Shadow40000 on 02/04/2008 4:23 am

This year, I'm just going to go into Visionary Darkness and pull up any football related articles.

GLX-Mr. Ordinary on 02/04/2008 4:23 am

YAY first comment and I hate football! Oh well I spent my sunday in my Boxers ( the wives away on vaction) watching Krull and episodes of Shin chan all while going on a 24 hour choclate doughnut diet washed down with warm Root beer because i am to lazy right now to put the cans in the Fridge.
Wow its amazing how lazy i get home alone oh well.

plooker on 02/04/2008 4:55 am

I spent my sunday cooking and beating 24 hours of Nuremberg on GT4.

Pentegarn on 02/04/2008 5:28 am

I actually watched the game. But then again I like football.

As for the commercials, they were the weakest crop I can remember, nothing too memorable other than the screaming squirrel, the Carmax/Boatmax ad, the Barkley/Wade T-mobile ad, and Shaq in a horse race. There was a bud lite commercial about cavemen and the wheel that made me laugh too, but it was a chuckle at most. A bad crop as I said.

Of course, seeing as how the Patriots choked at the end of a potential 19-0 season and ended up an anticlimactic 18-1, I kind of wish I hadn't invested the time. I like Eli Manning and am glad he shut the critics in sports about him being overrated, but am disappointed that the perfect season was ruined by New England's choke job. That said, the fourth quarter alone was the best quarter of football I can ever remember seeing. Very exciting end to the game.

Captain shut the hell up (Guest) on 02/04/2008 7:08 am

I live in God Damned Australia and they still pu the stupid thing on tv here. Albeit at 11pm, and we don't get any interesting commercials because it's on the same channel as the French news.

TheDoomThing on 02/04/2008 8:37 am

i spent my sunday playing video games and drinking a 2-liter bottle of coke.

James (Guest) on 02/04/2008 8:55 am

I watched it only because I'm a Giants fan, and for the commercials.

It had to be one of the best games I've ever watched. I think I almost had a stroke from all the loud cheering I was doing.

Giants rule!

MrEff on 02/04/2008 9:06 am

I live in the UK, so thankfully this 'Superbowl' wasn't of any concern. In case you wanted to know I spent the day playing Dawn of War (again) and watching Heroes season one.

Jigby Huggletinks on 02/04/2008 9:22 am

I was the only person in Steak and Shake, sitting back and enjoying my Banana Milkshake and Cheese Fries, and not giving a flying dick about football.

AlliSabbah on 02/04/2008 11:35 am

I played The Sims 2 Castaway Stories and had sex. Screw the super bowl.

JakeOfAllTrades on 02/04/2008 12:15 pm

I wrote a backstory for one of the characters in a book I'm working on, that was so sad it even had me in tears. I was dripping over my keyboard, seriously. And I have "X-Treme" difficulty tearing up usually. Normally it takes Midnight Cowboy for those waterworks to flow.

This experience of putting myself in an emotional wringer, I feel, is one of those things I will remember a lot more than a silly football game with stupid commercials. American imperialism can shove it, Australia's already had enough imperialism from the British thank you.

Watching the Superbowl: too expensive in life and mortal time.
Making yourself cry over an old man who gets his heart broken by a gold-digging Elf, both of whom aren't even real: Priceless.

executioneer on 02/04/2008 12:16 pm

I was too busy having the influenza, thanks very much football >:

Great Mighty Poo on 02/04/2008 12:58 pm

I agree Proto. I am in the "customer service" industry and a father and son I saw while in said service around noon were freaking out because they would miss a few minutes of the pregame show.

Not knowing or caring much about sports I asked idly when the actual game starts. They looked at me like I just admitted I was some kind of pagen neo-nazi skinhead and said in 6 hours. 6 freaking hours?! Who in their right mind wants to watch fat, cynical jerks spew their opinions for 6 hours and see the same 'highlights' you've already seen a dozen, ney, a hundred times.

Max Burbank on 02/04/2008 2:40 pm

I watched the Puppy Bowl on animal Planet, which was quite awesome.

Bibbo (Guest) on 02/04/2008 2:55 pm

Wow jake of all trades, you have got to be the most self-centered person I have ever read in a while! Sheesh!

Krowness (Guest) on 02/04/2008 3:01 pm

I spent the waiting for the end of the game so I could write an article on how much it sucked ass and procede to make fun of the whole event.

stonewar on 02/04/2008 3:17 pm

I too watched the puppy bowl...twice even, then took a nap and watched Masterpeice Theater with Gillian Anderson.

funkychuck on 02/04/2008 3:21 pm

JakeofAllTrades seemed to be making a valid point: sometimes the artistry of investing yourself in your creations outweighs any external delights, especially those that appeal to our baser instincts for violence and consumer goods.

Then I read this:
"Making yourself cry over an old man who gets his heart broken by a gold-digging Elf, both of whom aren’t even real: Priceless."

HAHAHAHAHAHA You write elf books. And make that Visa joke that hacks have been leaning on for years.

Max Burbank on 02/04/2008 5:40 pm

PUH-PEE-BOWL!!

PUH-PEE-BOWL!!

PUH-PEE-BOWL!!

Pentegarn on 02/04/2008 5:47 pm

Tell us more of this "puppy bowl" of which you speak, Max.

Hopefully you didn't just eat a bowl of puppies :P

Neen on 02/04/2008 5:52 pm

I played Donkey Kong Country. Gorilla throwing barrel > Gorilla throwing football.

BurntToShreds on 02/04/2008 5:57 pm

I was still recovering from the stomach flu and a burst blood vessel in my eye because of it. I was still able to catch the Super Bowl, though.

Jesse W. (Guest) on 02/04/2008 5:57 pm

i was at work and watched a flash play-by-play at the very end out of curiosity. it was awesome to see the patriots blow a perfect season in the last two minutes of the game.

btw...unless you are an aboriginal, i dont think you get to complain about british imperialism in australia.

BurntToShreds on 02/04/2008 6:10 pm

Also, Neen, I hope you're not being racist.

Max Burbank on 02/04/2008 6:26 pm

Puppybowl was on animal planet. They had this enclosure done up like a football stadium, and they let puppies into it and gave them toys. There was a bowl at one end, and when the puppies drank, they'd go to the 'bowlcam' and shoot them from below. Every once in a while a puppy would inadvertantly carry a toy across a goal line and the announcer would yell "Puppy touchdown!!"

The halftime show? Kittens.

We had a puppybowl party, and we were not the only ones. Rumor has it that Jixby Philips threw a puppybowl party.

This was puppybowl IV, and I'd never seen it before, but you can bet I'll watch it from now on.

It was three hours long. And when it ended? They played it again.

mdclone (Guest) on 02/04/2008 6:29 pm

I played Mass Effect the first part of the day. Then I got together with friends and family, consumed about 10,000 calories worth of food and beer, and watched the game. One of the best super bowls I have ever seen, but I like football. As for the commercials, I could care less. I just watch them to see if there are any cool new movie trailers , but there weren't even any of those this year. I was hoping for a trailer of the new Indiana Jones, but no luck. Good times overall, though.

JakeOfAllTrades on 02/04/2008 7:48 pm

funkychuck: I used the "Mastercard" joke, not the Visa joke. And yes I realise hacks use it. But sometimes I just like having fun with cliches in advertising. Isn't that the whole point of making fun of ads?

I understand that you might dislike the concept of Elf books. This is not my problem, or yours. I also happen to write about the effects of interplanetary trade with Earth/other worlds and how that would affect their societies. I am not judging you, but please do not judge me.

Neen on 02/04/2008 7:55 pm

@BurntToSherds

No, I wasn't.

I was implying steriod use.

Ferrit on 02/04/2008 8:03 pm

I live in New England, and am damn glad The Patriots lost. Not just because I can't really stand football anyway, but because with the loss I'll only have to hear about it for another day, 2 at the most. Nobody really wants to drag on chatting about the losers. If they'd won - it'd be another month of hearing all about it.

Ferrit on 02/04/2008 8:05 pm

...oh - and we spent our Super Bowl Sunday drinking Tequila and playing Guitar Hero III and Halo3 :)

JakeOfAllTrades on 02/04/2008 8:23 pm

Back to ranting about what really matters: I come from a country where sporting events aren't about the ads. They're about the game. A study of my culture's identity reveals that we might know little about what it means to be Australian, we know what sport means to us.

I have watched few football games. This is because I haven't been a big sports fan. But never, ever, are the ads played during a match considered more important than the match itself.

The notion of a football game where people watch it for the ads is just puzzling.

Tom Foolery on 02/04/2008 8:28 pm

Super Bowl!? There was a 'Star Trek: Enterprise' marathon on Sci Fi. I spent the whole night watching Scott Bakula battle the Xindi threat and imagining that he was actually Dr. Samual Beckett and had leaped into the show to prevent it from being cancelled. I did all this while surfing the internet for porn and working on my Liberty Ship model. I did check in on the half time show though. Man, Tom Petty's showing his age. Whatever happened to the good old days of Super Bowl Halftime shows, when there was always a chance for a 'Wardrobe Malfunction'. Nobody wants to see a 'Wardrobe Malfunction' with Tom Petty. Not even in his glory days.

Desert_Screams on 02/04/2008 9:31 pm

What is this....Super Bowl you speak of?

Spruce Moose on 02/04/2008 10:07 pm

Oh ha ham, you're all so witty. "Me so nerdy, me hate sports! Wuts sportz amirite? Lulz!". Yes, yes ,very witty, I haven't heard that one. Hey, guess what? Some of us, even some of us similarly nerdy folk, actually like some sports. And we have teams we've rooted for our entire lives. And some of us have never seen said teams win a championship.

And some of us still have just witnessed their team finally win a championship against what was supposed to be the greatest team ever. These people cared quite a bit about the super Bowl. And are pretty happy right now. Just saying. Christ, I thought I'd be used to this by now...

deadendz (Guest) on 02/04/2008 11:04 pm

I watch the Superbowl because I enjoy watching some of the best athletes on Earth play the greatest game on Earth.

For some funny reason, it is interesting to me that in one single night we witness the culmination of everything these athletes have worked their entire lives towards achieving.

I always feel bad for people who don't love the NFL because the happiness, sadness, camaraderie and friendships it has created for me has truly changed my life. There is a reason that it cpativates so many...

Well, that's all I care to say about that right now - to each their own I guess.

Embee90 (Guest) on 02/05/2008 12:27 am

The Superbowl is the most over-hyped, over-exaggerated event we have. Mostly the games are boring as dog shit. I watched the last four minutes of this year's game and it was actually quite exciting, and I'm no football fan.

Plus, the halftime show wasn't that bad this year.

MogGuy (Guest) on 02/05/2008 12:41 am

I watched the Mythbusters marathon and Daria on Veoh.

-RoG- on 02/05/2008 3:12 am

I was out most of the day and saw "There Will Be Blood" finally, which was a loooong movie, but the acting was impressive as expected. Then I went to the best (and only) true New York style pizza joint in town. After that, I eventually went over to see some friends who were watching the Superbowl and I got there for the last 10 minutes of the game. Apparently it was an extremely boring game up until that point, but when I got there, it really was one hell of a back-n-forth nailbiter of a game for those last ten minutes. Being a guy from New York, I was glad to see the Giants win... (well that and I'd always rather see the underdog win). I didn't like how the owners spoke to the crowd at the end, since they didn't even play in the game and they're just a bunch of rich old gasbags would probably couldn't even give a damn. Let the players who actually played in the game hold up the trophy and talk to everybody in the stadium. Still, that was definitely a great 10 minutes, and I don't even watch football. The only sport I follow is boxing. And yes, the commercials that I saw in those last 10 minutes were weak as hell.

After that, we continued hanging out and watched some show that was talking about Smart Cars and NMG cars, both of which I want because they're so tiny, quirky and fuel efficient. Of course, they're WAY overpriced, so I won't be buying one of those until they've become more of the norm (probably in 5-10 years I imagine haha)

G-Tonttu (Guest) on 02/05/2008 6:47 am

People, people...let us not forget that Football is that what the whole world plays.
The sport whery you use your feet! Oh and the ball is actually round.

Boo on ya yanks for calling one of the most booring games in the world Football aand one of the best Soccer.

AIF (Guest) on 02/05/2008 12:49 pm

Yeah, my parents got all hyped up about the damn thing. They spent the entire morning fighting over what snacks to make and then come home shouting and hooting like apes. Buh...

And I like to think of myself as a fairly cool female. I enjoy working on my car, I'm a big fan of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, I love camping, drinking, and smoking cigars with the boys. All pretty cool?

But I cannot get behind this whole football thing. I'd rather watch loveable, paunchy British men with mugs of beer in their hands play darts on ESPN 12. But maybe that's just me...

Vile (Guest) on 02/05/2008 6:31 pm

Sat around playing video games and drinking soda, super bowl can go fck itself.

incognit000 on 02/05/2008 6:46 pm

I had better things to do than to watch multi millionaires with the good sense of a 12-year-old piss more money than I will ever know down their legs.

Then again, isn't it /my/ tax dollars that subsidize and support those teams? Aren't I paying a new sales tax to support that stupid stadium whose only purpose, to me, is as a place to drive RC cars in the off season?

ColdFusion (Guest) on 02/05/2008 7:28 pm

INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS ARE BETTER! There I said it.

blacksamster on 02/06/2008 3:26 am

I was at work... and people would walk in and go, "Hey that was an AMAZING game, did you watch it?" To which I replied, "Um, I've been here. At work." And then there'd be an awkward silence, and then I'd say, "SOOOO your total is $xx.xx..."

TheBigMan045 on 02/06/2008 4:52 am

Yeah as we are a bit forward in time i was working and heard about it in bits and pieces. American Football is lame, they have more padding than an pre pubesent girl. If you want to watch a real game watch Rugby League. There i said it

Aduross on 02/06/2008 8:48 am

Nah, I don't much like to watch Football. I know the rules well enough (grew up with two big football fans), but I don't get much out of watching the actual game. My stepdad likes Football though, and my Mom watches it occasionally, but isn't a fan. Heard it was a pretty big comeback victory for the Giants. My brother's a Giants fan so I was pretty happy. :)

Have to admit, even though I don't care about Football, it still makes me feel a bit bad when people on the Internet just outright insult it, the people who play it, and the people who watch. No respect for anyone anymore. :(

briny bill on 02/06/2008 11:07 am

yeah i sat around playin dragon lair and drinkin apple beer as i wached the super bowl

Autrach Sejanoz on 02/07/2008 12:59 am

Proto, I'm surprised you didn't post links to the articles you wrote about the Super Bowl.

autodidact on 02/07/2008 4:06 am

I quit watching tv a couple years ago. I think it was when somebody gave that Rosie O'Donnell a daily program.

thecatillaccat on 02/08/2008 10:40 pm

Spent it boning my wife, actually.
^_____^

Protoclown on 02/09/2008 10:33 am

You mean married people still do that?? :O

thecatillaccat on 02/09/2008 3:00 pm

Quite often, as a matter of fact.
And then we play Mortal Kombat. I lucked out, I think.

Geminate on 02/10/2008 7:04 pm

Last time I saw the super bowl I was in lock-down on a 51/50 and the ads were just disgusting. Most people seemed to like them, but 'they' were crazy, so that explains it. I went grocery shopping and watched a movie for this year's super bowl, since I would never intentionally watch such garbage.

Captain PirateFace on 02/12/2008 1:47 am

I am late as hell on this one but hey... why not?
I spent "Super Bowl Sunday" working my 2nd job (Loss Prevention at Target) being bored as the store was empty except for the workers, the occasional homeless guy and every once in a while a sweet MILF would come in asking the slightly retarded question of "Do you guys sell beer?"

"No Lady but we got plenty of dumb ass beer logo shirts!"

So, I got paid to watch people walk around Target slightly confused on Super Bowl Sunday and didn't have to tackle and handcuff any meth heads stealing the "Sex and the City" Box Set.

Word

Captain PirateFace on 02/12/2008 1:49 am

Oh and P.S. I am married and can't even recall what my mean ass wife looks like naked.

Captain PirateFace on 02/12/2008 1:51 am

I heard Michael Vick had a dog fight half time routine? Any truth to that?

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