I have no idea what Belichick was thinking about when he had someone with a camera on the field. Most teams are smart enough to hide them in the stands.
John, Is your father going to watch the game and do you have the jrt’s at your house?
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MikeJ
Leni Riefenstahl only used 50 for Triumph of the Will.
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cathyx
It’s no fun watching a game when you don’t care about the outcome.
4.
2liberal
Go patriots! Joe Lieberman is pulling for the giants!
Gah. Just realized we have an entire pitcher of margaritas in the fridge. I thought we’d finished them all.
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noodler
watching from a friends bar on the lower east side, top hops. Sumpthin like 800 beers, and prob my belgian favs jupilier and carmelitte. Should be a great game and blah blah looking forward to the commercials… Go Giants! BJers welcome.
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JGabriel
That annual athletic display with all the pads that sporty people discuss each year is on again tonight?
(As a New Yorker, smart-assery aside, I guess I have a rooting interest in the Giants winning this one — even if I do think of them as being more of a New Jersey team, by more than half.)
Also, I’d be a lot more interested in the Super Bowl if they played hockey instead. Just sayin’.
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Suffern ACE
I’m rooting for patriots 6, giants 7. Or any score ending in those numbers, preferably at halftime and game end.
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gbear
@gbear: Argh. Metric. Freakin edit command won’t work. I don’t have permission…
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Amir Khalid
I attended a Super Bowl party in the US once. It was at LotusSphere 1997, held in Disney World, on the eve of the conference launch. I don’t even remember who was playing. I do seem to remember that it was more about beer and food — there was an abundance of both — than football; and that I went back to my hotel room afterwards to watch The X-Files. (It was the episode where Scully has a fight with Mulder, and goes off to Pittsburgh where she hooks up with a guy who has a jealous talking tattoo called Betty.)
At the moment, I am far more interested in listening to my son and wife work on their piano duet for the upcoming recital – they are playing Rachmaninov’s Prelude in C sharp minor.
I want a Patriots win, but I also like the Giants and Eli Manning, so my biggest hope is for a good, close game with several outstanding plays.
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Amir Khalid
I saw this Opinion page blurb on a Maureen Dowd column, and it made me not want to read the thing. Come on, NYT. That’s the opposite of how a blurb is supposed to work.
Can Callista transform Newt so that he can transform her into the First Third Lady?
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Spaghetti Lee
Not to ruffle anyone’s feathers, but I’ve always thought of “I only watch/care about the commercials” a hipsterism equivalent to “They’re real obscure, you’ve probably never heard of them.”
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JPL
Eli is probably okay. After all he does like to go antique hunting so he can’t be all bad. I do have on my Patriot clothes although Miss Moxie doesn’t have on her New England Patriots dog collar on.
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JordanRules
@Violet: Works for me! Who are you rooting for in the food V. commercials battle then? I’m team food.
Kinda care so, go other Manning I guess…you are elite and Darth hoody is scary.
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geg6
I’m here only for the commercials. And in the hope that Madonna will do an ironic Tebow just for the shits and giggles of fundie heads asploding.
I hate both these teams, passionately, but have decided to root for the Giants because a late friend loooooved them and they have a kid from Pitt playing fullback. Gotta stick with fellow alumni.
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Spaghetti Lee
I don’t really have a rooting interest here, for the first time in a while. If I’m not actually a fan of the teams (Bears), I root for the distinct underdog or else the team who hasn’t won in a while. Patriots, I guess, for History’s sake.
Echo and the Bunnymen used for Audi? What next…Black Flag for Starbucks?
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Elizabelle
Commercials so far. Meh.
The vampires for Audi (?) does remind you of “daylight” headlights.
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JPL
Well that sucks…
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Yutsano
@The Dangerman: I’m stuck. Good friend from Mississippi plus New York Dawg = pulling for the Giants. Though to be honest I’m in total apathy mode for the whole affair.
@gwangung: Ahem. Why for you never tell me about Ezell’s before? That place is da shiznit!
Goddam…There’s gotta be a higher rate of safeties scored in the Super Bowl than in regular season games.
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different-church-lady
I have to say that oddly, I am enjoying the Patriots playing the role of the “bad guys” this year.
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Violet
Elton John Pepsi ad was lame.
@Spaghetti Lee:
Really? I honestly do watch for the commercials most of the time. I think they’re funny. I like football well enough, but don’t really care who wins this time.
Have I ever told you about watching the Seahawks score two touchdowns- right in front of me!- in the first two minutes of the 2007 Divisional Round game at Lambeau? The crowd was sort of subdued, but no one lost their shit.
Have I ever told you about watching the Seahawks score two touchdowns- right in front of me!- in the first two minutes of the 2007 Divisional Round game at Lambeau?
Was that the overtime game where Hasselback made the “We want the ball and we’re going to score” comment and then threw a pick-6 to Al Harris?
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dmsilev
@Violet: Chevy just had a nice one. I liked the rain of frogs at the end.
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Violet
I like that Chevy truck commercial with the tie in with Twinkies. Funny. At least the Twinkies part.
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BGinCHI
Fuck, Manning is just too good. How did he get that pass in there??
Peyton is probably breaking all the furniture in his man cave.
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Spaghetti Lee
OK, that apocalypse one was pretty good. M&M one too. Didn’t think you could get away with that on prime time TV actually, but I guess it’s OK if they’re cartoon candies.
The last time the commercials were generally good was during the crazy dotcom era.
I haven’t watched the commercials in about 20 years, ever since SB commercials became “something to watch”. They became self-conscious and smug, all “look at me, I’m a Super Bowl commercial!”, and they just become moreso with each passing year. The ones that I do manage to see are just insufferable, just brimming with self-satisfaction, and not the least bit fucking funny.
I don’t care if you call Bud Light “Platinum” or “crack” or “free.”
It tastes like piss.
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different-church-lady
OK, starting to look like there might actually be a football game today.
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Amir Khalid
@BGinCHI:
That was crazy. Man U were three goals down early in the second half, then the ref helped them by awarding two dubious penalties. Chelsea must feel like they got fucked over. Still, It was just about the result I wanted for Liverpool’s benefit so I’m good with it.
I’ve asked for one every week. I think it’s hopeless. You’ll have to settle for Patton Oswalt’s twitter feed (I probably got that wrong, but something like that).
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Violet
@BGinCHI:
Was thinking the same thing. I heard them say it was “top shelf”. Ugh.
No, The Snowglobe Game, where we absolutely blew ’em out! I’ve never been in the midst of anything anywhere where I said to myself, “This one’s going down in history.”
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dmsilev
@BGinCHI: I think it’s like what credit card companies did some years back, working their way through the periodic table. Wake me when we get Bud Light Neodymium.
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BGinCHI
@Amir Khalid: Yes, but the tears of the Chelsea fans tasted soooo sweet.
Perfect result.
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Yutsano
Yep. Still don’t care. Still taking a nap.
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BGinCHI
@Violet: Tacit admission that their regular product is of urinary quality.
Gotta love a product that is 99% marketing and 1% ingredients and craft.
USA!
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wengler
I can’t wait for the movie based on Connect Four.
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phoebes-in-santa fe
Why are so many of these commercials so violent? Even the ones that don’t HAVE to be violent? I mean, I know there’s a lot testesterone around, but most of the violent commercials don’t even make sense.
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dmsilev
And to the person who decided that the world needed a movie adaptation of the game Battleship, fuck you very much.
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Violet
I think it might be time to start making the nachos.
I always love the Clydesdales Bud commercial. Such gorgeous horses.
Okay, that Doritos ad was funny.
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Donald G
I’ve been led to believe that there’s some kind of important football game, today. Something called the Stupid Bowl… oh, that’s SUPER Bowl. Sorry everyone, the Stupid Bowl was last night’s Nevada Republican Caucuses,
GO COWB…whattya mean, they’re not playing? They’re “America’s Team”, aren’t they? Oh, they sucked this year…I see.
So, who’s the new “America’s Team”?
It’s either the Patriots or the Giants. Well, the Patriots have the patriotic name, but the term Giants is as good a description of American exceptionalism as any. So, who should I support?
What say we combine the best of both teams?
Patriots…Giants
Pa…nts
Pants!
That’s it! GO PANTS!!!
(Who says the spirit of compromise is dead?)
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Elizabelle
Cat-killing dogs hawking snack food. Great.
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BGinCHI
@wengler: Hmm. Can’t quite agree overall. He’s about the best that league has. Nobody’s perfect.
See, if the cat had gotten rid of the big dog, that would have been funny.
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different-church-lady
Once again I’m getting that “You spent a million dollars on THAT?!?” feeling…
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wengler
@BGinCHI: Not disagreeing, though the World Cup final was not a shining moment. Worlds better than Chris Foy or Mike Dean.
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suzanne
I have a dumb question that’s NOT about FourLoko_chan: how many men ARE allowed on the field? ‘Cause what was that “12 men on the field” penalty about?
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ChrisB
Hilarious that NBC went with the JPP knock off of OPP going to commercial after Pierre Paul knocked down that pass.
As if it wasn’t painfully obvious, I really do only watch for the commercials.
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RossinDetroit
Wake me when we get Bud Light Neodymium.
When they get past Hydrogen they’ll either have to do subatomic particles or chemical compounds.
Bud Light Carbon Dioxide could be a keeper.
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Violet
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
I love the dog-losing-weight part. And I get the Darth Vader/Star Wars reference to last year’s commercial, but it didn’t work for me.
Now this David Beckham in underwear commercial is nice….
Yeah, I guess there are a lot of Jews in the neighborhood/support. Visiting skins would come to White Hart Lane and fuck with the neighborhood businesses. Spurs supporters stood up, said, “Yeah, we’re ALL Yids!” Very cool.
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wengler
@dmsilev: I’d see that. They are a lot more dangerous than Anaconda or Anacondas.
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Violet
This Fourth of July…
Someone is…
Makin’ Things with Lite…
LITE BRITE
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BGinCHI
@wengler: Bean Bags: The Political Education of Romney the Dumbass
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dmsilev
The Phantom Menance sucked in 2D. I assume that in 3D, it will suck 50% more.
My very intelligent (Kalamazoo College- fucking great school) youngest (18-years old) cousin gushed about the re-release on FB, I had to crush her with this.
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Suffern ACE
The nfl hates fumbles.
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Violet
@dmsilev:
Are You Ready to Come Over Again? Red Rover II.
Are all you people posting about how you don’t care about the Super Bowl the same ones who post in TV threads that you don’t have a TV?
I am not ashamed to admit that I have three functioning television sets (albeit all SD), but mostly they are used to watch vintage programs and movies on DVD. I spend to much of the waking hours reading political blogs for much TV watching, anymore.
I’ve seen the rough cut. It’s 2 1/2 hours of Rory Cochrane pulling his hair and mumbling to himself while aiming for geographic perfection in four colors. It’s mesmerizing.
Oh, and it seems as if the Pats went ahead. Bully for them, I say.
C’mon, c’mon…. I got good odds, so I dropped $50 on Madonna wearing mom jeans….
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SiubhanDuinne
Tag: Naming Romneys
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Schlemizel
So, anyone, anyone at all, the least bit interested in Grandma Gaga doing halftime?
I imagine a bunch of 70 year olds sitting in NY saying “Who can we get to do the halftime – whos big with the kids these days”? Some octogenarian pipes up “That woman with that dresses weird!” followed by someone else “Madonna”
He’s a big GM/UAW meathead. He’s in Indiana now, putting in his last few years before he can pull his full pension.
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elmertfudd
Did BRUCE lip-sync? I think not…
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Spaghetti Lee
Oh holy hell.
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phoebes-in-santa fe
Madonna is wayyy too old to be doing this crap.
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dmsilev
Now we’ve got a sort of Egyptian/ cheerleader vibe going.
I am confused.
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lamh35
not that it’s a bad thing, but is this the gayest halftime show evah??? Only thing gayer woulda been Lady Gaga. Still I bet Madonna’s live show is cool.
So are wingnuts heads exploding?
Seriously though, there is nothing that Cee-Lo Green can’t make cooler…IMHO!
Just like Don Giovanni, Madonna is sucked down to Hell at the end of the third act.
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elmertfudd
@lamh35: Word. And I suspect Lady Gaga doesn’t need to lip-sync either.
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daize
Hah! “My eyes are up here.”
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burnspbesq
Is there anyone involved in sport, any sport, at any level, anywhere in the world, who is more clueless than Sepp Blatter? He is actually going to demand that the Egyptian government reinstate the board and the head of the Egyptian federation, who were fired (or resigned, depending on who you believe) after the Port Said riot.
Feckin’ idjit.
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The Dangerman
Um, Madonna, what the fuck was that?
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Chasm
I noticed Madonna stopped lip synching when C-lo came out.
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S. cerevisiae
Around the country millions of guys are hanging around the kitchen going “Where the hell is Aerosmith?”
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suzanne
Between Madonna and David Beckham, my gay friends are enjoying this Super Bowl more than anyone else, methinks.
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phoebes-in-santa fe
@Mike in NC: Just for your pleasure – EDS Herding Cats video
I don’t think Eastwood’s a wingnut, though. I do think that commercial in particular was overkill on the this-is-an-Important-Message theatrics.
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RossinDetroit
I’m Madonna’s age and whether you like the routine or not it’s impressive that she can do it at all. She’s aging better than most of us, or maybe my eyesight is just failing faster than her looks.
The season ended two weeks ago when the gritty little Team of Destiny was tragically beaten by some big goons from Jersey, in a tragic fluke play
If you’re talking about a certain northern California team, let’s be honest. If they had even a reasonably competent QB, they’d have won that game by double digits.
On the bright side, I think another Manning might be available for some draft picks this offseason.
I’m Madonna’s age and whether you like the routine or not it’s impressive that she can do it at all. She’s aging better than most of us, or maybe my eyesight is just failing faster than her looks
Steven Tyler looks more like an old woman than Madonna does.
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Cassidy
@Spaghetti Lee: And Eastwood has been in politics. He’s a smart guy. He knows the implications of that commercial.
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Omnes Omnibus
@martha: Really interesting ad for a car company to do.
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JPL
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought at first it was a political ad. I bet there are a few repubs crying me a river right now.
God I would love to get Madonna’s song out of my head.
Doug JGreen-Ellis is getting hot.
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wengler
Only the GOP could think that destroying the American auto industry is a good thing.
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martha
@Omnes Omnibus: I know. But, it’s a union town. That Clint was the messenger interests me more. I always thought he was an old school repub. Perhaps he’s had enough of the dreck, like many others, and decided to take a stand in his own way.
run it up patriots ! Can you stop someone? PLEASE!
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Maxwel
Celebrating the last TD with my first Hoplanta.
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Violet
@Jenny:
Yeah, that halftime show made Madonna look….small. She’s always seemed larger than life and she couldn’t fill the stage. They had to bring in Niki Minaj, Cee Lo, and LMFAO just to fill out the show. Prince didn’t need outside help.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Violet: Prince is a weird little man, but he can put on one hell of a show. His halftime show was probably the best one ever.
Eastwood is a Republican, but he’s generally described his views as less conservative than (small-l?) libertarian. His views seemed to shift more to the center during the 90s and 00s.
But he’s still a GOPer — or apparently registered as one anyway. From Wikipedia:
During the 2008 United States Presidential Election, Eastwood endorsed John McCain for President; he has known McCain since 1973. Upon the election of Barack Obama, Eastwood stated “Obama is my president now and I am going to be wishing him the very best because it is what is best for all of us.”
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[…]
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When asked his opinion of the 2012 Republican presidential candidates in February 2012, Eastwood replied that Texas Congressman Ron Paul was “‘as good as anybody else’ in the race but that he will decide on a candidate in another month or two after ‘listening to all that crap on television.'”
I’m not watching the game, so I may as well be the one to look this shit up.
Perhaps thiswill help you wash that taste of Madonna outta yer brain…
lamh35@268: Now I feel old.
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JPL
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I watched part of the game on mute and now have switched to PBS. The animals don’t like a raised voice and I do love my animals. I love the Patriots also, too but they will win or lose without me.
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daize
OK, I am officially out of touch. Who is sampling She Sells Sanctuary?
But that year the halftime show was sponsored by an insurance company I’d never heard of, and they had the singers come out [fake] driving cars, while the announcer read promotional copy about their insurance.
Stevie Wonder [fake] driving a car. This is supposed to fill me with confidence in an insurance company? I mean, his performance was fine, but … having him come out on the field pretending to drive a car … wha?
Patriots defense just couldn’t get off the field. I had the game on mute 95% of the time – I can’t stand Collinsworth.
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phoebes-in-santa fe
Great Game!!!
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Morbo
Wells, Giants fans can be gratified that that game was slightly less bad than
Super Bowl XL.
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Joel
Nut punch. Slow motion.
Welker with the open drop was the loser, and I knew it.
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Joel
@2liberal: Collinsworth is the worst frontrunner in sports commentary. I’ve never liked him, even when he was frontrunning for the Patriots (and the Rams before them, and the Broncos before them, and the Packers before them).
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Bubblegum Tate
Having learned that Bob Kraft is friends with Rush Limbaugh (and even had EL Rushbo in the owner’s box for the game), I am now very happy that the Giants won.
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JPL
I have no idea what Belichick was thinking about when he had someone with a camera on the field. Most teams are smart enough to hide them in the stands.
John, Is your father going to watch the game and do you have the jrt’s at your house?
MikeJ
Leni Riefenstahl only used 50 for Triumph of the Will.
cathyx
It’s no fun watching a game when you don’t care about the outcome.
2liberal
Go patriots! Joe Lieberman is pulling for the giants!
gwangung
@cathyx: I find the snark online to be more than adequate for me.
BGinCHI
Go Liverpool!
Jenny
Belichick is worse than Hitler
Spadizzly
Spoiler Alert:
NY 27, NE 14
Violet
When is actual kickoff?
Spadizzly
Nothwithstanding, fuck Lieberputz
Cassidy
Ahem…BJ fitness club.
Violet
Who’s singing the national anthem?
gbear
Metrix did their ‘Gimme Sympathy’ video with just one camera. So there.
Jenny
@2liberal:
Typical.
Fucking lieberman represents New England, so naturally he works to undermine them.
Cassidy
@2liberal: Good enough for me. I was rooting for injuries.
Southern Beale
Gah. Just realized we have an entire pitcher of margaritas in the fridge. I thought we’d finished them all.
noodler
watching from a friends bar on the lower east side, top hops. Sumpthin like 800 beers, and prob my belgian favs jupilier and carmelitte. Should be a great game and blah blah looking forward to the commercials… Go Giants! BJers welcome.
JGabriel
That annual athletic display with all the pads that sporty people discuss each year is on again tonight?
(As a New Yorker, smart-assery aside, I guess I have a rooting interest in the Giants winning this one — even if I do think of them as being more of a New Jersey team, by more than half.)
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Southern Beale
Also, I’d be a lot more interested in the Super Bowl if they played hockey instead. Just sayin’.
Suffern ACE
I’m rooting for patriots 6, giants 7. Or any score ending in those numbers, preferably at halftime and game end.
gbear
@gbear: Argh. Metric. Freakin edit command won’t work. I don’t have permission…
Amir Khalid
I attended a Super Bowl party in the US once. It was at LotusSphere 1997, held in Disney World, on the eve of the conference launch. I don’t even remember who was playing. I do seem to remember that it was more about beer and food — there was an abundance of both — than football; and that I went back to my hotel room afterwards to watch The X-Files. (It was the episode where Scully has a fight with Mulder, and goes off to Pittsburgh where she hooks up with a guy who has a jealous talking tattoo called Betty.)
Mister Papercut
@Violet:
Kelly Clarkson, last I heard.
hildebrand
At the moment, I am far more interested in listening to my son and wife work on their piano duet for the upcoming recital – they are playing Rachmaninov’s Prelude in C sharp minor.
Mark S.
Is Madonna going to sing her shitty new song at halftime?
cathyx
@Violet: I think it’s 3:30.
Amir Khalid
@BGinCHI:
We’re playing Spurs at Anfield tomorrow, with Suarez back from suspension. Hope he watches his mouth this time.
JGabriel
@MikeJ:
Godwin LOL!
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JPL
@Spadizzly: You know that you are going to make Joe Lieberman proud.
robertdsc-PowerBook
Glad Belichick is wearing the charcoal gray hoodie. The cursed red hoodie has been burned, I hope.
Hoping the Pats win today.
wengler
Yeah, 8 games off I’m sure he’ll come back good as new. Meanwhile, Bale and Ade are gonna be pouring them in.
Cacti
Go Giants!
Anybody but Dubya’s buddy Tom Brady.
Jenny
Brady is singing “America the Beautiful”, yet he’s married to a Brazilian national.
Violet
@Mister Papercut:
I like Kelly Clarkson a lot and she sounds good, but I don’t really like this arrangement with the kids choir and the drum.
wengler
I hope they do a flyover of the roofed stadium.
Jim C
Are we supposed to stand and put our hands over our hearts during the national anthem in our own homes?
Watching all the players swaying with adrenalin makes me think we should sing this song at a different point in time.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: January 1997? That would have been Packers/Patriots. Green Bay won.
As much as it pains me, I will be rooting not so much for the Patriots to win but for the Giants to lose.
kdaug
@Southern Beale:
Whoops.
Sacrifices must be made. Be a damn shame to pour it out.
dmsilev
@wengler: Maybe they can string some guide wires inside the stadium and run some model planes down the wires?
Violet
I don’t really care who wins, but I do care about the queso and nachos I’m going to eat.
gwangung
@Violet: Hear, hear!
SiubhanDuinne
Is there going to be a Downton Abbey open thread?
The Dangerman
@Southern Beale:
Way to take one for the team!
Don’t have a dog in this hunt, so gotta root for a local kid even though he doesn’t see the field too much, if at all (Ramses Barden, 13, Giants).
Cacti
Santa Maria tri tip and black beans with sofrito for my Super Bowl meal.
dmsilev
Sports announcers must attend the same post-graduate program in applied inanity that political pundits graduate from.
Omnes Omnibus
Hyundai’s Rocky ad was dumb.
lamh35
Have no interest in this game at all besides the commercials and you can actually see them online.
Saints aren’t playing so I’m just gonna go with the hometown boy and say “Go Eli”.
BTW, I’m no raving fan of Madge, but I might check out the half-time show. About what time will halftime be? Can anyone guest-imate?
Cassidy
I want a fridge that does that.
gwangung
@dmsilev: I thought the color men RAN that program.
Violet
@lamh35:
I really only care about the commercials too. And the food.
darwinsjoke
Am I the only one that hears “pretentious cocksucker” when a player says, “THE Ohio State University”?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Going with Brady, whom I’ve liked since his Ann Arbor days, and The Hoody, whom I like because he does things his own way.
But I’m not committed.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@darwinsjoke:
No.
James E. Powell
I want a Patriots win, but I also like the Giants and Eli Manning, so my biggest hope is for a good, close game with several outstanding plays.
Amir Khalid
I saw this Opinion page blurb on a Maureen Dowd column, and it made me not want to read the thing. Come on, NYT. That’s the opposite of how a blurb is supposed to work.
Spaghetti Lee
Not to ruffle anyone’s feathers, but I’ve always thought of “I only watch/care about the commercials” a hipsterism equivalent to “They’re real obscure, you’ve probably never heard of them.”
JPL
Eli is probably okay. After all he does like to go antique hunting so he can’t be all bad. I do have on my Patriot clothes although Miss Moxie doesn’t have on her New England Patriots dog collar on.
JordanRules
@Violet: Works for me! Who are you rooting for in the food V. commercials battle then? I’m team food.
Kinda care so, go other Manning I guess…you are elite and Darth hoody is scary.
geg6
I’m here only for the commercials. And in the hope that Madonna will do an ironic Tebow just for the shits and giggles of fundie heads asploding.
I hate both these teams, passionately, but have decided to root for the Giants because a late friend loooooved them and they have a kid from Pitt playing fullback. Gotta stick with fellow alumni.
Spaghetti Lee
I don’t really have a rooting interest here, for the first time in a while. If I’m not actually a fan of the teams (Bears), I root for the distinct underdog or else the team who hasn’t won in a while. Patriots, I guess, for History’s sake.
Violet
That Audi ad was funny. So long vampires. Heh.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Echo and the Bunnymen used for Audi? What next…Black Flag for Starbucks?
Elizabelle
Commercials so far. Meh.
The vampires for Audi (?) does remind you of “daylight” headlights.
JPL
Well that sucks…
Yutsano
@The Dangerman: I’m stuck. Good friend from Mississippi plus New York Dawg = pulling for the Giants. Though to be honest I’m in total apathy mode for the whole affair.
@gwangung: Ahem. Why for you never tell me about Ezell’s before? That place is da shiznit!
Jenny
Should Elton be dressed as a Queen?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Goddam…There’s gotta be a higher rate of safeties scored in the Super Bowl than in regular season games.
different-church-lady
I have to say that oddly, I am enjoying the Patriots playing the role of the “bad guys” this year.
Violet
Elton John Pepsi ad was lame.
@Spaghetti Lee:
Really? I honestly do watch for the commercials most of the time. I think they’re funny. I like football well enough, but don’t really care who wins this time.
@JordanRules:
Totally Team Food!
Suffern ACE
Well that doesn’t help.
daize
So what was that play? Intentional grounding in the end zone?
Cris (without an H)
I’m a national anthem conservative. Play it straight or don’t play it. Don’t show off. It’s not about you.
(Jimi Hendrix excepted.)
Spaghetti Lee
Maybe I’m just bitter. I distinctly remember being disappointed by the commercials as a group for like 5-6 years now. Maybe this year will be better.
Downpuppy
Gotta be the first 40 yard intentional grounding in NFL history!
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrghhh
NobodySpecial
Patriots can’t tackle. If that keeps up this game won’t be close.
Of course, I’m still rooting for the meteor strike.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@daize:
Yep. Can’t say I agree with it, though.
JPL
My animals are already hiding.
Omnes Omnibus
Well, the shrimp are gone.
The Dangerman
OK, I was rooting for Ramses, which is kinda like a safety (I’d rather have the margarita).
I wonder how many prop bets had a safety as the first score. Nice payday.
Violet
@Spaghetti Lee:
The last time the commercials were generally good was during the crazy dotcom era. Pets.com!
daize
OK — spouse suggests the 12 man on the field error was deliberate. Yes?
daize
@Violet: One of our favorites is the herding cats commercial. Can’t remember who was advertising, though!
Jenny
Angry Black M&M
BGinCHI
@Amir Khalid: Recording it and can’t wait to watch!
Got a feeling we’re gonna play well. You see the Man U – Chelski match?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@JPL:
So much time left.
Have I ever told you about watching the Seahawks score two touchdowns- right in front of me!- in the first two minutes of the 2007 Divisional Round game at Lambeau? The crowd was sort of subdued, but no one lost their shit.
Don’t lose your shit.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Spaghetti Lee: I liked the Audi commercial.
Suffern ACE
Bud light goes with the Etta James remix, which is probably better than pepsis cover of respect.
Violet
@daize:
I loved that one too. I can’t remember who the advertiser was either!
BGinCHI
This game is just filler for the puppy bowl.
Omnes Omnibus
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Was that the overtime game where Hasselback made the “We want the ball and we’re going to score” comment and then threw a pick-6 to Al Harris?
dmsilev
@Violet: Chevy just had a nice one. I liked the rain of frogs at the end.
Violet
I like that Chevy truck commercial with the tie in with Twinkies. Funny. At least the Twinkies part.
BGinCHI
Fuck, Manning is just too good. How did he get that pass in there??
Peyton is probably breaking all the furniture in his man cave.
Spaghetti Lee
OK, that apocalypse one was pretty good. M&M one too. Didn’t think you could get away with that on prime time TV actually, but I guess it’s OK if they’re cartoon candies.
Omnes Omnibus
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): The Audi vampire one is the best ad so far.
Nom de Plume
@Violet:
I haven’t watched the commercials in about 20 years, ever since SB commercials became “something to watch”. They became self-conscious and smug, all “look at me, I’m a Super Bowl commercial!”, and they just become moreso with each passing year. The ones that I do manage to see are just insufferable, just brimming with self-satisfaction, and not the least bit fucking funny.
daize
@dmsilev: I got a kick out of the Twinkies. :-)
BGinCHI
I don’t care if you call Bud Light “Platinum” or “crack” or “free.”
It tastes like piss.
different-church-lady
OK, starting to look like there might actually be a football game today.
Amir Khalid
@BGinCHI:
That was crazy. Man U were three goals down early in the second half, then the ref helped them by awarding two dubious penalties. Chelsea must feel like they got fucked over. Still, It was just about the result I wanted for Liverpool’s benefit so I’m good with it.
gogol's wife
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’ve asked for one every week. I think it’s hopeless. You’ll have to settle for Patton Oswalt’s twitter feed (I probably got that wrong, but something like that).
Violet
@BGinCHI:
Was thinking the same thing. I heard them say it was “top shelf”. Ugh.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus:
No, The Snowglobe Game, where we absolutely blew ’em out! I’ve never been in the midst of anything anywhere where I said to myself, “This one’s going down in history.”
dmsilev
@BGinCHI: I think it’s like what credit card companies did some years back, working their way through the periodic table. Wake me when we get Bud Light Neodymium.
BGinCHI
@Amir Khalid: Yes, but the tears of the Chelsea fans tasted soooo sweet.
Perfect result.
Yutsano
Yep. Still don’t care. Still taking a nap.
BGinCHI
@Violet: Tacit admission that their regular product is of urinary quality.
Gotta love a product that is 99% marketing and 1% ingredients and craft.
USA!
wengler
I can’t wait for the movie based on Connect Four.
phoebes-in-santa fe
Why are so many of these commercials so violent? Even the ones that don’t HAVE to be violent? I mean, I know there’s a lot testesterone around, but most of the violent commercials don’t even make sense.
dmsilev
And to the person who decided that the world needed a movie adaptation of the game Battleship, fuck you very much.
Violet
I think it might be time to start making the nachos.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Amir Khalid:
Only the second one was dubious. The first was just a stupid foul to make in that position.
BGinCHI
@dmsilev: Bud Light Carbon or Lead or Sulphur would get it about right.
wengler
@Amir Khalid: Howard Webb can be very uneven.
WereBear (itouch)
Hey, Balloon Juice made the Top Ten!
Cool. Congrats, John & all the Front Pagers.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@wengler:
Cribbage: To the Death
BGinCHI
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Ref also didn’t call a penalty on Wellbeck in the first, so…makeup call.
Violet
I always love the Clydesdales Bud commercial. Such gorgeous horses.
Okay, that Doritos ad was funny.
Donald G
I’ve been led to believe that there’s some kind of important football game, today. Something called the Stupid Bowl… oh, that’s SUPER Bowl. Sorry everyone, the Stupid Bowl was last night’s Nevada Republican Caucuses,
GO COWB…whattya mean, they’re not playing? They’re “America’s Team”, aren’t they? Oh, they sucked this year…I see.
So, who’s the new “America’s Team”?
It’s either the Patriots or the Giants. Well, the Patriots have the patriotic name, but the term Giants is as good a description of American exceptionalism as any. So, who should I support?
What say we combine the best of both teams?
Patriots…Giants
Pa…nts
Pants!
That’s it! GO PANTS!!!
(Who says the spirit of compromise is dead?)
Elizabelle
Cat-killing dogs hawking snack food. Great.
BGinCHI
@wengler: Hmm. Can’t quite agree overall. He’s about the best that league has. Nobody’s perfect.
Except Monica Bellucci.
Violet
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Go Fish: The Fishening.
wengler
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): The first one was soft with how Webb was calling the game.
The second was totally bogus.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@BGinCHI:
My dumb ass set my alarm clock for 10:55…PM! I woke up just in time to see Piers Morgan saying something at the end of the halftime coverage.
WereBear (itouch)
See, if the cat had gotten rid of the big dog, that would have been funny.
different-church-lady
Once again I’m getting that “You spent a million dollars on THAT?!?” feeling…
wengler
@BGinCHI: Not disagreeing, though the World Cup final was not a shining moment. Worlds better than Chris Foy or Mike Dean.
suzanne
I have a dumb question that’s NOT about FourLoko_chan: how many men ARE allowed on the field? ‘Cause what was that “12 men on the field” penalty about?
ChrisB
Hilarious that NBC went with the JPP knock off of OPP going to commercial after Pierre Paul knocked down that pass.
We’ve come a long way from nipplegate.
Omnes Omnibus
@suzanne: 11 per team.
dmsilev
@Violet: You’ll be Sorry!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Violet:
ROCK! PAPER! SCISSOS!
BGinCHI
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): You missed a hell of a match.
Tomorrow Liverpool vs Spurs. On ESPN 2.
Maybe get someone to help with the alarm.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@suzanne:
11 on each side.
wengler
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Piers Morgan is only worth listening to if Arsenal is losing.
Suffern ACE
@nom de plume – at no point can super bowl ads count as secret pleasues. Or follow the best band you’ve never heard of narrative.
eemom
@WereBear (itouch):
Also too:
Sweeeet. Lady Jane must be having a cow.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@BGinCHI:
Well, I caught the second half, which didn’t start out all that well, AFAIC.
Go Spurs! I’d probably consider myself a Yid if it wasn’t for Cantona.
Elizabelle
Think Steven Tyler was in the Patriots’ owner box?
Somebody was in there in a leopard print.
BGinCHI
Where the fuck is Jeffrey with some photos of his outrageous Superbowl food.
Can you even imagine what that guy made today?
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
OK, the VW commercial was funny.
eemom
These are the 2 things I have to say about the Superbowl:
1. My sister and her husband and sons, rabid Giants fans, are there — they actually WON tickets!
2. After this football will be over. Yay.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Old Maid: Sex In the City III
BGinCHI
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): You must be the only Spurs fan who can type. If you have both front teeth you’re in the top .1 percentile.
WereBear (itouch)
@eemom: Fave quote:
Violet
@dmsilev: @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Solitaire: Patience is a Virtue.
scav
Tic Tac Toe.
Rated XXX.
suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: Thank you.
As if it wasn’t painfully obvious, I really do only watch for the commercials.
RossinDetroit
When they get past Hydrogen they’ll either have to do subatomic particles or chemical compounds.
Bud Light Carbon Dioxide could be a keeper.
Violet
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
I love the dog-losing-weight part. And I get the Darth Vader/Star Wars reference to last year’s commercial, but it didn’t work for me.
Now this David Beckham in underwear commercial is nice….
BGinCHI
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Yahtzee: Small Straight Apocalypse Now.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@BGinCHI:
Hey, I’m a Man Utd. supporter…But I love the fact that Tottenham supporters who weren’t Jews stood up to invading NF skins in the late ’70s.
wengler
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Slap Jack: The Killer Slap
Spaghetti Lee
THIS SUMMER….GET INTO…TROUBLE.
Cris (without an H)
Are all you people posting about how you don’t care about the Super Bowl the same ones who post in TV threads that you don’t have a TV?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Spoons: Cold Steel
BGinCHI
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I didn’t know that. Very cool.
I don’t dislike Spurs, actually. Just trying to wind you up.
WereBear (itouch)
After shaking the Coke up like that, the bear can’t drink it for hours.
suzanne
I’ve got quite a few male friends who are REALLY excited about that David Beckham ad.
As for me: meh.
dmsilev
@BGinCHI: Checkers: Revenge of the Kings.
BGinCHI
Hide & Go Seek: The Hiding
Sequel:
Hide & Go Seek: The Seeking
wengler
@BGinCHI: Aw come on, you couldn’t have just made a riot joke? Joke will be on you Scousers when Ade and Bale are burning your back line tomorrow.
Suffern ACE
@chris – I haven’t watched it since it became popular.
wengler
@BGinCHI:
Hide & Go Seek 3: No More Hiding
Trilogy sets available.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Spaghetti Lee:
Damn, I couldn’t figure out a good Trouble title. Hope they keep the theme song, though. I can still sing (okay, I guess it’s a chant) that one.
Oooo! Oooo! New Kutcher vehicle:
Who’s Got My Etch-A-Sketch?
Violet
@BGinCHI:
Tag: This Time You’re It.
RossinDetroit
I’ll be damned. An ex-girlfriend just posted that she picked out Sir Elton’s eyeglasses for him. She has an optical shop in LA.
” Derome Brenner Stardust in BLUE!!! ”
In case you want to cop that look for yourself.
BGinCHI
@wengler: Let’s leave my back line out of this, you bum looker.
I like Bale cuz he’s a Welshie. Also too, he looks like an elf and plays like a magician.
WereBear (itouch)
@Violet: ‘Bout time they thought of the ladies and the gentlemen who are gay.
S. cerevisiae
Texas Hold-Em: not a Rick Perry rally
dmsilev
Hungry, Hungry Hippos
Fear the appetite.
BGinCHI
@wengler: Kick the Can: The Canning
Or
Freeze Tag: Ice Age 5
wengler
@Violet: Tag 2: No Tagbacks
scav
I somehow never expected pragmatism to be this manic.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@BGinCHI:
Yeah, I guess there are a lot of Jews in the neighborhood/support. Visiting skins would come to White Hart Lane and fuck with the neighborhood businesses. Spurs supporters stood up, said, “Yeah, we’re ALL Yids!” Very cool.
wengler
@dmsilev: I’d see that. They are a lot more dangerous than Anaconda or Anacondas.
Violet
This Fourth of July…
Someone is…
Makin’ Things with Lite…
LITE BRITE
BGinCHI
@wengler: Bean Bags: The Political Education of Romney the Dumbass
dmsilev
The Phantom Menance sucked in 2D. I assume that in 3D, it will suck 50% more.
Violet
@wengler:
Tag 3: It Returns
wengler
@BGinCHI: I thought of the short little king from Shrek for some reason.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
spirograph
a richard linklater film
WereBear (itouch)
@BGinCHI: Newt II: The Return of the Lizard King
suzanne
I liked that Chevy Sonic ad. I love that “We Are Young” song, and the stunts were cool.
Violet
@dmsilev:
I didn’t know they were releasing Star Wars in 3D. Why? Why? So dumb.
S. cerevisiae
@wengler: Oh come on, who doesn’t love to see Owen Wilson get eaten by a giant snake?
BGinCHI
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): LOL.
dmsilev
Red Rover
Ready or not, they’re coming over.
scav
@dmsilev: ow ow ow ow ow! The Hunt for!
dmsilev
@Violet: A money grab, of course. You’d think George Lucas has enough money to make himself happy, but I guess not.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@dmsilev:
THIS!
My very intelligent (Kalamazoo College- fucking great school) youngest (18-years old) cousin gushed about the re-release on FB, I had to crush her with this.
Suffern ACE
The nfl hates fumbles.
Violet
@dmsilev:
Are You Ready to Come Over Again?
Red Rover II.
BGinCHI
Teeter Totter: No One Ever Had Fun On That
Violet
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
That made me chuckle. It’s exactly what he would do.
BGinCHI
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Kalamazoo College was my safe school.
Elizabelle
Anybody check out the Puppy Bowl yet?
BGinCHI
@Elizabelle: I like my puppy bowl with red curry.
/Tunch
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@BGinCHI:
Loneoak was bummed when he couldn’t land a teaching spot there last year.
scav
@BGinCHI: I See Saw What You Did
SciFi remake, clearly.
Cassidy
Snake Eyes…shooting ninja stars out of the air…sweet.
BGinCHI
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Rushmore reference….
And yeah, I know it’s a good school. Plus the Bell’s brewery is there.
BGinCHI
@scav: I like yours better.
different-church-lady
Pierre-Paul is earning his way to MVP candidate.
dmsilev
And meanwhile, in the game that serves as an interstitial for the ads, the Patriots just took the lead.
SiubhanDuinne
@scav:
Win.
BGinCHI
How will they fuck the Avengers up? I just don’t trust Hollywood.
Donald G
@Cris (without an H):
I am not ashamed to admit that I have three functioning television sets (albeit all SD), but mostly they are used to watch vintage programs and movies on DVD. I spend to much of the waking hours reading political blogs for much TV watching, anymore.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Violet:
I’ve seen the rough cut. It’s 2 1/2 hours of Rory Cochrane pulling his hair and mumbling to himself while aiming for geographic perfection in four colors. It’s mesmerizing.
Oh, and it seems as if the Pats went ahead. Bully for them, I say.
gwangung
@BGinCHI: Well, with Whedon, I’d say you got the best possible chance not to….
SiubhanDuinne
Angry Birds starring Tippi Hedren
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@BGinCHI:
Rushmore reference….
D’OH! I should have caught that!
dmsilev
@BGinCHI: With that many main characters, it could easily end up just a muddled mess.
different-church-lady
Patriots play like crap for almost an entire half, and go into the locker room with the lead. Go figure.
Advanced question: why did the end judge throw his cap down on the last touchdown?
BGinCHI
@gwangung: Didn’t know he was doing it. OK, that’s a relief. Reserving judgment.
BGinCHI
@dmsilev: Or delicious like an Old Fashioned.
OldDave
On the Star Wars 3D ad: you’ll note Jar Jar didn’t make an appearance. Perhaps Lucas read the memo.
MikeJ
@BGinCHI:
I do trust Joss Whedon though. I can’t wait, and I hate, hate, hate superhero movies.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
C’mon, c’mon…. I got good odds, so I dropped $50 on Madonna wearing mom jeans….
SiubhanDuinne
Tag: Naming Romneys
Schlemizel
So, anyone, anyone at all, the least bit interested in Grandma Gaga doing halftime?
I imagine a bunch of 70 year olds sitting in NY saying “Who can we get to do the halftime – whos big with the kids these days”? Some octogenarian pipes up “That woman with that dresses weird!” followed by someone else “Madonna”
DanielX
Patriots suck.
That is all.
BGinCHI
@SiubhanDuinne: Dwarf Toss, starring Mitch Daniels.
SiubhanDuinne
Bridge: Still Too Far
bjacques
52 Pickup: There’s a JOKER in the deck!
Welp, 2am. I guess I’ll stay up a little longer for the Madonna medley. Oy.
Madonna covering The Meatmen’s “Centurions of Rome?”
50 years old and still has a reedy voice.
BGinCHI
I bet Guy Ritchie is shooting his tv over and over while his ex is performing.
Elie
@dmsilev:
What a bore. The ads are about the past — power defined by the old shit — not real new thinking about other ways to lead.
The game is interesting for those who like some sort of defense (which I do)…
Lets take off those pads, helmets and do tackles where we don’t have to scramble brains… something like rugby and lets speed this thing up by half..
I think it gets harder to do this knowing players’ brains
are being damaged even as we watch…
I love football.. but I think we need some changes to make it successful going forward
The ads are from the past — nothin new here
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Too bad that John Frankenheimer died during pre-production of Rubik’s Cube. That would have been intense.
dmsilev
@BGinCHI: Not Ron Paul?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Mom jeans under that…
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Fuck….
dmsilev
It appears the Greeks are getting their revenge on us for that whole austerity thing.
MikeJ
Madonna has a pocket full of Trojans…
BGinCHI
@dmsilev: Saving Ron Paul for a star turn in Half Baked 4: The Waking.
Omnes Omnibus
Madonna and the cast of 300? Interesting choice.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@BGinCHI:
I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP
When the Dwarf Toss was causing a national, uhm, outrage, the guy who won it was my old roomie (still one of my best friends), J.R..
dmsilev
I never knew Billy Crystal could dance like that.
Omnes Omnibus
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Tosser or Tossee?
Suffern ACE
Roman soldiers pulling a Norse Goddess on an Egyptian boat.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Tosser. :D
He’s a big GM/UAW meathead. He’s in Indiana now, putting in his last few years before he can pull his full pension.
elmertfudd
Did BRUCE lip-sync? I think not…
Spaghetti Lee
Oh holy hell.
phoebes-in-santa fe
Madonna is wayyy too old to be doing this crap.
dmsilev
Now we’ve got a sort of Egyptian/ cheerleader vibe going.
I am confused.
lamh35
not that it’s a bad thing, but is this the gayest halftime show evah??? Only thing gayer woulda been Lady Gaga. Still I bet Madonna’s live show is cool.
So are wingnuts heads exploding?
Seriously though, there is nothing that Cee-Lo Green can’t make cooler…IMHO!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@dmsilev:
See, she’s expressing herself. Does that clear it up?
dmsilev
Your Superbowl halftime shoe, brought to us by Madonna and the Mormon Tabermacle Choir.
Mike in NC
@Violet:
The famous herding cats commercial was for EDS, a former employer. The ad was actually better than the experience of working for Ross Perot’s company.
Cacti
Madge can still bounce around on stage pretty well for a 53 y.o.
And it’s a good visual reminder of what a complete knock off Lady Gaga is.
lamh35
oh, and bets that Cee-Lo ain’t lip syncing. Brother can sing.
Actually, I don’t think that halftime was that bad. Madonna does get around well for a 53 y.o. old don’t she.
Suffern ACE
@dmsilev: It’s all epic. Every epic ever. We need a word for generic epic.
jayboat
Who produced this dreck? Stupid songs and even worse lip synching. Madge didn’t even break a sweat.
Elie
@phoebes-in-santa fe:
And you know, it wouldnt be bad if she didn’t LOOK too old to be doing it —
Frankly, its not just her — its the whole shtick — old, stale and boring…. (and I am old, stale and boring and I even think its past prime)
She is working hard at it but our entertainment culture is pretty ruthless…Then they throw on some “World Peace” mottos to keep it “current”
bjacques
OK, spotted Li’l Kim. If that’s Cee-Lo Green, I was hoping they would do a Fuck You duet.
Julie Brown came off as a Mean Girl, but I liked Medusa: Dare To Be Truthful”
dmsilev
Just like Don Giovanni, Madonna is sucked down to Hell at the end of the third act.
elmertfudd
@lamh35: Word. And I suspect Lady Gaga doesn’t need to lip-sync either.
daize
Hah! “My eyes are up here.”
burnspbesq
Is there anyone involved in sport, any sport, at any level, anywhere in the world, who is more clueless than Sepp Blatter? He is actually going to demand that the Egyptian government reinstate the board and the head of the Egyptian federation, who were fired (or resigned, depending on who you believe) after the Port Said riot.
Feckin’ idjit.
The Dangerman
Um, Madonna, what the fuck was that?
Chasm
I noticed Madonna stopped lip synching when C-lo came out.
S. cerevisiae
Around the country millions of guys are hanging around the kitchen going “Where the hell is Aerosmith?”
suzanne
Between Madonna and David Beckham, my gay friends are enjoying this Super Bowl more than anyone else, methinks.
phoebes-in-santa fe
@Mike in NC: Just for your pleasure – EDS Herding Cats video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryMgZ0pyGS4
suzanne
What is this Clint ad?!
Elie
@dmsilev:
Actually, that would be pretty awesome…
Opera is timeless — and it so fits so much of our shit, doncha think?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@suzanne: Obama’s rescue of the auto industry. I wonder if he knows that.
jl
There a football game on?
The season ended two weeks ago when the gritty little Team of Destiny was tragically beaten by some big goons from Jersey, in a tragic fluke play.
Then they had the pro bowl. So? What, they starting exhibition games already?
Whatever. I only pay attention to important games.
lamh35
@bjacques: no lil Kim, that was Nicky Minaj. just so you know.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Now if Chrysler put as much into their cars’ designs as they put into their advertising…
Cassidy
I think Clint Eastwood just endoresed President Obama. lol
suzanne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: For the second year in a row, the “Imported fom Detroit” ads are the best ones.
Omnes Omnibus
@Cassidy: So did Fiat/Chrysler.
Cassidy
@lamh35: And M.I.A
lamh35
@Cassidy: I was just thinking the same thing.
All it needed was an Obama for America banner at the end.
Spaghetti Lee
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I don’t think Eastwood’s a wingnut, though. I do think that commercial in particular was overkill on the this-is-an-Important-Message theatrics.
RossinDetroit
I’m Madonna’s age and whether you like the routine or not it’s impressive that she can do it at all. She’s aging better than most of us, or maybe my eyesight is just failing faster than her looks.
Cacti
@jl:
If you’re talking about a certain northern California team, let’s be honest. If they had even a reasonably competent QB, they’d have won that game by double digits.
On the bright side, I think another Manning might be available for some draft picks this offseason.
burnspbesq
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
You’ve been temporarily Max McGee for about 13 months now. When does your recess appointment expire?
martha
OMG Clint…you made me cry! And the ad showed a shot of WI last winter,,,
phoebes-in-santa fe
@lamh35: Yeah, I kept waiting for the Obama primature.
Violet
REALLY liked the Clint Eastwood ad a lot.
Cacti
@RossinDetroit:
Steven Tyler looks more like an old woman than Madonna does.
Cassidy
@Spaghetti Lee: And Eastwood has been in politics. He’s a smart guy. He knows the implications of that commercial.
Omnes Omnibus
@martha: Really interesting ad for a car company to do.
JPL
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought at first it was a political ad. I bet there are a few repubs crying me a river right now.
JGabriel
@jl:
Either that, or a gay pride concert featuring Madonna. I’m not watching, and, going by the posts here, I can’t tell which it is.
Mind you, it’s possible the BJ commentariat can’t tell the difference either.
Of course, it’s also possible that there is no difference.
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BGinCHI
@burnspbesq: You forgot Corrupt.
I hate that guy.
Spurs tomorrow….
Bago
@suzanne: Because theyyyy’re meeeeeen. They’re men in thights. TIGHTS! Tights.
Jenny
Worst.Halftime.Show.Evah.
Madonna looked arthritic.
At least her dentures didn’t fall out.
RossinDetroit
@Cacti:
Well, he earned those looks. He’s lucky he’s on this side of the turf.
daize
@Cacti: Maybe it’s the big, floppy hats….
Mark S.
God I would love to get Madonna’s song out of my head.
Doug JGreen-Ellis is getting hot.
wengler
Only the GOP could think that destroying the American auto industry is a good thing.
martha
@Omnes Omnibus: I know. But, it’s a union town. That Clint was the messenger interests me more. I always thought he was an old school repub. Perhaps he’s had enough of the dreck, like many others, and decided to take a stand in his own way.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@burnspbesq:
I think I’m keepin’ it. The whole thing. Because it’s not just about Max– and I kinda figured you’d know that by now. :)
2liberal
run it up patriots ! Can you stop someone? PLEASE!
Maxwel
Celebrating the last TD with my first Hoplanta.
Violet
@Jenny:
Yeah, that halftime show made Madonna look….small. She’s always seemed larger than life and she couldn’t fill the stage. They had to bring in Niki Minaj, Cee Lo, and LMFAO just to fill out the show. Prince didn’t need outside help.
Omnes Omnibus
@Violet: Prince is a weird little man, but he can put on one hell of a show. His halftime show was probably the best one ever.
JPL
@martha: Nah..I figure he was getting paid.
Omnes Omnibus
@JPL: He is a big enough name that he would have veto power over a script.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Damn, Chung!
JPL
@Omnes Omnibus: He was a big supporter of saving Detroit which is why he filmed there so I think you are right. What a powerful ad.
Omnes Omnibus
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Everybody Damn Chung tonight?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@JPL:
Nerves calmed a bit? Or are the Pats up because you sacrificed the pets?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus:
It crossed my mind. I thought it was a stretch.
I was right.
:P
Cacti
@Omnes Omnibus:
And the fact that it was raining into the purple stage lighting on “Purple Rain” was one of those moments that couldn’t be planned, or duplicated.
Violet
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yep. Best one ever.
Omnes Omnibus
Fiat 500 Abarth ad worked for me.
JGabriel
martha:
Eastwood is a Republican, but he’s generally described his views as less conservative than (small-l?) libertarian. His views seemed to shift more to the center during the 90s and 00s.
But he’s still a GOPer — or apparently registered as one anyway. From Wikipedia:
I’m not watching the game, so I may as well be the one to look this shit up.
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Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus: @Violet:
I still can’t believe they went with the Stones the last time the game was in Detroit. Hello! Stevie Wonder!
RossinDetroit
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
I’ve been in the Silverdome twice, once to see the Cowboys humiliate the Lions and once to see the Stones.
I’d have liked to see some subversive reference to wardrobe malfunction in Madonna’s outfit. Like a lock and chain across the bust. But alas.
bjacques
@Mark S.:
Perhaps thiswill help you wash that taste of Madonna outta yer brain…
lamh35@268: Now I feel old.
JPL
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I watched part of the game on mute and now have switched to PBS. The animals don’t like a raised voice and I do love my animals. I love the Patriots also, too but they will win or lose without me.
daize
OK, I am officially out of touch. Who is sampling She Sells Sanctuary?
RossinDetroit
@bjacques:
Glenn Close was in that outfit at one time. The Internets say so.
BD of MN
@daize: somebody named Flo Rida, according to Guitar World…
daize
@BD of MN: Thanks for the link! Wonder what the new Cult record will sound like… hmmmm
patrick II
Act of Valor — storing active duty Navy Seals.
When did that start happening?
Jim C
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Stevie actually did the halftime show (at least) once. I don’t remember the year (and am too lazy to look it up before typing).
But that year the halftime show was sponsored by an insurance company I’d never heard of, and they had the singers come out [fake] driving cars, while the announcer read promotional copy about their insurance.
Stevie Wonder [fake] driving a car. This is supposed to fill me with confidence in an insurance company? I mean, his performance was fine, but … having him come out on the field pretending to drive a car … wha?
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim C: Stevie Wonder and driving?
Cassidy
The Darkness…sweet.
Cassidy
@patrick II: Wiki says it started as a recruiting commercial for Navy SpecWar and grew from there.
Jim C
@Omnes Omnibus: Ha! I hadn’t seen that in years.
Violet
@bjacques:
Oh dear. What in the world was that?
Cris (without an H)
@Omnes Omnibus: Ha ha, very funny mother fucker
Cris (without an H)
The awesomeness of Danica Patrick breaking into a good-old-boys male sport is matched by the pathetic spectacle of her selling her looks to GoDaddy.
Cris (without an H)
What the fuck just happened?
bjacques
@Violet:
History!
Cris (without an H)
SACK
2liberal
Patriots defense just couldn’t get off the field. I had the game on mute 95% of the time – I can’t stand Collinsworth.
phoebes-in-santa fe
Great Game!!!
Morbo
Wells, Giants fans can be gratified that that game was slightly less bad than
Super Bowl XL.
Joel
Nut punch. Slow motion.
Welker with the open drop was the loser, and I knew it.
Joel
@2liberal: Collinsworth is the worst frontrunner in sports commentary. I’ve never liked him, even when he was frontrunning for the Patriots (and the Rams before them, and the Broncos before them, and the Packers before them).
Bubblegum Tate
Having learned that Bob Kraft is friends with Rush Limbaugh (and even had EL Rushbo in the owner’s box for the game), I am now very happy that the Giants won.