERE is a horrible announcer.
And it’s also nice to a see a fan blame the crappy play by an inferior team as the reason for the loss rather than blaming it on the officials.
Hey, you gotta keep in mind, Richard Dean Anderson is both MacGyver* AND Jack O’Neill. That makes him pretty much invincible.
* No u, I checked. TheGuyver is technorganic powered armor.
Richard Dean Anderson is also a Lefty Liberal who is Rabidely anti-Firearm !