Let’s try this again.
I have no idea why the comments are borked. I was digging someone out of the spam filter since apparently the other front pagers have gone ban crazy lately, and apparently I screwed the whole comments section up.
And front pagers, I beg you- when you ban someone, email me. You have no idea how many whiny ass emails I get everyday about the comments section not being available, then I look, and someone has been banned and that is why they can not post. Sometimes, you ban IP’s that tons of people use. So from now on, email me if you ban someone, explain why, and send me the username and email and ip.
Grumble. God damnit.
John Cole
test
Badmoodman
As I was saying….
I’m only watching to see if Bernard Pollard accidentally delivers a kill-shot to teammate Ray Lewis. Win/win.
Litlebritdifrnt
testing again
Litlebritdifrnt
Yeah Free at last! Thanks John.
scav
movement!
mistermix-not logged in
Test
poco
So what was that go-daddy ad? My twitter has gone wild!
Schlemizel
as I tried – desperately – to ask earlier
Any good commercials yet?
James E. Powell
Third or fourth try.
49ers showing jitters; Ravens looking solid. Slow on defense, but solid.
49ers fans start worrying. These aren’t the Falcons.
cathyx
This is only a test.
cyntax
Well that was a well-timed fumble.
ETA: To say nothing of the game.
LeftCoastTom
Hmmm…go niners?!
Alison
HOORAY. And now I’ll repeat myself for who knows what number time:
As I just curmudgeonishly tweeted, I’m from the Bay Area so go Niners, I suppose, but gridiron football is mostly meh to me. I was way more thrilled about Newcastle beating Chelsea yesterday :P
I’m a terrible American!
Comrade Mary
Was that me? I’m sorry.
Badmoodman
@poco:
The Go Daddy ad was wretch inducing. Do not go there again. Trust me.
Yutsano
Third time’s the charm?
Paddy
@Schlemizel: You can see all of them here.
Alison
And obvs now “go Niners” is a bit sadder than it was when I first tried to comment.
Wag
The Audi ad was excellent.
Cassidy
At least someone cares enough to keep it civil around here. And it was so quiet.
FlyingToaster
Go hedgehogs!
Southern Beale
GOP considers Romney for MA Senate — ANN Romney. God could not love me this much.
trollhattan
There it is.
SF does ‘t seem ready. Repeat of Atlanta game?
LanceThruster
Uuunngh!
Aaaaaahhhhh.
Suzanne
That GoDaddy ad was gross. That kiss sounded like a wet fart.
Yutsano
@Schlemizel: The Bud commercial with the hawt horse trainer and the CUTE Clydesdale foal rocked!
(Not watching the game as I’m about to get stuck in a tube and zapped. But it was on my Book of Faces.)
dance around in your bones
Well, my whiny-ass comments apparently got eaten, so what the hay.
Eating potato chips and drinking vodka + orange juice and really don’t care who wins this game. Marginally B’more since I lived there for a while.
Glad you got it fixed JC!
@suzanne – my 2 older grandboys were in the room when that ad came on and they both just about puked from the sucky-face.
Corner Stone
@Badmoodman: That was disgusting.
Badmoodman
Hyundai is spending $$$$$$$$$$ on ads.
Pooh
Oreo best commercial so far
Corner Stone
Ed Reed. Ball hawk.
PeakVT
How long has Al Gore been playing for the Niners? /turns up radio
Corner Stone
Scaepernick Strikes Again!
Badmoodman
Ray Lewis must feel right at home in this thugfest.
TaMara (BHF)
Wow, all the drama is here and not on my teevee.
LanceThruster
“…and crown thy good with brotherhood…”
Wag
@Corner Stone:
It took 42 takes to get it right.
Lucky geek.
JPL
God must want lewis’ team according to twenty-seven percent of the folks polled.
Mr Stagger Lee
The Doritos ad, with the little girl getting her daddy and his friends to play dress up was the best in IMHO. The Ravens are running the game so far.
Baud
All the ads sucked. Our nation is screwed.
James E. Powell
I see fear & confusion in Kaepernick’s eyes.
Corner Stone
@Wag: I’ve wondered a couple things:
1) how much he paid some casting director to get that gig
2) how many takes he calculated he could get away with re-doing before they booted him
mai naem
@Southern Beale: Oh, but Massachusetts is not good enough for Ann. Surely, Ann’s fate is to bigger and better things than lil ole liberal sosulistic Mass. I say, she should run for California. Meg Whitman could give her pointers on how to spend the rest of that Romney fortune. And Phil Mickelson’s a neighbor who will donate money to their campaign.
Mr Stagger Lee
Another thing, Fast and the Furious 6, really?
damned at random
The Doritos goat will haunt my dreams. (Goat eyes freak me out)
trollhattan
Hams-for-arms experiment not going as planned.
Suzanne
Oreo commercial actually made me laff.
Badmoodman
@Mr Stagger Lee:
Easily the most realistic F&F yet.
Baud
Everyone wants to be Sean Payton.
James E. Powell
John Harbaugh messing with his little brother’s head
LanceThruster
@FlyingToaster:
Go Chipmonks!
gwangung
@Mr Stagger Lee:
Fast Five, $209,837,675 box office.
Really.
LanceThruster
@gwangung:
How much does the car culture and all the ricky-racer wanna-be’s cause premature violent death?
Yutsano
@gwangung: Mostly overseas. But…yeah…
Corner Stone
The Scaepernick was 3 seconds too late getting that ball out to Moss.
BGinCHI
My comment got eaten.
I solved the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and an obscure mathematical problem but for the life of me I can’t remember what I wrote.
gwangung
@Yutsano: Well, $416 million overseas…
But car chases translates well.
Badmoodman
Wonder if the 49ers extreme suckage will continue in the 2nd half.
dance around in your bones
@BGinCHI:
I bet the answer was 42.
Cassidy
No call for slapping the helmet?
Badmoodman
Wonder what’s going through Alex Smith’s mind right about now…
Todd
@Badmoodman:
I’m already bored with this game.
Mr Stagger Lee
Keep watching those Puppy Bowl kiss cams and I will need to start getting Insulin shots.
Suzanne
I have a couple of friends who sing in church choirs that think that that gives them the credibility to complain about how EVERY POP STAR who ever sings the National Anthem sucks balls.
I hate everybody.
Badmoodman
Taco Bell: FAIL
Todd
The Taco Bell oldsters rocked.
Corner Stone
@Badmoodman:
“I’m better than at least 15 starting QB’s right now. I’s gonna gets pizzayed!!”
elmo
I love goats. Raised properly, they’re like puppies. Our goats used to run to greet me when I got home from work. They also give kisses.
Cassidy
WTF!?
Todd
@Badmoodman:
No way, man. Totally great commercial.
Amazing run just now.
LanceThruster
That was fun to watch.
The prophet Nostradumbass
This game’s pretty much over.
Badmoodman
Ok, so THAT happened.
dance around in your bones
Ok, that was pretty hot B’more!
Corner Stone
Former Texan straight kickin’ it!
gian
Right now seems like the refs are afraid to throw a flag. Could’ve sworn that pushing a ref in anger was grounds for ejection. And a post whistle head slap next to a ref would draw a flag. But im watching game and kids so maybe my observations are incorrect
salvage
Gooooo Ravens!
Nom de Plume
@Suzanne:
Every pop star who ever sings the National Anthem does suck balls. That song should never exceed about a minute in duration. Anymore, we’re lucky if it clocks in under 3 or 4 minutes.
trollhattan
RU kidding me? SF requires fork.
The Sailor
“And Along Came Jones …”
PeakVT
Niners are hurting.
Baud
Air Flacco
Litlebritdifrnt
@Paddy: Thanks for the link I am bawling my eyes out at the Clydesdale one.
Mr Stagger Lee
The Ravens are running the table, House of Cards here I come.
LanceThruster
@Nom de Plume:
x2
Suzanne
@Nom de Plume: Oh please. Why does it have to be the same every damn time?
Todd
The Puppy Bowl may be a more competive display.
James E. Powell
49ers really need a touchdown here. Also too, every company that is running ads in the second half. Also too, me or I will get really bored.
Darkrose
On one hand, I’m a northern California, so go Niners. On the other hand, I really was hoping Culliver would spend the game keeping the bench warm.
On the third hand, pitchers and catchers report on the 10th, so handegg, whatever.
LanceThruster
@Suzanne:
It becomes more about the singer than the song itself, and each artist tries to outdo the other so we get some pretty weird permutations. But true, they’re free to do it anyway they want, and we’re free to complain.
Todd
@Mr Stagger Lee:
I may wind up sitting with the women and watching Downton Abbey. This is like watching paint peel.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Darkrose: after that last touchdown, he may find himself there for the second half.
Cassidy
@LanceThruster: The song itself was really not that great in the first place.
Corner Stone
The Scaempernick fails again!
PsiFighter37
I hope the Niners win, mainly because I hate how much Ray Lewis has been deified. But they have got to start playing better soon, and fast.
Oh, and stop turning the ball over.
dance around in your bones
@elmo:
Goats are pretty cool but they do have a tendency to eat any damn thing in front of their faces, so I’m not sure they are the greatest boosters of Doritos.
A goat in a petting zoo tried to eat my velvet coat and another one we had on a farm ate a bunch of agave leaves and died of a perforated intestine, poor thing.
Julia Grey
GoDaddy…oh that poor actress.
Volkswagen….what. the. fk?
trollhattan
Rookie is rookie. Ah if only…
James E. Powell
@gian:
I think you are seeing what I’m seeing. The refs are letting a lot of extra stuff go. I do not know why.
LanceThruster
@Cassidy:
True, though done in the traditonal style I focus on the sentiment embodied at the time.
Alison
@Darkrose: Same, same, and same.
Anne Laurie
@Suzanne:
Tell them the National Athem sucks balls, so the popstars are being true to the source material. Doesn’t exactly sastisfy the complainers, IME, but it makes them take their whinging elsewhere.
LanceThruster
@efgoldman:
I went to a fight once and a hockey game broke out.
trollhattan
@PsiFighter37:
Hey now, Ray probably hasn”t killed any more folks than OJ.
max
Was there a problem with comments? Is there a football game on? Is John Cole actually an elderly spinster named Marge?
It was snowing like Mt. St. Helens had erupted but it all melted in half an hour. Strange day.
max
[‘Did you know Microsoft shipped a file with Windows 7 called ‘BWContextHandler.dll’ that they sorta forgot to label or identify internally? (It’s called ‘Bluewire’ and handles Bluetooth tethering. Took a while to figure that out.)’]
Suzanne
@efgoldman: No, my friends are pretentious traditionalists. If the Constitution is a living document, then the Anthem is a living song. It doesn’t have to be the same every time, and other stylistic traditions should be brought to it. It,s a drinking song, FFS, not holy writ.
Paddy
@Litlebritdifrnt: De nada. I showed the Bud one to a friend who hadn’t seen it and covered my eyes so I wouldn’t look but I remembered it and we both sat here sniffing.
Here’s a link to the movie previews that aired during the game. The new Star Trek looks awesome and I’m in for World War Z, but I love that end of the world stuff.
Todd
The tale will be told 5 min into the 2nd half. If the Niners come out looking like this, it’s done.
Cassidy
The Ray Lewis deification must be completed.
Moonbatting Average
I’m imagining John Cole cheering on his hated division rivals, led by an accessory-to-murdering, God-bothering, camera whore just so the Niners don’t get as many Super bowls as the Steelers. Gross.
Alison
@Suzanne: My thing with pop stars singing the anthem is – it’s generally meant to be a song everyone sings together, especially at a big game. But when the singers do all the vocal acrobatics and turn it into a pop song, no one else can really sing along. I don’t get as annoyed by it as my parents do, but still, it sort of feels like defeating the purpose.
Bob In Portland
As a Niner fan I can say that this is quite disappointing.
LanceThruster
So. much. leg. uuuuunnnnnhh.
Morbo
Hard call for me, basically boils down to whether I want the Niners to win because Jim and I share the same alma mater or lose because they’re 5-0 and they’re the Niners. Considering I cheered for the Panthers against Tom Brady’s Pats to no avail, I’m going to go ahead and hope they lose.
Cassidy
@LanceThruster: Have you not seen anything re: pop music in the last, oh, 30+ years?
LanceThruster
Who says porn can’t be high-brow?
Badmoodman
This routine has ‘wardrobe malfunction just waiting to happen’all over it.
LanceThruster
@Cassidy: Well, Marie Osmond was always a bit of a tart.
;-)
Suffern ACE
Man. I can’t imagine starting a three hour event with a downer complaint about the anthem. Sets the mood dial to dour.
And beyonce is no Madonna. This will never top the Greco-Egyptian-high school cheerleading extravaganza.
Todd
Beyonce is looking tasty….
gwangung
@Badmoodman:
Bill Theiss Titillation effect.
Cassidy
@LanceThruster: Just sayin’, this is pretty modest by today’s standard.
Suzanne
@Alison: I can’t help but think that the criticism is somewhat racist. The whitey-white Anthem “ruined” by the singing traditions of black musicians.
Elie
@Bob In Portland:
I can’t stand the “niners” going back to their big rivalry with the Bears. I don’t care a huge amount, mind you, but its really okay if they lose.
MY teams are the Bears, Seahawks and Giants.
Narcissus
The sound on the half-time show seems really…bad, to me.
Nerull
@Alison: I’ve been to my share of sporting events at various levels all the way down to elementary school, and I’ve never seen a single instance of fans singing along. Maybe it’s just not done in the midwest.
gwangung
@Narcissus: Mixed for surround sound and played on a traditional system?
The Dangerman
Shoulda lip synched.
Alison
@Suzanne: I’m sure from some folks it is, though for me, I’ve been as bugged by white pop-country ladies doing the same thing.
Baud
@Narcissus:
Yep. It’s like they have a single mike somewhere in the end zone.
Alison
@Nerull: Really? I used to go to baseball games a lot, and folks in the stands always sang along. Can’t be a Bay Area thing…
dance around in your bones
Lately all this dance choreography just reminds me of what Janet Jackson did back in the day. Not that I was a huge fan.
Plus I hate the flashy flashy give me a seizure lighting stuff. So get off my lawn, you damn kids.
JPL
@Narcissus: I was hoping for lip syncing myself. Hopefully those who spent thousands to go to the super bowl can hear better.
Badmoodman
The 49ers are fortunate they get a very extended halftime break to figure out just what in the Wide World of Sports they’re doing out there.
TaMara (BHF)
Best FB comment on the half-time show in regards to Beyonce:
James E. Powell
@Nerull:
Back in the day, when the Browns did not suck, my section of drunks always sang the national anthem.
gwangung
A lot of my gay friends on Facebook started squealing when Destiny’s Child reunited…
Suzanne
@efgoldman: Well, I’ve heard audio of ose performers singing it. The majority of the criticism I hear has to do with the vocal flourishes some singers put on the ends of the phrases, which is a style brought from gospel music. And, of course, it,Sony my white friends and acquaintances that whine about it.
The Dangerman
Just about everything about this Super Bowl has sucked (although Walter was happy in the GoDaddy ad; lucky fuck, thought the ad sucked, too)
Cassidy
I like Beyonce. I’m just glad they didn’t pick Rhianna. I’m glad they brought Destiny’s Child in. Spreading the wealth is a good thing.
@Alison: Yeah. When I hear conservatives complain about it, I assume that it’s more about the blah people ruining a perfectly good patriotic ‘Murikan song. Everyone else I just give the benefit of a doubt as being traditionalist for something they’ve probably never heard played traditionally. Personally, I don’t like any R&B after Motown and can’t stand most country.
2liberal
@Julia Grey:
re: godaddy ad. It was actually a supermodel. they went from softcore porn (good) to really gross (bad)
LINK
patrick II
Just before San Fran’s first field goal, Kaepernick threw a pass into the end zone that was touched by a receiver, but was too high to be caught. I thought Kaepernick was actually throwing to Moss — open at the back of the end zone — and that the receiver who deflected it actually made a unexpectedly great play to get his hands on it, but cost SF an early touchdown.
LanceThruster
@Cassidy:
That’s the siren’s song of family entertainment. For me to like the performance I have to like the tune and overall, I’m not moved by the peices (but for those Big Beyonce fans she’s probably going over well). My two favorite pretty girl visuals are the Rockettes in Iron Man gear for the AC/DC “Shoot to Thrill” Iron Man 2 stadium footage. I also love some YouTube clip of Bryan Ferry doing “Let’s Stick Together” with two girls in danskins just making me glad to be alive,
‘
I’d have to think about sexy female artists to pick my fav. It’s about the music for me overall, the visuals are gravy for the most part.
Love, love, loved Re Styles of the Tubes. It was like watching Gwen Verdon of “Damned Yankees.”
TaMara (BHF)
Dammit. As a girl who remembers the day her dad came home from Vietnam, that Jeep ad just undid me. Please pass the kleenex.
Corner Stone
@Paddy:
Nothing lasts forever.
gian
@Nerull: if its take me out to the ball game everyone sings along
Not sure about anthem. I have vague memory of being told that it was bad protocol to applaud at the end of it. I also remember people singing along
But that was some 30 years ago. I haven’t been to a game in decades
dance around in your bones
@Badmoodman: The agony of defeat?
Ted & Hellen
Were all the non-bots banned?
Suffern ACE
@gwangung: as they should. But how do they decide which of the members get back.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Badmoodman: Maybe play Alex Smith? Just a thought.
LanceThruster
@Cassidy:
I don’t overthink it. Musical taste is like a taste in food. You don’t really have to jusify it. There’s been plenty of “white” versions that are non-traditional that I didn’t like either.
Litlebritdifrnt
@TaMara (BHF):
Me too it was incredibly powerful.
FlyingToaster
@LanceThruster: I didn’t see any chipmonks on the PuppyBowl. Puppies, kittens at halftime, a hamster cameraman and a parrot on twitter, plus the hedgehog cheerleaders.
Maybe after I put WarriorGirl to bed I can pay more attention.
Cassidy
@LanceThruster: I hear ya. I try and consider the source when I hear that complaint. I don’t like all the vocal flourishes either, but that’s because I think today’s pop singers are covering up for a lack of range and training. It’s an easy out.
LanceThruster
An to resurrect my lost comment at the very start of the thread, as an antheist, I found the Sandy Hook choir singing about God’s grace shed on America a bit unnerving…but that’s just me.
The Dangerman
@Mr Stagger Lee:
I had a feeling coming into the game that Kaepernik (sp?) was going to get clocked and Smith would play (and play well). Other than the clocking, Smith is sitting.
Todd
@Badmoodman:
Shouldn’t have taken that long for them to figure out they’re losing, and heading into rout territory.
patrick II
I normally prefer the more traditional renditions of the national anthem to some pop star’s attempt to “make it their own”. But I would not want to have missed Marvin Gaye, Jimmy Hendrix, or Jose Feliciano’s beautiful versions of the anthem. So I’ll live with some less stellar attempts.
trollhattan
Xenu ad! What is this, The Atlantic?
elmo
@TaMara (BHF):
My Dad was career Navy, and I remember him coming home from Westpacs during Vietnam at least twice. Westpac were nine months back then.
He died Dec 14, on my 46th birthday. I left the room as soon as I understood where that Jeep ad was going.
Todd
Done.
Baud
Holy shit.
LanceThruster
@FlyingToaster: I didn’t see it. I was riffing on Groundhogs/Chipmonk rivalry in “How to Succeed in Business…”
Kathy
Downton Abbey, here we come!
Badmoodman
GREAT START, NINERS!!!!!
Wag
Holy shit. What a kickoff return.
Corner Stone
There ain’t nobody catching that dude.
trollhattan
Cheez. Game ovah.
Suffern ACE
Well there goes that plan
dance around in your bones
Well, I guess the 49’ers just figured out that it IS the agony of defeat.
Holy shit.
jayboat
rut ro
The Dangerman
Niners special teams distracted by Beyonce?
chopper
goddamn that was a return. 109 fuckin yards.
Badmoodman
If you bought ad time in the second half, especially the 4th quarter, good luck.
PeakVT
Wow. Game o-vah.
PsiFighter37
That’s sick. 109 yards in 11 seconds.
Todd
That was as tight a route on the run as I’ve ever seen.
LanceThruster
@patrick II:
Very good observation.
Cassidy
@LanceThruster: I was hoping they’d do it right and have 20 open spaces in their choir. Talk about missed opportunities.
gbear
I want to support San Francisco because it’s my favorite city, but as a Minnesotan, I really don’t want to see Randy Moss get a superbowl ring. I’d like to see him just go away.
The Dangerman
oh oh
ETA: Turn out the lights, the party’s over….
Nerull
Ha, the announcers audio got cut out. If God really loved us he would make sure it doesn’t come back.
freelancer (iPhone)
What the hell am I seeing?
TaMara (BHF)
@elmo: Oh, I am so sorry. I just talked to my dad yesterday and when I hung up I thought, so many of my friends can’t do that and I dread the day I have to face it. My dad was career Air Force, military brats unite!
FlyingToaster
@LanceThruster: It’s running in marathon over on Animal Planet. WarriorGirl has been glued to it since 3 (modulo violin practice, bathroom breaks, and pizza). She has 8 more minutes and then it’s hair-washing time.
I couldn’t be bothered with the football game. In every poll, I kept voting for the comet. Which is now too late to save us from the Ravens.
NotMax
Upper, lower and lowest lawns all mowed.
Off to do a little shopping locally. Should be no prob to find parking.
LanceThruster
I didn’t care about who won (and I’m from SoCal) for the most part but SF’s got enough to be happy about (beautiful city). Never been to Baltimore but I really like John Waters. I’m surprised how established franchises die (Colts, etc.), but then I thought Pan-Am would still be here in 2001.
Litlebritdifrnt
Power outage. I mean come on, you can’t keep the power on for the super bowl?
Badmoodman
Perfect
Badmoodman
Someone better keep an eye on Ray Lewis.
Nerull
Someone needs to go down to the basement and flip the breaker.
Kathy
Think the Niiners had something to do with the outage?
LanceThruster
@Cassidy:
Like the empty chairs at the OKC memorial. Not a bad idea stylistically.
Cassidy
@LanceThruster: Prettymuch. It’s macabre, but would have made a visual impact.
LanceThruster
Power outtage. Is there a hurricane? Lock the doors/barricade the bridges!
LanceThruster
@LanceThruster:
Proof that God hates illumination.
Badmoodman
Can this somehow be an embarrassment for Bobby Jindal? Ok, good.
LanceThruster
Who’s the bearded commentator that looks a little like Elliot Spitzer?
trollhattan
Infrastructure unimportant. #GaltBowl.
Badmoodman
@LanceThruster: You must mean Bill Cowher?
LanceThruster
@Badmoodman:
Lt grey jacket/lt blue shirt?
Who’s he? (sorry)
gian
@Cassidy: you are correct. Like the missing man flight formation
i do agree they should’ve done it
trollhattan
@Nerull:
Put a penny behind the fuse.
Badmoodman
@LanceThruster: Former Superbowl winning coach with the Steelers.
LanceThruster
@trollhattan:
xD
The free market can fix anything.
James E. Powell
@patrick II:
But I would not want to have missed Marvin Gaye, Jimmy Hendrix, or Jose Feliciano’s beautiful versions of the anthem
Aretha Franklin, 1968 Democratic National Convention.
James E. Powell
Cowher makes the first call for Alex Smith.
LanceThruster
@Badmoodman: Thx. Appreciated.
Morbo
So, who wants fried squirrel?
LanceThruster
@trollhattan: Get all the cars in the parking lot to shine their headlights at the field.
Problem solved (at least it din’t knock out the entire corridor grid for the region).
LanceThruster
@Morbo:
Free range?
trollhattan
@James E. Powell:
Always wanted the anthem changed to “America the Beautiful ” and only sung by Ray Charlles.
LanceThruster
@trollhattan:
Not a bad idea at all.
Schlemizel
@Paddy:
Thanks! you saved me from having to sit through what is usually a horrible football game for the only entertaining part.
Badmoodman
Gawd, I really can’t stand either Harbaugh.
Soonergrunt
@ John Cole: And anyone else who cares for that matter–
I don’t ban.
Ever.