What!? No Super Bowl Thread yet???

[pghnative]

About 1 hr to game time, and I see that no one has started a Super Bowl XLIII thread yet.

As my username implies, I'm a native of "the 'burgh", as we call it, so I'm rooting for the Steelers. They just had Journey on, playing "Don't Stop Believin'" --- and I had this fear that the screen would cut to black halfway thru...

I'm quite bummed --- I'm actually stuck in Ireland for the next ~ three weeks (no offense to Eroica and the rest of the Irish -- it's a wonderful country, I just would rather be at a Super Bowl party in the USA tonight). Need to be at work tomorrow at 8AM too, and being 5 hrs ahead really bites.

Probably too late to take a poll to see who the winner might be --- chances are most Bauters who are interested in the game probably aren't on the Web right now.

Go Steelers!

[kleindoofy]

Who cares about the game?

We all just want to see bare mammary glands at half-time and watch as America implodes because of them.

[pghnative]

I have this vision of Bruce Springsteen with a sunburst nipple decoration...

[Tucson_Tim]

Is this a bowling thread?

[Fazor]

Probably too late to take a poll to see who the winner might be --- chances are most Bauters who are interested in the game probably aren't on the Web right now.
Go Steelers!

That's the beauty of laptops Though I'm watching 'Phenius and Pherb' to kill time before kickoff.

I went to school in Pitt for a bit (rhyme! 3points!), plus thier not only in the right conference, but the right division (I'm a Browns fan ... if you can't have a winning season, at least having the champs in your division gives you the "our division's tough!" excuse. Just forget about the Bengals. )

So, a 'burg win wouldn't be bad. But at the same time, it'd be cool to see Arizona get thier first win. I'll probably be cheering for them (who doesn't like an underdog?) but I dont really care who wins.

[pghnative]

(I'm a Browns fan ... if you can't have a winning season, at least having the champs in your division gives you the "our division's tough!" excuse....
So, a 'burg win wouldn't be bad....

Wow -- they might revoke your Ohio driver's license for that. You may be the only Browns fan in the nation willing to go that far.

[Fazor]

Wow -- they might revoke your Ohio driver's license for that. You may be the only Browns fan in the nation willing to go that far.

No, you always want your conference to win. At least, I always do. Same way I'll cheer for the Wolverines in a bowl game, even though during the regular season they're the most hated of all teams. Of course, it was hard to hate them this year, as they took themselves out of the equation...

[pghnative]

I'm the opposite --- I'm from the "root for your team and also root for whomever is playing your enemy" camp.

Of course, over the years I've cultivated the Browns, Ravens, Bengals, Titans (used to be Oilers), Cowboys and Patriots as enemies --- makes it tough sometimes to find enough teams to root for!

[Fazor]

The Browns as enemies? It's not like they ever beat Pitt. Stupid Cleveland. "Next year!" (that's our motto).

[Chuck]

I was hatched in Pittsburgh and lived there during the Steelers' first two Superbowl wins. Then I moved to Arizona. I have two home teams and they're both in the Superbowl so I can't lose.

Prediction: Steelers 31, Cardinals 10.

[Gandalf223]

I'm in it for the commercials. I went to the store and got my 3-D glasses today.

Go Seahawks!

[Cylinder]

Cards by 10.

[Chuck]

The supermarket was out of the glasses but those commercials will air again and again for weeks. I'll see them in 3D later. I don't really need another Chuck and wasn't going to watch it anyway.

[Fazor]

I didn't get a chance to get to the grocery store; I was too busy sleeping on the couch all day yesterday and today

That means no wings or nachos for the game Plenty of beer; just nothing to eat with it. That's okay though.

[pghnative]

I was hatched in Pittsburgh

which part? The North Hills area for me...

I'm in it for the commercials.

that's another downside of being outside the USA --- only local commercials. I'll need to surf the internet to check them out.

As I type, there are four Arizona Cardinals cheerleaders doing a cheesecake filled commercial for "Sky sports 1", the channel covering the Super Bowl. That's another reason to root for the Steelers -- they don't bother with cheerleaders.

Cheerleaders are fine in high school, or for smaller college teams, where they, you know, actually lead cheers. But they're pretty useless, other than eye candy, beyond that. And if you're paying attention to the eye candy, you're not paying attention to the football.

[Chuck]

I lived in the far east, Wilkinsburg.

[Chuck]

Touchdown, Steelers!

[Chuck]

Pending the result of the challenge, of course.

[Chuck]

Field goal, Steelers! Three to nothing.

[pghnative]

Where's the refs from Super Bowl XL when you need them!!

[KaiYeves]

My brothers and mom are watching downstairs. I don't really care to watch sports, unless it's the Olympics.

[pghnative]

First Quarter's over --- anyone with 3/0 in the grid game is a winner.

Steeler's threatening --- need to get a touchdown this time to keep the pressure on.

[Chuck]

Touchdown, Steelers, maybe?

[pghnative]

no review needed this time. Steelers score a TD (running too!). 10-0

[Fazor]

Yeah, it's certianly looking a little lopsided so far. SI had an article about "The Elusive 'Mo'" takling about momentum. Kinda a tounge-in-cheek (not so serious) article about what announcers always talk about; "momentum". It kept saying "Only announcers can tell when a team has it or doesn't." ...which is **. I agree it's hard to define exactly what it is or how it "works", but it usually pretty obvious when one team has it.

... and no, I'm not saying that there's some magical "momentum" force; but teams will click, they'll get confident, the coaches will be able to see what the opposition is trying to do and shift play calls accordingly, etc. Regardless of what all the "ingrediants" are, it's usually easy for anyone to see who has it (though it's not always there; thouse grind'em-out's for instance). Right now, it's pretty apparent that Pittsburgh owns the 'mo. Still early though, maybe the Cards can steal some back.

[pghnative]

Cardinals moving the ball --- this is what I've feared: Warner, with his quick release, picking the Steelers apart.

uggg --- now it's first and goal from the 2

[Chuck]

Touchdown, Cardinals!

[Fazor]

Here they come! 10-7 Pitt after the TD catch by Fitzgerald.

That Fitzgerald is amazing. If there's a group of guys going up for a ball, he always seems to find a way to come down with it.

[pghnative]

actually, the TD was by the tight end --- Ben Patrick I think is the name

[Fazor]

Yeah, I misheard. Or they said the wrong name initially. Just realized it when they said Fitz hasn't caught a pass yet