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2/6/2011

Super Bowl Open Thread

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 11:48 am



They’re holding it in my native Texas, where ice is falling on people and putting them in the hospital. I recommend watching from the warmth of your home.

Get your predictions in now.

61 Responses to “Super Bowl Open Thread”

  1. It’s effectively over by halftime. A lot of beer and car commercials, some great but most are lame. Oh, and they will make darned sure there are ZERO “wardrobe malfunctions” by Fergie!

    Robin Juhl (3c5646)

  2. Good thing they picked a warm-weather site.

    JEA (fcf78e)

  3. A fergie wardrobe malfunction would not be unwelcome. GO PACK!

    JD (b98cae)

  4. Are those jagoff cheesefockers going to even show up?

    daleyrocks (479a30)

  5. You have to cheer for the ones that deep fry cheese curds.

    JD (d4bbf1)

  6. Definitely a Steeler win today.

    Ian Badness (c0dd55)

  7. The evil Green Bay Packers suffer a rout so bad that their embarrassment causes them to dissolve the team and all the players move to Elbonia.

    Bad Science (d7d055)

  8. Bears 45 Packers 0.

    BT (74cbec)

  9. Pac 17, Steel 15

    Mike (611689)

  10. 5 field goals?

    JD (d4bbf1)

  11. I think the Decatur Staleys take this one today.

    Dmac (498ece)

  12. Green Bay 23 Steelers 21

    jimboster (e8d66a)

  13. green bay packers are something vile ge concocted ecoimagining.

    newrouter (b55202)

  14. Funny about complains on how Dallas has been unable to handle the weather with the airport closure, dangerous stadium roof, etc. Al Gore can you explain that cold equals hot one more time?

    Arizona Bob (e8af2b)

  15. Howt of the come, with all the talk of the N Tx weather, the Media isn’t all over the facts regarding holding the game in NJ in the near future???

    Tex Doc (a6f7f2)

  16. Aaaargh! I HATE it when they sing the national anthem that way.

    Gesundheit (aab7c6)

  17. I will care exactly as much as I did last year, and will watch exactly as much of the game. 🙂

    Robin Munn (cd9337)

  18. And she blew the lyrics

    Kyle (7983ba)

  19. aguilera beast
    fifteen notes when three would do
    shizzle not sizzle

    ColonelHaiku (9d447b)

  20. lame michael douglas
    it Reagan centennial
    no mention at all

    ColonelHaiku (9d447b)

  21. 14. Give it some time and Algore will possibly be totally vindicated. not. A likely new enviro-leftard cause is sudden reversal of magnetic poles. Powerline has some info about it. I was unaware that Algore had a big estate in California that uses an excess of energy. How about some carbon credits to go with your cap and trade? Hard to build power plants in US but no problem in Mexico or China.

    pittsburgh 21, packers 17

    Calypso Louie Farrakhan (798aba)

  22. i was talking to my dad who lives reasonably close, and the whole city has been shut down almost all week. all those bars looking forward to extra business are probably ripping their hair out.

    But they said they were hoping for some melting, so hopefully they are in better shape today.

    If you happen to be there and read this, let me give you important advice. the issue isn’t whether YOU can safely drive in these conditions. the issue is everyone else on the road. And i love texans, but this is their problem in this kind of weather. its not that they don’t know what they are doing. its that they don’t know that they don’t know what they are doing.

    Aaron Worthing (73a7ea)

  23. Aaron – Right on. I used to live in Chicago and now live in Dallas. The number of people who have no clue how to safely drive on snow & ice is staggering to me. Fortunately, we had warm weather yesterday & today, so the only roads with any snow left are the ones in deep shade, and all the highways were clear when I drove them yesterday.

    But I’m not, repeat NOT, going to venture outside until tomorrow morning. There’ll be too many idiots, too many of them drunk idiots (which is redundant, of course) on the road for me to feel safe driving anywhere tonight.

    Robin Munn (cd9337)

  24. GB 17
    Pitt 13

    ColonelHaiku (9d447b)

  25. WTF drudge say
    14 to 0 before
    touchdown even made… how that work?

    ColonelHaiku (9d447b)

  26. aguilera look like
    blond Vampira with all blood
    drained from her body

    http://www.businessinsider.com/watch-christina-aguilera-screws-up-the-national-anthem-at-the-super-bowl-2011-2

    ColonelHaiku (9d447b)

  27. This is going to be a wild game. I am rather enjoying seeing Rapistburger down a couple touchdowns, but the Steelers will get back in it.

    JD (d48c3b)

  28. Texans who grew up in the Panhandle (like me) definitely learn to drive on snow and ice. There wasn’t much between my home town and the North Pole but some barbed wire (a/k/a “bob-wire”) fence.

    During my skiing days, one Christmas season back in the 1980s I once drove a couple of college students who were native Coloradans from Denver to Crested Butte over Rabbit Ears Pass in a rental car during a blizzard that had shut down the Denver airport. We had snow tires but no chains, but had nary an incident, and passed many Coloradans who’d miscalculated and ended up quite literally in the ditch. So if I didn’t know that I didn’t know what I was doing, they college students didn’t know either, and we were all glad to get to our destinations safely in time for the holiday skiing.

    The folks in the D/FW area see snow and ice somewhat less frequently than they do in, say, Lubbock or Amarillo, but they still see at least some of it almost every year.

    Here in Houston, or in San Antonio, or (worst of all) down in the Rio Grande Valley, almost no one knows how to drive on icy roads. Such skills as I retain are only poor protection from drivers with a poor concept of the correlation between mass, velocity, and reduced friction.

    Beldar (e2dd38)

  29. #21

    I was at the home that Al Gore bought while it was being remodeled… some two to three years ago now.

    Great location, good views. Small lot for the area.
    Gore’s place is not all that great compared to the rest of the neighborhood.
    The home below it is world class.
    1100-1700 E. Mountain Dr. particularly the even number addresses on the uphill side of the street has some of the nicest homes in the world… Gore’s is not one of them

    SteveG (cc5dc9)

  30. These two sites give you an idea of Gore’s neighborhood

    http://www.coldspringslandscapes.com

    http://www.stevehansonlandscaping.com

    SteveG (cc5dc9)

  31. okay, its offically over. steelers down 11 points… in the 4th quarter.

    okay not officially but it would be just about a miracle for them to take it.

    Aaron Worthing (73a7ea)

  32. That was a huge huge huge huge huge huge play by Clay Mathews.

    JD (d4bbf1)

  33. Far from over, AW.

    JD (d4bbf1)

  34. Not over.

    Patterico (d2d84d)

  35. What a great effin throw from Rogers.

    JD (d4bbf1)

  36. Steelers have plenty of time, a clutch team, and a time out. This is going to be fun.

    JD (d4bbf1)

  37. Hines Ward… coming up big….? (we’ll see)

    SteveG (cc5dc9)

  38. Bratwurst for everyone!!!!!!!!!!

    daleyrocks (479a30)

  39. Fishboil this Friday!!!!!!!!

    daleyrocks (479a30)

  40. A lot of cows will be tipped north of the cheese curtain tonight!

    daleyrocks (479a30)

  41. I had to watch that Kim Kardashian commercial with my mom in the room.

    I’ll be watching it in private later, though…

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8)

  42. I will have fried cheese curds and a butter burger tomorrow in honor of the Packers win.

    JD (d4bbf1)

  43. Hoosier daddy?

    daleyrocks (479a30)

  44. Well, I nailed it with my prediction on Green Bay’s points, and that it would win. I was a bit low in predicting the Steelers’ points.

    Do I win the thread? What’s my prize?

    Beldar (e2dd38)

  45. The loathing of Steeler fans. 🙂

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8)

  46. Duly noted, Mr. Jacobs! Having grown up as a fan of the Cowboys and the Oilers — neither of whom bore much love for the Steelers — I shall wear that as a badge of modest honor. The Steelers were quite a bit better than I expected them to be, but what beat them in the end was a lack of discipline, not a lack of talent or healthy players.

    And how about that TCU Horned Frog band during the pregame show? (Shoulda let THEM do the National Anthem!)

    Beldar (e2dd38)

  47. And the halftime show.

    Everyone, enjoy this sure to be short-lived Wikipedia edit of the Black Eyed Peas page…

    It. Is. Glorious.

    Scott Jacobs (d027b8)

  48. Whatever app or program yu used for that, Scott, it is cool.

    JD (d4bbf1)

  49. My congratulations, and regards, to all the Packer fans here.

    They managed to overcome a few crappy calls, some serious injuries to some of their important veterans, and a serious case of butter-finger-dropsy-itis on the part of their recievers to hang on and vanquish the Steelers.

    By tomorrow it will be an old cliche, but the trophy named after Coach Lombardi will be returning to the hometown of a team that has won more championships, between old school NFL championships and superbowls, than any other; the tropy is back in “Title town” where Packers fans think it belongs.

    A great game. Close, like I thought it would be, just a bit higher scoring than I imagined…

    Bob Reed (5f2db5)

  50. And she blew the lyrics

    Comment by Kyle — 2/6/2011 @ 3:30 pm

    Lt. Frank Drebin

    Gerald A (389a16)

  51. It was a good game with the outcome still up for grabs with a minute left.

    I think the commercials haven’t been as good for many a year- the horses playing football (“naw, they usually go for two”) and the ongoing ferret and chameleaon were some of the best. I did like the saloon breaking into Elton John and the horses dancing, E-trade with the baby is always great, Justin Bieber and Ozzie was funny- if for no other reason than my 10 daughter thinks anyone who has “bieber fever” is indeed ill.

    In addition to the commercials better in the past, I find it interesting looking at both teams today compared to when I followed football the most- back in the 70’s. Those Steeler’s teams were filled with Hall of Fame players that everybody knew; Franco Harris, Rocky Bleier to block, Swann, Stallworth, and Lewis to throw to. Who was “the playmaker” on defense? Mean Joe? Lambert? Hamm? Blount? LC Greenwood?

    The Black-Eyed Peas may be a great group, but I was not impressed toniught, in part due to terrible technical support/sound mix, etc. I was calling for McCartney, the Who, Prince (who I knew nothing about but was impressed at his show.

    Enough already- we do have some leftover brats and Port-wine flavored Wisconsin chedder cheese spread, but never got around to making “cheese-head” hats.

    MD in Philly (3d3f72)

  52. The halftime on tonight’s episode of “Glee” was frankly far superior to the BEP’s show, which reminded me over-much of the last vignette in Woody Allen’s “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex*” — you know, the one with the guys dressed up as sperm. Or maybe it reminded me of that commercial for flat-screen TVs with the dancing pixels. Was it supposed to be a retro-Tron homage?

    Beldar (e2dd38)

  53. They had a half-time show?
    I thought they just scheduled a long half-time for those of us who forgot to mow the lawn.

    AD-RtR/OS! (c7241f)

  54. I had guessed the Packers would win, albeit by too much.

    Michael Ejercito (64388b)

  55. tonight’s opening should go down in history as “The Star Mangled Banner”. 8)

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  56. I recommend watching from the warmth of your home.

    I didn’t bother. It was too nice a day here in central CA, so I hopped on the motorbike and went for a long ride and didn’t get back home until after dark.

    It was worth it, too.

    Blacque Jacques Shellacque (e09322)

  57. Unfortunately, though I want the Steelers to win, I predict that the Packers will win the Lombardi Trophy, 31-25.

    The astute Dana (3e4784)

  58. Hey Dana (the astute one)- can you tell me who will be in the “Final Four” and who will win, and by what score?

    MD in Philly (3d3f72)

  59. MD< let me ponder that one; I should have an answer for you by April.

    The cautious Dana (3e4784)

  60. Gesundheit wrote:

    Aaaargh! I HATE it when they sing the national anthem that way.

    Remember when the Cowboys used to have a single trumpeter stand at midfield to do the national anthem?

    I hate the Cowboys — everyone should hate the Cowboys! — but that was classy.

    The Dana showing his age (3e4784)


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