I couldn't resist commenting on a Sports report I heard this morning and I wondered. Is this highlight of the US football year really a sporting occassion? It was reported that less than 20 mins of the likely 4 hours of the TV presentation will be playing Football. The rest is what. 3 hrs and 40mins of advertizements and replays. We can't really say this is a sport or that the players are sportsmen. Surely it is a media extrvaganza and the sport has got lost as the players have become overweight and overpaid. I say this with tongue in cheek, as an observer. I know so many Americans will be glued to their TV's watching this. I won't be watching or partying, as many people do. But to me there is nothing sporting at all. What was sport or a sport has been lost into the NFL money printing machine.
As a Denver Broncos fan, this is one of those years where there are only three reasons to watch the Super Bowl: 1. Watch the commercials and hope that some of them are half as good as all of them were ten years ago. 2. Watch both Seattle and New England destroy each other. I despise Seattle only a little less than I do New England, but I don't really care who "wins". 3. Get drunk, eat too much, belch, fart, and not have to give a flying-(*)(*)(*)(*) who wins and who loses.... It will be interesting, though, to see how well Seattle plays on a totally neutral field where they don't have that 130-decibel wall of noise backing them up on every defensive play.... And it will also be interesting to see if "Terrific Tommy" is quite the paragon of passing, now that the air pressure in the footballs will be monitored more closely than we track Russian nuclear submarines....
have fun watching superbowl alongside an army of federal agents who are looking out for terrorist attacks. Nothings better than having your civil liberties violated while enjoying football.
super bowl 1 1967 commercials where so basic to understand also WOW super sport camaro [video=youtube;MAiOt08dgcg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAiOt08dgcg[/video]
the new commercials are looking like this [video=youtube;W4ufuxlx8xg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ufuxlx8xg[/video] so weird there unwatchable
Twenty-two guys run out on a field and get into silly positions. One guy walks up behind another and puts his hands where they REALLY shouldn't be, and gets handed an irregularly shaped, inflated (or semi-inflated) object, at which point eleven other guys in differently colored shirts (the equivalent of approximately a ton of angry pot-roast) try to acquire said object by pulling its possessor's head off. This counts as entertainment for those viewers not watching in the hope of a Janet Jackson event. I'm fairly certain I can survive while not watching.
Because of internal politics.....remember both contract of Wilson's and Lynch, Lynch was thinking of retiring unless he gets what he wants. So they wanted Wilson to make the winning score. Also Patriots allowed them to punch the ball in.....that's why they didn't us their time outs because they wanted the ball back. I've watched just about every single Superbowl games since it started 49 years ago......this was stupidest play I've ever seen. Specially after the spectacular catch that set it up.
Why would Seattle throw the football instead of taking advantage of all that time that was left, multiple-timeouts (if needed), and very short distance to the goal? Because Seattle is one of the more overrated football teams in the NFL! If you take away Wilson's occasional brilliantly-executed scramble plays, and it you take Seattle out of that 130+ decibel "Wall of Noise" home stadium of theirs, AND, if you add a sprinkle of really unfathomably stupid coaching blunders, you've got exactly what you saw last evening. As far as New England and "Tom Terrific" goes... well, when he tried to go long, he got intercepted enough for them to have to change strategy. The only thing Tommy did well, with consistency, was throw little 5 - 6 yard dumpers to the sideline. And there, too, Tom was fortunate to have Gronkowski for a target, doing a better job than most for the millions he's paid. Overall, it was a fairly mediocre game, with nothing "super" about it except for the prices that were being charged for commercials. I think it's fair to say that we all saw much better football played by many different teams during the regular season. OK, now here goes the long, slow slog until we start baseball season. My hockey team, the Colorado Avalanche is barely treading water above 50% this year, and that only leaves basketball, which I can never stand to watch for more than about five minutes....
But its just a game, or so they say. Some you win, some you lose. But taking part is most important. Isn't it?
