Super Bowl XLV

[Gibreficul]

Fuck Green Bay. SEVEN BABY!

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DISCUSS!

[Athgo]

Yeah, defensive Super Bowls are so exciting.

[Ryvicke]

I really don't know what to say... Ben Roeoeuiethlisberger I heard raped a girl and is probably a fucking d-bag.

But whatever. It'll be 13 for us, by the way.

[WRoss]

I am cheering for Green Bay. Only because the AFC always wins the superbowl. Also, if Pouncey can't play, that'll drastically change the OL for Pitt. Then again, Ben is almost better when you force him to scramble.

[RichardCranium]

Yeah, defensive Super Bowls are so exciting.

It is if you like real football.

[RichardCranium]

I am cheering for Green Bay. Only because the AFC always wins the superbowl. Also, if Pouncey can't play, that'll drastically change the OL for Pitt. Then again, Ben is almost better when you force him to scramble.

Didn't he go down on the first play? What did they rush for, 166?

[diethx]

I really don't know what to say... Ben Rapelisberger I heard raped a girl and is probably a fucking d-bag.

But whatever. It'll be 13 for us, by the way.

ftfy

[Alfster]

Living in Wisconsin, I have to cheer for Green Bay. They really shouldn't have ever made the playoffs, let alone...the super bowl. Dream season, imo.

[WRoss]

Didn't he go down on the first play? What did they rush for, 166?

He has experience in big games. He played in three SEC title games, two national championship games, and his fellow players have been calling him a leader on the OL. He did leave in the first quarter, and the back up QB had problems, like fumbling in the end zone.

[prance1520]

Pouncey is kind of a big deal. Their offensive line isn't fantastic with him, so losing him brings them down another step. The 166 was nearly all in the first half, when we can all agree the jets were asleep (literally, not figuratively).

Not saying they won't be able to run the ball, but I bet they have to be a little more creative doing it.

I think the game decision point is the steelers D. They are really good, but they can be thrown on. If their secondary shows up to play, I think they win by 7-9. If they get gashed, I can see them losing.

[RichardCranium]

Green Bay wins and they'll put up at least three TD's; maybe even four.

[Gibreficul]

I really don't know what to say... Ben Roeoeuiethlisberger I heard raped a girl and is probably a fucking d-bag.

But whatever. It'll be 13 for us, by the way.


Yea, Rothlesberger is a douchebag, but he's OUR douchebag! (Our = Steeler Nation)

I don't know if I'm alone or not here, but I think the only town still counting "titles" and not Super Bowls is Green Bay.

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As for Pouncy... they called it a high ankle sprain last I heard, and he was looking to play. If it's more severe than they're leading on, he'll likely see limited playing time. For the record, losing a starting center is always a big deal... I don't care who it is or what team.

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Oh yea, Pouncy's younger brother should be in the draft this year.... I wouldn't mind seeing another Pouncy on the Steelers O-line.

[WRoss]

The other Pouncey twin is likely going mid first round. Unless Pitt trades up, he isn't going there.

[Androidpk]

No Pats, no care.

[Kuyuk]

I havent seen a super bowl since clay aiken and the cowboys were big in like '94!

[Suppressed Poet]

I live in Dallas. Should make for an interesting weekend.

If anyone has tickets and needs a place to stay, I'll offer my empty closet for the low price of $2500.

Go Green Bay!

[prance1520]

Standard recovery time for a high ankle sprain is 4 weeks. As a center though, he's got a decent chance at coming back in 2. Limited lateral movement, and they can brace it so it barely needs to move, but its gonna be close.

[Gibreficul]

I am cheering for Green Bay. Only because the AFC always wins the superbowl. Also, if Pouncey can't play, that'll drastically change the OL for Pitt. Then again, Ben is almost better when you force him to scramble.


Actually, it's 23 NFL/NFC to 21 AFL/AFC wins... Pretty much split down down the middle. Also, the most recent years have shown the conferences alternating as champions, Indy (AFC), Giants (NFC), Steelers (AFC), New Orleans (NFC). So... AFC this year... Yoi and double yoi!

[Cephalopod]

I know it's a liberal news source, but it's a good article. Worth reading.



Super Bowl Veterans Much More Prepared For Big Game's Unique Stresses (http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/super-bowl-veterans-much-more-prepared-for-big-gam,18985/)

ARLINGTON, TX—As the Super Bowl approaches, veterans returning to football's most high-pressure event have been doing their best to prepare their teammates for the mental stresses, unique physical demands, and quasi-supernatural nightmarish manifestations that only those who have played in the NFL's championship game before have experienced.

"There's really no way to describe it," said Steelers linebacker James Harrison, whose 100-yard Super Bowl XLIII interception return through clouds of whirling razors and past millions of grasping prehensile tongues to score a crucial touchdown is the longest play in the game's history. "The second you walk out for the national anthem, the crowd is roaring, there's more TV cameras than you've ever seen, the turf becomes an undulating field of red-hot pustulant nipples, there's the flyover… Until you've been there, you can't really know what it's like."

Added Harrison, "And during the second quarter, when you start having hallucinations of your teammates having sex with historical figures, well, nothing can prepare you for that."

[NocturnalRob]

Based solely off of which photo of Jaime Edmondson I like more, I'm going to have to go with the Packers on this one:

http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/edmondson.jpg

[TheEschaton]

Remember, the 90s were pretty much dominated by the NFC, whereas this past decade was largely the AFC, besides the Saints, Giants, and Rams.

[RichardCranium]

Remember, the 90s were pretty much dominated by the NFC, whereas this past decade was largely the AFC, besides the Saints, Giants, and Rams.

Three NFC champions, four AFC champions, and three asterisks.

[TheEschaton]

LOL, fair enough.

[WRoss]

Based solely off of which photo of Jaime Edmondson I like more, I'm going to have to go with the Packers on this one:

http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/edmondson.jpg

Packers. Definitely

[Revalos]

REDHEAD THREAD! Here's a better one of the Packers babe.

http://elliottharris.com/blogs/media/blogs/a/jaime_edmondson_packers2.jpg

[DoctorUnne]

I hope the jumbotron collapses when the ball is at midfield.

[pabstblueribbon]

I love underboob-meat cleavage.

[RichardCranium]

Is it just me or do the Pouncey twins sound like the assistant coach from The Waterboy?

[NocturnalRob]

No way Pouncey plays on Sunday.

[Gibreficul]

http://deadspin.com/5749030/james-harrison-just-wants-to-tackle-the-packers-softly-on-the-ground-mr-goodell?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+deadspin/full+(Deadspin)

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[Revalos]

Damn there are a lot of prop bets availiable this year:

http://www.docsports.com/superbowlprops.html

My favorites are which girlfriend/fiancee of which QB will Fox show first, how long with Christina Aguillera hold the note for "brave" at the end of the anthem, and what color will the gatorade be that is poured on the winning coach. I love Vegas.

[NocturnalRob]

Not Super Bowl news, but football related. Thank god this man will not be on the Skins next year. So fucking sick of his drama, both on the field and off.


Washington Redskins defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth has been accused of simple assault and a summons notice has been issued by authorities in Virginia, police said Friday.

Police say he threw a punch at a fellow motorist Wednesday in a Washington, D.C., suburb.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=6090069

[Latrinsorm]

Not enough pertinent information in the story. Did he try to touch his radio, in clear contravention of the Chris Tucker Accords?

[NocturnalRob]

Not enough pertinent information in the story. Did he try to touch his radio, in clear contravention of the Chris Tucker Accords?

Velazques told ESPN that after their vehicles jockeyed for road space in Reston, Va., a person he recognized as Haynesworth got out of a Ford F-150 truck with Tennessee license plates and confronted Velazques and punched him in the nose before taking off.
Given that the punchee was in his car and has the last name "Velazques," I'm going to operate under the assumption that the Chris Tucker Accords are not applicable here.

[Gibreficul]

Start waving the ORIGINAL Terrible Towel, or support a losing effort. Steelers gunna kick Gay Green's ass. Fuck you cheeseheads, the steel curtain gunna grate ya.

[Fallen]

Go Lions.

[RichardCranium]

Green Bay wins and they'll put up at least three TD's; maybe even four.

Probably.

[WRoss]

No team has ever come back from a deficit of 10 or more to win a super bowl.

[diethx]

Someone please tell that cunt Fergie to stop raping Sweet Child o' Mine.

[Ardwen]

worst halftime show ever! who th ehell puts these things together

[diethx]

That sound check guy needs to be fired. It sounded like their (especially her) mics kept going out.

[Ardwen]

i was glad the mics sucked, less crap to listen too

[Stretch]

worst halftime show ever! who th ehell puts these things together

Eh, I think you had the wrong bar.

Anytime I hear the words "Black Eyed Peas" uttered in the same sentence, I don't expect anything more than a 1 out of 10. I think they delivered a solid 3.

[NocturnalRob]

Nelson is so damn hot and cold tonight.

[Warriorbird]

Eh, I think you had the wrong bar.

Anytime I hear the words "Black Eyed Peas" uttered in the same sentence, I don't expect anything more than a 1 out of 10. I think they delivered a solid 3.

I was oddly okay with what the Black Eyed Peas did. I still think the sound crew should be shot for doing what they did to Slash, however.

[Cephalopod]

The Puppy Bowl and Kitty Half Time Show were excellent.

[Tilnam]

Steelers go down!!

[Ryvicke]

Gib does it hurt? I want to know how bad it hurts to be so close.

[LMingrone]

I'm hurting bad. My "would have bet" book would have made me about $2000 this weekend. Spider and Forrest win. I got the coin toss right, half time spread right, MVP right, beat the spread, had the over/under right and had the over/under on the National Anthem correct.

I want to kill money.

[LMingrone]

Another question. If you're asked to sing the National Anthem on the most watched event ever, can you at least know the fucking words? RAGE.

[Cephalopod]

I was oddly okay with what the Black Eyed Peas did. I still think the sound crew should be shot for doing what they did to Slash, however.

http://i.imgur.com/a0XmF.png

[diethx]

LOL truth

[Ryvicke]

I'm hurting bad. My "would have bet" book would have made me about $2000 this weekend. Spider and Forrest win. I got the coin toss right, half time spread right, MVP right, beat the spread, had the over/under right and had the over/under on the National Anthem correct.

I want to kill money.

Don't make fag bets and just put your money on the packers?

[Alfster]

Another question. If you're asked to sing the National Anthem on the most watched event ever, can you at least know the fucking words? RAGE.

I've been pretty hammered since Saturday, but did she actually fuck this up? We had the sound off...

[Stanley Burrell]

I've been pretty hammered since Saturday, but did she actually fuck this up? We had the sound off...

She tried to do the soulfully gospel African American female thingy where you can add any amount of extra notes and horse-like syllables. She could have been singing, if you want to call it that, anything.

I was a little bit angry, but she's not "Flo" from Progressive Insurance, so it's not that bad. Or something.

Man. I really hate "Flo" from Progressive Insurance. God.

[AnticorRifling]

She tried to do the soulfully gospel African American female thingy where you can add any amount of extra notes and horse-like syllables. She could have been singing, if you want to call it that, anything.

I was a little bit angry, but she's not "Flo" from Progressive Insurance, so it's not that bad. Or something.

Man. I really hate "Flo" from Progressive Insurance. God.

She got the words wrong, SB.

[Kuyuk]

She got the words wrong, SB.

She was just leaving them out to get the game started quicker. Jeez.

[Rinualdo]

Still better then when Rosanne Barr did it

[Kuyuk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYhtGNZRv74&feature=related

Before it gets taken down.

[WRoss]

http://i.imgur.com/a0XmF.png


Awesome. We totally need to do something like this to Levar Burton.

[Rinualdo]

I'm all for hating on the Black Eyed Peas, but aside from the technical sound difficulties, I thought their halftime show was pretty decent.
Usher and Slash really seemed like an odd mishmash thrown in for no apparent reason. Fergie singing Sweet Child made me a sad panda and Slash looked bored, but at least Axl was no where to be seen.

[WRoss]

Whenever I hear or see Fergie, all I think about is that Dr. Pepper Cherry commercial and how much she looks like like an oompaloompa.

[lightwellspam]

I'm all for hating on the Black Eyed Peas, but aside from the technical sound difficulties, I thought their halftime show was pretty decent.
Usher and Slash really seemed like an odd mishmash thrown in for no apparent reason. Fergie singing Sweet Child made me a sad panda and Slash looked bored, but at least Axl was no where to be seen.

BY technical sound difficulties, you mean that the studio wasn’t set up to make them actually sound good? I don’t mind most of their stuff on the radio so much, but its pretty obvious that its mostly studio magic and as far as stage performances go, it was closer to listening to a bunch of cats crowing up on a dumpster with a boom mic than actually hearing some good music.

Here’s to hoping they go in a different direction and stay that way. Either go with a proven stage performing classic/vocal rock, or if you want to try something more on the “hip” side, why not something like deadmau5 or daft punk?

[Bregus]

Anyone see the pregame about Rodgers sneaking into all the team captain photos?

[NocturnalRob]

Hahaha...awesome.

[diethx]

Still better then when Rosanne Barr did it

What's that saying? Making a comparison like that is like being the smartest guy with down syndrome? It still sucks.


Anyone see the pregame about Rodgers sneaking into all the team captain photos?

:rofl:

[Rinualdo]

Ozzy saying "What's a Bieber" did make me lol.

[WRoss]

Ozzy saying "What's a Bieber" did make me lol.

There was a bunch of hype about that commercial, and it ended up being retardedly stupid.

[Rinualdo]

She got the words wrong, SB.

She says in a statement, "I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of it's anthem still came through."

[Stry]

Captain's photos = win

botched national anthem = /facepalm

Fergie was terrible, Get OFF of Slash woman!... jeez. He was the only good part... and he just stood there and rocked it. Then they had to add Usher because... well, we're still really not sure why he was there.


Oh, and Rojo... I KNOW you loved the Darth Vader car commercial... It was probably my favorite.

[Stanley Burrell]

She says in a statement, "I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of it's anthem still came through."

Strap that whore with an M-16 and send her into North Korea if she wants to play the patriotism card.

"Words" wrong my hairy Jew-ass. That shit was in tongues. Fuck.

[diethx]

the Darth Vader car commercial... It was probably my favorite.

I lol'd so hard at that commercial.

[Gibreficul]

I figure I gotta say SOMETHING here... Ross asked "how you feeling" in the Snacks thread, and meant to have it here... so... here goes.

I feel like if a team gives up 21 points off of turnovers, they don't deserve to win. The D didn't bail out the Offense as is typical of Steelers football. Even with all that, the Steelers made a game of it, and damn near pulled it off. That said, the season was a total success considering the Steelers ended the Raven's season. 6-8 in Super Bowl appearances... Disappointed a bit about the result of the game? Absolutely. Upset? Not at all. 3-4 to start the season without Ben. Steelers won their division, and the conference. Hats off to Green Bay. Their defense came up huge for them, and won them the game.

Truth be told, I'm way more upset about Malkin's injury than the loss by the Steelers.

[NocturnalRob]

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