
3:05 Mary Milan tears up when they introduce Desmond Howard and Bart Starr, the Green Bay SB MVPs, during the MVP ceremony. My question is where the hell is Joe Montana?
3:10 The Seahawks run out to “Bittersweet Symphony.” WTF? What’s so bittersweet about playing in the Superbowl? They are already emotionally defeated. Game Over. Before the game has even started, Pittsburgh has joined Dallas and San Francisco with five Superbowl Titles.
3:40 Is it just me or does 16 Blocks look like Die Hard 3: With a Touch More of a Vengeance?
3:52 Does Pepsi know that “brown and bubbly” is absolutely disgusting imagery? PepsiCo must fire their ad agency.
4:17 Momentum has just shifted to Pittsburgh.
4:18 No matter what they do, monkeys are funny, especially when they burn dollar bills to light a cigar.
4:20 Momentum just shifted back to Seattle.
4:22 The Dove Self Esteem Fund and the Campaign for Real Beauty commercial brings us one of the most messed up comments. Ever. Donnie D.C.says, “What’s the point of being attractive if the unattractive girls feel good about themselves?”
Meanwhile: what the hell is the party next door cheering for during the commercial? Are we watching the game on a delay?
4:24 Is it just Mary Milan or does Joey Porter look like 50 Cent with the crooked black Dodger cap?
4:26 The commercial for the Tim Allen dog movie. The last shot is Tim Allen running and knocking over an old women with a walker. On the back legs of the walker are tennis balls to improve sliding mobility. Every walker I’ve ever seen has the tennis balls jammed onto the back legs of the walker. Why don’t they just make walkers with sliders on the back two legs. Is it an insurance liability? “You break your hip by putting sliders on your waller, we’re not paying for the surgery.” Sort of like an aftermarket modification to your car - “If you get in an accident with an aftermarket mod it voids your insurance.”
4:34 Mary Milan screams, “RUN BIG BEN, RUN!” Completion to the 5-yard line. Mary Milan screams, “YEAY!!” Dang. Rothlisberger does a crazy dance on the line of scrimmage. Whether or not the Bus rolls it home, momentum has shifted to Pittsburgh.
4:51 What’s up with Holmgren’s play calling? Bill Walsh did not train this type of idiocy in play calling. A run play? As the clock is running down to the half? WTF??
4:59 It’s half time and we’ve finally decided that our neighbors are watching it on delay. It’s sort of weird hearing them react minutes after the play. Donnie D.C. says, “It’s like they’re retarded; they see the same thing we’re seeing but it takes them a minute to process what they saw. It’s like those people who laugh at a joke 30 seconds after everybody else laughs.” A beat and our neighbors yell, “7-3 Steelers, bitches!”
5:06 Since the NFL has employed old dudes to perform at the halftime show after Janet and Justin’s nipplegate, I hope Mick Jagger or Keith Richards has a penis slip. It’ll scar me for life but it would be very funny.
5:08 Why aren’t the Rolling Stones cripples? They’ve been doing this gig for 40 years. Mary Milan says, “Mick does have sensible, comfortable shoes on though. I think they’re Jordans.” Donnie D.C.’s girlfriend says, “He’s so nimble…and sexy.” I say, “Keith looks like a mummy. Wait, isn’t Keith dead? Is that someone impersonating Keith?”
5:30 All these Grey’s Anatomy commercials promoting their “Code Black Episode” has got me interested in what the hell “Code Black” is.
Donnie D.C. says, “I bet it’s small pox but ER’s already done it so that’s pretty weak.”
I agree but I say, “that’s why they have to raise the stakes. I bet it’s ebola which makes makes small pox look like chicken shit.”
Mary Milan says, “An alien is being born to an urban virgin.”
“Yeah…just like baby Jesus,” I say.
5:32 Fast Willie Parker breaks a run. TD - this is historical - the longest run in Superbowl history. This reconfirms my assertion that momentum has shifted to Pittsburgh for good.
5:41 Josh Brown misses the field goal. Game over. Start cranking the Bittersweet Symphony in the locker room. Maybe it’ll make y’all Seattle fans feel better.
5:42 Mary Milan starts crying during the Budweiser Clydesdale commercial in the barn where the baby Clydesdale straps himself into the carriage harness to pull the carriage and the big Clydesdales pushing it behind him. It’s her favorite commercial. I think it has something to do with growing up on a farm.
5:43 Is this Fabio shampoo commercial for real? Are they serious? Thank God, no. Mary Milan says, “Maybe we should invest our money with Nationwide.”
5:46 Our neighbors jeer at what must be Josh Brown’s missed FG that happened at 5:41.
5:52 Rothlisberger throws an interception. Why did Cowher call a pass? Inside the 5 with the lead, why are they passing? Run it up the gut on 3rd. If the Bus can’t make it in, go for it on 4th or kick the FG. Rothlisberger gets paid back for the Nick Harper tackle in the Indy game when he gets blocked by the Seattle player on the runback. Is this a momentum shift? Nah. Seattle is already mentally defeated.
5:54 Hasslebeck throws a TD to Jerramy Stevens. Who are they fooling? Pack it in Seahawks.
5:56 Memo to CareerBuilder.com: Jackasses are not as funny as monkeys.
6:27 I guess Antwan Randle-El wasn’t hurt from the earlier punt return when he got twisted around on the tackle. Randle-El TD pass to Hines Ward. How many times have Al Michaels and John Madden mentioned Pittsburgh and their “gadget” plays? What’s so “gadget” about an innovative play call that’s been set up by a bunch of good calls and executed with the proper personnel? I love the Rothlesberger block that bought Randle-El a couple more seconds to pass downfield.
6:30 The MacGuyver Mastercard commercial = totally cool.
6:36 What’s this Here’s to Beer commercial? Is there a beer advocacy group? Are you nuts? Beer doesn’t need an advocacy group. What a waste of money.
6:50 The Bus is rolling but they’re not giving him the ball. I guess the Bus ain’t carrying too many passengers.
6:52 They just showed Ben Rothlisberger’s game saving tackle of Nick Harper in the Indy game. That dude’s a “football player”.
6:53 So apparently Dan Marino, a Pittsburgh native, gave Rothlisberger advice to enjoy every moment. Just like Rothlisberger, Marino made it to the Superbowl in his second pro season - the only Superbowl he’s ever been to. You know who he lost to? That’s right, Bill Walsh’s 49ers. Mary Milan is sooo sick of me talking about the 49ers.
Yes, instead of beer she’s been drinking the Haterade today.
7:01 That’s game. What the hell is wrong with Holmgren’s play calling? You have to kick the FG and then onside kick to give your team a chance to win.
Final Score: 21-10. Okay so I was wrong on the score but Pittsburgh won.
“‘Cuz it’s a bittersweet symphony, this life…”
7:04 Aww…Bill Cowher’s iron jaw is quivering.
7:05 Hey! One of the girls I directed in Nikki Nagasaki’s Overflow is in that TGIFridays commercial. She and another one in Overflow are in Americanese, Eric Byler’s new film. It’s a small ass world since I made the final cut to be cast as the lead in Byler’s Charlotte Sometimes. He ended up going with Michael Idemoto. It’s an even smaller world when you find out that the producer of my film was one of the original producers on Charlotte Sometimes. Then you find out that Lewis and I went to the same college and met each other only because we lived across the hall from each other in an apartment complex in Koreatown. It really is a tiny world.
7:07 Thanks for the memories Al Michaels and John Madden.
7:16 The Bus makes its final stop, fittingly back home in Detroit.
7:52 What a letdown. “Code Black” is unexploded shell inside a person.
8:02 My guess is that the unexploded ordinance will be a dud.
8:25 Grey’s Anatomy ends inconclusively. I still maintain that it’s a dud and I don’t think I’m going to tune in next week.
Sad…only the Pro Bowl left and then it’s another 6 or 7 months before football comes back. Now I have to start going to yoga on Sundays with Mary Milan.
Manhood! Where have you gone! Please come back!
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johnnyhongkong says… » weekend recap added these pithy words on Feb 13 06 at 2:31 pm[…] DDCLF and Donnie DC think I misattributed their quotes in the SBXL live blog. It’s not that I misattribute; I smooth out the narrative. For example, DDCLF and I didn’t actually have a discussion about Saussure and semiotics during the Burger King “Busby Berkeley”commercial, but wouldn’t it be cool if we did? And in regards to the Dove Real Beauty Campaign, Donnie DC’s comment was preceeded by DDCLF saying, “I don’t agree with that.” […]
johnnyhongkong says… » L8R4U added these pithy words on Dec 18 06 at 9:58 pm[…] Almost Live Blogging Super Bowl XL […]
what happened to the commercials? at johnnyhongkong says… added these pithy words on Feb 04 07 at 8:40 pm[…] Like last year, I was planning to almost live blog the big game but I ditched the idea when Super Bowl XLI became the the worst Super Bowl in recent memory. […]
Hot Chicks Hot Picks » Season Preview: Seattle Seahawks added these pithy words on Sep 04 07 at 10:06 am[…] genius and the team may have the skills to execute his gameplan but with the combination of running out of the tunnel to “Bittersweet Symphony” in the 2005 Super Bowl (and furthermore, not learning their lesson and having it be their theme song) and the Madden Cover […]
Big Ben added these pithy words on Feb 06 06 at 7:12 amNice blog on the Super Bowl. Maybe next year you’ll spell it correctly (two words!).
johnnyhongkong added these pithy words on Feb 06 06 at 3:09 pmnot my worse spelling gaffe if you notice that I spelled Roethlisberger, “Rothlisberger”. I knew I was missing an “e” somehwere.
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