There was a game tonight. The New York football Giants won.

Coach Von Erich's observations:
-I noticed during the NFC Championship that the Giants defense seemed to put in A LOT of film work. They had studied the Packers so well that they knew what types of plays they would run. They did the same thing, tonight, against the Patriots. Most teams (like the Donkeys) watch film of their opponents, but don't alter their game plan. The Giants did and it worked.

-FOX sports ran some braindead poll during the game: "which team is the greatest dynasty". Your choices were: 60's Packers, 70's Steelers, 80's 49ers, 90's Cowboys and 00's Patriots. Steelers won with 29%. Which tells me that 71% of football fans are Complete Fucking Imbeciles.

-I wonder if every broad in her 20's still wants to fuck Tom Brady as badly as she did two weeks ago?

-Also, Brady appeared to be thinning at the top of his hair. First time I've noticed that. "Watch the QB's Bald Spot Grow" has been a favorite pasttime of mine ever since I watched Terry Bradshaw in the 70's.

-Tom Petty wasn't anything special...but at least nobody seemed to be playing air guitar, a la Prince.

-Junior Seau, you gloryhounding cocksucker, may you now retire and get the fuck off my TV forever.

-Did Bill Belichick congratulate Tom Coughlin when the game broke down with :01 left? I can't recall if he did. If he just walked off the field, without the obligatory handshake, he should be fined. His post game comments weren't too classy either. Usually, the loser will say some half-hearted compliment to the winning team, but Belichick just said how disappointed he was, without mentioning the Giants.

-MLB has Cal Ripken as its iron man. The NFL has...punter Jeff Feagles. It ain't the same.

-Golly, the Patriots cheerleaders don't wear much clothing.

-You thought there were a million Peyton Manning TV commercials? Just wait 'til next year when Eli begins his own TV commercial empire.

-Nice to see a buncha' fierce d-linemen take over a game like the Giants' front four did.

-Call it the Curse of Randy Moss. In 1998, the Vikings were 15-1..yet lost to the underdog Falcons in the NFC Title game. In 2000, the Vikings were the NFC's best team and again favored in the NFC Title game..yet lost to the underdog Giants.

-Who was that spacey Aunt Bea -ooking broad in the orange blouse who was on the Gemini Capsule during the trophy presentation?

-Play of the game had to have been Eli's great escape from the pass rush, then throwing across the field where David Tyree caught the ball with his helmet.

Yay, now to the sports I actually care about, college basketball and major league baseball!

*tries to ignore glare from jamiegeist*

:)

A recurring joke among news anchors and the like has been "bring back Bud Bowl". After all the sub-par commercials, I'm starting to agree with that. Just no Joe Namath, Don Shula and a flying tractor trailer.

The Sales Genie spot, with the animated pandas.....wow.... incredibly amatuer. Kept waiting for the punchline and I was amazed that was the real ad.

Don't bother looking for the Danika Patrick Go Daddy ad. Weak joke about "beavers". Yeah....that's the punchline: beavers.

The Doritos ad with the lesbo-rock broad strumming her acoustic guitar. What the FUCK?

Adam Sandler's new movie looks like a cross between Austin Powers and Borat. How original.

Same for Will Ferrell's new flick, "Semi-Pro". He seems to have an easy formula down: play some egotistical caricature in love with his career who hams it up for the entire film. First go with newsman, then race car driver, then figure skater, now semi-pro basketball player. I could see him doing this with a boxer, postman, airline pilot, rock n' roller....etc....

I was bothered by that angular shape in the back of the Super Bowl XLII logo... today I finally realized that it was supposed to be the state of Arizona. I think.

Honestly, the only ads that I really remember were the Bud Clydesdale/Rocky training one and the Pepsi Max one at the beginnign taking off "Night At The Roxbury". It was "meh" until Chris Kattan appeared. We all lost it!

There than that, we all were not to impressed with them.

Oh, and WHAT THE HELL was with the Independence Day/Declaration Of Independance stuff during the pre-game show? Now, I'm I'm a proud American like the next guy, but I really had NO idea what that stuff was all about. I turned to my buddy and said, "Nothing screams Super Bowl like Thomas Jefferson."

Seriously. W. T. F.

-edit- I just remembered the "CHEESE RUN!" and the Alice Cooper/Richard Simmons one. The place erupted when teh guy gunned the car for Simmonos.

My dad was the same way. I was just walking in and he said "this is bullshit..they're really stretching. They're doing a reading of the Declaration of Independence for shit's sake".

I think the NFL did some big partiotic recital like that right before Super Bowl 36 (Patriots vs. Rams in Feb 2002) and it was well received. It made no sense, yesterday.

If they wanted to massage their "social conscience", they should've played up Doug Williams' presence, more. 20 years after he was the first black QB to dominate a Super Bowl and the first weekend of Black History Month. But nope...Declaration of Independence.

NFL knows that people will watch no matter what the hell they put up there. Hell, two years ago they had Han Solo reciting the words to a Dr. Seuss story as the Super Bowl intro. Prime Example 1: Hank Williams constant warbling on MNF every week. "blahhhh.. are you weady for some foootballllll. It's on televiiiiision! It's foooootball. And it's on televiiiiiiiision!". Or the 1993 season when people like Tony! Toni! Tone! Vanessa Williams and Amy Frickin' Grant performed "are you ready for some football" songs. (Although the KISS intro was all kinds of cool. Broncos and Raiders set to the tune of "I Love it Loud")

That KISS intro did rule.


This just in:

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Giants-Patriots Super Bowl is second most-watched TV show ever


The New York Giants thrilling win over the New England Patriots was the most-watched Super Bowl ever, with 97.5 million viewers, Nielsen Media Research said Monday.

The game eclipsed the previous record of 94.08 million, set when Dallas faced Pittsburgh in 1996. More people watched Sunday's game than all but one American television broadcast ever, the "M-A-S-H" finale in 1983, which was seen by 106 million viewers.

The game had almost all the ingredients Fox could have hoped for: a tight contest with an exciting finish involving a team that tried and failed to make history as the NFL's first unbeaten team since 1972.

The Giants ended New England's bid for perfection 17-14 in a game where the teams were never separated by more than a touchdown.

In Minneapolis, the Super Bowl got a 55 rating and a 77.8 share at its peak viewing time.

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=496143
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I really have to get that MASH finale on dvd. Hell, I actually wouldn't mind getting a copy of last night's game, too.

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Had to look it up. KISS, Simon Muthafuckin' Fletcher and Shannon Sharpe....all in one place. My pants just turned white.

When it's all said and done, Super Bowl 42 was a good game. I'd put it up there in the top Super Bowls of all time.

For obvious reasons, nothing can top Super Bowl 32 for me (Broncos/Packers). In no particular order, my best of the rest:

-5. Colts vs. Cowboys
-10. Steelers vs. Cowboys
-13. Steelers vs. Cowboys Round II
-23. Bengals vs. 49ers
-25. Bills vs. Giants
-34. Titans vs. Rams
-36. Patriots vs. Rams
-42. Patriots vs. Giants

The two other Patriot wins were decent games, but I never had the sense that the Panthers or Eagles were going to WIN those games. Thus, I left them off. It's like seeing Kamala give Hulk Hogan a good match. It might be unexpected that the match was entertaining, but nobody ever believed Kamala would win the belt. In the games I listed, they were back and forth and you had no idea who was going to win. That's what made them exciting.

Biggest omission is Super Bowl 3 (Jets/Colts)....but from what I've seen of that game, it wasn't too exciting. The end result will always be noteworthy, but the actual game was kinda' blah.

How was Tom Petty? I was working and missed the entire game except for the majority of the third quarter...

edit: and e says he was nothing special...