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Gothamist has our guacamole and Tostitos with a Hint of LIme (best tortilla chip ever!) and we're ready to see if anything crazy happens during the game.
Pre game: Stevie Wonder and friends perform hits of Motown. Joss Stone, India.Arie, John Legend... Gothamist loves Stevie Wonder, but medleys hurt our heads. This is a nod to Detroit's heritage, but let's face it, the Stones are the halftime act because their fans are the attractive-to-advertisers demographic. Then Aaron Neville and Aretha Franklin sang the Star Spangled banner; the children's choir behind them is wearing red sweaters robes with white collared shirts and they looked like mini-Kanye Wests from a distance! The Super Bowl is saluting those who suffered during the Gulf Coast tragedy.
6:27PM: Kickoff. The Steelers are the favorite, but some of our friends are thinking Seattle could win. We're just going to work on eating some wings.
6:33PM: Right before Pittsburgh's first posession, Burger King unveiled their "Whopperettes" commercials, where a bevy of singing and dancing ladies wore glamorous outfits that made them look like onion slices, tomato slices, leaves of lettuce (sorta like a bad Project Runway challenge - a really literal one) - there's even mayonaise. There's a hamburger patty lady, a bottom bun lady...they all pile on top of each other (tastefully, not in a dirty fantasy way) and the top bun is Brooke Burke. It's actually pretty fun in a fever dream way.
6:39PM: Okay, the Bud Light magic fridge commercial is cute, but clearly, you need to put the revolving fridge in your own house. Also, did you notice how in the Sierra Mist commercial, Jim Gaffigan's glove was dirty? Finally, the ad for the Bruce Willis and Mos Def movie, 16 Blocks, looks by the book (big actioner) but it's set in NYC and involves a city bus getting really banged up.
6:43PM: The announcers mention Steelers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau. Heh, Dick.
6:53PM: Did you see the Harrison Ford "Oh, The Places You Will Go" NFL spot in the pregame? He really needs to get rid of that earring.
6:58PM: Seattle scores first (field goal) AND there's a Leonard Nimoy for Alleve commercial. And Bud Light has almost had one commercial during each break. This break was the first "fooling the wife, but paying the price" commercial.
7:05PM: End of the first quater. Has anyone been watching the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet? We would, but our cat is trying to attack the buffalo wings and we're very concerned.
7:21PM: Shots of young girls, uncertain and self-hating...the music is a chorus of girls singing "True Colors" and yes, you have the Dove Self-Esteem Fund ad. We hope millions of fathers remembered they had daughters during that commercial! (We just bet the girls went to watch the game in the basement of a friend's house, whispering about which boy is the cutest).
7:43PM: Pittsburgh is up 7-3. And why have we only see Pittsburgh Steelers in these Super Bowl ads?
7:53PM: The first half just ended and we don't understand what just happened with the last 20 seconds, but this game is boring. We can only hope but not see that Mick's pants split during the halftime show.
Halftime show: Obviously, the Stone start with "Start Me Up." They are prancing and strutting around (except for Charlie, of course) on a big mouth and tongue. And the tongue is actually made of fabric, which disappears to reveal people in a mosh pit. The line "...make a dead man come" is just "...make a dead man." Then they played some new song, and ended with "Satisfaction." The guitars sound weird, but it's energetic. Fun fact: During the 1981 tour, Mick wore football jerseys and pants.
9:26PM: The Steelers got their third touchdown. It really seems like Seattle is getting a raw deal from the refs. That's what the papers will be talking about tomorrow.
10:15PM: The Steelers have won. Is this the most boring game ever?
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So, I hate to be completly negative about things, but the half time show sucked. Mick Jagger's voice is a wreck, the director couldn't keep the steadycam operator out of the shots, there were random pieces of fabric falling from the sky, some of the LED lights ringing the stage were malfunctioning, and I kept expecting someone to kick over one of the moving lights. Not to mention, that's it!?! And what's up with the censoring? I guess dead men don't come any more and Mick Jagger can't get any girlie action.
The Ameriquest commercials are pretty funny.
The first half just ended and we don't understand what just happened with the last 20 seconds, but this game is boring.
Until the third touchdown the game was extremely exciting and tight, it could've gone either way. That third touchdown was insane.
The Seahawks should have had that early TD that was waved off; that was the weakest pushoff ever. And Roethlisberger never crossed the goal line on the Steelers' first TD. All he had to do was reach the white and it looked like he didn't.
Probably didn't matter anyway, the Steelers had the karma going their way.
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but clearly, you need to put into the revolving fridge in your own house.
FUCKING JEN CHUNG
Seattle was totally joe blobbed in this game.
Everything you hate about the NFL was large and in charge last night. One team gets the league media machine behind it and that's it. I also noticed that the ads with the Lombardi trophy only featured Steelers... there's another team playing, alright?
Score should have been 10-0 at the half, maybe 17-0. Joey Porter complained earlier in the playoffs that the refs had a bias towards the Colts. Right sentiment, wrong squad.
Please, I was writing this as I was eating wings, guacamole and some light beer. I passed out during the fourth quarter.
You think the burger king commerical was funny? whats so great about women being depicted as pieces of meat (Literally) and condiments? I found it highly offensive and totally tasteless and women today should be pissed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cassie:
go feed your cat.
Can everyone please stop talking about the Superbowl comercials!!! Argggghhh! Who cares about them! It's such a tired, played-out thing to talk about. Anyone who watches the super bowl for the commercials is a SUPER BOZO. take that, lame-os!
nate:
go feed your rat.
wow, all these years i thought it was "make a dead man CRYYYYY".
It is easy to shoot the winning basket or throw the touchdown pass from the armchair.