So we were on our way back from clam digging in Long Beach
Washington, and i had promised John some clams... and since we hit the
mother load and they were fresh we decided to drop them off on our way
through town as he lives on the way. I had heard the game started at
3:30pm and it was about that time... it was a pretty safe bet that the
game would be on and a bag of clams would buy our way into the party.
Our arrival was timed perfectly as a batch of wings just came out of the
oven... I don't watch a lot of football, but when i watch sports i get
into the games.
I was rooting for Seattle on the basis of the geography rule and it looked like they were in tough... this New England team was moving the ball with precision but still not really scoring too much. Seems like the kind of sport where you want to get your points when you can (to state the obvious).
The Seattle attack was based on letting that beast guy run the ball or throw a long bomb and all in all the teams were matched point for point going into halftime.
The halftime show was reasonable for a lip sync effort making use of pretty decent graphics and dancing sharks... not really my bag but reasonably inoffensive and family friendly. One of my kids asked what lip syncing is and why they did that, and i explained that the artist doesn't have a choice... you have to lip sync at a show like that because they can't afford anything going wrong with respect to dancing timing, audio equipment, or god forbid some artist losing their mind and trying to go on some anti capitalism or anti war rant... imagine that! All in all good deal for the artist as they get some ace promotion and can sell sell sell!
Speaking of selling, i thought the commercials were to be really good in the Superbowl... I kind of thought for the most part they all really sucked pretty bad... no edge, nothing really funny. There was that real long bummer one that used "Cat's in the cradle" that must have gone on forever... i think the point was that if you miss you child's childhood because you are a race car driver then it's all OK if you pick him up from high school one day in a particular brand of car. It's true i don't watch TV so when i do and people talk about these "hyped commercials" i am sure to be left wondering what the hell is going on.
In the 2nd half it looked like Seattle had found it's mojo... they went up by 10 and seemed to be able to slow down New England's offence. In fact it looked like they were going to get another when the football slipped between a wider receivers hands putting an end to a drive that could have put a choke hold on the game. New England then smelt blood and poured it on bolting ahead so that in the final 2 minutes Seattle had to score a touchdown or lose. The QB threw to the beast guy and he made some yards and then the patented Seattle Hail Mary long bomb that looked to be incomplete but then bounced off a knee up in the air and into the arms of the receiver lying on his back. It was the kind of ridiculous play the the Seahawks won the last game on... i even used the "horseshoes up the ass" analogy... it was now their game to win. So they have the ball with a few plays to burn and under a minute left in the game... i was saying might be a good idea to give it to the beast guy as he seems pretty capable of running the ball in for a touchdown, but instead they threw a short interception and that was the game... lady luck left the building one play to early.
But then there was a fight... i take it some of the players were feeling a little frustrated. A note on concussions... smacking the side of a guy's helmet is a better way to give a concussion than punching somebody in the head straight on with a fist... i remember reading that very clearly on time. You rattle the whole head and more chance of the brain hitting the skull, as with a punch most of the trauma occurs on the bone at the site of contact... i noticed the hits the the helmet were very effective in this manor, almost exactly as the study i read demonstrated.
The QB for New England won the MVP, and that was probably the right call.
I was rooting for Seattle on the basis of the geography rule and it looked like they were in tough... this New England team was moving the ball with precision but still not really scoring too much. Seems like the kind of sport where you want to get your points when you can (to state the obvious).
The Seattle attack was based on letting that beast guy run the ball or throw a long bomb and all in all the teams were matched point for point going into halftime.
The halftime show was reasonable for a lip sync effort making use of pretty decent graphics and dancing sharks... not really my bag but reasonably inoffensive and family friendly. One of my kids asked what lip syncing is and why they did that, and i explained that the artist doesn't have a choice... you have to lip sync at a show like that because they can't afford anything going wrong with respect to dancing timing, audio equipment, or god forbid some artist losing their mind and trying to go on some anti capitalism or anti war rant... imagine that! All in all good deal for the artist as they get some ace promotion and can sell sell sell!
Speaking of selling, i thought the commercials were to be really good in the Superbowl... I kind of thought for the most part they all really sucked pretty bad... no edge, nothing really funny. There was that real long bummer one that used "Cat's in the cradle" that must have gone on forever... i think the point was that if you miss you child's childhood because you are a race car driver then it's all OK if you pick him up from high school one day in a particular brand of car. It's true i don't watch TV so when i do and people talk about these "hyped commercials" i am sure to be left wondering what the hell is going on.
In the 2nd half it looked like Seattle had found it's mojo... they went up by 10 and seemed to be able to slow down New England's offence. In fact it looked like they were going to get another when the football slipped between a wider receivers hands putting an end to a drive that could have put a choke hold on the game. New England then smelt blood and poured it on bolting ahead so that in the final 2 minutes Seattle had to score a touchdown or lose. The QB threw to the beast guy and he made some yards and then the patented Seattle Hail Mary long bomb that looked to be incomplete but then bounced off a knee up in the air and into the arms of the receiver lying on his back. It was the kind of ridiculous play the the Seahawks won the last game on... i even used the "horseshoes up the ass" analogy... it was now their game to win. So they have the ball with a few plays to burn and under a minute left in the game... i was saying might be a good idea to give it to the beast guy as he seems pretty capable of running the ball in for a touchdown, but instead they threw a short interception and that was the game... lady luck left the building one play to early.
But then there was a fight... i take it some of the players were feeling a little frustrated. A note on concussions... smacking the side of a guy's helmet is a better way to give a concussion than punching somebody in the head straight on with a fist... i remember reading that very clearly on time. You rattle the whole head and more chance of the brain hitting the skull, as with a punch most of the trauma occurs on the bone at the site of contact... i noticed the hits the the helmet were very effective in this manor, almost exactly as the study i read demonstrated.
The QB for New England won the MVP, and that was probably the right call.
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