Zero interest in Superbowl
 

It's kinda funny because my watching wasn't impacted by the Colin vs murder vs Trump vs Blacks and the NFL thing.

No, it's the product. Instant replay has counter-intuitively made confidence in the game calling lower. I also can't enjoy a game involving the team not to be mentioned because I'll always doubt the integrity of what I'm seeing and suspect my emotions are being manipulated. It's like when you're a little kid and you realized wrestling is entertainment not sport.

Good luck Philly, Pete will be watching but I'm gonna find a good book.

Me too for the same reason.

I just couldn't care less. I didn't know who was playing until earlier this afternoon when my friend was mentioned it.

Oh! Yeah, that's right. The thing.. Cool, I look forward to a youtube roll of the best commercials.

I'd rather watch the game than the commercials though.....

The only reason to watch the Superbowl is the commercials.

But with the internet, you can see them the next day on Youtube.

I'll watch because... tradition/habit.
I've seen every one of them and we used to gather here until a couple years ago my buddy in NJ bought a ridiculously big screen. Then we moved the tradition to his house, but the next year when I went there, his neighbor said he was headed for my house. He forgot. :facepalm:

I'm a diehard football fan, I just haven't seen one game this season. Not just the Eagles, any game. :lol2:

This has been a remarkable year for the Eagles, and it's been a great year to be a fan of them. This is a team to root for. It's a team with enormous personality, working hard but having a ton of fun.

We wish for that sort of dynamic to happen in our own lives; this is where sports finds its most important role in our world, showing how it can be done.

Coach Doug Pederson is a guy who encouraged the team to improve through what owner Jeff Lurie calls "emotional intelligence". His predecessor was a genius football mind, trying to revolutionize the game, but could not work with pro players. After a while they abandoned him and his scheme fell to pieces.

At the start of this season, one sportswriter said of Pederson that he "might be less qualified to coach a team than anyone I’ve ever seen." And I think, the best boss I ever had in IT came from grocery store management. He managed 1000 part-timers before he ever managed anyone in an office. As a result, he was great at managing people in an office. People wanted to work for him, and they worked hard for him.

At work, I am at a startup run by a very bright founder, but he has zero emotional intelligence. He antagonizes everyone, and they become sad and less productive. All I wish for, all day, is a team. I wish for the tribal aspects of our humanity, brought to actually improve us instead of driving us apart. We CAN work together for a common goal. That's what we are meant to do in this world.

But not if we are led without emotional intelligence.

Go EAGLES!!!

And Griff, this was posted to the Steelers subreddit...

http://cellar.org/2017/steagles.jpg

(context: in 1943, for one year, due to the war effort, the two teams combined to form one team called the Steagles.)

I have an ironclad Super Bowl tradition, going on a decade now.

First, every year, I silently marvel at the abnormally-low traffic, and wonder why. Then, I watch about 20 minutes of the third quarter in a Mexican restaurant in Houston, TX. I try to avoid the bartender's small talk, but inevitably reveal that I don't know who is playing. Then I drive about 2.5 hours, and Mr. Clod tells me who won (which he read on the internet.) I say, "Ah. Okay." Finally, with another year's exhausting but thrilling championship complete, I go to bed.

:lol:

But this year you won't be wondering why the traffic is quiet because thanks to the amazing technology that brought you The Cellar and your incredible cognitive capabilities and memory for minutiae, you'll figure it out!

FWIW I was watching TV earlier and was surprised to see a trailer for the game which is being shown live on BBC1 at 2315. I won't be staying up!

I would not begrudge Philly a SuperBowl.

WHS^^^

Fucking nerds.

Except Tony

Typical cowboys fan, blind obedience to the god NFL. :rolleyes:

Best one so far!




Thank you Youtube

I feel the same!!!!

I used to like sports until I found out THEY ARE PAID!!!!!!! (Not the same as if they did it cause they wanted to)

I'm going to make the attempt for the sake of the woman, the child, her boy, the dwellars, and the glory of Pennsyltucky. This commitment is entirely revocable.

Zero interest in Superbowl
 

Ugh. It's just the pre- game and we already polished off a big bag of tortilla chips and guacamole and salsa. It was good, but there's so much more to eat.

That was a weird “eat my shorts” manoeuvre back there, wasn’t it? When the guy tried to jump over the other guy and the second guy got a face-full of balls, not the football sort! Eh?


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Thunderboy and Beest have it on. Thunderboy is wearing an Eagles hat. Because he has one. Because he's a skyline Eagle and they don't have a hat of their own and he inherited it from his sister. How in the fuck has it been going for two hours and it's they haven't even got to half time yet?

ugh. my interwebs is totally fucked. After trying all the usual fixes (because my computer is teh sux anyway) I have come to the conclusion it's related to the Superb Owl Day. So I care even less. make it stop.

Mr Limey and I have drunk all the whisky so we're off to bed.

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It was a nail-biter, probably the best Superbowl I've watched.

I was putting the trash and recycling out for collection during the end bit. I had to move one of the cars to get the bins down the drive. Which was a bit of a nail-biter because visibility zero due to iced-up snowed-up screen and unwillingness to scrape just for that....

The Mexican restaurant had a surprising number of people at it. I told them they could put me at the bar or a table, whichever was better for them, because I definitely wasn't going to watch the game. A table turned out to be the right choice, because the bar was full of interested fans by the time I left.

The host city touting the Superb Owl...

That was good. I liked the part where they failed to screw the Eagles on the replays.

It was a good game. I am a little disgusted in the NFL that you can watch a team score a touchdown, and then you have to wait. And wait. And wait some more to find out if they really did score the touchdown you saw them score. Or the catch you saw them make.

I was actually pretty tired, so I went up to bed after I saw the Eagles score their last touchdown, but before the refs confirmed it. As I went up the stairs and my wife and son were still watching the game, I heard Chris Colinsworth muttering that he gives up. He had no idea if it was a touchdown or not that he had just clearly seen from multiple angles replayed half a dozen times in slow motion. Perfect view of the play from multiple angles, and the rules are so confusing now that you don't know if it's a touchdown.

I'm glad the Eagles won. And the game didn't drag on too much after I went to bed so it was only a short time later that I learned from my son's whooping that the Eagles had won.

In two years she'll be named Liv.

Space for commercials at $5million+for 30 seconds?

Of course! I'm an idiot for not realizing it.

Philly cop, dealing with post-game crowd on Broad St.

https://gfycat.com/ScaryMerryAbyssiniancat

LOL. That's awesome

Good stuff!

That's officer, Mark Lapenta, of the 22nd District.

But - how did you --

Well from Cellar member Kirk the tuba players site, he linked Deadspin's page of Things Philadelphians Did, and half way down the page a post by Robert Moran titled "High-fived Police" in which he identified Lapenta.


edit- And here's the moment of victory...

And he called in to WIP this morning

Greatest victory speech of all time Jason Kelce

That was a brilliant piece o work.