Hoping the 49ers pull it out. Went to undergrad with Kap and he is one helluva nice guy...actually covered the Nevada football team for Yahoo! Sports for a while, he and Coach Ault were always a pleasure to be around.
I'm going climbing. I don't GET football, though I hope ya'll enjoy your little game.
I made a big mistake and went climbing yesterday. Now I'm worried that if it becomes known that I was not climbing today but did not watch television, I might have my visa revoked.
I only watch Football when the 49ers (my native town team) are in the Superbowl. That and the 1967 Superbowl I, when my guy (I was into it for a couple of years) Bart Star did his thing. My best friend lost some hard earned coin on that one. The rest is mllch to me.
Could somebody explain why if a professional sports business is located in a certain town then most of the residents immediately become fans of "their" team?
Between the ammo crunch and the bowl I bet I could have the range to myself today (but I'd like to see the ads).
It didn't happen. The fog was supposed to burn off, like it has for a couple days now. If the Sun is out, you can climb with abandon.
Stupid inversion. Grrrrr. Ah well, I DO have a couple books I haven't started yet.
mechrist, great point. Entertainment, the hyper sports world and meaningless shee gets huge salary.
Many jobs that have content and meaning get much less. Go figure. But I have to think it has something to do with the vacuous brains of the audiences that support and promote entertainment. Not everyone of course. But if you buy People Mag and others perhaps a contribution of equal amount should be sent to people in real need.
Oh just a wild and crazy thought. Hope I didn't rock the boat. lynne
I didn't see much of the first half, but it seemed like the niners were able to move the ball, they just made too many mistakes. One fumble and one interception during decent drives. They were down 17 in the semi finals, and won.
OK, I rescind my San Francisco citizenship renouncement up thread. You think they'll take me back? May or may not win, but at least its become a respectable showing. ha
Now I get it. I was in a sushi bar around 5 PM when this macho looking lady sang. Beyonce, you say? There were also some men in tights...
What a circus!
I liked the sushi, though!
I was watching the game at the Sweetwater Cafe and Music Hall in Mill Valley on the giant 12 foot screen. When the Calvin Klein ad came on, the women in the crowd were loudly cheering and hollering with an exuberance unlike anything I've ever seen...
I was deeply offended by the blatant objectification and exploitation of the male model. I've been led to believe that women were much more more evolved than this! By comparison, the men quietly enjoying the SuperTopo boob thread were more respectful of the female form, and better behaved.
Patrick, take it from an olde defensive back, he gave as well as he got.
That was a good non-call. What wasn't reported at the time was the far more
egregious non-call on the other side against Walker - he got flipping tackled!
That said the Niners' play-calling in the Red Zone was atrocious. Also
totally unreported was the third down play that Kaepernick missed Crabtree
on at the goal line.* Not only should he never have thrown that ball, as
Crabtree was blanketed, but he missed a wide-open Walker right over the
middle. There wasn't a Raven within 5 yards of him. Those announcers sucked.
Goddamn it, being a 49er fan, I knew that Obama had a hand in their loss. Those Midwesterners and East Coasters just don't like us Westerners. And I guess since the Redskins didn't make it, Obama and the NFL decided to give it to the boys down the road.
That said the Niners' play-calling in the Red Zone was atrocious.
Reilly, you know your football!
Once the Niners had first and goal from the 8 on their last possesion,
I would have run at them with Gore or Kaepernick read options all 4 downs,
I didn't like the play calling in the red zone either!
I was watching the game at the Sweetwater Cafe and Music Hall in Mill Valley on the giant 12 foot screen. When the Calvin Klein ad came on, the women in the crowd were loudly cheering and hollering with an exuberance unlike anything I've ever seen...
That is awful, it is demeaning. Subjectifying the male body like that. Those ladies should be soooooo ashamed. I am sure the ad agency for CK did not intend to send that kind of sexist message. Dirty minded girls. Tsk tsk for shame.
Did any one notice Williams #29 of the Ravens aggressively push that ref in the first half? Both teams got called for personal foul in the scuffle so the penalties cancelled each other. But I thought pushing a ref would have been a separate personal foul of its own, or a mandatory fine or something. It doesn't seem right to me that nothing was made of it.
I'm disillusioned. Think sometimes these games are predetermined as to win or loss.
Yeah, touching a referee is often a separate penalty and a player can be immediately ejected for it.
Used to watch a lot of sports on the tube, but gave up TV 5 years ago. Can't say I miss it. Filled the time watching others do what they what to do with what I've always wanted to do.
So now it's don't watch, lynnie, learn it, do it, live it.
But if I do watch it's near the end. In any sport that's when it happens.
Who the hell dressed Ray Lewis...? Leg brace on his arm..Panty hose on his head and the special forces facial makeup...Was there an award for worst dressed linebacker...?
You have to love Baltimore.....soft shell crabs! SF....coldest summers in America.
Jim
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco - Mark Twain
And remember he worked on the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, during the winter.
And I am proud to say that this great writer is in my family tree (can't get him out. Called the fire department but he still won't come down).
Before hitting the Oregon Trail in 1843, the Sawyers lived in St Joseph, Missouri. Samuel Langhorne Clemens grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. When he wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (an autobiography for the most part), he borrowed his cousins' name (the St Joe Sawyers) for the character's surname.
What does this have to do with the Super Bowl? Nada.
So, having not seen the game, did the best team win? Or is that a subjective question?
PS I love soft shell crabs. Hard to find here in Dublin. Yo! Sushi does a soft shell crab tempura.
Also, growing up in the Diablo Valley, in the sun with cut-offs and sandals, then heading west to SF, one needed a sweater and jeans. I worked in SF and played football (soccer) there too. It can be cold.
Let us know!