I haven't payed any attention to football since Troy Aikman retired.
These mocking comments really wound me.
There are times I wish I had a damn TV. Apparently you can stream it, but... that is sort of pathetic.
8, as originally drafted: I will have to miss the vulgar spectacle, because I will be listening to Anton Kuerti playing Beethoven. In live performance, the experience of which no recording will ever capture.
It's terrible to witness a mind divided against itself.
I'm really not certain what you're getting at, Jesus.
As a matter of personal and communal safety I left work early on Friday due to the then-pending Snowmageddon. However, I selflessly managed to struggle into DC today for the Caps' monster win over the Penguins 5-4 in overtime featuring a highlight-reel Ovechkin hat trick. Tonight the Super Bowl; next week the Winter Olympics. Truly bread and circuses...
An "eyewitness report":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhUkGIsKvn0
["Fad songs". They're called 'fad songs' by /everybody/.]
10:As an expression of my rage, I think I will be listening tonight to some rock music, in multi-tracked recording which no live performance could ever capture.
Was it someone here who was on about rumors regarding Peyton Manning having some sort of sexual secret? If so was it actually based on anything, or just jocular sports shit-talking?
Ooh!
Which team do you think will win Super Bowl XLIV?
50% - Indianapolis Colts
50% - New Orleans Saints
Total Votes: 89065
So, predictions? I'm on record with the Saints 41-24. But that was with Dwight Freeney out. Now that he's listed as starting, I'm revising downward to Saints 31-27.
Go smelly boys, go!
Olympics soon, the only time you can see ski races in the US, except they don't seem to have ever quite gotten the hang of how to broadcast them. Think Vonn can win a couple golds?
I expect a close game. I'll go with Saints, 31-28 in overtime, won on a field goal.
I'm streaming local sports radio, and am surprised to discover that the callers seem to know even less about football than I do. When called out for not understanding the game or who the players are, they yell, "That's my point! That's my point! I mean, you're right, but that's my point!"
I want the Saints to win, but, more importantly, I want the Colts to lose.
22: Apparently Chomsky says somewhere that sports radio proves that when not deliberately misinformed, average citizens can have well-informed opinions. Someone else pointed out this if Chomsky can listen to sports radio and have that opinion that must know as little about sports as you might have expected.
We watched most of the World Cup season last year on Universal, which we could pick up with rabbit ears.
I guess I'm rooting for the Saints for vague reasons that mostly concern hurricanes.
It seems that it is acceptable on sports radio to want the Saints to win because of hatred for Manning, but not OK to want them to win because of hurricanes.
I will be watching the score and if the game looks good, I'll go into the very cold tv room and watch the rest of it (or until it no longer looks good).
I want the Saints to win because they are possibly the only professional sports team to have a Skids song played before they take the field; I can never remember if Dunfermline Athletic are professionals these days.
Wait, how did that happen? I wrote a comment asking what happened to Brees' face, and 29 came out?
My prediction- total blowout. 51-24 colts.
Unfortunately, I have to concur with 35. Stupid fucking Peyton fucking Dickmanningweed.
Was that a toned down version of the big controversial ad?
Anybody else getting intermittent (but frequent) video distortion, or is it just my crappy cable connection?
38: I haven't seen any of the game.
38: I'm watching over-the-air, and the.
At 3-0, Indianopolis has [undefined] as many points as New Orleans. That can't be a good sign.
Forgive my naivete, but why is Manning so hated?
OK, I realize it happened an hour ago, but I wanted to register a complaint against Queen Latifa's America the Beautiful. Not only for the awful faux improvising, but also, how come we now need two patriotic songs at the beginning of the game?
I actually thought she was starting the national anthem with the "Oh..." and accidentally went into the wrong song.
Yeah, it only occured to me halfway through that she wasn't singing the Banner.
20:I have an Olympic Sports channel (I think that is what it is) with my full cable package.
Currently: Women's Luge from Cesano Italy, followed by Figure Skating from South Korea
It's not that I want Peyton Manning to suffer a terrible injury and lose the Super Bowl; I just want him not to win. Or play.
The field appears to be pretty slippery.
Oddly, the comment posted at 60 is what I wrote.
Actually I rather like wolfson's python scripts that replace comments.
Huh, I thought for sure that would get replaced.
"My Generation" remixed by will.i.am? Shoot me now.
Movable Type is written in Perl, sifu.
Apparently I'm nine years late with this information, but I didn't realize John Entwistle had died.
Quoth a friend of mine: "Live from the planet Neptar: The Who."
Is it just me, or are some of these commercials unusually offensive, even for professional football?
Great game so far, though, so it's all good.
76: You didn't like that Dodge ad, Brock? "I deign to not act like a asshole pig creature -- NOW LET ME DRIVE THE CAR I DESERVE!"
Most stunning ad I saw today (click on my name):
... over-the-top sarcastic video. It comes across as not Net-savvy simply by being three minutes too
long. It also seems self-conflicted as to whether Campbell is a sheep, or a wolf in sheep's clothing.
But hang in there until the 2:30 mark, where a guy prances around on his hands and knees in a sort of
Terminator Sheep outfit.
Is neb's script just changing comments at random? Or is there something that triggers it?
It doesn't matter, essear, I don't think.
I'm just listening to the radio and watching the graphic representation of what's going on. Is there basically no defense in this game?
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$comment->text("Actually I rather like football.");
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$comment->text("Football sucks.");
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$comment->author("Sifu Tweety");
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return $app->handle_error("I don't get it.
Great, start 'em young.");
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If no one can give an answer to 49, I'm just going to assume all the professed Manning hatred is just a ruse.
Neb should use switch.
Or at least however perl spells "else if". These have been added over a long period, but I promise that if the logic gets too complicated I'll refactor.
This thread is for all Super Bowl comments, but is it only for Super Bowl comments?
Google "hate peyton manning." Can't come up with specifics, but apparently he's a whore?
92 was actually an articulate answer to 85, but fuck it. You can blame nosflow for your ignorance on this issue, Parenthetical.
Really, really hate nosflow right now.
(I did as AWB suggests earlier in the day and couldn't come up with anything.)
Charles Barkley has gotten quite large.
At least our comments aren't being replaced by this.
99: Oh, I knew about that. It didn't seem surprising enough to be the cause of so much hatred. Don't many football players lean Republican and spout anti-gay rhetoric?
It's enough to be unable to comment at all.
Go Saints.
Do you reckon that Eli Manning is feeling a glow of satisfaction and joy right now?
But, um, thanks. Appreciate the links. Didn't mean to sound ungrateful.
106: Apparently he's personally loathsome, too?
His face seems to come in for a lot of abuse.
110: Must be it! I enjoyed the Facebook page devoted to hating him.
If you already knew all that, then there's no reason to ask. The additional hate is just the kind of well-informed rational opinion-making Chomsky celebrates.
Manning and Tebow compared. How did the ad turn out, anyway?
Lord I loathe those GoDaddy commercials.
114: I've just seen it everywhere and couldn't make sense of it - but I'm not a big sports person so I suppose I should have just accepted it as yet another mystery.
The ad was surprisingly understated- it didn't even mention abortion or even what happened, just mentioned that he almost didn't make it, and read more at focusonthefamily. And then he started making out with Peyton.
And then he started making out with Peyton
So it was an Axe ad, too?
Sorry, Parenthetical. It was not meant for your ken.
Peyton Manning is famous for being a petty little asshole, and for blaming other people when he chokes. I believe Snark was trying to post a link to this illustrative story.
Watching Peyton gaze condescendingly upon Eli two Super Bowls ago (and then grudgingly, still condescendingly, see Eli win) made quite an impression on me. It certainly didn't make him look like less of a dickweed.
Eli Manning being Peyton's slightly more sympathetic and less golden-boy brother, starting quarterback for the Giants.
Thanks, rfts and snarkout!
(And honestly, Go Saints. Even if I'm not allowed to root for them for hurricane-related reasons.)
Or maybe that should be Yay, Saints.
Let me point out again that had Manning not won the one Super Bowl, against a badly outclassed team by the way, he would never have won a single thing in his entire life. Who, I wonder, will write the first article suggesting that he's overrated?
Oh fuck this shit, man. Forgot to copy that long comment.
131: Well, except 4 NFL MVP awards and 1 Pro Bowl MVP award.
134: I agree that he's a great quarterback. But just wait: someone is going to write an article making the point that he's not really a winner.
134: And by the way, that Pro Bowl MVP award is something to be proud of! You should see my softball trophies!
And yes, I know he's a great quarterback. And he played well tonight. But he's no Bernie Kosar.
Let me point out again that had Manning not won the one Super Bowl, against a badly outclassed team by the way, he would never have won a single thing in his entire life. Who, I wonder, will write the first article suggesting that he's overrated?
Just today I read a chowderhead on either SI or Yahoo Sports arguing that you needed to compare Peyton to Joe Montana and Johnny Unitas (and, randomly, Jim Brown) as TGOAT, football edition. You just don't understand football, Ari.
> And he played well tonight.
Except for the part where he CHOAKED.
Aw, TGOAT made me think of the PGOAT.
Oh fuck this shit, man. Forgot to copy that long comment.
Just hit the back button; in Firefox at least your comment will be there.
143: Not in Chrome. Trying to wean myself off FF, which has sucked recently.
127: I made this argument when ogged brought up the stuff in that article, and I'll make it again: I appreciate the fact that Manning was willing to blame his O-line for the loss against the Steelers. I don't need to hear "I just want to give it my best shot, and the good Lord willing, things will work out" yet again.
I mean, fuck him for giving money to Bush in '04, but other than that I'm cool with him.
Who, I wonder, will write the first article suggesting that he's overrated?
I thought someone wrote that article back when Tennessee won the nationalish title the year after he graduated.
145: You, sir, are a leader! I will follow you into battle!
146: Other than the weird mustache and peculiar ideas about Jews, Hitler was supposed to have been a pretty good guy.
Godwin is history's greatest monster.
Yay Saints, I guess. More important, how was I supposed to know that Portland charges for parking on Sunday now? And how the fuck is $40 any kind of reasonable sum for a parking ticket?
And how the fuck is $40 any kind of reasonable sum for a parking ticket?
Printed on Corinthian Leather?
145 - I can appreciate that argument in the abstract, but then you get things like this: "We played well in the first playoff game, played well two weeks ago. We just didn't make enough plays against the Saints," Manning said. There is no "we" in "I", unless we are to infer that over Peyton's strenuous objections, Jim Caldwell, Joseph Addai, Reggie Wayne, and Clint Session threw an interception with the Colts down by 7 and three minutes to play.
154: also, he's a fake-ass tool. It's important to remember that.
155: Look, not everyone can be Agent Zero, okay? (Although the world would be a better place if they could.)
158 was a meta-commentary describing my intention for 157, which was riffing on 150 but pwned by 151.
I should do shit like this on all the threads.
Yeah but you feel that way about everything.
160: You forget that some of us know where you live and can get there easily.
I guess the "-----" bit of the script was only added for the second "Football sucks" thread? But why was it added to retroactively apply to the first one?
But why was it added to retroactively apply to the first one?
LIFE CYCLE OF THAT BIT
1. In the beginning, the outermost (at that time the only) conditional just tested whether the entry_id was 8170. The true branch caused the comment text to be replaced with "Football sucks."
2. The action was changed so that it first checked whether the text already contained "Football sucks", changing the text to "Actually, I rather like football." if so.
3. The outermost conditional gained a disjunct. (Since at that time I didn't intend to change the true path, there would have been no reason to make a new conditional that did the same thing.)
4. Since Sifu started putting his entire comment (or as much as would fit in the field) into the Name field, a new inner condition was added that checked the URL field of the comment and replaced the Name if the URL field included the string "poorman".
So you see, it wasn't added to retroactively apply. It's just that the way it was added was such that it did retroactively apply. By that time, obviously, it didn't matter anyway, so…
Can we go ahead and storm the NYT building now?
AS dangerous as it may be to generalize, it is probably safe to say that few folks think of Marcel Proust as they watch the Super Bowl. But for the advertising bowl that took place inside Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday, it was one long remembrance of things past -- with candy bars, mobile phones and beer bottles standing in for madeleines.
I realize they only have a short time to write this shit, but when in doubt, why not go with something simple and descriptive? Or perhaps the writer knew this was his one shot to make sure someone he wants to impress finds out he read [the sparknotes for] RoTP?
170: I thought the cool kids called it ISoLT now. Anyway, ghastly lede. The Times should hire some editors.
Unfoggedetariat poll of the day: What percentage of journalists who mention the famous cookies in their articles have actually read the book, or even the first volume?
Speaking of terrible writing in the NYT, I'm just now reading Friday's article on Sade, which contained this oddly discourteous usage of scare quotes:
For the last five years Sade has had what she calls a "partner," Ian Watts. They live together in rural Gloucestershire, England's west country, where they are raising Sade's 13-year-old daughter, Ila, and Mr. Watts's 18-year-old son, Jack. Sade is considering marriage.
Huh? That's not what "Sade . . . calls a 'partner'" -- that's really just a partner.
No, the cool kids just say "The Recherche".
I've read that Alain de Botton book on Proust, but no Proust.
I confess that I'm only halfway through ISoLT the Recherche.
Unfoggedetariat poll of the day: What percentage of journalists who mention the famous cookies in their articles have actually read the book, or even the first volume?
0.5% and 3% respectively are my guesses, but the former might be too high. (I've never read any of it.)
Looks like A la recherche du temps Purdue is still available for someone looking to write a college memoir.
I suspect that the guesses in 180 are too high by a factor of, oh, one hundred.
My favorite books are Tristram and ISoLT.
180 You should, it's amazing. Though I never finished it: got part of the way into the fifth volume, then orals studying came up and I've never gotten back into it. It requires a major dedication of time and focus, not the kind of text you can read in small snippets on an occasional basis. Still the most intense reading experience I've ever had, the only book which temporarily altered the way I see things. Literally, not metaphorically - I'd walk down the street and and see buildings and objects differently, plus experience movement and food and just about everything else in a new strange very detail focused manner.
Comment 181 brought to you by being able to use the back button in Firefox. I've tried out Chrome and can see the appeal for some things - it's really fast - but I just don't see what it does that I'm not finding with FF, and I have some extensions in FF that I rely on a lot. I suppose I could use FF for zotero only, but I don't see why.
Looks like A la recherche du temps Purdue is still available for someone looking to write a college memoir.
I think that's the giant series the guy at Basketbawful did last year.
I got the effect described in 186 just from the first ten pages.
Also: Proust can be scathingly funny at the expense of his characters. Not unlike Musil, come to think of it.
Musil couldn't even finish reading his own novel, why should I?
I was satisfied enough at the end of the first volume of The Man without Qualities that I haven't bothered to read the (admittedly much larger and more imposing let alone more fragmentary) second volume.
Argh. Why are some lit comments killed and and not others?
Why this obsession with Christian exemplars?
Doesn't it invest every act of hitting "post" with an existential frisson?
It does result in more intercessionary prayer.
Arg. I must go to bed. There is no work tomorrow. But, eventually it will resume and I will be ass-dragging.
Sporting thread or audio thread:
swimming with underwater iPhone case ?
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/01/20/fashion/20100121-physical-slideshow_6.html
Listen to an amusing podcast and be rolling on the bottom of the lake, laughing your lungs out.
filterbate: football
so, we were rooting for the saints, eh?
I didn't realize John Entwistle had died.
Like a rock star should: in a Vegas hotel room, surrounded by hookers and blow.
Thread is dead and gone, but I heard on the radio this morning that all of 11 fans were on hand to greet the Colts when they returned to Indy after the Super Bowl.
206: That is a little bit contempible. Don't American teams command any loyalty?
208: Apprently not in Indiana-no-place.
I didn't realize the "greet the team when it returns at the airport" thing actually happened. How do people know when and where the plane will be?
Last year, 4000 people were on hand to greet the Cardinals after their Super Bowl loss.
The mob at the Pittsburgh airport when the Penguins won their first Cup was legendary - over ten thousand people, iirc. I believe that one of the players couldn't get his car out of its lot for some reason, and he ended up just going home and partying with a fan.