February 8, 2010
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DAT WHO!
The Daily News
1 Dat's right!
2 I've seldom been so happy about being wrong!
3 On Friday, I predicted a blowout by the Colts in the Super Bowl.
4 My heart, as the rest of America's heart, was with New Orleans, all things considered.
5 That city has been through more than any of us can really ever imagine in the past few years.
6 I have a VERY logical and precise mind, however. I'm right in predictions a LOT more than I am wrong, and I base most of my logic on common sense.
7 My Mom always said that there is nothing common about common sense, so I recklessly predicted that the Colts would win by a huge margin, based on common sense.
8 Ah, the uncommon! How we cherish it, how we hold it fast to our idiotic hearts!
9 This was one time that I was glad to see meself proven wrong. I WANTED New Orleans to win, but looked logically at the two teams and saw a blowout. This was based on my knowledge of Peyton Manning, and his work ethic, as well as his intelligence as a wise and crafty quarterback.
10 I'm glad to see that my good streak of predictions always has a bit of doubt, which is the stuff of life.
11 My Dad and I have always shared a love of football, and we both agreed that the game would probably be a blowout, but that we also both wished the Saints would go against all logic and prove the rest of the world, including me and my Dad wrong.
12 And darned if they didn't show us that anything is possible in this crazuh world!
13 I loved it, all the way.
14 There were some questionable moments.
15 The commercials, for example, were abysmal! I counted FOUR commercials that sported out-of-shape people showing off their horrible bodies, two of which had back-to-back commercials with flabby people in their undies.
16 Ew. Flabby people, all over the place. It was Hell on Earth, lemme tellya!
17 Worst series of Super Bowl commercials ever.
18 And halftime with The Who: My Dad put it best when he said this: "I would rather have seen a magician."
19 I laughed, because The Who were absolutely horrible, one of the all-time worst performances by them.
20 My Dad then chimed in, "Because a magician could have made these guys disappear."
21 Haha!
22 Omg. Roger Daltrey came out wearing reading glasses, and Pete Townshend wore a Santana bandana under a fedora. He looked like a guy who had a walk-on in a Godfather movie years ago and never recovered from the role.
23 Daltrey's voice has lost the entire top end that made The Who one of the most eminent bands in rock history, but really? They looked like drooling lepers. I believe it was Zack Starkey doing the drumming for them, the son of Ringo Starr of the Beatles.
24 He looked like an near-sighted ostrich looking for sand.
25 So bad, even though the tech rocked.
26 "Back in the Day, The Who tore it up. But Daltrey's voice, one of the most powerful in the history of rock, lost it on the top end. Townshend, once the crown prince of flailing rock and cut-edge music and lyrics, looked puffy and abandoned. The harmonies came this short of smashing glass. I thought the teevee was going to implode.
27 Ah, yeesh. My Dad thought they should have at least put the chick in the bathtub (from one of the "better" commercials) out on stage. It was THAT bad.
28 The GAME, on the other hand, took off in the second half, when my Dad PREDICTED the onside kick, which had NEVER been done in the history of the Super Bowl!
29 Well, if you are a true football fan, you would KNOW that the onside kick turned the entire game around. It put a sense of doubt in the heads of the entire Colts' bench, and totally pumped the Saints. THAT was the key moment, and it was the PSYCHOLOGICAL edge that the Saints needed.
30 Such is life.
31 Welp, to a houseload of Niner fans, it brought back amazing memories of their first Super Bowl victory, and there was vicarious celebrations at me Dad's house.
32 AnywayZ, great night, great fun, and a terrific end to the NFL season. Perfect right before Valentine's and Mardi Gras!
33 To the people of Nahlinzzzz: Live it, love it.
34 That's life.
35 You do that too. Make someone's day, willya? I mean that! Make someone happy, and you'll be happy too! = ) <----sideways smiley dude who is WAY sincere
36 Have a great Monday everybody.
37 Live life.
38 Love life.
39 Peace.
~H~
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