BS: Super Bowl Predictions

Subject: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: freightdawg
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 07:37 PM

Here's mine:

The commercials will be more interesting than the game.

The cheerleaders will have better moves than the running backs.

The winners will thank God for giving them the victory (as if the Almighty is interested in north American sporting events).

and,

Some idiot reporter will stick a microphone in the face of the losing coach and ask him a totally inane question like, "How does it feel to lose the Super Bowl, coach?"

Go Vikings,

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 07:43 PM

I can't be arsed to watch it...

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 07:44 PM

I will drink beer and say, "I still prefer College football."

(or even better, Olympic hockey)

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 07:53 PM

They will find a super spoon and the giant can have his cornflakes.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 07:56 PM

The Eagles won't be playing. Again.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Johnny in OKC
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 08:30 PM

When is the Super Bowl, anyway?
JOHNNY

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 08:36 PM

Next Sunday, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!. (FEB 1st)

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 08:45 PM

I predict that I will be hanging out with a buncha people who hate football and would rather play music.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Johnny in OKC
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 09:00 PM

Thank you, Cluin!
Now, what teams are playing?

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 09:33 PM

Well danged. Looks like I ain't too late to get a prediction in. If Steven Davis starts and finishes the game, then Carolina wins 'cause the Panthers will run it down the Pats throats...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Midchuck
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 09:41 PM

I understand that the story that the battered womens' shelters across the US have their day of maximum demand for help, every year, the night of Super Sunday - after every guy who got drunk while watching his team lose takes his frustration out on his wife or girlfriend at once - is an urban legend. It's almost a shame, in a weird way, that it isn't true, since it seems so likely that it would be thus....

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Raptor
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 09:43 PM

I predict it gonna get pretty drunk out that night!

Johnny: New England Patriots VS Carolina Panthers

Should be a good game!

No offfence to anyone but I find that most people that hate football are the ones who don't understand how it's played. And would rather knock it than admit that they don't get it!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Sorcha
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 09:53 PM

Oh, I understand it and don't hate it, just don't care. Better things to do with my life. Who the hell are the Carolina Panthers, anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: freightdawg
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 11:22 PM

Okay, Bobert was the first to stick out his chin for his team, so if Carolina wins everyone owes Bobert a beer.

As previously noted, I'm personally a Vikings fan, so every year at this time I get to sit around and wonder what it would be like to have my team win the big one. Not quite as bad as being a Red Sox or Cubbies fan, but we are in the circle.

As far as prognostication goes, I had Green Bay and Tennessee, so that tells you what kind of fortune teller I am.

C'mon Sorcha - better things to do for a three hour stretch on a late winter Sunday evening??

Cheers everyone, and woof, woof.

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 11:44 PM

I predict that............one team will win!

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 12:30 AM

most people that hate football are the ones who don't understand how it's played

No. I understand how it's played. In fact, I don't hate the game per se, just the way that television has turned it into a pseudo-religion so they can sell advertising time. Somebody wanna choose up sides for a game of touch and I'm all for it.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 01:19 AM

I predict I won't be watching. 10 years ago I still enjoyed it. If I could think of anything I could care less about now, I'd tell you.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Johnny in OKC
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 01:58 AM

Care less?

Basketball, golf, hockey ...

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: artbrooks
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 09:03 AM

I predict that the combined salaries of the two teams would fund a medium-sized trauma hospital for a full year, except for the physicians' salaries, and that the money wasted by advertisers would pay for those.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Peter T.
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 09:15 AM

I played football for a number of years. I hate it.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 01:54 PM

Re: "No offence to anyone but I find that most people that hate football are the ones who don't understand how it's played."

You're jumping to conclusions. My disenchantment with football started when a boy from my high school died on the field.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 05:17 PM

freightdawg:

Nah, I'm more a Steven Davis fan than a fan of Carolina. See, he played fir my beloved Washington Redskins before going to Carolina.

Spawzer:

Hmmmmmmm? Seems you lost interest in football about the same time Art the Fart moved the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore. I agree with you. The old Cleveland Browns were my second favorite team and I'm still bummed about what went down...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: ddw
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 05:40 PM

Hey, Spaw — with your feline connection, I'd have bet you'd be a Panthers fan...

I probably won't watch the game, but being from North Carolina I'll be sorta pulling or the Panthers.

Bobert — nice to hear there are others who lament the passing of the Browns. They were my favorite team from back in the '50s when Jim Brown was running fullback. Lord, what a powerhouse he was!

cheers,

david

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 06:08 PM

some coach once said that successful coaching in football was a very awkward thing..."You have to be smart enough to make it all work, and dumb enough to think it's all worthwhile."

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Raptor
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 01:12 PM

Why do so many people hate T.V. as a giant waste of thier valuable time yet spend Hours on the internet chatting with people they don't care about?

If time is so valuable go spend it on something nice as opposed to wasting it telling me that the sport I like is not a good use of time!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 01:37 PM

Prediction: A Cloud Of Mint Green Phosphorescence will settle on the stadium and the Gaelic Goddess will descend onto the field aty half-time...

A

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 01:44 PM

Hey, and how about "Survivor" kicking off it's season after the SuperBowl?

Jus' funnin'

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Raptor
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 02:27 PM

Shinia Twain Played at Halftime lastyear Amos

And shes not gaelic!

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 03:05 PM

That was then, Raptor -- this is now.

The Gaelic Goddess ( a purely Mudcat Divinity with red hair and a mint-green aura) would vaporize Ms Twain with a single pass of her Magic Twanger.



A

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Raptor
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 03:16 PM

A lot of folks would like to have a go at Ms Twain with thier twangers!

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: freightdawg
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 05:51 PM

Hey Bobert,

Hows about Joe "Super Bowl" Gibbs back in Washington?

I reckon ya love it. Good luck, but take it easy on my Vikes.

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Col K
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 07:33 PM

Being from Old England I suppose that I should support New England,OK then I will.
New England to win and I will be watching it live on TV over here.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: open mike
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 08:27 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Matt_R
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 10:46 PM

I feel your pain, Mark. :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 11:05 PM

Freightdawg:

Yeah, I am psyched about Jor Gibbs coming back....

open mike:

Yeah, I'd love to see the ad on the Super Bowl but I think it would backfire and give Bush's PR folks an in.... Let's wait an' catch 'em when they least expect it....

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: SueB
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 12:18 AM

Hate the Pats (and my family's from Boston!)
Love the Panthers, especially super-cute quarterback - reminds me of
Elway, the way he never gives up and can pull it out in the 4th -
if Carolina wins, Bobert, will you share the beer?

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 02:16 PM

So far Kansas City, Philly, Buffalo, and San Francisco are the likeliest.

I am thinking of course of what I shall cook.

If KC / Buffalo, wings with choice of KC bbq or Buffalo sauce. Easy-peasy.

I made cheesesteak sliders last time for Philly. Not sure about anything else...

But San Fran, now. Hmmm. 49 of something? Nuggets, maybe?

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 02:42 PM

Rice aroni the San Francisco treat. Or a heart tar tar left in San Fran.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 09:13 PM

Of course! D'uh!

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 09:24 PM

Chicago Cubs. I know, I know, but they gotta win SOMETHING SOMETIME.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 09:40 PM

Hahaha!

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: gillymor
Date: 18 Jan 23 - 10:01 PM

If you want to dine like the original 49'ers it'll be sourdough bread or Hangtown fry if you've struck it rich. I don't care who wins as long as it's not the Dallas Overhypes and I get to watch as much of Mahomes and the K.C. offense as possible but I'll pick the Niners and the Chiefs to make to the bowl.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 23 - 03:57 PM

If the Eagles face Kansas City, The Eagles might be the winning underdog depending on the status of Mahome's sprained ankle.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: gillymor
Date: 23 Jan 23 - 04:59 PM

After seeing what the Eagles did to the Giants and the Bengals did to the Bills (in Buffalo) and in light of Pat Mahomes injury I'm gonna flip my picks. Philly and Cincy.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: gillymor
Date: 23 Jan 23 - 05:04 PM

...but Dallas losing was my Super Bowl. Sweet schadenfreude.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 23 - 06:36 PM

Interestingly put.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 23 - 04:29 PM

If Gilly is right, I say Cincy too.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: gillymor
Date: 25 Jan 23 - 09:25 PM

Don't bet the farm on the strength of my predictions, Don. I'm often surprised by the outcomes in the NFL, which is part of it's charm. (NFL= Not For Long)

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 07:37 AM

I have never bet on sports, only real estate and people with mixed results.
I'm afraid the sports betting industry will bankrupt and seduce many people who would never have become degenerate gamblers.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: gillymor
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 07:57 AM

If people want to bet on sports that's their deal but it's disturbing, to me, the way sports media outlets have increasingly been promoting online gambling in the past few years. Anything for a buck.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 08:36 AM

Betting is heavily and incessantly promoted on the electronic boards on all four sides of our Premier League football grounds, which we see all through televised matches that we choose to watch, and is staple advertising fare on BT Sport and Sky Sports, who have bought up most of the football rights. Persuasions to "set your limits" and "bet responsibly" form an extremely minor part of the advertising. I find it cynical and very depressing.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Jan 23 - 08:44 PM

Well I posted that last one and next day this was in the Guardian:

As a footballer I am surrounded by gambling ads. This needs to stop
[David Wheeler]

(Sorry to intrude on your Superbowl thread)

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jan 23 - 06:34 PM

I'm predicting an Eagles vs. Bengals super bowl.
then...the Eagles by a hair.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Jan 23 - 08:57 PM

So, cheesesteaks and either cincy chili or kc bbq, I guess.

I lack originality.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Jan 23 - 12:33 AM

I'm predicting that I'll be doing something else that day.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: gillymor
Date: 30 Jan 23 - 05:38 AM

K.C. wins the late game, though I'm not sure how with a hobbled Mahomes and the loss of three wideouts during the course of the game as well their top cornerback. Sheer force of will, I guess. It was a fascinating struggle.
Philly walked over S.F. after QB Purdy injured his right wrist, effectively ending their night offensively.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: leeneia
Date: 30 Jan 23 - 01:18 PM

Right, gillymor. Today the DH and I watched the highlights of yesterday's game against Cincinnatti, and the DH and I both noticed that for a guy whose team had just won a game, Mahomes looked very glum. In fact, we saw his face only, as he leaned into a big civilian, as if the civilian was helping him stand up.

"He looks shaken," was the DH's verdict.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: gillymor
Date: 30 Jan 23 - 01:47 PM

Yes, leeneia, playing at that level with a high ankle sprain was an incredible feat, (pun intended).

Correction: Niner QB Brock Purdy had an ELBOW injury in the first quarter and had to return in the third when his replacement went down though he was barely able to throw and only got off two short passes.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Feb 23 - 11:27 AM

He who is less beaten - wins the super survivor bowl, whether you are beaten up or beaten down.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Feb 23 - 11:48 AM

Maybe just some kc bbq sauce to dip the cheesesteaks in?

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: gillymor
Date: 01 Feb 23 - 01:22 PM

Yeah, Don, it's a war of attrition and even more so now that the owners, with the players consent, have greedily expanded the regular season to 17 games and, rumor has it, they're pushing for 18.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Feb 23 - 10:39 AM

The google says port butt is the meat to smoke. Any comments?

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: leeneia
Date: 03 Feb 23 - 11:03 AM

I don't smoke meat, but I make pulled pork by putting pork butt (a/k/a pork shoulder) in a slow cooker or slow oven along with bbq sauce.

When it comes to actual bbq places with the big wood-fired ovens, ribs, whether beef or pork, share pride of place with pulled pork.
==========
The Kansas City Star says the Chiefs are selling some tickets to the Superbowl along with some tailgate fare for over $5000. Me, I don't like BBQ THAT much. Superbowl tickets out on the open market are over $9,000 but I don't know if anybody's buying.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: gillymor
Date: 03 Feb 23 - 11:24 AM

I only eat meat around the holidays, usually turkey and ham but I used to love pulled pork done North Carolina style- a smoked pork butt with vinegar sauce, heaped on a bun and topped with cole slaw. I always found K.C. barbecue sauce too sweet for my taste though maybe I never had the real thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Feb 23 - 04:12 PM

Smoked pork, bbq sauce of sweet-sour-hot tomato base. Thin-sliced rib-eye, onions, peppers, provolone. Choice of buns.

There will be salad and chocolate.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Feb 23 - 10:07 PM

The game will be played in Arizona so don't be surprised if Republicans don't accept the result.

Subject: RE: BS: Super Bowl Predictions
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 23 - 04:03 PM

"Maybe just some kc bbq sauce..."

Well, KC sauces are not all the same.

I ate at Arthur Bryant's once, and recently ordered some ribs from them online. Came with a choice of sauces...
https://shop.arthurbryantsbbq.com/sauces-and-rubs/