NFL playoffs
 

I don't really have much to say, as both games were one sided, but I saw somehitng that simplay amazed me.

At one point in the third quarter, the quaterback rating for the Carolina QB Delhomme was.....1.8. 1 point freakin' 8? I have never seen anything like that.

Anyway, I've always been a Seahawks fan (love the 76 expansion teams, the other being the Bucs). Go 'Hawks!

I'm divided. I've always kinda liked the Steelers. Heinz Ward deserves a Super Bowl, as does Bettis. But at the same time, I really respect the way Seattle has played, they're a great team to watch (and Sean Alexander kept me afloat in my fanatasy league).

But I think in the end I'm gonig to be rooting for Pittsburgh. I almost always root for the underdog, plus, while I really hate them now, I was a Raiders fan back in the day, so I just can't quite bring myself to root for Seattle. Too many years of rubbing the 'Hawks' losses in to my cousin (who grew up in Seattle), it's ingrained now.

The guy who shows up to my sister's Superbowl party every year wearing his Steeler's jersey won't look nearly so pathetic this year.

Seattle? Pitts?

Seesch, looks like I suddenly find myself with an extra free Sunday. :)

I've seen a QB rating of 0 before. In fact, the Cowboys put a 0 on Jeff Garcia when he was the QB for the Browns last year.
Hines Ward

Pitt is favored to win.

Of course I'll root for the Hawks, but I can't help but wonder if that will jinx them....:rolleyes:

I'm just astounded they are even in the Superbowl. I can't remember the last time I had any hope for that team. I think I was in High School, back in the Zorn days.

Was it Jim Zorn or Dave Kreig who led them to the AFC (they only moved to the NFC a few years ago) championship game in....84, I think? I can't remember how long Zorn played.

To be contrary to GD (which is shocking, I know), one of the reason I like the Seahawks is that even when they would win 4or 5 games a year, two of those were often against the Raiders in AFC West play. Never a Raiders fan. Lyle Alzado gave me nightmares, and Al Davis was (is) a moron.

I just looked up how the QB rating is calculated. What a pain in the butt. Who comes up with that stuff? I'd summarize, but there is no way to summarize.

Ugh, I can't remember....It seems to me that it was Kreig, even though Zorn was still with them. If memory serves, he was sidelined due to injuries or some such thing. I could look it up, but I'm too lazy.:D

I'd look it up, but I just looked up the damn QB rating calculation and now my brain hurts.

I looked it up- it was Kreig.

You say tomato, I say ketchup

Underdog in the larger sense in that Pitt's a wildcard team that had to win 3 games on the road to get there.

I couldn't decide which would be worse - two weeks of all superbowl, all the time, or the wailing and gnashing of teeth if "we" would have lost yesterday. (BT keeps saying that "we" are going to the superbowl and I know full well that "we" are going no further than our couch.)

I guess I've had plenty of experience with the one, so now it's time to experience the other.

(No beer on the new couch, BT!)

Hines Ward plays at Heinz Field.

Yup, he sure does. Which is why I've been calling him Heinz for the last several years.

Did you used to call him Three Rivers?:D

one time, at band camp, someone called me a Big-A hole:rolleyes:

I have been waiting almost 30 years for the Seahawks to make it to the Superbowl. Liked them since they came into the league (Started because the uniforms and an older kid I admired was a fan, but havent stopped)

GO SEAHAWKS!

Wait, you don't live up here and you're rooting for our team? Nearly unheard of!

I've known 2 Seahawks fans in my life. One cool guy and one dick. The cool guy once had the flu and **** his pants at his uber-bitch girlfriend's best friend's wedding reception. Uber-bitch made him sit his stinky ass in the car while she finished getting her party on.


I'm rooting for the Seahawks and all most of their long-suffering fans.

1 quarter down and we're first up on the board.

Just came home from shopping and dropping off tax crap to the accountant- was almost afraid to look at the score. Yeah!

Urg. Now Pittsburgh's up by four. If we lose, I'll probably have to get a hotel room for the night. :(

I understand the ref couldn't overturn with the image available but I don't think he broke the plain and the touchdown that was called back was pretty ticky-tack but technically correct.

And didn't it look like Randle El took some damage on that one hit?

Bah. I guess we're out of the game now.

Crap! Freakin' trick play!

I think Seattle's gotten hosed by the officiating, frankly. The pushoff in the endzone, the first Pittsburgh touchdown, and the personal foul on Hasselback when he was making a tackle, not taking on a blocker.

Those are all huge. I can't think of one questionable call going against Pittsburgh.

I happened to just post that as Hasselback fumbled - or so it was ruled. He was touched by 50. They damn well better overturn that call.

OK - they reversed the call, but it's over. 6:30 to go, down by 11. Oh, well. Still gotta love them 'Hawks.

thanks for the recap... i only got to watch the last 2:00.

i hope it was as fun to watch as i imagined.

any wardrobe malfunctions?

I didn't watch much of the halftime fesitivities, but I gotta say Mick still gets around pretty well for being 60+.

Keith Richards actually died sometime around 1976, but the sheer amount of drugs in his system has kept his body around and kicking since then.:evil:

Soooooo.... What hotel did ya decide on, Pru?

Wow.


If I were a Seahawk fan I'd be plenty pissed at the officials right now. But I'd be sure to direct a portion of my anger at Holmgren and Hasselbeck. I cannot believe that the Seahawk's final drives of each half were directed by an NFL caliber coach and quarterback. Way to vomit on your own shoes, fellas.

While it would be convenient to blame the officiating, the Hawks have no one to blame for losing that game but themselves.

That is true, Kevy. If I were a certain tight end named Stevens right now I'd be feeling like quite the goat. Three perfect passes right in his hands dropped. Gack.

That being said, there were three huge calls that definitely impacted the game in favor of the Steelers - the pushoff in the endzone (I thought it was lame), the touchdown (I have to think the Steelers would kick a field goal at that point, having been stopped 3 times on short and goal), and the personal foul on Hasselback, which moved the Steelers into range to run their trick play.

So....the Seahawks certainly could have won even with those calls. However, those calls certainly aided the Steelers.

I too claim BS on the Pittsburgh touchdown...because if Pitt. had kicked the field goal instead, I would have won the betting pool for the first half. :mad:

We're all missing the real story...the commercials sucked this year. I can't think of a single standout. Sure I recall chuckling at a couple, but there was nothing memorable.

The suckage factor on the commercials this year was high.
Boring halftime show.
Boring game.

My dad's a big Steelers fan, though. He's very happy.
:)

This is our first year with hdtv. I was working on some computer stuff and half-watching the game. Heather came in and sat down. "Could we be watching something else?" I handed her the remote.
Transfixed is not the word I would use to describe my reaction to this year's Superbowl.

Puppy Bowl II on Animal Planet rocked.
:)

We watched it when they replayed it at 9PM. :D I liked when they dumped about 20 tons of confetti on the cats during the "Kitty Halftime". Someone had visions of kitties going nuts playing with the confetti. Instead, they got a pen full of terrified cats.

That alone should have been enough to overturn the play!

There were a couple that I enjoyed, but the quality has been going down the last couple of years.

One was the beer commercial where the touch football games gets out of hand and the cute bland gets [strike]nailed[/nailed] tackled hard and then gets the favor returned later in the bar.

But the ones that stuck with me were for a financial company (obviously they didn't sdtick that well as I cannot recall their name). They were the ones with "don't judge too quickly". The one with the fly in the hospital room was my favorite.

And WTF was the Dove "Self Esteem for Young Girls" spot doing on the Superbowl?!?

SPOILER FOR GRAY'S ANATOMY FANS WHO HAVEN'T WATCHED LAST NIGHT'S EPISODE YET:

oh, man! I'm screwed when I go to Mayo, aren't I?

But regarding the commercials, I guess I liked the "magic fridge". That made me laugh. None of the others did.

We liked the Benny Hill commercial. Of course, I can't remember what it was for, but the couch was on fire, the theme song played, and hilarity ensued.

I think the commercials suck more because we're getting back to it being mostly old-school megacorporations buying the time rather than start-up internet companies with 50 employees and a $700 million VC infusion operating on the assumption that if people know your name this will be enough to make your rich. Also, it wasn't their money so who cares if it is well spent.

I think we got spoiled.

It was for Sprint's phone service that allows you to download songs to your phone.

Why do I need songs on my phone? Maybe that's why I don't remember that the ad was for Sprint.

I don't know, but a lot people seem to want them there.

I liked the Ford Escape Hybrid commercial, with Kermit singing "It's Not Easy Being Green", while doing all sorts of cool stuff.

I just realized the initials of the Ford Escape Hybrid - FEH... pretty much sums up the Super Bowl this year.