Before I start my rant on the Super Bowl, a big shout out to my brother mike, who won a Writers Guild Award Saturday night in Hollywood for a Simpsons episode he wrote. Not only that, he got to do schtick with Seth Green, who presented the award. Congrats Mike.
OK, everyone is weighing in on that awful Super Bowl Sunday. It was the first SB in a long time where neither team deserved to win. But mostly what I took from yesterday's game was:
1. Football sucks. OK, it's a great sport, don't get me wrong. I love it. But ... the rules of the game and the way it is officiated is awful. First the little stuff. Any sport that pretty much hinges on 50-year-old men spotting a ball where they think it should go from 40 yards across the field is just asking for trouble. Any sport that has 50-year-old men trying to keep up 25-year-old muscle heads is asking for trouble. At least in baseball, the fat umps don;t have to move that much. In NBA the court is small enough and in the NHL, the refs are amazing skaters and, for the most part, young enough to keep up with play.
Now, the big thing. I propose, and I hope Mr. Tagliabue is listening, that from this day foward, the ENTIRE ball has to cross the plain for a TD to count. Sort of like hockey, where the entire puck has to cross the goal line for a goal to count. That TD Big Ben scored yesterday might've been the softest TD in the history of football. Let me ask you this, if you are playing football with your friends and try to say that's a TD, they would kick the shit out of you. Imagine a game where dudes hammer each other all day long comes down to a pussy TD where - maybe 1 centimeter of the ball, scratched the goal line.
2. I hate Super Sunday. It's like the Kentucky Derby and shit like that. People that couldn't give a shit about football all year long come out in droves to watch this spectacle. Let's face it, it's a made-for-TV event not meant for football fans, but for the rest of america. Think about the Derby. Unless you go to Monmouth Park to drink tastes and smoke stogies, you don't give a shit about horse racing. But you watch the derby. At least that's only 2 minutes long and there's no breaking the plain crap.
3. The Stones should hang it up. Nuff said.
4. John Madden should hang it up. He really, really sucks. He brings nothing to the table. His schtick is older than Keith Richards.
5. Al Michaels is the most overrated play-by-play man ever. If I knew in 1980 what I know now, I would've rooted for Russia to roll over Team USA, so that cat could never do his "Do You Believe in Miracles" crap and make a career for himself. The dude is so pompous, so arrogant. He is everything that football shouldn't be about, but everything it is about now.
6. I'd rather have Mike Martz coach my team than Mike Holmgren. At least when Martz has troubles with clock management, it's not a shock and his players know what to do. Yestrerday, at the end of each half, Holmgren when into total vapor-lock mode and cost his team - at the very least - 6 points. Maybe Favre's not overrated afterall.
7. Did I mention the NFL sucks.
8. Did I mention I'm counting the days until the Rams sked comes out.
9. If I have to read one more story about the SB commercials, it's Hary Cary time (and I don't mean the former cub announcer).
10. Beer count still at 12.
Monday, February 06, 2006
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3 comments:
Wow...NO tastes on Super Bowl Sunday. Amazing. Even I drank a few beers, cat.
Cat,
As for the biggest pussy TD in NFL history, you not need consult any further than your own blog.
Vinny versus the Seahawks. Four yards shy.
I'll add a few more reasons to why the Super Bowl sucked:
Speaking of tired acts, Chris Berman cannot speak without shouting. Blustering nonsense is screamed at high decibels.
If the NFL didn't like what the Stones were going to sing, then why have them be the halftime act? Classic case of liking the messenger, but not the message.
You are absolutely right in saying this game is not made for football fans. ...
If it was, we'd get the regular, 12-minute halftime and viewers and the teams themselves wouldn't be waiting forever for the drivel to stop.
Another reason this game is for everybody but football fans:
The domes are a fucking farce. The Super Bowl should be played in Green Bay every year, or somewhere cold like that. Buffalo perhaps.
All this will never happen because Paul Tagliabue has a big vagina.
Schill: Great call on the Rose Bowl.
By the way, the story of former Chief great Joe Montana out of the Super Bowl is my all-time favorite. If you missed it, he reportedly wanted $100,000 grand to show up for the pre-game Super Bowl MVP lineup. And when the NFL didn't poney up, he blew it off. If this is true, I now have even more reason to hate that dude.
Yes, I'm an ND fan, but anything he did to my Rams as a member of the Whiners takes precedent.
You stay classy Joe Montana.
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