The day is here. Just like every Super Bowl Sunday in recent memory...10 mind-numbing hours of "pre-game". I for one watch very little of it unless I happen to walk through the living room and they happen to be talking about something of interest. And since the game is in New Orleans (N'awlins) there is always plenty to talk about, Bourbon St, Mardi Gras, Katrina, Harry Connick, Jr, etc.
I will let most all that slip by unwatched but by 5PM I WILL be ready for some football. Even lacking my team playing, I suspect it will be a good game. My prediction...28 - 24 Niners.
What do you think??
Regardless of your pick, you can have a good time right here catching up on the SB Weekend Graphs.
Well Super Bowl week is almost wrapping up to game time. Jerry Jones has experienced the worst week of his billionaire life.
1. Cowboys are not in the Super Bowl and therefore cannot claim to the first team to play a home game Super Bowl. His biggest dream when he built the biggest stadium.
2. Monday night started off the week with a winter ice and snow storm (mostly ice) and frigid temperatures (see post from a couple days ago).
3. Temps continued into the single digits rendering every road in Dallas a bumper-car or demolition derby (depending on speed) adventure. Only the idiots ventured out.
4. Last night dumped anywhere from 5 to 8 inches of snow on the entire metroplex and to the east Texas area. Snow over ice on the roads. This virtually shut the city down. The news ran nothing but weather for 6 straight hours bumping even the Today Show.
5. The sun came out for 4 1/2 minutes in Arlington (God's sense of humor) and that combined with no bone-chilling wind and the heat being on in Cowboys Stadium proceeded to turn the roof of said stadium into a giant slip and slide of ice and snow. Giant shards of ice slid down the roof curve and plummeted 290 feet to the ground injuring 6 people severely.
6. Tonight anything that melted to slush is going to freeze where it lies and create a driving nightmare tomorrow morning...AGAIN, for those who have to.
7. The financial bonanza that was predicted for this week is dwindling day by frozen day. And Jerry wanted a legacy of Super Bowls in his stadium.
I guess even the rich don't get what they want all the time...and they can't control Karma or Mother Nature! (I believe even now Jerry has scientists devising his own Sun so this can never happen again.)
On the lighter side, my dogs enjoyed the hell out of the snow day! See this video I made:
Here are some other pictures of the day: (click each one to enlarge)
First thing this morning after 3 hours of snowfall
The guardian of our storage entrance! (Do you see the face?)
Am I still in Ohio???
Yeah that's the image Garland is trying to promote. Ski capital of Texas maybe?
Slip sliding away...and off the roof! Look out below...
Yep, today's a two fer. Neither one is big enough to stand on its own so there ya go.
First we start with the Super Bowl. Here are the clips of the Doritos ads which this year were the best of what I consider a mediocre SB Ad season.
The reason I am even mentioning the Super Bowl ads is kinda weird but it could very well be a true sign of the Apocalypse. Come on..$3 million for 30 seconds!
First a bit o' background...
My wife has grown into a commercial hater. Our Dish TV DVR has done this. I don't mean she is just annoyed with commercials...she hates them. Even the funny ones throughout the year I have to pause so I can track her down to watch them...and then she usually doesn't find them as funny as I do. (In some things we have wildly different senses of humor).
To wit: the commercial that came out last year with the baby in the highchair hawking E-Trade. I was falling out of my chair laughing...she left the room and refused to ever watch one because it creeped her out. I have loved every one of them and still laugh heartily at the golf one every time it is on. Shankapotamus is just the funniest golf term ever, and I have used it on the course several times.
Anyway, this past year has gotten even worse with the commercial hating. NOW...for the shows we have set up to record each week: 24, Lost, CSI's -Miami, New york, and Original, etc. We have to wait until the show has been recording for 15 minutes (ya know these puppies are only 45-minutes long) and THEN we can sit down to watch...and fast forward through all the commercials. So now our pre-watching conversation goes like this:
Me: "Honey, are we watching all three of our shows tonight?"
Honey: "Let's just watch the first two, NCIS and Lost."
Me: "Okay, then we need to wait until 7:30 to start so we can skip all the commercials."
Honey: "Okay, good"
Seriously, this conversation alone qualifies as a sign of the Apocalypse but it IS our matter-of-fact after work conversation. Not," how was your day" or any other really trivial stuff, but hardcore TV watching mathematics. Sheesh!
So the point of all this is...I watch the Super Bowl and she does not...BUT, she asks me to record the game sooooooooo....SHE CAN FAST FORWARD THROUGH THE GAME AND WATCH THE COMMERCIALS!!! Last year I accidentally deleted the game before she had watched the commercials and she was PISSED!! WTF.
Next...
Post-Super Bowl this year debuted a new reality TV show---Undercover Boss!
Watch this 8:11 trailer...
I watched this show after the game and I must change my original estimation of its worth.
I was wrong (this is the reason this ranks as a sign of the Apocalypse). I think this show is great. Some very good things came out the boss being down with the rank-and-file. Next week is going to be even better...Hooters.
The CEO of Hooters is going down in the "trenches" to find out what goes on in his stores. I'll tell ya now...he does NOT like everything he sees...no, not the girls, the way some are treated by management.
I am officially recanting my opinion for now of this show. Give it a watch Sunday night. ALERT! ALERT! STM UPDATE! 8532 Followers 2,925,244 Unique visitors I know this was kind of a lame post but hey, ya got two videos out of it so there!
Happy Trails...
