Speaking Of Monday Night Football...

[Jarlaxle]

No it wasn't clear to me.

And Jarl, why would be retire now? He is as good as ever and in the best shape of his life.

Because I wonder if he can WALK this morning after the pasting he took!

[Lord Jim]

Not sure who to root for in the game today...

My father was from North Carolina, and I have family there, and I like the state, (the people there as a group are about the nicest I've ever met anywhere) ...

Also, they were never expected to do as well as they have done, (last year they were 7-8-1) so even though they look like a juggernaut team now, (which I usually root against) they really aren't; they're more of a Cinderella story...

On the other hand, I really like Peyton Manning, he's a very genuine and truly likable guy (unlike a certain smarmy phony that plays for New England, whose name I won't mention) and at 40 he'll be the oldest QB to ever start a Super Bowl...

Also the Broncos are the underdogs, (but not by as much as I expected after the way Carolina demolished the Cardinals...the line is only 5 and a half) and all things being equal, I usually prefer to root for the underdog...(as everyone here knows, I'm a real champion for the little guy...)

So with no team in the game that I have a strong rooting interest in, and no asshole-arrogant team to root against, I'm kind of in a quandary...

All-in-all I'm leaning towards the Broncos; the Panthers will have other chances, but this is probably Peyton's last hurrah...(all things being equal, I also prefer to root for the old guy... )

In any event it should be a good game; Carolina's league highest scoring offense versus Denver's top-rated defense should make for a quality match-up.

[Crackpot]

I don't care as long as my squares pay off

[Long Run]

I am rooting for the commercials, and hoping Denver makes it an interesting game (unlike their disaster of two years ago).

[Bicycle Bill]

I am rooting for the commercials, and hoping Denver makes it an interesting game (unlike their disaster of two years ago).

I've already seen a couple of the commercials — the Heinz commercial featuring the dachshunds and one of the Budweiser ones featuring the Clydesdale hitch — and neither one of them impressed me all that much.

-"BB"-

[Joe Guy]

It's a good day around here to get outside and enjoy the day. Take a drive during game hours and then stay off the road afterwards.

If that old guy leads his team to victory, I suppose that's a good thing given that he is so ancient and will soon be unable to enjoy anything due to the highly likely onset of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.

[RayThom]

I don't remember the last time I saw a SB in real time. However, I usually record it just in case something newsworthy happens... but it never does. At a later time I fast forward through the "action" and will view some of the commercials that catch my eye.

[Lord Jim]

I remember back in the 70s when I was a kid, when Peyton and Eli's father Archie Manning was the QB of the New Orleans Saints...

It was a pretty good game...

[oldr_n_wsr]

I remember back in the 70s when I was a kid, when Peyton and Eli's father Archie Manning was the QB of the New Orleans Saints...

It was a pretty good game...

I believe Archie Manning was the only player to win a league mvp on a team with a losing record.

I like defensive games.
And IMHO the only commercial the came near being "good" was the "hot-dogs" with the Heinz ketchup/mustard....
Overall the commercials sucked.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Oh I don't know - this one got my attention:




I was rather sickened by the anti-woman Dorito's ad featuring a foetus ejecting itself from the womb for the sake of a nacho

[Bicycle Bill]

I was at work at the time (they had the game playing on big-screen TVs visible from the call floor, with the sound down but closed-captioning turned on) and this one, from Budweiser, definitely made me take notice:

        

If you drive drunk, you, simply put, are a short-sighted, utterly useless, oxygen-wasting, human form of pollution — A Darwin-award deserving, selfish coward.  If your brain was donated to science, science would return it.  So stop it ... don't be a pillock ... This is supposed to be fun.

What can I add? — other than to say that Google searches for the exact meaning of the word "pillock" over the five or ten minutes following that commercial probably outdid searches for Lady GaGa and Beyonce combined....
(n.b. — it means a stupid person and appears to have been derived from an euphemism meaning 'penis' so this sweet, well-mannered, well-spoken lady just called those of you who drink and drive a dick. She'll get no arguments from me.)

And — dare I say it? — I think it was far, far better than the 'Clydesdales' spot this year, although the horses have consistently set the bar so high year after year they were bound to come up with a clinker eventually.

-"BB"-

[Bicycle Bill]

Oh I don't know - this one got my attention:

A well-done ad aimed at making us remember our space pioneers, many of whom have already left us, but seriously —
who in the hell needs a car that can do 205 mph (330 kph)??!?

-"BB"-

[rubato]

Oh I don't know - this one got my attention:

A well-done ad aimed at making us remember our space pioneers, many of whom have already left us, but seriously —
who in the hell needs a car that can do 205 mph (330 kph)??!?

-"BB"-

We all need something to dream about.


yrs,
rubato

[Big RR]

the thing I didn't like about that commercial is that the "Commander" (I don't know if hew as really an astronaut or not) looked like a guy with Alzheimer's or some other problem staring into space, not answering, etc. And then they let him drive a 205 mph car. Not sure what the point was with that.

I did like them putting in Bowie's Starman.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I'm out on a limb here, Big RR but perhaps the old fellow was bored and uninterested in the mundane life since he rode the rockets until his son put him behind the wheel of a modern "rocket" - he feels young again

You know - just a wild guess

[Big RR]

Maybe. But then he'd have to have been bored for over 40 years (so since his son was a wee tyke at best)--or maybe he only got bored when he got older? I don't know, but either way it's pretty sad.

[RayThom]

That's the real Project Gemini 14 mission commander, Major Fred Gifford. He was a bit reluctant to participate at first but he liked the idea of the David Bowie "Starman" tie-in. He gets a new R8/V10 for his effort when they are released in May.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Not bad - that's $175,000 on the hoof (er.... wheels)

[Long Run]

One way to cash in.

Super Bowl 50 Sign

Super Bowl 50 celebratory sign. Only a dozen made and very few exist intact. Some minor scratches near bottom, and "SuperBowl50" lettering has been temporarily re-arranged to say: "Spurm Owl 05". But you can rearrange the letters to say whatever you want them to after you come down to my garage. I will donate a small portion of the proceeds to help pay for the $5 million cost to San Francisco for hosting the Super Bowl.

You can pay $5000 or choose to answer a series of riddles followed by an erotic themed scavenger hunt in my apartment. I am a BiWM looking for a SJPM or BBW for casual play in RL, No Strings attached

*Cash Only
*No Solar Panel
You should probably bring a flatbed truck, I nearly tweeked my back getting this f**ker into my toyota rav4. Unless of course you want to put on some leopard print and jump down my rabbit hole of fantasy.