Football 2008

honor man wrote:http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/9115584/Marinelli-apologizes-for-%27ladies%27-comment?MSNHPHMA


people are so fucking sensitive its pathetic

I imagine in that case, it was more retaliatory. The complaint came from The Association for Women in Sports Media, and Marinelli has had a good little back-and-forth going on with the media in general lately anyway. Just being in the media, they were probably pissed at him already, and it gave them a chance to push back on him.

Talon wrote:It's so gay there's an off-week.

It's even gayer that next year they're playing the Pro Bowl in that off week. I don't care about the Pro Bowl now and won't care about it then.

They should instead have a big shouting contest. I'd watch Jim Mora and Denny Green go at it.

I'd rather see a skills competition-like event much rather than an all star game for any sport really.

Talon wrote:It's so gay there's an off-week.

yeah, nobody cares about the pro bowl and they never will

911 wrote:I'd rather see a skills competition-like event much rather than an all star game for any sport really.

yeah, we should send a letter to roger goodell. fuck the pro bowl.

911 wrote:I'd rather see a skills competition-like event much rather than an all star game for any sport really.

Yea, I definitely enjoy that part of the Hockey All-Star weekend more than the game itself

honor man wrote:

911 wrote:I'd rather see a skills competition-like event much rather than an all star game for any sport really.

yeah, we should send a letter to roger goodell. fuck the pro bowl.

I would, but I'm afraid I'd get fined.

lol

lol +1

http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/01/the-most-awful-super-bowl-video-in-history.html

This is the most assclencheningly painful thing I've ever watched in my entire miserable existence

dear god. that's the kind of bullshit that corporations make their employees do to inspire team building or whatever the fuck. it's really amazing that the idiots running these shitty companies all hatch these same idiotic plans with the same inevitable outcome.

I made it less than 20 seconds into that.

So there was an ad for the GI Joe movie just before the Super Bowl. Looks like Cobra's up to their nefarious non-sensical ways, doing things like toppling the Eiffel Tower with some sort of fungus.

dear god.

i don't even have the game on. i'm watching the federer/nadal final of the australian open. good match. their rivalry is turning out to be a good one.

I watched most of that this morning. It was a damn good match.

wow warner just got his socks roxed

What a way to end the half!

the federer coverage ended just before pittsburg ran back that turnover. looks like that was probably the end of the game. the cardinals can't get anything going.

Sixburgh!

Man, that was a hell of a game. I wanted Arizona to win, but it was still a fun game to watch, especially at the end.

JaysonAych wrote:Sixburgh!

Man, that was a hell of a game. I wanted Arizona to win, but it was still a fun game to watch, especially at the end.

Yeah, agreed. I still can't help but wonder what the Eagles would have done against the Steelers.

well they beat them in the regular season. the eagles could have been in that game, they shot themselves in the foot

holy fuck pittsburg handed arizona that game on a platter, and arizona's defense fucking blew it. glad i didn't put any money on that shit.

great second half, though. nice to see a couple of superbowls that don't suck.

Why, why, why did Arizona wait until the fourth quarter to start throwing to Larry Fitz? Two TD's in the fourth for him... maybe they should have started throwing it to him earlier!

And I cannot believe that last fumble wasn't reviewed. That could have very easily been overturned.

Talon wrote:Why, why, why did Arizona wait until the fourth quarter to start throwing to Larry Fitz? Two TD's in the fourth for him... maybe they should have started throwing it to him earlier!

And I cannot believe that last fumble wasn't reviewed. That could have very easily been overturned.

I'm normally not one to blame officials for a game loss, but that non-review of the "fumble" at the end (his arm looked like it was going forward to me), a couple other really questionable calls against Arizona that stood, plus the fact that they had to challenge to get two calls overturned...there's been bad officiating all season, and there was definitely some bad officiating in that game and it all seemed to be against Arizona. Good teams find ways to rise above things like that though, and they nearly did, so I'm not using that as an excuse, but if any Cardinal fan said they were dicked over by officials, I really couldn't fault them for thinking that.

THE FIX WAS IN. THE MOB IS BACK!!!!!!!1

JaysonAych wrote:

Talon wrote:Why, why, why did Arizona wait until the fourth quarter to start throwing to Larry Fitz? Two TD's in the fourth for him... maybe they should have started throwing it to him earlier!

And I cannot believe that last fumble wasn't reviewed. That could have very easily been overturned.

I'm normally not one to blame officials for a game loss, but that non-review of the "fumble" at the end (his arm looked like it was going forward to me), a couple other really questionable calls against Arizona that stood, plus the fact that they had to challenge to get two calls overturned...there's been bad officiating all season, and there was definitely some bad officiating in that game and it all seemed to be against Arizona. Good teams find ways to rise above things like that though, and they nearly did, so I'm not using that as an excuse, but if any Cardinal fan said they were dicked over by officials, I really couldn't fault them for thinking that.

I was thinking the same thing... both Steelers SB's (in the last few years) are marked with controversy.

Even if they didn't overturn it, at least review it. I think saying that's a review worthy play is an understatement. Apparently the officials (the ones in the booth that are supposed to buzz the guys on the field within the last two mins) didn't think so.

I tuned into the game just in time for the 100 yd touchdown.

Talon wrote:

JaysonAych wrote:

Talon wrote:Why, why, why did Arizona wait until the fourth quarter to start throwing to Larry Fitz? Two TD's in the fourth for him... maybe they should have started throwing it to him earlier!

And I cannot believe that last fumble wasn't reviewed. That could have very easily been overturned.

I'm normally not one to blame officials for a game loss, but that non-review of the "fumble" at the end (his arm looked like it was going forward to me), a couple other really questionable calls against Arizona that stood, plus the fact that they had to challenge to get two calls overturned...there's been bad officiating all season, and there was definitely some bad officiating in that game and it all seemed to be against Arizona. Good teams find ways to rise above things like that though, and they nearly did, so I'm not using that as an excuse, but if any Cardinal fan said they were dicked over by officials, I really couldn't fault them for thinking that.

I was thinking the same thing... both Steelers SB's (in the last few years) are marked with controversy.

Even if they didn't overturn it, at least review it. I think saying that's a review worthy play is an understatement. Apparently the officials (the ones in the booth that are supposed to buzz the guys on the field within the last two mins) didn't think so.

They were saying that the booth officials looked at it and said it was a fumble and didn't bother getting the field refs to look at it. Which is ridiculous...the last play of a close thrilling game...have them take a look at it! Not to say Arizona would have won; they still had to face some long odds to get the touchdown. But at least have the refs look it over to be sure.

Especially since they didn't call that 15 yard celebration penalty on Santonio Holmes for the preceding TD.

how about that one steeler (forget who it was) punching the cardinal and not getting penalized?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/02/02/sports/20090202_superbowl_twitter.html

Kinda cool...an interactive time lapse Twitter map showing what was being tweeted most at various points of the game.

What the hell is twitter?

Its that thing you do after a good pee.

thewalrus wrote:What the hell is twitter?

It's like a blog, only your maximum length for each entry is 140 characters. It's meant to be something easy to use for people with cell phones and short attention spans.

twitter really took off. everybody is using it. i need to sign up.

Aristotle wrote:twitter really took off. everybody is using it. i need to sign up.

I don't have a twitter, I don't have a myspace, and I have an empty facebook profile.

I'm so out of the loop.

i just signed up for twitter

http://twitter.com/functiondance

sign up, jayson!

you, too, wally.

Okay, I'm creeping toward the 21st century

https://twitter.com/DaytonaTurboJ

The A-11 Offense is dead R.I.P.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Weekend-Out-The-future-is-dead-R-I-P-A-11-?urn=ncaaf,141441

Dickholes.