Super Bowl XLVI

Mowich
Avatar
#1
I usually watch the Super Bowl just for the ads (I get all the US networks thus don't miss them by watching the game on a Canadian channel) as I find US football a little too under-entertaining compared to the Canadian game - just my opinion and granted it comes with bias. However, yesterday's game was one that I was glad to watch with lots of excitement right up until the dying seconds when Brady's hail mary went for naught in the end zone.

Back to the ads, one of my favs was the David Beckman ad - a woman would have to be blind or dead not to enjoy it, IMHO.

I gave the Chevy Sonic ad high marks - great music. The Teleflora ad must have stirred the er... hearts of many a man. Sketchers also scored high with me as did the Doritos Bungee Baby. The Kia Optima ad showed real imagination. Budweiser scored high with their end of prohibition ad. The best of the 'patriotic' ads, again, IMHO, was the Clint Eastwood piece about Detroit - it seemed to hit all the buttons.

I did watch Madonna's half-time show but somehow missed the 'gesture' by MIA that is in the news today. Thought ending the show with 'Like a Prayer' was pretty cool and her disappearing act was pretty neat too.

All in all a pretty good way to spend an otherwise lazy Sunday afternoon.
 
Spade
#2
The super Bowl - a celebration of excess.
 
Mowich
+1
#3
Quote: Originally Posted by SpadeView Post

The super Bowl - a celebration of excess.

I don't disagree with you on that, Spade.
 
Spade
Avatar
#4
That's okay; you must remember that I am one who does not wait with baited breath to see commercials. The game itself is entertaining; the hype, no!
 
Mowich
Avatar
#5
Quote: Originally Posted by SpadeView Post

That's okay; you must remember that I am one who does not wait with baited breath to see commercials. The game itself is entertaining; the hype, no!

Can't say that I 'wait with baited breath' for the ads, Spade but I do enjoy the imagination and ingenuity that goes into the production of them.
 
IdRatherBeSkiing
Avatar
+3
#6  Top Rated Post
I for one am very glad Pretty Boy and the Patriots lost. Can't stand him or his coach or his team.
 
Cannuck
Avatar
+1
#7
I had a ticket worth $2500 with the score 22-17 Giants. Needless to say, I was not impressed when they chose not to kick the single point. I'm sure Coughlin could hear me yelling at him.
 
IdRatherBeSkiing
Avatar
#8
Quote: Originally Posted by CannuckView Post

I had a ticket worth $2500 with the score 22-17 Giants. Needless to say, I was not impressed when they chose not to kick the single point. I'm sure Coughlin could hear me yelling at him.

He was informed of your ticket and changed from a single point to a deuce.
 
spaminator
#9
Quote: Originally Posted by MowichView Post

I usually watch the Super Bowl just for the ads (I get all the US networks thus don't miss them by watching the game on a Canadian channel) as I find US football a little too under-entertaining compared to the Canadian game - just my opinion and granted it comes with bias. However, yesterday's game was one that I was glad to watch with lots of excitement right up until the dying seconds when Brady's hail mary went for naught in the end zone.
Back to the ads, one of my favs was the David Beckman ad - a woman would have to be blind or dead not to enjoy it, IMHO.
I gave the Chevy Sonic ad high marks - great music. The Teleflora ad must have stirred the er... hearts of many a man. Sketchers also scored high with me as did the Doritos Bungee Baby. The Kia Optima ad showed real imagination. Budweiser scored high with their end of prohibition ad. The best of the 'patriotic' ads, again, IMHO, was the Clint Eastwood piece about Detroit - it seemed to hit all the buttons.
I did watch Madonna's half-time show but somehow missed the 'gesture' by MIA that is in the news today. Thought ending the show with 'Like a Prayer' was pretty cool and her disappearing act was pretty neat too.
All in all a pretty good way to spend an otherwise lazy Sunday afternoon.

Quote has been trimmed, See full post: View Post
i found mia's music more offensive.
 
Mowich
Avatar
#10
Quote: Originally Posted by spaminatorView Post

i found mia's music more offensive.

Honestly, spaminator............had never heard of mia before today when I read about the NFL and NBC apologizing for the 'gesture.' I don't even like Madonna though have nothing against her, just not my type of music for the most part.
 
Ron in Regina
Avatar
#11
Quote: Originally Posted by MowichView Post

I usually watch the Super Bowl just for the ads...


--)
 
gopher
#12
God's Team wins Super Bowl 46!
 
shadowshiv
Avatar
#13
Quote: Originally Posted by MowichView Post

Honestly, spaminator............had never heard of mia before today when I read about the NFL and NBC apologizing for the 'gesture.' I don't even like Madonna though have nothing against her, just not my type of music for the most part.

I've got two MP3s of hers. One is Paper Planes(the regular version heard on the radio), and Paper Planes(DFA Remix). M.I.A.'s music isn't really my thing, but that song is okay(the remix version is cooler).

With regards to the "obscene gesture"? I mean, seriously?(not directed at you, Mowich, just the media and NBC) They are apologizing for it like it was some horrifying action? It's an overreaction, just like it was during Nipple-Gate(Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake)! I honestly don't see what the big deal of it was.

I wish I had seen the game, as I would have loved to see Tom Brady falter in the end...again.
 
spaminator
#14
Quote: Originally Posted by shadowshivView Post

I've got two MP3s of hers. One is Paper Planes(the regular version heard on the radio), and Paper Planes(DFA Remix). M.I.A.'s music isn't really my thing, but that song is okay(the remix version is cooler).

With regards to the "obscene gesture"? I mean, seriously?(not directed at you, Mowich, just the media and NBC) They are apologizing for it like it was some horrifying action? It's an overreaction, just like it was during Nipple-Gate(Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake)! I honestly don't see what the big deal of it was.

I wish I had seen the game, as I would have loved to see Tom Brady falter in the end...again.

--
 
spaminator
Avatar
#15
Gisele Bundchen Blasts Tom Brady's Teammates Airdate : 2/6/2012


Gisele Bundchen is ripping into husband Tom Brady's teammates and triggering outrage among already-hurting Patriots fans.

Bundchen watched from a V.I.P. box as her husband's team went down to defeat.

Time and again, perfectly good throws from Brady were dropped.

Bundchen gave Brady a consoling hug when they met after the game. But the supermodel was caught on tape trashing the Patriots' wide receivers.

"They didn't catch the ball when you're supposed to catch the ball," she said. "My husband cannot throw the (blanking) ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can't believe they dropped the ball so many times."

Her tirade is causing a firestorm in Boston.
Howie Carr of WRKO radio in Boston said, "Tom obviously needs to say something."
Carr said Brady should give his wife this advice: "Keep your mouth shut. And don't say anything except 'Hi, how are you?' "
"She should never have thrown Tom's teammates under the speeding bus," wrote one blogger.

"Not cool to curse at people and even worse to criticize your husband's teammates in public," said another.

"Sore loser!" said a third blogger.

But Bundchen has some supporters too.
"She was defending her husband," says one. "Leave her alone."

Bundchen has long been viewed by some Patriots fans as a jinx on her husband and his team.

One newspaper recently called her: "Jinxelle Bundchen."

After Sunday's defeat, a fan blogged: "She's a curse."

While triumphant Giants quarterback Eli Manning was celebrating with 11-month-old daughter Ava Frances and wife Abby, Brady and Bundchen, by contrast, were both glum as they commiserated with each other in a stadium corridor.

Her angry blast at her husband's teammates came right after she was taunted by Giants fans, who yelled, "Eli rules. Eli owns your husband."

--
 
Mowich
Avatar
+1
#16
Quote: Originally Posted by shadowshivView Post

I've got two MP3s of hers. One is Paper Planes(the regular version heard on the radio), and Paper Planes(DFA Remix). M.I.A.'s music isn't really my thing, but that song is okay(the remix version is cooler).

With regards to the "obscene gesture"? I mean, seriously?(not directed at you, Mowich, just the media and NBC) They are apologizing for it like it was some horrifying action? It's an overreaction, just like it was during Nipple-Gate(Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake)! I honestly don't see what the big deal of it was.

What I found really funny is how many news people had to go back and watch the performance again just to catch the 'gesture.' I didn't see anything as it happened so fast and so much was going on at the time besides the MIA thing.

It seems that Tom's wife's remarks about his teammates and the commercial by Clint Eastwood are getting far more air time than MIA

Quote:

I wish I had seen the game, as I would have loved to see Tom Brady falter in the end...again.

Actually, Shadow..........he didn't falter so much as his receivers did when they dropped pass after pass that really should have been caught. The hail mary aside, he didn't do such a bad job, IMHO. I just don't 'get' US football, besides trying to understand all their rules and penalties, I find it almost boring compared to the wide-open game we have in the CFL.........again, just my opinion.
 
shadowshiv
Avatar
+1
#17
Quote: Originally Posted by spaminatorView Post

Gisele Bundchen Blasts Tom Brady's Teammates Airdate : 2/6/2012


Gisele Bundchen is ripping into husband Tom Brady's teammates and triggering outrage among already-hurting Patriots fans.

Bundchen watched from a V.I.P. box as her husband's team went down to defeat.

Time and again, perfectly good throws from Brady were dropped.

Bundchen gave Brady a consoling hug when they met after the game. But the supermodel was caught on tape trashing the Patriots' wide receivers.

"They didn't catch the ball when you're supposed to catch the ball," she said. "My husband cannot throw the (blanking) ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can't believe they dropped the ball so many times."

Her tirade is causing a firestorm in Boston.
Howie Carr of WRKO radio in Boston said, "Tom obviously needs to say something."
Carr said Brady should give his wife this advice: "Keep your mouth shut. And don't say anything except 'Hi, how are you?' "
"She should never have thrown Tom's teammates under the speeding bus," wrote one blogger.

"Not cool to curse at people and even worse to criticize your husband's teammates in public," said another.

"Sore loser!" said a third blogger.

But Bundchen has some supporters too.
"She was defending her husband," says one. "Leave her alone."

Bundchen has long been viewed by some Patriots fans as a jinx on her husband and his team.

One newspaper recently called her: "Jinxelle Bundchen."

After Sunday's defeat, a fan blogged: "She's a curse."

While triumphant Giants quarterback Eli Manning was celebrating with 11-month-old daughter Ava Frances and wife Abby, Brady and Bundchen, by contrast, were both glum as they commiserated with each other in a stadium corridor.

Her angry blast at her husband's teammates came right after she was taunted by Giants fans, who yelled, "Eli rules. Eli owns your husband."

--

She sounds like a stuck-up snob. Perfect wife for Tom Brady it seems!

She should have just kept her mouth shut. Throwing the teammates of your husband under the bus like she did won't garner any good feelings towards him.

Quote: Originally Posted by MowichView Post

What I found really funny is how many news people had to go back and watch the performance again just to catch the 'gesture.' I didn't see anything as it happened so fast and so much was going on at the time besides the MIA thing.

It seems that Tom's wife's remarks about his teammates and the commercial by Clint Eastwood are getting far more air time than MIA

Actually, Shadow..........he didn't falter so much as his receivers did when they dropped pass after pass that really should have been caught. The hail mary aside, he didn't do such a bad job, IMHO. I just don't 'get' US football, besides trying to understand all their rules and penalties, I find it almost boring compared to the wide-open game we have in the CFL.........again, just my opinion.

I know, but I just like to bash him whenever he can. Having an over-inflated ego tends to make me want to do that.

I actually liked the Clint Eastwood commercial. It was certainly more thought-provoking than the average commercial that airs.
 
Bar Sinister
Avatar
#18
I enjoyed two things about the Superbowl. One was the fact that the dog who picked New England to win on the Tonight Show was wrong, in spite of Leno's claim that the dog was always right; and the other was the Abarth commercial.
 
IdRatherBeSkiing
Avatar
#19
Quote: Originally Posted by Bar SinisterView Post

I enjoyed two things about the Superbowl. One was the fact that the dog who picked New England to win on the Tonight Show was wrong, in spite of Leno's claim that the dog was always right; and the other was the Abarth commercial.

The rhinoserous picked the Giants and he was never wrong. Clearly when sports betting, one must go with the larger animal.
 
Walter
Avatar
#20
Here's a link to a parody of the Clint Eastwood Super Bowl commercial. I heard it on the Rush Limbaugh show.
--
 
Mowich
+1
#21
Quote: Originally Posted by shadowshivView Post

I know, but I just like to bash him whenever he can. Having an over-inflated ego tends to make me want to do that.

LOL!

Quote:

I actually liked the Clint Eastwood commercial. It was certainly more thought-provoking than the average commercial that airs.

It certainly was that, Shadow.
 
spaminator
Avatar
#22
More Details on Gisele Bundchen's Super Bowl Reaction Airdate : 2/7/2012


Just-found video of supermodel Gisele Bundchen's now notorious rant at her husband's teammates has surfaced.

In the video obtained by INSIDE EDITION, hunky quarterback Tom Brady can be seen shortly after the big loss, making his way down an undergound tunnel at the stadium, looking grim-faced. Bundchen ran up behind and threw her arms around him, offering words of comfort.
"You played the best game of your life. You were amazing," said Bundchen.

Brady gave a tight smile before telling her that he couldn't leave just yet.

"I'll be a few minutes," he said.
What Brady didn't know was that his wife had just unleashed the cussing rant heard around the world telling a taunting Giants fan, "My husband cannot throw the (blanking) ball and catch the ball at the same time."
Photos of Bundchen in a VIP box show her watching the game in horror. Her ire was apparently directed at receivers like Wes Welker, who dropped a crucial pass in the last minutes of the game.
Brady reportedly "hit the ceiling" when he heard about Bundchen's denunciation of his teammates (Source: Chicago Sun-Times)
Now, even the hometown newspaper of the New England Patriots is calling out Bundchen.

"Super Brat," says today's front page of the Boston Herald.
INSIDE EDITION's Megan Alexander spoke to Dawn Neufeld of the Vh1 reality show Football Wives. Dawn's husband, Ryan Neufeld played for the Buffalo Bills for seven years.
Dawn said, "Gisele basically broke a code. For the guys, they call it sort of a 'Code of Brotherhood.' And the wives, we have to sort of abide by what they need to do. You never, ever, ever, under any circumstance, throw a teammate under the bus."
Alexander asked, "How would you advise Gisele to move forward from this?"
"I think if she owns up to it, apologizes, realizes she may have been out of line, I think people will be able to move on. Hey listen, Gisele is not the reason why the Pats lost that game on Sunday."
The wife of one of Brady's teammates is quoted as saying, "Gisele has very few friends among the wives. She doesn't make it easy to like her, since she obviously feels so superior to all of us."
Bundchen has long been known for speaking her mind, says fashion insider Katrina Szish.
Szish told INSIDE EDITION, "We know Gisele as a supermodel, but she is also super outspoken. If she doesn't like something, she'll let you know. If she thinks something, she'll speak her mind."

--
 
Cannuck
#23
Quote: Originally Posted by WalterView Post

Here's a link to a parody of the Clint Eastwood Super Bowl commercial. I heard it on the Rush Limbaugh show.
--

Aren't parodies supposed to be humorous?
 
spaminator
Avatar
#24
Backlash Continues for Gisele Bundchen Airdate : 2/8/2012


Embattled Gisele Bundchen is getting support from a surprising source—Donald Trump.

INSIDE EDITION caught up with The Donald in New York Wednesday at a publicity event for Celebrity Apprentice.
"I think she was great in what she said. She was sticking up for her man. She was right. They were dropping passes all over the place. He was throwing the ball beautifully and they were dropping passes," said Trump.

But in Boston, the vitriol has reached a fever pitch since Sunday's big loss, followed by that now notorious rant against her husband Tom Brady's teammates. Check out this headline: "Has Gisele Become The Most Hated Woman In Boston?"

The columnists are having a field day.
"Gisele Bundchen, all beauty, little brains." (Source: Boston Herald)

And talk show host Wendy Williams says, Bundchen deserves it.

Williams said, "Of course she's the most hated woman in Boston. What woman has not said five words too many to defend her man? But saying it at the Super Bowl on national TV with cameras present was the stupidest thing this woman could have ever done."

Brady is also coming under heat for putting his penthouse duplex in Boston on the market. The asking price is $10.9 million. Some see it as Brady distancing himself from the city. He and Bundchen have set up their home base at an incredible estate in Los Angeles.

--
 

Similar Threads

12
Super Bowl
by Kreskin | Feb 10th, 2009
12
What's everyone doing for Super Bowl?
by Kreskin | Feb 4th, 2008
10
How will you be watching the Super Bowl?
by tawker | Feb 23rd, 2006
9
Super Bowl Commercials
by I think not | Feb 7th, 2006
7
The Super Bowl
by zoofer | Feb 5th, 2006
no new posts