Sunday!
Everybody’s second-favorite football team takes on everybody’s most hated team in a rematch of Superbowl XXXIX.
We’re playing in Minneapolis, Minnesota and emotions are high. The main question on everybody’s mind is “will the difference between the winners and the losers be exactly 3 points?”
Pink will be singing the National Anthem and Justin Timberlake will be performing at the halftime show and you just know that the announcers are going to mention the “Wardrobe Malfunction” from Superbowl XXXVIII.
And something about how Americans will eat 104.9 million pounds of avocados (but those numbers are from the Avocado People so I’m not sure that those numbers can really be trusted).
Are you doing anything for the game? Who do you think will win?
Are the refs compromised?
Should we go back and revisit the 2011 divisional round game between the Broncos and the Patriots and see if Tebow got ripped off?
Are you reading and/or watching something else entirely?
When I got to the Philidelphia airport at around 7 am Friday morn, it was packed with Bird Brains (Eagles fans, I just made that up though…) All going to Minneapolis for the even greater cold.
I will probably have the game on, but I am just looking for good football. I am trying to get caught up with house projects, so rewiring the doorbell, hanging art, maybe mowing if the sun comes out, that sort of thing.
Did pick up an interesting book the other day, The Silk Roads, an attempt to reframe world history in a less Eurocentric model, moving to a central Asian framework. Not bad so far.Report
I read that one too. I think the author’s kind of a nut on the subject (wait till the last chapter about modernity), but he has a lot of interesting ideas.
I don’t know nearly enough linguistics to know if his take on the development of Indo-European languages makes sense or not.Report
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Gravas partopreni grandaj kulturaj okazajoj.Report
luktfrenezo estas pli grava, cxu ne?Report
Luktfrenezo?
Martofrenezo povus esti pli grava. Dependas de via konatoj.Report
I can’t believe with the Boston & Philly sports radio fanbases being front and center in the past couple weeks, it’s here where I’d ask people to watch their language.Report
Nation Dutifully Gets In Cars, Stands In Line, Watches New Star Wars Movie
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E-A-G-L-E-S, EAGLES!
Sadly, I think the Pats win… close first half with the D-line harassing Brady and Pederson putting Foles in the right spots to maintain drives. Second half adjustments favor the Pats and when plays are needed, Brady makes a few mpre than the Eagles can muster.
BUT… if Cox, Jenkins, and the Eagles D can put up a banner day with 2+ turnovers and/or a score, I think they take it.Report
As a proud son of Boston, I will be rooting for the indisputably lovable, scrappy underdogs, a team I like to think represents not only my ancestral home, but all of America: the New England Patriots.Report
I declined to take part in the office pool because I know nothing about football. Weather is nice in SF, might go for a walk and hang out in the park.
Sports continue to confound me. I saw this meme/joke on the net about a guy who had tickets to the Superbowl but didn’t realize it conflicted with his wedding date. He asked if anyone wanted to take his place. The joke being that take his place meant as the groom at the wedding.
I don’t understand why that is supposed to be funny.Report
I prefer pro wrestling, myself. At least you get a narrative.
But it’s a large cultural event and being conversant in large cultural events provides social lubricant for a lot of subcultures. For example, I know that my office will be talking about the WrestleMania of Football tomorrow and I will, at least, want to google the score throughout the game to be able to make jokes with them.Report
You don’t understand that things are important to people?
Or why this particular thing is important to that particular person?
Do you think that lack of understanding is more about you or more about that person?
(Also, the whole point of those pools is they don’t require any knowledge of football and allow such people to feel a little invested in something that may otherwise be meaningless to them.)Report
Jaybird, I want to know everything about the Avocado People. They can’t possibly be what I’m picturing.Report
Picture a Mole Person.
Then picture 6.02 x 10^23 of them.Report
@kolohe almost fell out of my chair. thank you.Report
the art of making bets here Report
Huh.
Didn’t see that particular finish coming.
Good for them.Report
The Patriots never put Super Bowls away. Other than last year, when they scored the TD in overtime, they’d never won one by more than 4. So when something goes wring with their last come-from-behind drive, they lose.
The 49ers? 5 victories, 3 by blowouts.Report
I enjoyed the tacos and margaritas more than the game.
I enjoyed fooling around with the girlfriend on the sofa more than the food.
I went home at half time and played half life.Report
Is it a East/West of the Mississippi thing? Say what you will about the Patriots vs. the Falcons, but that felt interesting in a way that this year’s game didn’t.Report
What I saw of the game was decent. The games usually bore me and this had some good entertainment, but I just don’t really care about watching sports on tv.
Oddly, I find professional golf interesting and the “lumberjack” competitions interesting too.Report
Ugh, the purple idiots extorted all that dough out of us for a new stadium and then didn’t manage to make it to the final game and traffic has been awful. The entirety of football can get off my lawn.Report