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Apparently there was some sort of football game on today.

*snicker*

Date: 6 Feb 2006 04:11 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oceansedge.livejournal.com
Just that silly american stuff.... not real football :)

Date: 6 Feb 2006 04:11 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ursuscal.livejournal.com
You mean football as opposed to soccer? Hmmm. Musta missed it. }:xD

Date: 6 Feb 2006 04:19 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
I've just been told it's that game the United Statians play, so it probably isn't football.

Date: 8 Feb 2006 16:36 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sjwt.livejournal.com
Oh, that would of been ice hockey, yup.

Date: 6 Feb 2006 04:16 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weyrdbird.livejournal.com
Doesn't matter who won, there will still be people staggering home full of sandwiches and gallons of beer.

They don't call it the Stupor Bowl for nothing:P.

Date: 6 Feb 2006 04:22 (UTC)

Date: 6 Feb 2006 04:33 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sinboy.livejournal.com
I managed to avoid finding out who was playing the daned thing until today. Don't know who won. Don't care.

OTOH, I don't care about your football either.

Date: 6 Feb 2006 04:57 (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] glinda-w.livejournal.com
living in downtown Seattle, I'm forced to pay attention - the usual weekend hell on the streets (drunks, druggies, yadda yadda) is predicted to be several times worse tonight. I sorta wish the hawks had won, the noises of happy drunks are somewhat easier to cope with than those of pissed-off ones.

*very wry*

Date: 6 Feb 2006 05:19 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beki.livejournal.com
Damn, I should have thought to invite you over.. we could have done crafty stuff :/

Date: 6 Feb 2006 07:31 (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] glinda-w.livejournal.com
ah feck. I should've thought to invite myself over, and I could've slept in your back room. ah well, ambien is kicking in now... could be worse.

one of these days/weekends...

*hugs*
--g

(how's Jason continuing?)

Date: 6 Feb 2006 22:03 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beki.livejournal.com
We have moved the futon into the basement, it is quieter, but I am not sure that you would like it. We will have to figure something out. Alex is having a sleepover for her birthday next weekend. Probably not your thing.. thundering hordes of pre teen girls.. EEEEppp!!! ;)

Jason is doing pretty good. So, we will see what is up wtih him when we go for his post op.

Date: 6 Feb 2006 12:08 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
I hope you don't think they blousy AFL is my kind of football.

Date: 7 Feb 2006 00:41 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sinboy.livejournal.com
It some sort of sport with a ball and people flinging themselves around. Watching it involves beer.

Same thing as far as I'm concened.

Date: 6 Feb 2006 04:40 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zhenzhi.livejournal.com
lol, apparently..... but of course, it is not REAL football... they wear padding and helmets
:-P

Date: 6 Feb 2006 05:24 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beki.livejournal.com
http://www.priceless.com/film/worldpremiere.html

Date: 6 Feb 2006 05:46 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
Boring Toyota Superbowl ad (http://toyota.com/vehicles/minisite/superbowl/index.html?s_van=GM_HOME_SUPERBOWL_TXT)

Date: 6 Feb 2006 06:03 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beki.livejournal.com
I would much rather get that hybrid mini van thing if I could afford a new car. Thing is, I am not sure how it would do with a wheelchair ramp/lift thingy. Jason is getting fitted at the end of the month for a wheelchair.

Date: 6 Feb 2006 07:33 (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] glinda-w.livejournal.com
yeah, some of the commercials weren't bad... FedEx was the best/funniest, I thought, and the clydesdale colt pulling the wagon (with help) was an awwwwwwwwwwsweet one, and Kermit was just cool.

Date: 6 Feb 2006 08:47 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charles.livejournal.com
The iPod format is just H.264 MPEG4. You can view it in Quicktime 7.

Date: 6 Feb 2006 06:00 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charles.livejournal.com
Rubbish. Footy season hasn't started yet.

Date: 6 Feb 2006 07:46 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] torakiyoshi.livejournal.com
Would that you could rescue this poor tiger from having to put up with such horrid drivel as the Superbowl.

Have the best

-=TK

So I gather.

Date: 6 Feb 2006 13:20 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kelloggs2066.livejournal.com
Rumor has it that someone won, someone else lost, and there were a whole lot of commercials in between.

Date: 6 Feb 2006 14:35 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hafoc.livejournal.com
It's American football, which is a mildly amusing game. I don't know-- we like Australian Rules football, so perhaps you might enjoy it if you watched it a little.

But you don't know the deep plot behind it all.

The game was held in my home state of Michigan, in Detroit, home of the Detroit Lions. The Lions' proud slogan is "Rebuilding since 1957!" Being a "pro" sports fan in Michigan is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.

So what we did is, we invited the two teams with the best records to Detroit and had them play a game in our stadium. It is the only way we would ever be able to see some quality football there.

Date: 6 Feb 2006 21:25 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
I can't stand AFL (Aussie Rules). It's a scrappy, blousy game. I much prefer Rugby Union and Rugby League.

I'm sure I'd enjoy American Football with mates and beer and chips.

They invited the Rolling Stones to play...

Date: 6 Feb 2006 20:14 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] klishnor.livejournal.com
.. And then censored them!

I would never have thought that that bunch of senile delinquents had ever recorded anything more than mildly controversial.
From: [identity profile] klishnor.livejournal.com
are you kidding?

Perfectly serious.

back in the day, when the Rolling Stones were on the old Ed Sullivan TV show, their big hit song at the time was "Let's Spend The Night Together" - but for purposes of TV, they had to change that lyric to "Let's Spend Some Time Together", all through the song!

Firstly, that was back in the 1960's, I would have hoped that USAians would have grown up slightly in the 40 years since then.[1]

Secondly, the Stones were never considered to be that underground/alternative/revolutionary over here (except by the Colonel Bogey types who write letters to The Times complaining about anything that's remotely different from they way they were when they were young: around 200 years ago from the way they act). They weren't the "clean-cut, decent" types like Cliff, or even The Beatles, but there were a lot of groups out there who made the Stones look like a choir, and considering what some American singers have recorded since I don't think anything the Stones may have recorded comes close.

[1] OK, I'm known for optimism.
From: [identity profile] klishnor.livejournal.com
broadcast TV has to adhere to certain standards of "decency", as set by the Federal Communications Commission (as does broadcast radio). in addition, each network, each individual station, and each series applies their own standards of "decency"; there have been cases where, say, a fundamentalist-owned TV station refused to air an episode of a popular series when it dealt favorably with homosexuality.


We have a "standard" over here, but most stations (including the BBC) like to push it as far out of shape as they can. I'd like to see ANY station in the USA show the second or third series of Little Britain. One of the more normal characters has the catchphrase "I'm the only gay in the village"

in the 1950s and 1960s, the standards were pretty strict. if an actress, and/or the character she played, was pregnant, the changes in her figure had to be concealed - this led to both creative costume design, and some amusing scenes where the woman was standing behind a potted palm, or had her back to the camera, or otherwise wasn't completely visible, for an entire episode. and they couldn't use the word "pregnant" - she was "expecting"!

I'm old enough to have heard about the "I Love Lucy" fun and games when Lucy became pregnant. Whilst I was never a fan of the show (or her), I do appreciate her stand.

anyway, this is why the venerable Ed Sullivan Show would only shoot Elvis Presley from the waist up, because the sight of his hips swaying in time to the beat ("Elvis the Pelvis") was considered too lascivious for family viewing... likewise, the change in the Rolling Stones' lyrics. (you'd never have seen a band like the Sex Pistols on Ed Sullivan!)

Pity. No Rap artists either I take it.

the industry has been pushing the limits of this concept since the beginning, and things have gotten slowly less stupid. but the Super Bowl is subject to an awful lot of scrutiny, because it's one of the most-viewed programs on TV. and it's assumed that children are watching. hence, the kerfuffle over Janet Jackson's nipple (the US is notoriously irrational about nudity), and the censorship of the Stones' lyrics (as one sports report described it, "a synonym for 'rooster'").


So there are signs of improvement then. Good.

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