Super Bowl Open Thread (Q IV)

As of the start of the fourth quarter it is the Cots over the Saints by 17-16.  I still think the Saints is more overmatched than the Colts defense, but this should be a exciting finish.

HMM:  An interception return for a touchdown puts the Saints up by 31-17 with 3:05 left in the game and the Manning as best ever meme takes on water.

Comments

[Thomas Collins]

Just saw the Green ad in full screen. I think it's creepy.

[Thomas Collins]

I suspect Saints fans are a little excited now.

31-17 Saints.

Are you sitting or jumping up and down, JMH?

[Janet]

It IS creepy. Just what I fear from the greens too.
I have to shake my head when the left is always fretting about those prudish Christians imposing their lifestyle on them. Talk about imposing a lifestyle...nobody can beat the radical environmentalist.

[Thomas Collins]

Denny's is going to hear from Obama's Labor Department re overworking the chickens!

[Fritz]

I was wondering why the Colts are losing when they are clearly the better team...

President Obama gives edge to Manning, Colts

[Thomas Collins]

Congrats to the Saints. Let's sing When The Saints Come Marching In with Louis Armstrong. See LUN.

[Captain Hate]

Excellent halftime adjustments by NO. I didn't have a dog in this fight so either team winning was ok with me but congrats to all Saints fans on a magical season.

[Thomas Collins]

TM, when Peyton Manning's career is over, he may be considered the best ever, but I think there has been some irrational exuberance this week about premature deeming of Peyton as The One.

Archie Manning must have mixed emotions, but he must be thrilled that the team for which he labored so long is bringing the Vince Trophy home!

[peter]

great game.

[Thomas Collins]

Lenny Dawson. I remember that before Super Bowl IV, he was the subject of unfounded gambling allegation. He kept his cool and lead the Chiefs over the Vikings.

[Thomas Collins]

Best Ad-Tebow.

Worst-Green Police.

The Intel robot ad (playing again now) wasn't bad. The portable TV device ad and the male shower products ad were horrible, but the Green Police ad takes the cake for a quintessential combination of stupidity and creepiness.

[sbw]

What a cute little Brees nipper in the headphones.

[JM Hanes]

The Super Bowl thread. Now you tell me! Saints rock!

[Thomas Collins]

OK, the 2009-2010 NFL season is over. Now I can direct my complete TV attention to 24!

[Strawman Cometh]

Well, if we're doing CLEO's, keep your hands off my mama!

[clarice]

I didn't watch the game but outside my window a fox just dashed down the street.

[Janet]

We thought you were raking your roof Clarice.

[Montgomery C. Burns]

"Keep your hands off my mama" and "Toys gone wild" were my two faves.

Lol'd at Betty White and Abe Vigoda.

[clarice]

Nah--I was writing a memo from TOTUS to Palin's hand though.(it's actually a sort of love letter TOTUS style)

[Captain Hate]

I heard The Who was loading up the bus with walkers and oxygen tanks for the "Get Off My Lawn" tour.

[Soylent Red]

D'oh.

Stupid sock.

[Janet]

and Captain, Pete Townshend had a young child in tow....

[Regular Joe]

"We thought you were raking your roof Clarice."

Is that the female version of spanking the monkey?

[Ann]

OT,

Does anyone remember which thread Hit posted PUK's comments about his mothers death?

It was a recent thread where he compiled many posts from PUK.

[Janet]

No Regular Joe...it is not. It is literally raking the roof to remove snow. Read the Kill Me Now thread for enlightenment. It's like a PBS documentary on roof snow removal over there!

[Janet]

Ann...the Eulogy thread page 2

[Danube of Thought]

No question Peyton's rep took a bit of a hit. Sorry about that, but the whole Saints story is just wonderful.

Could anyone think that Green Police ad aided the green cause? Worse than creepy--it's the stuff of ridicule. I can see some GOP campaign ads playiing off of that one.

[michaelt]

The consensus at our house was the Green Police ad was creepy. But Germans (it was an Audi ad) are used to that kind of intrusion, aren't they?

That "My Generation" remix by wil.i.am, who did videos for Obama, had two interesting shots: one of one of the networks calling Florida for Al Gore, and another showing the "Mission Accomplished" banner. Just can't leave it alone, can they?

[Thomas Collins]

A great night. Super Bowl and JOM. But now that my head is somewhat clear of the wine, I just remembered something. I have work tomorrow! Good night all!

[Captain Hate]

Is that the female version of spanking the monkey?

I gotta admit I LOLled at this

[Patrick R. Sullivan]

I still think the Saints is more overmatched than the Colts defense, but this should be a exciting finish.

Glad to see the adult beverages were flowing freely.

Anyone think Frank Sinatra, Rosie Clooney, Ella, Bing, or even second tier talent such as Perry Como or Andy Williams would have embarrassed themselves, at a similar age, as The Who did at halftime?

[Barry Dauphin]

Brees learned his pre-game rally the troops in the circle routine from the Marines when he made a goodwill tour of Gitmo.

[Ann]

Janet:

I thanked you an hour ago and I don't see it. So I am thanking you again... THANK YOU! (I am having a heck of a time with typepad for some reason.)

I shared that with one of PUK's friend in an email to show them how much we thought of PUK and how he shared a very intimate moment to prod us on to never let the state get a hold of our freedoms.

I know we aren't done with this yet but I still think PUK would be proud that we have delayed the inevitability of it.

[cathyf]

Ann -- Hit's link from today and the original posting from August.

[SWarren]

Could anyone think that Green Police ad aided the green cause? Worse than creepy--it's the stuff of ridicule. I can see some GOP campaign ads playiing off of that one.

I LOVED that ad !!
I hope a majority of people watching had the same reaction as me, like wtf is this? Green cops going through your garbage to see what banned products you're using.
"Hah! An incandescent light bulb" blow the whistles and lead the charge into the house. To do what? Make an arrest, confiscate your lightbulbs? Yeah, it was creepy, but drove home the point to a lot of people just how these eco-freaks want to infringe on our freedoms. Thank you, Audi.

[SWarren]

Heh, the ad that I really didn't get was the men walking around in their underwear. All those tidy whiteys and not bulge anywhere! (Yeah, I was looking.) Sheesh, the Christmas bomber must have put them to shame.

[Dave (in MA)]

SWarren, I didn't find it all that far-fetched.
Plus I never really could stand Cheap Trick.

My favorite ads were the Snickers ad with Abe Vigoda and the beer ad where they mistook a speck for an apocalyptic asteroid.

[Ann]

Thanks, Cathyf. You guys are the best!

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Hey, did you notice the green police went after the real police for Styrofoam cups!

Brilliant!!!

(I will give it another try. I am probably being banned for my preference in seeing Soylent's muscles vs the ice house he made with them. :) Figures :P

[PD]

If figures Denny's would give away Grand Slams on the day I have surgery and won't be able to eat.

We had some people over. When the greed ad played, I turned to the guest next to me and said, "You know, that's exactly where we're headed."

Creepy indeed.

[PD]

green ad, not greed ad.

[Elroy Jetson]

I thought the green police ad was hilarious. It mocked everything Greenpeace (and the democrats) wished they they had they power to control.

[daddy]

Ann,

If you're still up. Instead of watching Football, the local girls out here had a ">http://www.adn.com/"> Women's Ski Day.

I don't know how to post pictures but photo number 6 might give our DC friends some ideas about ski outfits if you could figure out how to post it. Just click on the butterflies.

[Ann]

Daddy:

This is 6 of 15.

I have no idea where you are taking us, but I most say I am intrigued.

[Ann]

LOL, I meant **must** say and I cut off half the cow or cowboy as it were.

If that is the picture, I will try and edit it.

[daddy]

Thanks Ann,

That tickled me:)

Let's see...hmmm...watch the SuperBowl or go skiing in a cow outfit?
Tough call.

[SWarren]

Elroy,
I thought the green police ad was hilarious. It mocked everything Greenpeace (and the democrats) wished they they had they power to control.

That's exactly why I said I LOVED it!!
A terrific smackdown to the green fascists.

[bgates]

This is 6 of 15.

Geez, Ann, we get it - Michelle is hippy.

(But why is the person between her and Sheriff Joe dressed like a cow?)

[peter]

I missed the Green Police commercial, and the half time show (sat down to have dinner with my family.) However I did see a commercial for a Dodge Charger. It made marriage seem like slavery. And if you really feel that way, buying a crappy car built by UAW thugs ain't gonna make you feel better. Even the Budweiser commercials weren't too great. Our nation needs to rethink this whole Super Bowl commercial thing. Maybe we should concentrate on manufacturing products that people in other countries would want to buy.

[narciso]

The Snickers commercial was OK, but man, is Steve Schmidt handling the Superbowl accounts, man that was weak

[Janet]

peter - LUN is the Green Police/Audi commercial.

[Jane]

I'm with you peter. I missed the green commercial and I though just about every commercial in the first half highlighted the wimpification of men. By and large they were very disappointing.

The game was much better than the commercials IMO which is not always the case.

[Captain Hate]

Even the Budweiser commercials weren't too great.

Other than ones with the Clydesdales (when in doubt, bring in the animals), Budweiser ads seem to be aimed at idiots. In particular the Bud Lite ads feature the most infantile brand of boorish humor. When you consider the swill they bottle and market as beer, maybe they have their audience targeted well.

[cathyf]

Yeah, Captain, reminds me of an old joke about a different beer:

Q: Why is Rhinelander Beer like making love in a canoe?

A: They are both f***in close to water.

[Extraneus]

Heh.

[centralcal]

I watched most of the game and still missed the Green commercial. Thanks for the link to it Janet. What a great commercial! Looks like Audi may be sorry they created this ad.

[clarice]

I had a little fun last night
.http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/02/memorandum_from_totus_to_palin.html

[narciso]

Great piece, Clarice, in the AT. Is anybody
frightened that Gibbs is one of the four trusted advisors to the President, Apparently
Rasmussen wsn't down enough last week

[clarice]

Thnx..Jay Cost has a great piece on the claim that America is "ungovernable"
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/02/america_is_not_ungovernable.html
It isn't, he says, but the president is really not up to the job.

[Extraneus]

Nice love note, Clarice. I don't think he has a chance, though.

Speaking of long-distance romances, I thought the Google commercial was excellent last night.

[pagar]

Clarice, great article at American Thinker>
Any idea what happened to the comments section for their articles? Even the articles that previously had comments have lost them.

[Janet]

Yes Extraneus, that Google ad was good.

and Clarice...written on Palin's hand was energy, budget cuts (budget crossed out), taxes, and lift American's spirits. The "list" seems okay to me.
It's not like it was a government takeover wish list...banks, housing market, health care, car industry, energy industry,...

[Captain Hate]

The comments are there now at AT.

LOL cathyf

[narciso]

I somehow suspect that she wrote these notes, precisely so they would be seen, and also to preempt some of the loonier speculation that
was going on at the TPC. I mean honestly, do you think she would forget about energy, tax cuts, and renewal of the American spirit. Words you couldn't get out of McCain even if you fed it to him like castor oil

[Janet]

What's with the David Paterson "bring down"? I tend to be sympathetic to anyone that is being attacked by the media. If the NYT has a story, then print it....otherwise shut up with the innuendo and hinting. Isn't that how Spitzer operated...blackmail? Reminds me of Blago too. Brought down in the media first. Not that those guys are heroes, but what about due process and all?

[Extraneus]

Did you see the one she had at the Rick Perry rally yesterday?

Hi Mom!

[Captain Hate]

LUN for a WSJ review of a book by the Weekly Standard's Matt Labash, who I always find to be a fair and entertaining writer even if I don't agree with him. This is what Rupert Murdoch should aim at if he ever wakes up and fires the tiresome and boring Thomas Frank.

[narciso]

Btw, a good take on the Tea Parties from Time Magazine, no that's not a typo, in the LUN

[Sue]

So the Audi ad was lampooning the green movement? I didn't get that it was a parody. Which might be the biggest story of all...it was too close for comfort.

[Jack is Back!]

I was just now ready to give The One credit for finally picking a winner when he said he favored the Saints to win. But I have now noticed a link to an interview with Couric where he decided pre-game to hedge his bets and say that Manning was the greatest of QB's and he understood how they were favored but had a soft spot for the Saints. Well we all do for that much - even hometowners like Payton Manning have a soft spot for the Saints.

But I guarantee that he will find a way of taking full credit but he can't unless he credits Bush with the Saints victory since it was Katrina that inspired the Saints.

My picks for the Super Bowl ads (which I agree are less and less creative, funny, inspiring or even selling anything):

1. Snickers

2. Tebow (not what we were told to expect)

3. Green Police (using critical satire to sell what you were making fun of)

[PD]

I wasn't amused by the Audi ad, either. The message I took away was: Go along with with what the green police want to avoid their harrassment.

[pagar]

Maybe my computer, I see no comments/way to comment at AT. Nor did I see any yesterday, but I'm pretty sure they were there on Sat.

[bio mom]

Agree about Thomas Frank. All of his articles are exactly the same. Over and over and over....

[clarice]

pagar, sometimes when an article is first posted they forget (?) to open the comments section. Check again, it's obviously open now.

[Thomas Collins]

It was the attempt at sophistication of the Green Police ad that I found so creepy. I think the theme of the ad was that Green folks are cool and above it all, while those who still use incandescent light bulbs are at a lower level of being. The ad was also a poor parody of the Miller High Life ads in which a beer policeman removes Miller from establishments that don't measure up.

[Fresh Air]

As I've always said, I favored the Saints to win.*DING*

If the naysaying partisans would work towards a solution for the American people*DING*

and stop playing politics with the Super Bowl. They would understand*DING*

that when I said Peyton Manning would lead the Colts to victory, *DING*

I of course meant "victory" in the abstract sense*DING*.

All of us have a choice to make:*DING*

whether we decide to put football first for the American people, or politics.*DING*

[narciso]

The only people more clueless than Frank are some folks at Llewelyn Rockwell who think he is a neocon,

[Sue]

Thomas,

The ad was for a diesel car. That point was lost on me during the commercial.

[Danube of Thought]

Nearing convergence at RCP. 44% at Marist.

[Porchlight]

A friend of mine went to college with Frank and said he was the guy who drunkenly hit on women unsuccessfully at every party, then ended up passing out early on the host's couch. Heh.

I do admit to loving his magazine The Baffler in its early years. It was funny and clever, and it skewered libs and hipsters along with everyone else. But that was going on 20 years ago and I had a young idiot's worldview then. Now he is just a hack.

[Roux]

It was destiny baby .... destiny....

Geaux Saints Geaux!!!

[Thomas Collins]

Thanks, Sue, I didn't realize that.

Perhaps next year the young child who slapped the visiting boyfriend should beat up the Green Police for trying to take away his mommy's incandescent light bulb. That ad might be more amusing than any ad shown yesterday.

[narciso]

When it goes under, it's 'cross the streams,'
like in Ghostbusters, or "dogs and cats living
together, human sacrifice, mas hysteria" or
just Monday

[MikeS]

Seems to me that if Audi can build a clean burning diesel, 1. that technology could be used to produce electricity.
2. clean burning gasoline would be easier.

3. light bulbs and cold hot tubs are a feeble answer to big problem.
4. Thorium reactors are a big answer.

[Der Hahn]

An interception return for a touchdown puts the Saints up by 31-17 with 3:05 left in the game

As a Vikes fan, all I can say is thank god somebody else's pic is gonna be analyized to death until next fall.... (at least Brett's wasn't returned for a touch)

[Captain Hate]

The only people more clueless than Frank are some folks at Llewelyn Rockwell who think he is a neocon

Bless their brainless little pointed heads...

[Sue]

Thomas,

I guess the message was you can out-green the greens with clean diesel. It was too close to the reality we are living in and the fact that I can drive a diesel car and the green police will let me through wasn't amusing. I hated the commercial. Even after learning they were lampooning the green police. Which I guess should have been obvious when they used a sniffer anteater. At the time, it didn't strike me as odd, just part of the mindset of the loony left.

[Porchlight]

Der Hahn, I quite agree.

Last night wasn't a lot of fun for me (as a Vikes fan I really wanted to see the Saints get slapped), but I was happy for my Lousianan husband that the Saints won.

[PD]

I am not a Peyton Manning fan (I dislike his endless jitterbugging prior to the snap, and his whining to the officials reminds me of Cris Carter), so it was very satisfying to see him literally throw the game away.

[Janet]

LUN - Obama to hold health care symposium with Republicans

Repubs. should be no where near this health care bill or Obama. Let the Dems own this loser.

[glasater]

And Manning at one point late in the game standing there waving his arms and lecturing his linemen did not look like a good omen to me....

Ignatz--Here's a lumber link from a Clusterstock tweet.

[Danube of Thought]

Off-topic, but directly related to the recent JOM discussions re the drone attacks: I highly recommend this review of a PBS "American Experience" program airing tonight. It covers the US bombing campaign against Germany in 1944-45, and the enormous civilian casualties inflicted by that campaign. The tone of the thing (at least as presented in the review) will surprise you.

[glasater]

Janet--thank you for pointing that conflab Zero wants to get going out.

It's being talked up by some conservative tweeters this AM.

[caro]

Clarice,now I can't wait to see "Hi, TOTUS!" written on Sarah's hand.

[Janet]

LUN Andrea Mitchell mocks Palin's hand notes.

There are few people out in the MSM that are as loathsome to me as Andrea Mitchell.
A few words written on your hand compared to the entire talk spelled out for you on a teleprompter...

[centralcal]

And then, we have Andrea Mitchell continuing to make a complete Ass of herself.

LUN

[Janet]

Andrea could have used a "hand note" to remind herself that lots of media/government people knew Wilson/Plame.

[Janet]

Remember this look of hate...

[Porchlight]

Thanks, DoT, that review was really good. I have steered clear of PBS in recent years for just the reasons the author spelled out in his introduction, but now I am curious to watch the program.

I think it's been all too easy since WWII and the Cold War for Americans to assume that since we won, it was a foregone conclusion that we would do so, and therefore we have the comfort in hindsight to revisit and criticize some of the extremely difficult decisions that had to be made. But the people who made them didn't know we would win. In fact we damn near lost.

We are in so many ways becoming the victims of our own successes - economic, military, cultural, etc.

[Janet]

Beauty and the Beast....

[Porchlight]

Janet,

Somebody looks better in red than somebody else.