Comments on: Super Bowl Pregame

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:33:11 +0000

Poz-
Federer can’t beat him now, but he’s coming out of his prime while Nadal is entering his. Five years ago, when Federer was Nadal’s age, he started an absurd 11 for 16 run in majors. To be sure, Nadal has owned Roger for the last year, but let’s have Nadal go on a little run of dominance before we start the best of all time talk.

By: ceolaf

ceolaf — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:38:39 +0000

On caps for bottled water.

Last summer, on a muggy night, I caught the US National soccer team at Giants Stadium. Being prone to dehydration, I brought to nalgene bottles of water.

You see, I looked up the rules online and saw that I could only bring tranluscent plastic bottles. So that’s what I did. But I was made to throw them out at the gate. I made a small fuss, but got nowhere.

Then, I went to buy water — way too expensive, of course. I learned that I could not get water in bottle with caps. They’d take the caps off right there.

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I understand their reasoning. A full capped bottle is going to hit pretty hard. Without the cap, it is harder to throw, and by the time it get to its target — or hits anything — it’s lost a lot of force.

I understand why the nalgene bottles are not allowed, even though they DO pass the rule listed online. Those are hard plastic.

But here’s the problem: people get dehydrated. If people buy three bottles of water, the uncapped ones will get knocked over. Murphy’s Law, you know.

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But its a stupid policy. I could bring caps in with me. I could bring large bottles (1L or 1L), pocket the caps in the parking lot and then put it back on once I get to my seat. If I am really determined to throw bottles of water, then I can do it.

You might claim that they are not worried about the pre-meditated throwers, but rather then spontanious throwers. To which I say, “Really? Is that really such a safety problem, the spontanious throwers of capped water bottles?”

What really has happened is a bunch of minimally thoughtful people had a couple fractions of good ideas and ran with them. And these factions of good ideas have spread, regardless of the overall stupidity of the policies.

By: Marino Eccher

Marino Eccher — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:20:31 +0000

No disrespect to JoePo, but I’m with John in that getting the set list right loses a little bit of luster when Joe predicted the four songs that he himself reported as being leaked earlier this week. If Joe had been trumpeting (no pun) Tenth Avenue Freeze out before the leak, THAT would have been something — I personally didn’t even believe it AFTER the leak because I found it so out of place, which makes me, well, wrong.

In any case, I was a mite underwhelmed. Bruce is still Bruce — I was just expecting a little more bang for his buck. “Glory Days” felt like quite a whimper of an ending, and as far as his repertoire goes, it’s not that great a song. Ah well.

By: Steve B

Steve B — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:49:26 +0000

Brent, I thought the same thing. It probably was a fumble, but I’d like to hear the NFL explain why we would spend 5 minutes checking that play in the first quarter of a meaningless game in week 3, but in that situation, the final play of the Super Bowl…nothing. Why bother with instant replay if you don’t use it in that situation? Again, it was probably a fumble, but check it out.

By: Brent

Brent — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:25:51 +0000

So does anyone else wish the NFL had bothered to review Warner’s “fumble” on the last play (sure his arm was hit before it was coming forward, but he had a grip on it until its release, that is a pass), if for no other reason than we would have gotten one last pass in the end zone, where the two best athletes on the field last night (Fitzgerald and Polamalu) would have been going head to head for the ball?

By: Joe M.

Joe M. — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:03:06 +0000

I got 43 seconds my first try. About 15 seconds of that was spent trying to spell Geronimo, and another 20 seconds was because I inexplicably forgot about Griffey. If it’s any excuse, I was one year old in 1976.

By: john

john — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:34:01 +0000

The set list was leaked all over the web. Not that hard to figure out.

By: David S

David S — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:32:01 +0000

I’ve always been a Federer fan (still am), but I’m coming around to the idea that Nadal may just be better. As for all time ranking, we’ll have to see, but Nadal has now shown he can win majors on every surface, has 6 slams at age 22 1/2 (I think they showed that Federer had two at that age), AND appears to be getting better with time.

By: 3rd Period Points

3rd Period Points — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:45:10 +0000

Wow! I’m impressed Joe. Every song! But did you predict the nationwide sliding kneeling belly bump?

StumbleUpon is the way to go. I’m an addict. Maybe I’ll give Twitter a try, too.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:14:45 +0000

How the hell did you get the prediction right? Wow!