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How about those Steelers?
« on: February 06, 2006, 05:03:45 am »
While I will agree that there were some iffy calls, the Steelers won it fair and square. It's good to be a Steelers fan in the Northwest, I tell you what!
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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2006, 05:11:53 am »
Football season is still going on?

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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2006, 05:16:37 am »
Well, not anymore.
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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2006, 05:30:54 am »
Oh, man. Fuck you.

Where are you in the Northwest, by the way?
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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2006, 05:40:26 am »
Inland Northwest. Northern Idaho, to be exact.
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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2006, 05:49:41 am »
Oh cool.  I've spent some time in Coeur d'Alene, and a lot of time in Spokane (which isn't Idaho, I know, but it's really close).  Are you in that area?

I'm from the Seattle area, so, I repeat, fuck you.  And I mean that in the nicest way possible.
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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2006, 05:54:23 am »
Yes I am. I go to school in Moscow, University of Idaho.
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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2006, 07:49:03 am »
Dropped passes cost the Seahawks more than the refs did.  That and clock mismanagement.  And missed field goals.  Okay, and the calls.

Also made my final four pick turn out wrong.
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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2006, 01:44:04 pm »
Our Super Bowl party this year had 13 people show up, effectively reaching the maximum capacity of our condo. Next year's party may have to be in the neighborhood clubhouse. This is excellent, as I have grand designs for my SB party to get bigger and bigger each year (this was the fourth such party).

Of the 13, two or three didn't much care for football, one is a Browns fan, I'm a Redskins fan, and everyone else in the joint was a Steelers fan. So it was fun times. Only one (the Browns fan) was actively rooting for Seattle. The rest had sided with the Steelers, along with apparently everyone in Detroit. It was a good game, with not much to bitch about.
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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2006, 02:26:06 pm »
That was weird. Considering the tickets are handed out basically by lottery and contest pieces inside specially marked boxes of Wheaties it seemed unlikely for the fans in attendance to actually give a shit about either team. Even the announcers mentioned this at one point and wondered if somebody was just handing out Terrible Towels outside the entrance or something.

And it's been 26 years. I hardly think it qualifies as "one for the thumb" because there's probably all of 6 employees that have actually been with them for all 5.

And "world champions"? The hell? Was last year's game held in Seoul and I forgot? When was the team from Mexico City knocked out of contention?
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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2006, 02:47:32 pm »
With Pittsburgh being not all that far from Detroit, Steeler fans being all over the frickin' place, and the Steeler fan base generally being more rabid, I think they were more willing to pay inflated prices from ticket brokers and the like.  Also, the "city of Detroit" got a number of tickets; not sure how they handed them out, but I'm sure they were taken by bandwagon-jumping native-son Jerome Bettis fans.  Hence the pro-Steeler turnout.

There were four iffy calls by my count, none spectacularly awful, but they all went against the Seahawks.  That drive where they started at their own 2, as it was happening I thought we were witnessing one of the all-time great Super Bowl drives.  They completed a pass to the 1 and I thought for sure they were taking it in, but one questionable holding call and it comes way far back.  Two plays later, interception, followed by the sweeeeeeeet WR pass, and that's your ballgame.

The ads mostly sucked.  I think my favorite was the Full Throttle energy drink ad, for becoming more over the top with every passing second.

Every major American sports league calls themselves "World Champions," which is mostly stupid.  If anyone can get away with it, it's the NFL, because there are no other serious contenders (sorry, Canada).  There is an actual basketball club world championship, which is routinely won by the NBA champ, but they should at least wait until that's over before calling themselves World Champions.  And while MLB and the NHL are far and away the most talented leagues of their kind, there are baseball teams in Cuba and hockey teams in Europe who would probably welcome a shot at the title.
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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2006, 02:56:38 pm »
This superbowl sucked in almost every way possible. It was poorly played, poorly coached, poorly officiated, and the only funny commercial was like 10 seconds long and just had one dude throwing a cellphone at another dude's head. (side note: what was with all the commercials of people tackling each other? yes, obviously tackling is football relevant, but there were literally i think about 6 or 7 commercials with this motif. did adam sandler write every commercial that was aired last night?).
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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2006, 03:35:10 pm »
I thought the MacGyver ad was entertaining and I'm always a sucker for a Benny Hill reference.
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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2006, 03:39:38 pm »
Very good call Cort I forgot about the MacGyver ad but that was pretty solid.
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Re: How about those Steelers?
« Reply #14 on: February 06, 2006, 03:46:15 pm »
Talking about Super Bowl ads makes Baby Jesus cry.

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