No one seems to be working on a Super Bowl thread, so I’ll put this up.
.@thesherylralph with an incredible rendition of "Lift Every Voice and Sing". #SBLVII pic.twitter.com/3iho2kTssr
— NFL (@NFL) February 12, 2023
Totally squishable if someone has an special invisible Super Bowl thread planned.
zhena gogolia
Maybe front-page this?
WaterGirl
I know that there are two teams playing tonight, that Jill Biden is there in person, that one of the teams is her favorite team, and that Rihanna is doing the halftime show.
And that, kids, is the sum total of what I know about this game. Well, I know it’s football, too.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: I’ll throw it up top.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Uncle Ebeneezer alerted me to Sheryl Lee Ralph’s performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” to kick things off, in my comment #1.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Thanks! I didn’t type fast enough.
Baud
Young gay guys in McDonald’s ad. More wokeness!
Baud
Booing the refs, as is tradition.
eclare
@zhena gogolia: She is the reason I tuned into Fox early. I wanted to hear her sing it.
zhena gogolia
@eclare: I love the choir.
zhena gogolia
I was born in KCMO but I couldn’t care less.
Baud
Apparently, the right wingers have paid for some Jesus ads. You are forewarned!
MagdaInBlack
@WaterGirl: That’s about it for me too. 😉
Baud
KC has won the toss! KC has won the toss!
Omnes Omnibus
If you are uninterested, there is no reason to explain it to everyone.
OzarkHillbilly
I love the game of football. Always have, always will. But I’m not going to watch the game, the highlights tomorrow will satiate my jonesing. TBH, even if my eldest is a big time KC fan (and I am a big time Mahomes/Kelce fan) I can not root against the Eagles.
I’ll find out tomorrow.
Brachiator
I’m glad I skipped the 12 hour pre game show. I’m trying to skip the commercials. They are overproduced and ponderous.
The pre production hype just before the game is unnecessary. People have already decided to watch the game.
Okay. Enough gripes.
Go Chiefs!
eclare
@Baud: Not just in the super bowl, everywhere. It’s disgusting, that money could feed and house people.
prostratedragon
Magnificent rendition!
MisterDancer
@Baud: There’s a very informative video on these “Jesus ads” here: https://youtu.be/k1idNZnX0F8
Suffice to say there is a Hobby Lobby connection, despite the soft pedaling in the ads and website.
Baud
Ooh. Menopause ad.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: I wouldn’t advise you to buy any menopause. It’s overrated.
UncleEbeneezer
@zhena gogolia: She absolutely killed it! No crazy vocal scales but so much soul and charisma.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Is jesus in the ads? Or does he have a stand-in?
Also, did Biden end up doing the FOX interview? (hoping not) He’s on a high after the State of the Union, I would hate FOX to drag him down. Though they would love it!
Baud
@eclare:
@MisterDancer:
I wish they were honest. They always try to pretend their liberals to attract people.
Brachiator
@zhena gogolia:
Very good performance. And she looked wonderful.
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: How do you propose I demonstrate my moral superiority?
UncleEbeneezer
Whoever suggested baking soda for crispy oven-baked wings, thanks! Making some now. Haven’t eaten yet but it’s amazing how much less grease there is. I guess the overnight drying-out really makes a difference. So much less mess.
CaseyL
@WaterGirl:
Biden is doing an interview, but he’s doing it with Univision, I think.
ETA: I can’t find any word about this, so I think I’m wrong; I think I saw something about a Super Bowl interview he did with them back in 2020.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
Nominated!
steppy
GO BIRDS!! That is all.
MisterDancer
The AP College Board is finally pushing back on DeSantis and his shit parade of racist hate:
It’s a long piece, and I think worth the read, although I cannot myself speak to how it resolves the criticism and issues their silence and appearance of capitulation have raised. I leave that to other, wiser voices.
HumboldtBlue
Fly, Eagles Fly!
On the road to victory! (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
Fight, Eagles fight!
Score a touchdown 1, 2, 3! (1! 2! 3!)
Hit ’em low!
Hit ’em high!
And watch our Eagles fly!
Fly, Eagles Fly!
On the road to victory!
E-A-G-L-E-S!
Fight Eagles Fight!
And here’s Rocky making an appearance.
Splitting Image
Hmm. Two teams that were very bad for much of the Super Bowl era and easy to root for if you always root for the underdog. On the other hand, two teams with a bunch of obnoxious jerks as their fan base and easy to root against if you dislike toxic male behaviour. On the gripping hand, one team wears red and the other wears green, making them easy to confuse with each other if you’re colour blind.
I think I’ll make some spaghetti and check in to see what the score was later this evening.
O. Felix Culpa
@zhena gogolia: You win today’s internets.
zhena gogolia
Let me know when the halftime show is. I’m a little curious about Rihanna. I don’t think I’ve ever heard her sing a note. I saw her in Ocean’s Eight, and she was good in that, but no singing.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Just being silly, obviously not to your liking. I seem to have offended you 3 times in 2 weeks. A new record for me!
zhena gogolia
@O. Felix Culpa: Thanks!
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: I thought he was responding to my indifference to the Kansas City Chiefs. Heard too much about them at ages 8-18.
WaterGirl
@CaseyL: Oh yay, excellent choice!
Baud
@MisterDancer:
I can’t speak to it either, but we should recognize it as showing we’re more powerful than DeSantis.
Baud
Nice run.
James E Powell
@Baud:
Did not see that coming. Hope it annoyed some MAGAs.
Omnes Omnibus
FWIW I have absolutely no rooting interest in this game. I am just hoping for a good, entertaining game.
James E Powell
@MisterDancer:
Too little, too late. Nobody loves them anymore.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Pedant alert.
Fox, not FOX.
It’s neither an acronym nor an initialism (see: PBS, HBO, The CW, C-SPAN, etc.).
Baud
I wish there were an NFL team called the Beagles.
MisterDancer
@CaseyL: the situation around Biden, Fox and the interview for this year’s Super Bowl is…complex. This article is a decent summary: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/failed-negotiations-bidens-super-bowl-interview-fox-rcna70148
To sum up, Fox was…likely to relegate the interview proper to their Fox Soul channel(?). And no, I’ve never heard of it either. It just sounds like a shit storm of bad intentions on Fox’s part, but the article gives the breakdown based on statements.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl:
Your part didn’t annoy me. You were kind enough to put up this thread for the people who are interested.
zhena gogolia
@MisterDancer:
The whole thing is worth a read. This struck me:
Baud
Nevermind.
Splitting Image
Timely music choices for the night:
My favourite ABBA song.
Counterpoint from The Beatles.
eclare
@James E Powell: I took AP English in 1986 and read truly amazing and challenging books and plays. Now that course is probably going to shit.
MagdaInBlack
@WaterGirl: And I as just making fun of my own ignorance.
WaterGirl
@MisterDancer: It does appear to be a full-throated apology, not a fake or non-apology apology. I’ll give them that.
Baud
🦅
Baud
@WaterGirl:
I demand a deep throated apology!
Cameron
Jesus is doing a menopause ad? Superbowl sure has changed since the last time I watched one.
Elizabelle
Hearing Team Fluff may have won the Puppy Bowl. Allegedly.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Dafuq?
Another Scott
@MisterDancer: Thanks for the pointer. It is a good read.
In normal times, the FDOE would be forced to answer these statements. Given that Ron’s minions are a pack of liars, it’s worthless to do so.
Voters need to impose consequences on the monsters or they will keep doing this crap, and worse.
I hope class-action lawyers, and the US Department of Education and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, are looking very carefully at these events…
Grr…,
Scott.
Elizabelle
Don’t have a TV, and I am good with both the teams. Hope the commercials and Rihanna are good.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: It takes a skilled writer to create a comment that multiple people think is intended for them. Go Omnes!
eclare
That was pretty cute with Bennifer. As usual, JLo saved it.
JCJ
Not football related, but regarding the closing of airspace over Lake Michigan
https://twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/1624896656842932225?s=20&t=ilENI6gMQi5LaS2p2y0XT
Shot down over Lake Huron today were one Mr. George Jetson, Jane, his wife, his boy Elroy and daughter Judy. There was one survivor who indicated his name was Rastro.
OzarkHillbilly
@Splitting Image: Checking in just to assert how much more superior you are to everybody else.
Got it, job done.
Bye.
HumboldtBlue
Eagles gonna do that all game. Andy’s first mistake, giving Hurts the ball to open the game.
Ooooo, magats gonna hate that “avocados from Mexico” commercial.
MazeDancer
Tuned it to see Sheryl Lee Ralph and Chris Stapleton. Who were great.
But watching Black men take the field to put their bodies and future health on the line while white people tomahawk chop was disturbing.
When I was in ad biz, pre commercials being available in advance on YouTube, used to record the game. Fast-forwarded through the football to watch the ads.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Black Panther thinking? May Wakanda go medieval on their asses.
mrmoshpotato
Just because the Superb Owl and the Eagles are both birds doesn’t mean Philly needed to score first!
Go Chiefs!
Baud
@Another Scott:
I wonder if the NYT will publish a retraction.
MisterDancer
@James E Powell: I’m not interested in loving them, or any such entity.
I am interested in ensuring such entities don’t further backstab Black and many other marginalized folx, given the current backlash against decades of progress.
As I said, I’ll see what others who’s opinion on this come from places of trust and long study on these matters, to better understand the statement. But I’m also a realist, and know that I don’t need to give a fuck about someone or something, so long as they are willing to acts as accomplices against people and movements like what DeSantis is running.
People’s lives are on the live. I cannot afford the luxury of honoring my personal emotions overmuch.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: I tried to highlight that in magenta, but my magenta wouldn’t work.
Dangerman
Damn, that was awful easy for Eagles. Like hot knife through butter or TFG through a KFC drive thru.
ETA : I like defense. So far, none apparent.
Another Scott
@Baud: Ha!
You slay me.
Cheers,
Scott.
eclare
@JCJ: Hahaha….
NotMax
@Baud
Wakanda question is that?
Suspect they’re trying to shoehorn in the Black Panthers from 50+ years ago as a not at all subtle scare tactic.
Scout211
@MisterDancer:
This story states that Fox Soul was Biden’s choice. One of the hosts is Vivica A Fox, who is a Biden supporter. Fox canceled it at the last minute and it did not get rescheduled.
. . .
O. Felix Culpa
TD for racist name team.
Baud
@NotMax:
👏👏👏
eclare
KC makes it look so easy. What was the over/under on this game?
WaterGirl
@Baud: The only repose to that is “Are you a stupid, racist prick?”
Soprano2
Nice fast run for KC! Tied already!
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
Magenta is now a premium service on BJ.
MisterDancer
@Scout211: That’s fair, and I confess I may have applied some cranky to my reading.
Thanks for pointing that out!
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
You know one thing more than I did: Was not aware that Dr. Jill is there in person, although as a Philly girl she would be, I suppose.
Game is on (loudly!) in the background, as my landlord/current housemate/former colleague is watching. I’m paying as little attention as I can get away with.
Geminid
@Baud: This may have something to with Denise Oliver-Velez. She was a big proponent of an intersectional political model. Now Ms. Oliver-Velez is a Professor of Anthropology at SUNY-New Paultz, but in her younger years she was a member of the Black Panther Party.
I knew very little about Oliver-Velez until a year ago. Now that I’ve read her, I gotta say: she is one smart lady with a very constructive point of view.
eclare
@Geminid: Thank you for the background.
WaterGirl
I will try to make this magenta.
Trying magenta on edit.
Grumpy Bunny
Now trying magenta when not logged in.
Now trying on edit.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Baud: ooh, pretty!
WaterGirl
@Baud: Interesting. When I did a comment without being logged in, color didn’t work for me.
Can anyone besides Baud do color? (We all know Baud is special.)
Grumpy Bunny
Okay, a different color.
A different color on edit.
O. Felix Culpa
Color.
Mr. Bemused Senior
Oops. Trying color. No luck. Right, doesn’t work when editing.
Suzanne
I just had some delicious nachos, made by ME because I am missing restaurants that end in -berto’s.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Did you try to do magenta as an edit? Or in a new comment?
I was able to do color (not logged in) but then it dropped all the color if I edited.
Skepticat
@NotMax:
Fux Noise
eclare
Wow. Again it looks so easy, which means it isn’t.
Soprano2
@Geminid: Since you’re here, I wanted to tell you that Lucas Kunce is going to run against Hawley for Senate. I hope Busch Valentine stays out of it this time.
Another Scott
@SiubhanDuinne:
That has the makings of a very complicated home dynamic. Where are they in their current opinions on Ayn Rand??
Coming up next on Disney+ – Living with Subaru!
:-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
He sure is.
eclare
Wow
O. Felix Culpa
Doink. Missed field goal by KC.
prostratedragon
Wow. Could hear that clearly at less than quarter volume.
OzarkHillbilly
You people have some seriously misplaced priorities. I mean, for Kristo’s sake, there’s a football game going on!
HumboldtBlue
I put some Old Bay in my cornbread, it’s delicious.
O. Felix Culpa
@OzarkHillbilly:
Multi-tasking.
prostratedragon
@eclare: And even pros get butterflies.
mrmoshpotato
@O. Felix Culpa: Zoinks!
Another Scott
@Baud: ALL HAIL BAUD.
[eta:] Color Edit.
Cheers,
Scott.
eclare
@HumboldtBlue: Interesting!
OzarkHillbilly
@Soprano2: So do I, but I doubt that will be enough. After all, he is a member of the CRT party.
Another Scott
@Another Scott: Interesting. Multi-colored post in Visual Editor Tab was fine.
On doing an edit, created color text fine.
After posting, both original and edit are B&W. I don’t recall that happening before, but I don’t recall trying to edit a color text comment before.
Chrome on Winders.
Cheers,
Scott.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: Oh good lord! Had some Campbell’s clam chowder with Old Bay once. Would not buy again. (Maybe they go heavy on the Old Bay)
OzarkHillbilly
@O. Felix Culpa: You are one troubled individual. ;-)
Karen S.
Watching with my dad who’s rooting for KC. He grew up in New Madrid, MO, so he considers KC his second home team, after the bad luck (Chicago) Bears.
I’m sort of rooting for the Eagles but it doesn’t really matter to me who wins. I just saw one of the Jesus ads. The message of was for all of us to be “childlike” and that He gets us. Okay…
O. Felix Culpa
@OzarkHillbilly: And proud of it! ;-)
HumboldtBlue
There’s the first stupid Jesus ad.
@eclare:
It’s very good, the flavors match very well.
@mrmoshpotato:
It’s easy to overdo the Old Bay, the only time you can’t use too much OB is when boiling crab.
OzarkHillbilly
JFC it’s already 6:26. I need to go to bed. Night night all.
eclare
Wow!
Geminid
@Soprano2: That’s good to hear. Kunce has the elements of a strong candidate, it seems to me. He could give Hawley a run for his money.
Hopefully Ms. Busch Valentine has had her fill of elective politics.
SiubhanDuinne
@HumboldtBlue:
That actually sounded horrible and disgusting until I realised I was conflating “Old Spice” and “Bay Rum” into “Old Bay.”
OzarkHillbilly
@O. Felix Culpa: ;-) ;-)
NotMax
Streaming service currently on must think I’m hyperactive (or else ate a large meal at Taco Bell). Putting what’s showing (French w/English subtitles) on pause like every five minutes to pop up and go into the kitchen to stir the big pot on the stove top.
O. Felix Culpa
Iggles TD #2.
eclare
@NotMax: Deets. What is on the stove?
mrmoshpotato
@SiubhanDuinne: LOL!
Soprano2
@OzarkHillbilly: Did you see him giving Hawley crap for betting KC KS barbecue? 🤣🤣
prostratedragon
@SiubhanDuinne: Whew!
eclare
Just googled. Over/under is 50.5.
eclare
@Soprano2: Yeah. Wondering what that cowardly idiot bet this time.
Xantar
An ad featuring a bunch of pro golfers would have a lot more impact on me if I actually knew any golfers besides Tiger Woods.
eclare
Wow
gwangung
“No Black Panther thinking?”
They wanted to take Chaka Khan out of the curriculum?
NotMax
@eclare
Big pot of curried eggplant. Deviates from the original recipe by also including baby carrots and sliced mushrooms. Once everything softens up enough and the crushed tomatoes are then added will not have to stir as often while it simmers.
Personal favorite in winter, ladled over rice. Think it’s the first time this year have switched on a stove burner.
eclare
@Xantar: Same. I felt like I should have known who they were, but I didn’t. They looked vaguely familiar.
prostratedragon
D’oh!!
Soprano2
WOW!!! Someone’s eyes got big when they saw that fumble!
mrmoshpotato
Fumble! Oops! Go Chiefs!
eclare
@NotMax: Sounds good! I would ladle it over a baked sweet potato, not a rice fan. I’ll have to remember that veggie mix.
Soprano2
@eclare: Well, Hawley actually lives in VA, so it’s an easy mistake for him to make. He’s supposed to be building a house in Ozark, but I have my doubts they’ll ever live there.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: This was a bug BEFORE the site was rolled out. It was fixed.
Every so often, when (I presume) WordPress updates, we get to see a previous bug that was fixed 3 years ago. sigh.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, unsurprisingly, Bing+ChatGPT is still a Microsoft product…
tl;dr – Make all your default programs ones from MS, pay for Office365, and do all the other things, and maybe they’ll move you up in the waitlist to let you use ChatGPT. Maybe.
Cheers,
Scott.
eclare
@Another Scott: What if we don’t want ChatGPS?
persistentillusion
@Geminid: She was a big part of the early success of the GOS. Her insightful commentary, from a point of view that was under-represented in the early aughts was inspirational, at least to me. I even went to the first NetRoots Nation con.
HumboldtBlue
Best way to defend Pat Mahomes is not let him touch the ball.
FY EAGLES FLY!!!!!
Another Scott
@eclare: But you have to want to use ChatGPT! It’s the latest and greatest!!
Plus, how is MS ever going to beat Google if they don’t make everyone use it??
Cheers,
Scott.
Soprano2
Well that was a big screw up.
NotMax
Reminder, especially if you use Quickbooks. When the update for both Windows 10 & 11 scheduled for the 14th drops it will supposedly scour away the last vestiges of Internet Explorer. Following that, some versions of Quickbooks absolutely and unquestionably will glork big time (other programs may be similarly affected as well).
If you use Quickbooks, back up any data you don’t want to have circling the drain NOW. (In fact, periodically backing up your whole system is always a good idea.)
eclare
@Another Scott: Hahaha….I can write my own emails, thank you.
I WANT people to get an email from me and know that that is an official eclare email.
Mike in NC
We don’t follow football, but I remember about 25 years ago when we lived in a condo in Falls Church, VA. My wife sent me to the nearest 7-11 to buy cigarettes on Superbowl Sunday. The streets seemed deserted and the only other driver I recall seeing was wearing a turban.
Leslie
Our grandniece had a dance recital today, and thanks to all the newfangled technology in the world, the whole thing was live streamed. So that’s what we’ve been watching.
Now we’re tuned in to the game so we can see Rihanna in the halftime show. Thanks for the video of Lift Every Voice — damn, that was good.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: it was an edit
eclare
Mahomes was not healthy before the game, and he’s worse now.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: lol
Gin & Tonic
Great commercial with the dog.
Baud
Oh wow. Overturned.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Thanks for letting me know. Yeah that bug is back.
Leslie
@Baud: Yeah, that feels like a bad call.
Geminid
@persistentillusion: Denise Oliver-Velez is a wise woman. And she does not mince words, either:
“I am a pragmatic progressive. Deal with it.”
eclare
@Leslie: I honestly don’t know. But I wish we had seen what they did to overturn it.
Baud
Oh, an anti-Tesla ad.
O. Felix Culpa
@Baud: The
incelsfarmers looking for a wife?Leslie
@eclare: The clearest shot they showed did not reveal an unmistakable loss of control, and according to the commentators, it has to be unmistakable to overturn. Maybe there was something they didn’t show, but it makes me go hmm.
O. Felix Culpa
@Leslie: Agreed.
Jackie
The commercials are pretty blah this year. Jeep’s electric boogie was cute.
Omnes Omnibus
Are Rihanna’s dancers doing an homage to MTG?
Soprano2
Ok, this is just weird. What are the Tyvek suit looking costumes about?
Wyatt Salamanca
@Another Scott:
I suggest you read these two posts on ChatGPT to get an alternate perspective from all the msm cheerleading
We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.
https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html
Stop feeding the hype and start resisting
https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/01/14/stop-feeding-the-hype-and-start-resisting
Omnes Omnibus
@Soprano2:
Oh gawd, there are more of them.
prostratedragon
@Soprano2: Boyz in da hoodies?
HumboldtBlue
Rather underwhelming halftime show. And haven’t seen a clever ad yet.
That was bang average.
Uh-oh, magats are gonna be mad! They spoke Spanish in that commercial, Mexican Spanish!
Xantar
@Soprano2: Rihanna is less than a year out from giving birth and it looks like her costume is just leaning into flaunting her belly. So I guess all the other dancers are dressed similarly as a result.
bbleh
Concur ads are surprisingly pedestrian and halftime is just weird. Tyvek aerobics?
O. Felix Culpa
Dancing marshmallows?
SpaceUnit
Of all the lip-sync Super Bowl halftime shows I’ve seen in my lifetime, this is absolutely the most recent.
Jackie
A 39 minute halftime. 29 minutes too long.
Butter Emails
@Xantar: pretty sure she’s pregnant again.
eclare
@HumboldtBlue: I have never understood Rihanna’s appeal, and I should. I have had a TayTay earworm for the past several days. And Bey is awesome. But her music seems overly repetitive. And worst of all in a halftime show, she can’t dance.
eclare
@SpaceUnit: She didn’t even try to hide the lip-syncing!
HumboldtBlue
@SpaceUnit:
That pretty much sums it up.
eclare
@Butter Emails: Looked that way to me.
Omnes Omnibus
Just saw a Judge Janet ad.
ETA: Now a second one.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus: She’s taking over from Judge Judy?
Another Scott
@Wyatt Salamanca: Hehe. I don’t need to be convinced.
I’ve been a MS er, not-a-fan, since way, way back in the DOS days. QEMU, Word Perfect, Quattro Pro, Turbo Pascal, Paradox, HP’s NewWave, etc., etc.
Don’t get me started on how they crushed OS/2. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Leslie
@eclare: She’s had some good songs, but that was an underwhelming performance, no doubt. She’s not in Beyoncé’s league, but then, who is?
ETA if she is pregnant again, that could have affected a lot of aspects of the show, not least her dancing.
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia:
No, she is one of the Dems running for the WI Supreme Court spot. Protasiewicz. So most people are using her first name.
Soprano2
@Xantar: My manager thinks she’s pregnant.
Geminid
@Omnes Omnibus: That is interesting for sure.
Do you think it was an effective ad?
eclare
@Leslie: Very true
Omnes Omnibus
Mahomes can still run, but I think his ankle was hurting as he did so. Not sure how much of that he’ll be able to stand.
Omnes Omnibus
@Geminid:
Both ads had humor about her name. Both said she was unabashedly in favor of abortion rights.
eclare
Wonder how Air will be
SpaceUnit
@eclare:
@HumboldtBlue:
To be fair, a live show in that environment is pretty much impossible. I used to do a bit of audio production.
Still, it was a pretty lackluster spectacle.
HumboldtBlue
Well, that was an unhelpful drive
Baud
Wow.
Joseph Patrick Lurker
When it comes to play by play announcing, can we all at least agree that Kevin Harlan is GOD?
Omnes Omnibus
@Joseph Patrick Lurker:
No.
Geminid
@Omnes Omnibus: Illinois 13th CD Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski also had an ad poking fun at her own name. It was titled “Buttinski.” I wonder if Ms. Protasiewicz got the same folks to do her ads. That seems like a good idea.
She also made a good choice of an issue to center. That 60-40 referendum result in Kansas said a lot, I think.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus: proh-tah-SHAY-veetch.
SpaceUnit
This call is gonna be interesting.
Jackie
@SpaceUnit: 1st down stands!
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia:
Nope. Not how she says it.
Joseph Patrick Lurker
@Omnes Omnibus:
Would you care to amplify that answer, such as what you don’t like about Kevin Harlan or who you prefer to listen to for play by play?
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus: Well, people can say their names any way they want. She wouldn’t get very far with that in Poland, tho.
Omnes Omnibus
@Joseph Patrick Lurker:
No.
@zhena gogolia:
It works in Wisconsin.
eclare
Gawd another hapless dad ad. So tired.
SpaceUnit
@Jackie:
I’m rooting for KC, but the Eagles are really good.
Whoever wins, this has been an awesome game.
Geminid
@zhena gogolia: This shows how it’s a good ad. People are discussing Ms. Protasiewicz’s name, even if they’d never heard of her before.
HumboldtBlue
Birds gotta score TDs, this is Mahomes time.
See?
SpaceUnit
Woo hoo.
Soprano2
The mood in the bar has improved a lot! That trot into the end zone was funny. 😅😅
eclare
Awwww…sweet destructive dog! That’s my dog!
Amazon ad.
Jackie
@SpaceUnit: Rooting for the 🦅, but mostly rooting for a good game. So far it’s delivering!
eclare
@Soprano2: Is it very crowded?
Suzanne
Apparently RiRi’s publicist confirmed that she is indeed pregnant.
Mr. Suzanne was watching and he said, “This feels like Super Mario Brothers” and I am already seeing Bowser memes.
bbleh
@SpaceUnit: concur — way better than the usual SB blowout
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne:
Wait, she’s not a virgin?
Soprano2
AND THE BAR GOES WILD!!
SpaceUnit
@Jackie:
Respect!
eclare
@Soprano2: I bet!
Leslie
Well, the Eagles are falling apart.
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: So close to the end of my last pregnancy, I gained 12 pounds of water weight in a week, and I lost my footing one morning and fell on my driveway and scraped up my knee. The idea of being pregnant on one of those moving platforms makes me want to throw up.
SpaceUnit
Damn!!!
Soprano2
@eclare: Moderately so. Lots of restaurants closed early, and I’m sure WalMart is a ghost town right now. Good time to shop.
I swear some people are almost crying right now.
mrmoshpotato
Touchdown Chiefs!
eclare
No one better in the 4th than Mahomes
Soprano2
@eclare: Literal screaming!
CaseyL
I’m following the game rather than watching it, and I want both teams to win.
The whole time Philly was leading, I was all “C’mon, KC!”
Now that KC has the lead, I’m like “Noooo! Philly, do something!”
Suzanne
Selling trucks via dick jokes. Oi.
eclare
@Suzanne: The idea of not being pregnant and being on a platform makes me want to throw up.
bbleh
@Suzanne: oh come on that was hilarious
Gin & Tonic
@Suzanne: As opposed to selling them as dick substitutes?
Soprano2
@Leslie: No, you’re seeing the team KC fans have been watching all year. Plenty of time left, too. I’ve been impressed by the Eagles, I don’t know how they made some of those catches. It’s been a good game.
Suzanne
@bbleh: The funniest part was the legalese at the bottom.
Apparently “premature electrification” is NOT A REAL CONDITION.
hilts
@Leslie:
I don’t have a rooting interest here, but It’s too early to count the Eagles out.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: @eclare: The platforms were the best thing about the show. #Neverbeenpregnant.
SpaceUnit
Damn !!!
bbleh
@Suzanne: the lawyers musta got worried that there are people who would take it seriously. Alas, probably right.
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: Agreed, but….TERRIFYING!
HumboldtBlue
What a game!
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus: Agree. That was a cool set design. I am just terrified of heights/ledges.
SpaceUnit
@HumboldtBlue:
This might be the best ever.
Leslie
@hilts: Clearly, they heard you. Or me.
Anyway
@HumboldtBlue:
You said it…
bbleh
@Anyway: @HumboldtBlue: @SpaceUnit: this indeed
Leslie
Nice selection of celebs in the stands. *waves to Macca
Omnes Omnibus
I wonder how Rag’n’Bone Man feels about that use of his song.
bbleh
@Omnes Omnibus: it was less objectionable than I feared
Soprano2
I think that Tubi commercial freaked everyone out!
eclare
@Soprano2: I did not understand it.
Soprano2
@eclare: People thought someone changed the channel!
HumboldtBlue
Well, damn, that’s a terrible holding call, ref just decided the Super Bowl. That sucks.
Omnes Omnibus
@Soprano2:
It got its desired effect then.
O. Felix Culpa
@HumboldtBlue: Yup.
eclare
@HumboldtBlue: It does suck.
Soprano2
I guess they decided not to chance anything and win it with a field goal. Can’t say I blame them. It was a great game for sure.
Leslie
@HumboldtBlue: Yeah. Crappy way to end a game like that.
Soprano2
The Kelce brothers hugging will be the shot of the game.
prostratedragon
Felt anticlimatic as a viewer, especially with the call playing such a big role. Same result with a big 4th down play involved would been less deflating.
prostratedragon
Or playing defense with a touchdown lead.
O. Felix Culpa
@prostratedragon: Agreed. It was a good game, but the ending was a damp squib.
Soprano2
Tucker can gripe about unsexy candy again. 🤣🤣🤣
NotMax
@prostratedragon
15 yard penalty for using deflating while talking football.
//
Soprano2
I feel sorry for the people who have to clean up the confetti. Wonder what happens to the losing team’s confetti. Do they send it overseas with the t-shirts?
CaseyL
Sounds like it was a great game. I may be able to catch videos of the most outstanding plays tomorrow.
I wonder how many UFOs were shot down during those hours no one was paying attention?
Brachiator
@Soprano2:
It was a bit confusing. You really don’t want to have to figure out what was going on.
Good game, even with the deliberate delays at the end. Good game play and good work by the coaching staffs. Not a lot of mistakes.
HumboldtBlue
Holding call aside, it was the Hurts’ fumble that decided the game. He made on poor play, and it cost the Birds seven points. He was the MVP, four combined TDs and a 2-point conversion, he scored 18 points himself and was responsible for the pass for another six.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
We were watching the Spielberg “West Side Story”, but I had the game on and muted on another screen. And kind of got more and more distracted by it, finally watching it with the sound on for the 4th quarter.
Well, shit.
Thus my sports fandom begins and ends for another year.
(It is very quiet here in Philadelphia right now)
Edit: Spoke too soon. Hearing some anguished screams on the street now.
Jackie
That’s the beauty of baseball. Gotta get that 3rd out. No running out the clock to win the game.
Great game; but lousy way to win. But running out the clock is legal.
mrmoshpotato
@Soprano2:
When did Fucker stop?
Soprano2
I really can’t blame them, they wanted to win and not chance Mahomes getting hurt.
Soprano2
@mrmoshpotato: Don’t know if he did, but the commercial says they’re back for good.
O. Felix Culpa
@Soprano2: That makes sense. I don’t have a dog in this fight, so don’t begrudge KC the win, but I hate it when games are decided by questionable calls in the final minutes.
Suzanne
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I’m going to be in Philly next week. I hope it’s still intact when I get there!
mrmoshpotato
@Soprano2: I was looking forward to Maya’s candy coated clam bites.
Soprano2
@O. Felix Culpa: Did that call really make the difference?
Omnes Omnibus
@Soprano2:
Not really, KC was going to score, but, absent the penalty, Philly would have had a little more time to try to work a miracle.
Soprano2
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s what I thought, KC would have kicked the field goal regardless of the penalty.
David 🏈 Mahomes! 🏈 Koch
@Baud:
Scriptures tells us, “Tails never fails”
David 🏈 Mahomes! 🏈 Koch
People are missing the most important fact and that is the Chiefs covered the spread.
Now it’s on to the Draft and lets win there.
Paul in KY
Thought Eagles were better team, but just 2 many mistakes. The fumble for touchdown & the long punt return. Also thought that KC running back had several very clutch runs & also survived a brutal hit.