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Post by captainhooker on Feb 8, 2010 13:26:01 GMT -5
I just managed to catch the final quarter. Awesome match this ain't tennis or cricket - it's a "game;" not a "match ;D
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Post by captainhooker on Feb 8, 2010 13:26:16 GMT -5
oh - and GO SAINTS
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Post by disgruntledcolonel on Feb 8, 2010 16:31:11 GMT -5
indeed, go Saints, proof the football gods exist and punish teams throwing away the perfect season. especially when up against explosive teams with a soul. The Colts are now officially the Atlanta Braves of the NFL, and will continue to be so until Manning can lead them to at least a 2nd ring.
Also the reports from SI and ESPN.com indicate that the Superbowl passed the M*A*S*H finale as the most watched television show ever, hitting 106.5 million viewers. How the NFL can even contemplate throwing this away with a lockout over the new labour agreement in 2011/12 just boggles my mind.
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Post by Meshakhad on Feb 8, 2010 23:46:07 GMT -5
I didn't watch the Super Bowl - I was busy playing D&D. One of the PCs got eaten by a giant worm.
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Post by Lady Renae on Feb 11, 2010 12:52:01 GMT -5
I was not talking about the team, I was talking about the city. My fault. I misread. With that said, I am kind of curious about what the city did to deserve the win... New Orleans got massively raped by a horrible hurricane season, an administration that did NOT help them properly, and an internal governing network that STILL isn't getting the job done. People's electric bills still aren't going to their proper addresses, for fuck's sake. No exaggeration, either. I went there last summer, and I sat in a coffee shop that almost got its electric turned off because someone at a completely different address wasn't paying their bill, and it wasn't an isolated incident. The people of New Orleans have been in hard times for far too long, and pretty much nobody who doesn't live there even CARES anymore, but we'll send all our money to fight a gorram war or fifty that we don't really have any tangible benefit from fighting. So yeah, the city really deserves this. It's about time they had some sort of a victory. As to what the Saints themselves did to deserve this, they turned the game of football on its HEAD this year. There's a standard way the Superbowl is played, and it's the most conservatively planned and played game in the entire season. Nobody wants to take huge risks with this if they aren't CERTAIN it'll pay off, so it's almost formulaic the way plays are called. The Saints, on the other hand, took one look at that traditionalist view and said "fuck you very much... I think I'll try this MY way"... AND IT WORKED! They pulled off an onside kick at the beginning of the second half when they were one point ahead. NOBODY DOES THAT! They went for a two-point conversion when they were solidly in the lead. NOBODY DOES THAT! They played fast and loose with risky calls and unorthodox plays and actually got away with it because NOBODY DOES THAT IN THE GORRAM SUPERBOWL! Additionally, the Saints have been seen as cursed for several years because their stadium got built on someone's grave, dunno whose, and they've been hard pressed for wins, so the superstition gets bigger every year, AND THEY TOOK THE SUPERBOWL! This is a game that is going to be talked about for years and may very well result in significant change in the game of football. They went out there with the curse on their heads against returning champions having never won (or if memory serves, even gotten to) a Superbowl game in the team's history, and they brought the world of football to its knees. And I hate football. So you listen and you listen well when I say unto you WHO DAT!!
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