Super Bowl XLVIII and NFL Thread: Sherman's March to Jersey

[MountieBoyOz]

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I really don't get how we've become so angry in society. It's just a freaking commercial. I bet you that "Teach the World to Sing" commercial from back in the day would get ripped as a piece of Socialist propaganda.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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As for the Coke commercial. It is stupid to be outraged over something so silly. I'm not going to stop buying Coke because of some commercial. I did think it was stupid, but for the same reasons Dx mentions, it just didn't work. The second Coke commercial, at Lambeau, on the other hand, I thought was decent.

I guess I don't get the hate for all of the car commercials. I thought the distribution of good ones to crappy ones was about the same as all of the commercials. In fact, probably my favorite commercial was a car commercial, the Muppet one, with Terry Crews. I believe it was for Toyota. I also liked the Chevy Silverado commercial with the bull, lookin' for love. The Audi Sarah McLachlan commercial was an Audi commercial, and that one was great in a w.t.f. kind of way.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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I knew right away that the Coke commercial with the different languages would OUTRAGE a certain segment. All too predictable and about as surprising as the sun coming up.

My guess is that they knew this too when they conceptualized it.

 

[Chickens@NU]

Yes.

Winner. Thread over.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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I knew right away that the Coke commercial with the different languages would OUTRAGE a certain segment. All too predictable and about as surprising as the sun coming up.

My guess is that they knew this too when they conceptualized it.

Probably. I just wish they spent the time on thinking up a better way to execute the idea than the borefest they put out there. That commercial had so much potential but if you didn't watch the screen and only listened to the song, you'd swear it was for some post-apocalyptic video game commercial. I swear I've seen one like that before.

 

[pirate]

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I really don't get how we've become so angry in society. It's just a freaking commercial. I bet you that "Teach the World to Sing" commercial from back in the day would get ripped as a piece of Socialist propaganda.

We all need to consider that a new tactic is to be at the ready with counter-tweets. No doubt there are plenty of idiots who sincerely felt the coke commercial was wrong. No doubt there are people who support their position, and detract from their opponents, by posting the exact opposite of their position, creating a greater backlash on the backlashers. The first polulation are not organized...the second may not be truly organized but they aren't isolated individuals with no purpose in mind.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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We all need to consider that a new tactic is to be at the ready with counter-tweets. No doubt there are plenty of idiots who sincerely felt the coke commercial was wrong. No doubt there are people who support their position, and detract from their opponents, by posting the exact opposite of their position, creating a greater backlash on the backlashers. The first polulation are not organized...the second may not be truly organized but they aren't isolated individuals with no purpose in mind.

See, this is the problem I'm talking about. We're trying to have a meaningful conversation in 140 characters or less. Silly. Twatter represents, or at least lenses, the worse parts of society. A bunch of loudmouths without a filter that represent the fifth standard deviation away from the mean. It's silly to even pay them any attention at all.

 

[Jon]

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Was that the worst Super Bowl of all time? Or just the worst one involving the Broncos? This is a replay of every Super Bowl when I was a kid that did not involve the Bengals.

 

[Jon]

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See, this is the problem I'm talking about. We're trying to have a meaningful conversation in 140 characters or less. Silly. Twatter represents, or at least lenses, the worse parts of society. A bunch of loudmouths without a filter that represent the fifth standard deviation away from the mean. It's silly to even pay them any attention at all.

The best thing you can say about Twitter is that the comments section on You Tube is worse.

 

[Rover]

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Was that the worst Super Bowl of all time? Or just the worst one involving the Broncos? This is a replay of every Super Bowl when I was a kid that did not involve the Bengals.

Dallas-Buffalo was pretty bad, as was SF-Denver IIRC.

 

[MountieBoyOz]

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See, this is the problem I'm talking about. We're trying to have a meaningful conversation in 140 characters or less. Silly. Twatter represents, or at least lenses, the worse parts of society. A bunch of loudmouths without a filter that represent the fifth standard deviation away from the mean. It's silly to even pay them any attention at all.

So we have canned jingoism xenophobia and racism? Outstanding. Thanks, internet. Unfortunately these idiots have made enough of an impression that they have some voice in society.

 

[aparch]

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Speaking of Twatters, I'm amazed at how many morons suddenly added a spammer account on the promise of Esurances $1.5 Million. All people needed to do was use a hashtag. They didn't need to follow spammers.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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So we have canned jingoism xenophobia and racism? Outstanding. Thanks, internet. Unfortunately these idiots have made enough of an impression that they have some voice in society.

Perhaps I'm misinterpreting the highlighted line but here goes...


I never said that would cure it, I'm saying twatter has somehow distilled the worst of our society or at least given them a larger megaphone. Then there are the people like Deadspin that go and seek this out and extrapolate it across society. How about comparing all the the non-xenophobic tweets to those that were? Put this all in perspective.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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Not too surprised about how this turned out. Manning got lulled into a false sense of security playing in the AFC championship game against a Pats secondary that rarely turns around to look for the ball, and when they do usually whiffs at it. Seattle's D doesn't appear to do anything too gimmicky, they just watch the ball and have great speed. Also their linebackers can cover which is about as rare as a punter scoring a touchdown. Best D I've seen since the Ravens of the early 2000's.

I was thinking before the game that Peyton's legacy should be fine regardless of the outcome. After that debacle I think his legacy should be tarnished forever. That has got to be the worse prep for a Super Bowl by a team since Minnesota played the Raiders.

 

[Rover]

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I was thinking before the game that Peyton's legacy should be fine regardless of the outcome. After that debacle I think his legacy should be tarnished forever. That has got to be the worse prep for a Super Bowl by a team since Minnesota played the Raiders.

Some nerd out there needs to develop a "quality of SB win" metric.

So, think of the Super Bowl winners. I'd have to put Terry Bradshaw in a category all by himself for beating a stellar 70's Dallas team...TWICE. Were it not for the Steelers Dallas would have 7 Super Bowl victories right now. His other two victories were against chokers (0-4 Vikings) and the Rams who weren't heard from again after their SB until they were in St. Louis.

Montana beat a pretty good Miami team (Marino's only SB appearance), and two decent Bengals teams. To his credit, and why he's a better QB than Brady despite all the bleatings of my fellow Pats fans, is that I don't recall him making a bonehead interception or taking an idiotic safety during any of those games. In both Bengals games, doing that could have led to defeat.

Brady beat a great Rams team and a good Eagles team. Carolina = Rams of '79. However he inexplicably lost twice to an okay and then a good Giants team in which he's most responsible for blowing the game with bad passes.

Rothlesberger beat two bad teams that had no business being there (Seattle & Arizona). In one he was awful, in the other stellar.

Elway beat a great team in the Packers and a one shot wonder vs Atlanta. However he was terrible in his 3 losses to a good Giants team, a good Redskins team and a great SF team.

Manning beat one of the worst teams to ever make the Super Bowl in the Bears. He lost to a good New Orleans team and a very good Seattle team. For anyone to claim he's the best ever in light of this has to be joking. He's more like Brett Favre, a guy who beat a decent Patriots team and then lost to a great Denver team and never made it back.


Oh forgot about Aikman! I think he beat the Buffalo chokers twice and then a decent Steelers team with Neil O'Donnell at QB who single handed blew the game with two picks that looked like he was throwing the game.

 

[mookie1995]

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O'donnell was voted cowboys MVP that game

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Some nerd out there needs to develop a "quality of SB win" metric.

Winning margin vs. the gametime spread?

 

[joecct]

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There was talk that Pete Carroll joined Barry Switzer and Jimmy Johnson as the only coach to win an NCAA and NFL title. But, if USC's title was #vacated, does it count for the coach?

 

[SteveP]

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Was that the worst Super Bowl of all time? Or just the worst one involving the Broncos? This is a replay of every Super Bowl when I was a kid that did not involve the Bengals.

Well..of the five worst score differentials, my team has now been in three of them, so it's pretty much a pic-em!

 

[jmh]

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I guess I don't get the hate for all of the car commercials. I thought the distribution of good ones to crappy ones was about the same as all of the commercials. In fact, probably my favorite commercial was a car commercial, the Muppet one, with Terry Crews. I believe it was for Toyota. I also liked the Chevy Silverado commercial with the bull, lookin' for love. The Audi Sarah McLachlan commercial was an Audi commercial, and that one was great in a w.t.f. kind of way.

You can't go wrong with Terry Crews. Or Muppets. Or cows doin' it, because cows doin' it is how there's delicious beef for us to eat.

Some nerd out there needs to develop a "quality of SB win" metric.

So, think of the Super Bowl winners. I'd have to put Terry Bradshaw in a category all by himself for beating a stellar 70's Dallas team...TWICE. Were it not for the Steelers Dallas would have 7 Super Bowl victories right now. His other two victories were against chokers (0-4 Vikings) and the Rams who weren't heard from again after their SB until they were in St. Louis.

Montana beat a pretty good Miami team (Marino's only SB appearance), and two decent Bengals teams. To his credit, and why he's a better QB than Brady despite all the bleatings of my fellow Pats fans, is that I don't recall him making a bonehead interception or taking an idiotic safety during any of those games. In both Bengals games, doing that could have led to defeat.

Brady beat a great Rams team and a good Eagles team. Carolina = Rams of '79. However he inexplicably lost twice to an okay and then a good Giants team in which he's most responsible for blowing the game with bad passes.

Rothlesberger beat two bad teams that had no business being there (Seattle & Arizona). In one he was awful, in the other stellar.

Elway beat a great team in the Packers and a one shot wonder vs Atlanta. However he was terrible in his 3 losses to a good Giants team, a good Redskins team and a great SF team.

Manning beat one of the worst teams to ever make the Super Bowl in the Bears. He lost to a good New Orleans team and a very good Seattle team. For anyone to claim he's the best ever in light of this has to be joking. He's more like Brett Favre, a guy who beat a decent Patriots team and then lost to a great Denver team and never made it back.


Oh forgot about Aikman! I think he beat the Buffalo chokers twice and then a decent Steelers team with Neil O'Donnell at QB who single handed blew the game with two picks that looked like he was throwing the game.

I think you forgot somebody.

Brady didn't "inexplicably" lose twice to mediocre Giants teams that got hot at the right time. He lost twice to the Giants because he's not that good.