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| MeDiCo_BrUjO posted 2009 Jan 29 22:30 | ||||||
| Anyone coming?
Or are you watching it at home?. Or neither? | ||||||
| Number Six posted 2009 Jan 29 22:58 | ||||||
| I HATE FOOTBALL!! | ||||||
| gadgetguy posted 2009 Jan 30 06:56 | ||||||
| No interest. | ||||||
| Xylob the Destroyer posted 2009 Jan 30 06:59 | ||||||
| What exactly is so "Super" about a bowl? Does it contain neverending ice cream? Popcorn? Is it a different type of "bowl" altogether? One that is 'evergreen', never cached?
Football is absolutely retarded... A bunch of really big guys line up in front of each other. They run into each other and all fall down. Repeat 3 or 4 times. Then one of them gets a bright idea and tells another to 'run over there' so he can throw the ball to him. His friend doesn't catch the ball... They all line up again. They run into each other and all fall down. Repeat 3 or 4 times. I'd rather watch grass grow or paint dry. | ||||||
| MeDiCo_BrUjO posted 2009 Jan 30 09:20 | ||||||
| LOL!
I thought I was the only one that though that sport was retarded. | ||||||
| Number Six posted 2009 Jan 30 10:30 | ||||||
I'd rather watch stainless steel rust :lol: | ||||||
| vhelp posted 2009 Jan 30 19:09 | ||||||
| If its on NBC or ABC, (and I am able to receive it: they prob turn up the wattage for this event) then I'll prob just record *some* of the HD content: just to see how much they pixelate this suposively great event.
-vhelp 5009 | ||||||
| yoda313 posted 2009 Jan 31 07:47 | ||||||
| FYI it's on NBC I believe vhelp......
EDIT - thanks medico_brujo - I was going to do a superbowl poll but you beat me to it. Congrats :) :) EDIT 2 - fyi at vhelp nbc is 1080i and the general consesus here is that 1080i is not great for sports. In fact I have my cable dvr box set to output all hd channels at 720p (my set is 720p - native res is 1366x768). | ||||||
| JohnnyMalaria posted 2009 Jan 31 08:09 | ||||||
| Is that this weekend? I had no idea.
Whoop-dee-doo. Still, great time to go shopping. | ||||||
| fritzi93 posted 2009 Jan 31 08:19 | ||||||
Yeah, the 720p ESPN feed (ABC uses that as well) is always better than CBS or NBC. For the last 30 years, I only watched an occasional college game. But I confess since we got 2 HDTVs this year, I've watched a few pro games. :oops: | ||||||
| yoda313 posted 2009 Jan 31 08:23 | ||||||
| @fritzi93 - don't forget that FOX is 720p as well :) | ||||||
| videopoo posted 2009 Jan 31 09:09 | ||||||
| Yeah...football can be a waste of time but so can ripping and shrinking discs just because you dont like the menus and want all the episodes on 1 disc.....now talk about a waste of time :) | ||||||
| filmboss80 posted 2009 Jan 31 09:24 | ||||||
| I expected such comments as those above from the Swedes and Aussies and such, but not from fellow Yanks. Sorry so many of you could never learn to appreciate the artistry of the long-bomb pass; the thrill of the bone-jarring tackle; or the triumph of the goal-line stand. To me, it is three hours of pure enjoyment. I suppose it is an acquired taste, like Cuban cigars or Italian coffee. But man, I have to wonder if you guys truly know what you're missing.
I will be watching in HD. My sons and I will be cheering for Kurt Warner and the Arizona Cardinals. I wish I could be at the game, elevated by the crowd, but TV will have to do. | ||||||
| greymalkin posted 2009 Jan 31 09:24 | ||||||
| football players absolutely destroy their bodies to where they are completely unusable by their mid 30's. And there is definite permanent brain damage sustained by taking those blows.
I'm much safer here behind the keyboard ;). | ||||||
| MJA posted 2009 Jan 31 09:38 | ||||||
| I'm not watching it (Because my team didn't make it) :lol: | ||||||
| videopoo posted 2009 Jan 31 10:00 | ||||||
Such a better experience in HD! Yeah...Kurt Warner is great. I grew up with Rams season tickets here in So Cal so to see him win that superbowl 8 years ago makes me love him forever :) | ||||||
| Number Six posted 2009 Jan 31 10:16 | ||||||
If I had a choice of being forced to watch a Football Game or going to the Emergency Room with a Head Injury, I would take the Head Injury! :wink: | ||||||
| TJK1911 posted 2009 Jan 31 10:26 | ||||||
| Gonna DVR it, and probably fast-forward through the game to the commercials. | ||||||
| videobread posted 2009 Jan 31 10:29 | ||||||
| Go Steelers!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love football. I used to go to the Buffalo Bill games as a kid. Tickets were $1 to sit in the end zone. My father has had two season tickets on the 50 yard line since the league started in about 1960. I used to watch OJ run the ball when I was in college. OJ and Jim Brown were the best ever. Should be a great game. Pittsburgh has what may be the best defensive team of all time. Arizona is going to get their ass kicked. I went out and bought a bunch of food for my superbowl party yesterday. I'm making pizza and all sorts of munchies of course. | ||||||
| dfisher052 posted 2009 Jan 31 10:48 | ||||||
| The GIANTS aren't playing so who cares! | ||||||
| MOVIEGEEK posted 2009 Jan 31 12:18 | ||||||
| I'm going to crash at MeDiCo's house,I hope he has plenty of beer. :P | ||||||
| edDV posted 2009 Jan 31 15:11 | ||||||
| I'm watching it this year but in the past SuperBowl Sunday was the best ski day of the year with extremely short lift lines. The lift operators updated scores on a white board. | ||||||
| tmw posted 2009 Jan 31 15:19 | ||||||
| I did the ski thing one year--I agree it was great. Even though I'm not a huge football fan, I have to admit that it's a great spectator game. There are plenty of times to get up and look away (between plays) while also some clearly important times where spectators really want to watch.
I heard years ago that movies which maintain a constant high level of engagement tend to not fair very well with the public, because most audiences need some time for their brains to relax and not pay such close attention. Great movies have high points, and boring parts too. American football takes that lesson to heart, as opposed to sports like soccer that can have a fast break at any time. I'm not saying it's a great sport, but they sure got the approach right for keeping people tuning with high points and slow points, in my opinion. | ||||||
| Conquest10 posted 2009 Jan 31 15:47 | ||||||
In my experience CBS has the best quality in football. Its 1080i like NBC but NBC is the worst. FOX and ESPN are 720p. Usually ESPN usually looks better than FOX but its at night so it doesn't have the problems FOX has to deal with with the harsh sun and shadows, etc. One thing NBC is good with is the audio. That is something CBS always has problems with constantly flipping from 5.1 to 2.0. | ||||||
| Marvingj posted 2009 Jan 31 18:09 | ||||||
| Let me see, Super Bowl with the Steelers vs Cards or Exotic Lapdance that could do wonders for my confidence? What do you think I'll choose. Plus the model is 22yrs 36-24-38 beauty. I'm a sinner who doesn't care because the eagles are not there? | ||||||
| edDV posted 2009 Jan 31 18:45 | ||||||
Confidence? She did this for free? Ha! Septic pumpers get good pay too. | ||||||
| vhelp posted 2009 Jan 31 21:50 | ||||||
| Sunday Feb 1, 2009
Ok. Here's the Super Bowl line up for today: ** 6pm-10pm is the actual game, all 4 hours worth ** So that nobody gets confused or left out of the games.. 1200pm - 1pm Road to the Super Bowl Sports non-event, Football, A comprehensive look back at the 2008 NFL season features the best of NFL Films cinematography and exclusive player and coach wirings. 1:00pm - 6pm Super Bowl XLIII Pregame Sports non-event, Football, Expert analysis, interviews, features and an insider's look at the biggest day in sports. Also, exclusive interviews with President Barack Obama and music legend Bruce Springsteen. >> 6:00pm - 10pm NFL Football (New) Sports event, Football, Playoff sports, Super Bowl XLIII: Arizona Cardinals vs. Pittsburgh Steelers Ben Roethlisberger and the AFC Champion Steelers take on Kurt Warner and the NFC Champion Cardinals. From Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. >> -vhelp 5017 | ||||||
| videopoo posted 2009 Jan 31 22:02 | ||||||
Ha Ha! Same with surfing. There's no swell right now in So Cal but I'd be doing that if there was. | ||||||
| Soopafresh posted 2009 Jan 31 22:26 | ||||||
| Instead of panning to the cheerleaders in between plays, they always cut to some old guy with a moustache and a windbreaker - scowling. I'll never understand this. Actually, I wouldn't mind the cheerleaders on 90% of the time and an occasional cut to the game.
What it should be: 
What it is:  | ||||||
| MEL15 posted 2009 Feb 01 09:35 | ||||||
| A game named Football,thats played with the hands,1 hour game that takes 4 hours.Boring game.........Let me have a real Football game(called soccer in the US)90 minutes of non stopping action.And what's so Super about it,Sounds like the World series, which is only played among US teams. | ||||||
| JohnnyMalaria posted 2009 Feb 01 09:52 | ||||||
Federal law prohibits broadcast of any program on a commercial network without at least one commercial break every 5 minutes. After all, the event is nothing more than a hormone-driven B-movie for the advertisers' "messages". And what's up with all that "World Series" crap? (Rhetorical) | ||||||
| lordsmurf posted 2009 Feb 01 10:46 | ||||||
| 55" screen, HD channel, ass on couch | ||||||
| SmokieStover posted 2009 Feb 01 12:14 | ||||||
| I have a perfect record. I have not watched one Superbowl, or even part of one. Never will. | ||||||
| jagabo posted 2009 Feb 01 12:19 | ||||||
Most Americans are unaware the rest of the world exists. | ||||||
| MOVIEGEEK posted 2009 Feb 01 12:43 | ||||||
Not true,Canada has a baseball team. As for soccer(football),I would like to see overtime(how can you have a tie?) and cheerleaders. :wink: | ||||||
| Lucifers_Ghost posted 2009 Feb 01 12:51 | ||||||
Soccer? Non-stop action? You have GOT to be kidding. 90 minutes of some of the most athletic guys in the world acting like total bitches (who have just been shot by an elephant gun) when someone comes within 5ft of them then getting up like nothing happened 1.7 seconds later. SCORE. Sign me up. | ||||||
| yoda313 posted 2009 Feb 01 13:17 | ||||||
| Ok everyone let's keep it civil remember!
Plus the topic here is the NFL SUPERBOWL. Let's try to stick to that shall we? | ||||||
| usually_quiet posted 2009 Feb 01 14:52 | ||||||
| The Cardinals have cheerleaders. The Steelers haven't for years.
I will catch a little of the game, although football is not really my sport. Not watching the Steelers play in a Superbowl would get me kicked out of the family. :lol: | ||||||
| edDV posted 2009 Feb 01 15:45 | ||||||
They should have steel robot cheerleaders  | ||||||
| yoda313 posted 2009 Feb 01 16:13 | ||||||
Fox uses that metal robot transformer guy...... not the same i know but its a robot at least..... | ||||||
| nwo posted 2009 Feb 01 16:40 | ||||||
Really! | ||||||
| videobread posted 2009 Feb 01 22:11 | ||||||
| WOW!!! What a great game. Even better than last year. Only thing lacking was that Bruce did not sing "Born in the USA"! | ||||||
| MEL15 posted 2009 Feb 02 18:42 | ||||||
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| marshalljames posted 2009 Feb 02 18:58 | ||||||
| It's called the World Series because it was originally sponsored by The New York World.A defunct newspaper.
Soccer non stop action?Give me a break the game is as dull as dishwater and noboby scores and brits can't kick the ball into an empty net. | ||||||
| FulciLives posted 2009 Feb 02 19:19 | ||||||
| I'm happy to report I didn't watch the game and I had no idea who won until the next day when I checked on-line before going to work and I did that ONLY because I wanted to know if people would be annoyingly sad pricks or happy stupid idiots.
I got stuck with happy stupid idiots which is better than the first choice but now I have to suffer the odd glances when people say "how about that game?" and I say "didn't watch it" ... one persno even wouldn't believe me and thought I was joking. I find all spectator sports be it football or baseball or soccor or basketball or whatever .. all of it is for simpltons and for those smart enough to "know better" all I can say is that it must be a guilty pleasure indocturnated at an early age where they had no choice and still can't quit shake it. For the total loser that claimed we don't know what we are missing and that it is 3 hours of pure joy: You are an idiot. - John "FulciLives" Coleman | ||||||
| videobread posted 2009 Feb 02 20:04 | ||||||
| I love Pro sports. NFL is my favorite. I have had the pleasure of watching the Dodgers when Dodger dog were $1 and a good size beer was $1. Been to many a Sabers game and then to the Aud club afterward for beer and beef on wick. Also been to my share of B-Ball games, Brave and college.
All good stuff. Gets me away from my computer. There is intelligent life out there!!!!!!!!! If I had the money I would go to the Superbowl every year. It's a great big party. What's not to like? | ||||||
| paulw posted 2009 Feb 02 23:41 | ||||||
Nope. Urban legend http://www.snopes.com/business/names/worldseries.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_series http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/29/messages/572.html | ||||||
| lacywest posted 2009 Feb 03 02:08 | ||||||
| Super Bowl is over ... this subject is dead ... move on to next poll | ||||||
| Epicurus8a posted 2009 Feb 03 05:46 | ||||||
http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=9769617 | ||||||
| ntscuser posted 2009 Feb 03 15:30 | ||||||
| I ticked the box saying I wasn't going to watch it but the BBC was relaying it that night in place of their usual programmes. Have to admit the picture, especially the colour, was absolutely stunning. | ||||||
| videopoo posted 2009 Feb 03 16:34 | ||||||
Ouch! Wow....You must have throngs of friends :) Great game....good times!!!! | ||||||
| Seeker47 posted 2009 Feb 03 16:44 | ||||||
Quite possibly -- onscreen, for about half a minute -- IF you were a Comcast viewer in Tucson. :roll: :wink: | ||||||
| nwo posted 2009 Feb 03 18:42 | ||||||
Really... And what sport do you play in Canada......... Cruling very extreme | ||||||
| yoda313 posted 2009 Feb 07 07:45 | ||||||
Sorry I've taken a few days to unplug from the net. I'll try to come up with something this weekend. STAY TUNED! EDIT - It's HERE! http://forum.videohelp.com/topic363718.html#1936060 Go and check it out :) |
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