Google Super Bowl ad parody.
That was fast.
Google’s Super Bowl ad: Parisian Love. Or as I like to call it: Stalkers can find love too.
Super Bowl XLIV: Most Watched Show Ever
NEW YORK — The Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of “M-A-S-H” to become the most-watched program in television history.
The Nielsen Co. estimated Monday that 106.5 million people watched the New Orleans Saints upset the Indianapolis Colts. That beats the “M-A-S-H” finale, which had 105.97 million viewers in an era when there were fewer television sets.
Live Footage of Bourbon Street after the Saints won the Super Bowl. The victory parade is tomorrow. Mardi Gras weekend is this Friday-Sunday. Fat Tuesday is next week. Right now, New Orleans is hosting the biggest and longest party of all time.
The Anti-Katrina.
This picture is great because it is accurate. Instead of using a wonderful moment to call attention to the fact that vast majority of their city is still in ruins and the strength and courage of people who are working to renew the city (including many players on the Saints like Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees), Saints fans can just forget about the whole thing even happened. They have a Super Bowl now!
Winning a major sporting event makes any concerned citizen forget about any life-altering disasters that occur in their city. Just this past November, millions of Yankee fans completely forgot about 9/11 and the threat of terrorism when their team won the World Series. It’s like nothing bad ever happened to New York City. I myself have no idea why there’s a giant hole in lower Manhattan.
If/When Haiti wins the World Cup, they can forget all the horrible devastation of the earthquake and the need to rebuild an entire country. Because hey, they just won the championship! Party!
(pic via Deadspin)
As a New York Football Giants fan, every Super Bowl will be measured by the 42nd edition of the great America game. Until the day I die, the first Sunday of February will always flash back to 2008, when the Giants shocked the undefeated Patriots to win their 3rd Super Bowl in franchise history. Even in the aftermath of the Steelers-Cardinals game last year, one of the great sporting events of the 21st Century, I was immediately drawing comparisons to the Super Bowl that came before it. The defining contest of the biggest sporting event in America.
Last night was an especially specific case of deja vu. As with Super Bowl XLII, Super Bowl XLIV featured a Manning brother walking onto the field in the closing minutes of the championship game needing to score a touchdown. Peyton needed to score a touchdown to tie, Eli needed to score a touchdown to win, but the circumstances other than that were virtually similar. A touchdown in the final minutes of the Super Bowl were absolutely necessary.
A great quarterback from the most famous family in football, Peyton Manning is widely considered one of the greatest players of all time. Only 34 years old, he is already ranked #1 in Passing Yards Per Game (261.1), #4 all time in Completions (4,232), #4 in Passing Yards (50,128), #3 in passing TDs (366), #5 Quarterback Rating (95.2). He has a Super Bowl ring and more MVP awards (4) than anyone in the history of the league. Eli Manning is a fine QB in his own right, one of the ten best in the league. However, his place in history is perhaps the best Giants QB ever. Peyton Manning’s ceiling is best QB in the long and storied history of the National Football League.
But in what may have been the defining Super Bowl of his NFL career and the most important drive of his football life, Peyton Manning threw an interception TD to Tracy Porter that ended the Colts chances of winning their second championship in four years. The indelible moment of Super Bowl XLII was Eli Manning desperately breaking free from two sacks, heaving a Hail Mary pass down the field, which David Tyree caught with one hand and his helmet. The indelible moment of Super Bowl XLIV was Peyton Manning getting thrown to the turf as Porter raced towards the end zone and football immortality.
Peyton Manning still has many years ahead to establish himself as the greatest quarterback of all time. If he stays healthy and plays into his 40s, he could hold every major quarterback record. But for now, in terms of Super Bowl wins, he’s still tied with his little brother.
After the euphoria/heartbreak of the Saints winning and the Colts losing had died down, my roommates and some of the people who came over for the game talked about a variety of serious subjects like Obama’s first year as president and how awesome/sick it would be if Michael Jackson actually was always white, and his parents paid money to turn his skin black because no one would take a white Motown singer seriously.
Inevitably, this all lead to us making fun of Manny mercilessly. And we started talking about the long lost blog we created to document Manny’s daily stupidity. It’s not that Manny stopped doing anything stupid. It’s that we’re too lazy to update it.
This is one of the BombayTV videos I created for the sole purpose of making fun of Manny. This video is an accurate representation of who Manny is and what he represents.
“ I can’t stand the ‘It’s just a football game’ crowd. Just shut up. You don’t understand what’s going on. ”
“ Before the Super Bowl three years ago, Manning pissed off teammates when he had the Colts ban hotel-room visits from relatives and friends the week before the game. “I don’t want any crying kids next to me while I’m trying to study,” he said during a team meeting ”
My feelings about today.
2010 New York Knickerbocker basketball. It’s Faaaan-Tastic!
Forget Jay-Z and Beyonce, what the hell happened to the guy in the Green Knicks shirt?
