Super Bowl Sunday!
by baseballgirl on Feb 3, 2008 10:47 AM PST
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PrintI love the Super Bowl for one major reason. You may think it's the massive amounts of food, or the commercials I actually watch, or the sport of football itself (HA!), but really, for me, it's the last big milestone before baseball starts. After the Super Bowl, Spring Training is right around the corner.
What is your 'trigger'? When do you really start getting excited about the upcoming season?
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I'm just watching for the commercials ;)
I hate commercials...
We're playing poker through the game so we can concentrate on our cards during the commercial breaks, rather than the damn corporate propaganda!
Go Giants!
by The Pilots Dared Me To Die on Feb 3, 2008 1:05 PM PST up reply actions
the commercials
were so awful.
I've got $20
on the team from the east coast with red, white and blue uniforms, "New" in its name, and about which I couldn't care less.
hope you're not giving more than 14 points...
'cause I think it's going to be a close one!
by The Pilots Dared Me To Die on Feb 3, 2008 1:06 PM PST up reply actions
Never thought I'd say it on this blog... but...
GO Giants!
Something about a BBG "what does it for you"
question always brings a variant on the same answer for me: it's college hoops, and particularly the UNC Tar Heels. As college basketball approaches the end of its regular season and the conference and NCAA tournaments loom, my sports excitement absolutely peaks, because it also means baseball is drawing nigh.
College hoops fans get an almost seamless transition from the peak of our year to baseball opening night. March rocks!
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 3, 2008 12:02 PM PST reply actions
I'm rooting for Arlen Spector
to get real congressional hearings about the Patriots' videotaping.
I really do believe they stole the game from the Rams in 2002 because they taped their signals on the sidelines during the game in Foxboro earlier that year.
F@%k the Patriots.
Then again, if they're gonna get away with it, then I suggest the A's set up a secret camera in CF and videotape all the catchers' signals and transmit the pitch calls to earpieces in the batters' helmets, ASAP! Plus, they should make sure the spread in the visitors' clubhouse has lots of germs in it, and pass out hand mirrors to the crowd during day games so fans can shine the sun into opposing batters' eyes.
by The Pilots Dared Me To Die on Feb 3, 2008 1:12 PM PST up reply actions
DAMMMN!
What really turns me on is someone with a true sense of EVIL (for the fun of it, of course)!!! I'm rooting for the Giants. Something about that Brady and his gang are a real turn-off.
by LilAnnieOaktown on Feb 3, 2008 1:22 PM PST up reply actions
I'm rooting for the NY Giants.
Being just a few miles from Tom Brady's hometown, I have serious Brady fatigue.
As for when do I start getting excited about the upcoming baseball season? Fan Fest is my trigger (but I hate that it's in January, because it makes ST and the season seem that much farther away).
I'm just waiting for Frank
Seriously, it was bad enough seeing all the Frank TV stuff during the series, do we have to suffer through him during the pregame here too???
As far as what my trigger is, my birthday is coming up in a week and a half, and that is usually when I send my friends my first "pitchers and catchers report in..." email.
The FrankTV commercials
got old, but the show is not bad at all.
When pitchers & catchers report
Is when I start getting excited for the season. Long two weeks or so until then in this part of the country...come to think of I probably don't really get excited until the first spring training game. When I can hear a game on the radio (Ueckers voice calling a Brewer game) I know its on.
I'd be alright with the Patsies
if they would only admit that the Tuck Rule play was actually a FUMBLE!
That ruling turned me off football.
A perfect example of the refs playing the game, excessive rules-lawyering, and arbitrary crapola.
Go Patriots...
But very, very reluctantly. I hate both teams, but since New York knocked out my team (Dallas), I've gotta go New England. Plus I really don't want to see Eli Manning or any of the Giants get a ring.
boooooooooooooo cowboys
had to be said.
football ended a month ago for me when my steelers got knocked out, but i'm still watching.
Go New York Football Giants
I hate the Pats. I'm expecting a lot of the same New England transplants that go to BoSux games in Oakland to show up for the Pats/Raider game next year at the Coliseum.
I hope a lot of them come and do the same antics they do at A's games. I so can't wait to watch them get beat-up.
Attempts to hack poll thwarted!
I tried to post a third option, but it did not take my vote.
Sigh.
I just don't care who wins this one.
But I do think if Brady plays the entire game that the Pats will take it.
What's the over/under on the National Anthem
I'll buy ten copies of Jordin Sparks next album if she can keep it under 45 seconds.
Actual singing time 1:55
No sales for you - not yours!
a mighty wind blew near Lake Merritt @ 1:30 p
and knocked out the power on my block.
Power came back right at 3 pm, just in time for the Superbowl.
Not only long, but horrible
Also, compared to KNBR audio
Fox is on a looooooong delay. No "malfunctions" will be visible to the TV audience today.
Where's Joe Montana?
In the Bill Walsh tribute, shouldn't they have gotten his best player?
I was wondering that ...
Steve Young barely played for him ... he didn't become a starter until after Seifert had taken over ...
I'd take issue with the assertion that Montana was Walsh's best player, though ...
how?
montana was the G.O.A.T.
Jerry Rice was unquestionably ...
Joe Montana was among the greats QBs of all-time ... I'd say there's far from a national consensus on who the greatest actually was ...
well getting a "consensus"
is pretty much impossible. i just don't see who's better. i'm a steelers fan, but montana has the rings/mvps and never choked under pressure in the big one.
What I'm saying ...
is that there is a consensus around Rice. No one seriously disagrees that he's the greatest WR of all time.
He has just as many rings, has never choked in the big one and would have his share of MVPs, except the voters hate WRs ...
i agree 100% about rice
i just don't think anyone touches montana.
no worries either way.
Let's Go Gnats
I mean, Giants
Emphasis on the 'some'
I can't wait 'til Wednesday
We should get break from the political ads for at least a couple of months.
Shite - TD for the NE Anti-Patriots
Smith=Shite
The afore-mentioned Rice would not have farked up a catch like that.
ellis hobbs
i can't stand him.
a) patriot
b) that comment about "i don't get paid to take touchbacks" when he took the 108-yarder back. there's a reason there aren't many returns that long.
Illegal batting
Who knew Sammy Sosa was in this game?
Manning overboard!
Halftime, and I've neither seen Archie nor heard Buck say Peyton.
Eli's looked alright though.
You must have missed the delay of game penalty
when they showed Peyton making the hurry up motion, when Eli was taking too long
by theblackpearl on Feb 3, 2008 5:24 PM PST up reply actions
(gets off couch)
to post something. light snow falling. tom petty..groovy....yawn.
Oh my,
Tom Petty is looking old. At least he's not mailing it in as badly as Aerosmith did a few years ago. he's no Prince, though.
The Aerosmith show
was an MTV-produced abortion. I don't blame them for mailing that one in.
Prince was awsome ...
so was Janet Jackson's boob ...
Nothing like making people
actually listen to the performance.
Woolies
Bovine equivalent of Hooters.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 3, 2008 5:43 PM PST up reply actions
Wouldn't that be Udders?
Yes of course
I was thinking sheep. Not actually writing sheep, mind you.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 3, 2008 5:46 PM PST up reply actions
No FG attempt
Wow - Beli-ache must really not have any trust in his kicker to nail a 49 yarder.
Are You All getting a vibe from the Giants?
Vibe - yes
Well-executed offensive plays - no
Now we're getting some execution
a HR TD for the Gnats Giants
ugh... I accidentally voted for the Pats!!!
Subtrract one from their tally. I have a nasty taste in my mouth now. spits
I FARKING HATE RANDY MOSS
i like him
always have...there's just something about how good he is that i can't look away.
i don't care if he mailed it in for the raiders, they deserved every second of it.
but he's still a patriot.
holy toledo
that was one hell of a job by Manning and the receiver who I don't know the name of!
YYYEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy Toledo, indeed!
that's 3 peyton mannings in one sentence
does it matter if it wasn't Buck who said it?
now i am thinking...great for giants ...but
am i gonna suffer more Manning's and their dopey-ness on my tv screen?
I desparately need invocation of His Name
to salvage a few Beanes. As usual, my predictive abilities sucked.
at least they won't be worrying about the parade
conflicting with Super Tuesday
I was rooting for the Pats, but happy for Plaxico (played with him in HS).
I was classmates with the Giants
third string defenseman, David Tollefson. That's enough to get my allegiance.
plax
steeler at heart ;)
funny because i hated him on the steelers because he didn't try. if he was only this good then.
Quick, Dirty, and Cliched
dammit
what does that count as? did he just thank Terry first? Chevy?
Well that was fun
Not only was this one of the best Super Bowls ever, but also the most satisfying result (after 1977, 1981, and 1984).
my total baseball fandom
feels like this takes just a leetle bit off the disgusting arrogance that we'll be facing from sux nation
yeah, I know, different sports, different teams...don't care
maybe it'll knock Brady off the cover of People magazine at least once
The only way this could be better
would be if the Rockies had come back from 3-0 to take the series last fall.
Since I didn't watch the game,
I can't tell you who should be the MVP.
But, having watched the last 10 minutes or so of ESPN's postgame coverage, I can confidently present the following award:
1972 Miami Dolphins: Biggest Assholes Ever.
ESPN called Griese and Mercury Morris
as if the story hasn't been beaten to death, and both of them basically Nelson Muntzed it. Griese (whose birthday is today, evidently) talked about it being a birthday present. He made a couple of gestures at praising NE, talked about how the Dolphins lost their first SB and got so pissed they went undefeated the next year and won another SB the year after that, and that the league should worry about NE next year. But then they asked him, "What does the Giants' win mean to the Miami Dolphins," and he basically said, although he was prepared to "welcome the Patriots to our neighborhood" it basically meant that they were still there alone.
I didn't listen to all of what Morris said, but he was essentially just bragging.
Really, how hard is it to even just pretend to be a little generous, to recognize that there is such a thing as good fortune, and to at least mouth a few platitudes about how this isn't about us old guys who played 35 years ago, it's about Eli Manning and his teammates on the Giants, this is their time, and the Patriots are a tremendous organization, blah blah blah?
It almost made me wish the Patriots had won. But if anyone could match the Dolphins' insufferability, it's probably them.
Well Ok
I hear ya. But it seems a bit harsh. They have a right to their feelings...and it sounds to me as if Griese at least was trying to be nice. I remember that team back in '72. They were GREAT. I loved Czonk and Kiick. Kinda glad for them that they are alone with holding the record. Of course, if the Niners were to have broken it I would be overjoyed.
I was too young in 1972
But there's just something crappy imagining those guys rooting against the Patriots all season just so that they can remain the only undefeated champion. I understand that they must have feelings about it -- they're proud of their accomplishments, and they should be. But their attitude in getting on the air right after the game really rubbed me the wrong way.
I still don't know how Snake completed that pass
Or how Davis caught it!
From what I remember, he had a career-long case of fumbilitis, right? In the Sea of Hands, his weren't usually the most reliable!
yep
he had notoriously bad hands, as did another Davis (Mike) who hauled in the big interception against Cleveland in the '81 playoffs.
why?
i don't see what's so wrong about wanting to be the only answer to the who is the only undefeated team question...
No problem
And yes, I was probably being too harsh. ESPN's current coverage just excerpted the 2 least "we're still #1" quotes from the 2 interviews for the 11 pm Sportscenter. But can you really give the only perfect-season champions the "kinda acted like ungenerous assholes" award? A superlative team deserves a superlative title!!
It sounds like Griese was trying to ...
Norris is just annoying, though ... shutting him up would have been a very worthwhile silver lining to a Patriots win ...
wrong
bill belichick, richard seymour, rodney harrison, biggest assholes ever
Without doing all the math
it sure looks at quick glance like vignette17's heavy bet on the Giants to win straight up is going to take the BeaneCounter contest.
Nobody'll catch that I think
I haven't run the numbers yet either, but I'm sure that 2,600 take will carry the day. Next best big win was SuperBean's "4th the highest scoring quarter," a 1,540 Beane score. I'll post final results in the DLD tomorrow.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 3, 2008 8:16 PM PST up reply actions
one of the most satisfying superbowl games ever!
i like tom brady but DOWN WITH THOSE NEW ENGLAND TEAMS!!!!
10 days until the A's pitchers and catchers report!! YAY!
thank you Eli Manning
for that big F-U collectively from all NYers to Boston. A special gift wrapped F-U as well to Bill Simmons. Takes some (but not all) of the pain from the 2004 ALCS
simmons is my favorite writer
but i can't wait for his next article
DOWN WITH THE PATRIOTS!!!
I am a happy camper
i have always hated the patriots with a passion
i hate tom brady with a passion
everything about them just oozes yankees... grosss...
one of the best games everrrr getting to see brady being hit around... awesome!
sweeeeeeeeeeeeet victory!
congrats to eli and the giants!
always happy to be rootin for the underdogs.. the giants team reminded me very much of the A's when they made the run...
yay baseballllll is almost here!! huzzzahh!
by TrizzleNizzle510 on Feb 3, 2008 8:08 PM PST reply actions
As nice as it is to see New England
fumble with the brass ring just out of reach...I'd still prefer a Patriot Superbowl over a Red Sock World Series.
Perhaps global warming will slow
wasn't it neat seeing
Brady getting pressured part of the night by a guy named "Tuck"?
that "rule" ruined my Dad's 70th birthday, so tonight was sweet redemption.
berman
on sportscenter..."NO TUCK RULE HERE!" when tuck sacked brady one of 125124634723 times in the game...i wanted to cringe.
As I watched the game
I kept thinking of Bill Simmons who I read regularly, his columns I enjoy immensely even though it is more often than not about the Bosox, Celtics or Patriots.
I never blame a guy for liking the teams he grew up with. This next column I will wait anxiously for since he has been pimping the Patriots for 3 months now. I just hope he doesn't walk into the Pacific after this game. No, actually I think he went to the game, did anyone hear of a guy jumping off the top of the stadium?
by china bob on Feb 3, 2008 10:02 PM PST reply actions
January?
About the beginning of January I told myself I wasn't excited about baseball and wouldn't be until March or so.
I was wrong. Just about as soon as the words left my mouth I started to get that little feeling, below my heart, near my spine. It kind of tingles and makes you feel ancy. I started wearing less of my 49ers cap and more of my A's cap. Now I'm subscribed to a few more blogs just so I can possibly see more references to the A's and their prospects.
The A's Fanfest and a Big Atomic Hot sealed it. Can't we just fast-forward to Spring Training?
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