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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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 Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject: Superbowl: Seahawks flying ugly |
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I grew up a Seahawks fan, probably because I was in the nearby Canadian province of B.C. but I always said they looked cool, had the nicest jerseys.
But the jerseys these days (as I see today for the first time in years) are so UGLY. As a fan of blue, that blue has to be about the worst shade/tone I've ever seen. And also the jersey's are plain.
And the players have blubber hanging out everywhere like a sumo wrestler (effect of my living in Korea I guess).
3-0 after the first quarter on a silly looking field goal.
I have changed, for sure, and the Superbowl doesn't look like much any more. I feel like I've lost my childhood eyes and am seeing the game for the first time. All those players falling down, ball carriers stumbling, rolling. Not a good aesthetic.
I can understand why 95 % of the world's peoples haven't taken to the sport much.
This one live game a year is more than enough for me.
signed,
an ex-fan |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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The Super Bowl is a bloated, over-commercialized, over-hyped bit of pedantry that borders on self-parody. 3 seconds of action at time, five replays of a player running forward two yards, no crowd atmosphere inside the ground. I think it's telling when one of the major talking points of the biggest NFL match of the year is the anticipation of what ads will be shown.
Zzzzzzzzz. |
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hack
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| indytrucks wrote: |
The Super Bowl is a bloated, over-commercialized, over-hyped bit of pedantry that borders on self-parody. 3 seconds of action at time, five replays of a player running forward two yards, no crowd atmosphere inside the ground. I think it's telling when one of the major talking points of the biggest NFL match of the year is the anticipation of what ads will be shown.
Zzzzzzzzz. |
Another Brit waxing poetic on something he knows nothing about. May god have mercy on your soul. |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| indytrucks wrote: |
The Super Bowl is a bloated, over-commercialized, over-hyped bit of pedantry that borders on self-parody. 3 seconds of action at time, five replays of a player running forward two yards, no crowd atmosphere inside the ground. I think it's telling when one of the major talking points of the biggest NFL match of the year is the anticipation of what ads will be shown.
Zzzzzzzzz. |
A friend of mine called it "The Stupor Bowl" today. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| hack wrote: |
If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi |
If you're going to have this is your sig on every post- you can expect a bit of flack.
So that's it then? Superbowl over for another year? |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| go steelers!! |
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hack
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
| hack wrote: |
If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi |
If you're going to have this is your sig on every post- you can expect a bit of flack.
So that's it then? Superbowl over for another year? |
Yeah, all over, but now the interesting time of the year for hockey and basketball s coming up and spring camps will be opening for baseball next month and Tiger is on a big roll again. It's all good. Oh yeah, and there's some kind of nancy tournament going on in Germany later this year so all the Zeropeans can get together and fight each other in the stands.
Check out all the superbowl ads here
http://sports.aol.com/nfl/superbowlads |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:18 am Post subject: |
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but see, you knew that the World Cup's is on this year- I haven't got a frigging clue what the deal is for the rest of the US sports calendar.
The World Cup finals are a two week long, truly global sporting event- the Superbowl is a regional advertising opportunity. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:38 am Post subject: |
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Great link with the Super Bowl ads, Hack.
FedEx's Caveman and Budweisers' Clydesdale streaker got my vote.
Both in the first quarter. |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:30 am Post subject: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
| the Superbowl is a regional advertising opportunity. |
That, and an opportunity for 10 minute versions of the national anthem, players crotchgrabbing, mugging it up for the cameras and for lame chants of "We're number 1."
Excitement galore. I had nothing better to do this morning and actually watched it. Clocked in at a mere 4 hours 25 minutes.
The CL final from last year paled in comparison, I tell you. |
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Reflections
Joined: 04 Jan 2005
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| Not being a Brit waxing poet, but from downunder, I find it highly amusing | |
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