I hope you enjoy the Super Bowl, or at least some of the commercials. I am pulling for the Seahawks because I like their style, and also because I have never liked John Elway. But Steven D is a big Broncos fan, so I’ll be happy for him if Denver wins. And I’ll be happy for the Manning family.
Go Giants!!
Do you have any Super Bowl Sunday traditions that I should adopt?
We are having Mexican hot chocolate, chili and tres leche cake.
Because America.
I’m rooting for the Seahawks after seeing this.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2014/02/john-elway-my-beliefs-align-with-gop-182520.html
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My thoughts exactly. I don’t even like football or sports. But damn fuck him.
Payton Manning is a right wing kook.
You think it’s a coincidence he’s on TV with Papa John’s.
I have no idea why Booman would care about that family. They are all ass hats.
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Manning does good work with people. He may be a kook, but he’s a good person who tries to make things better for people around him and complete strangers.
Hate his politics, don’t hate the guy.
Leave that for the Sarah Palins of the world.
Don’t be absurd. He supports and gives money to people who would end unemployment insurance, and take health insurance away from the poor if they could.
Because he does not want his taxes going up.
He was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.
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Did you manage to snag some Velveeta?
not a good start for Denver, but not disastrous either.
Denver is very fortunate to be down only 8-0 after three straight scores by Seattle to start the game.
As a Niner fan, I was initially offended by Sherman’s postgame rant, but as a socialist I am offended by Manning’s affiliation with Papa John’s.
I’m glad shitbag Manning failed hard in this game. Very glad.
As a (nearly) life-long Bronco fan it is a disappointing result to be sure. But the above comments about Elway and Manning as wingnuts are completely true. To be fair to Manning he – unlike Elway – has spent a large amount of personal time and personal fortune on the less fortunate. There is a reason that everyone in Indianapolis loves him, and it’s not just football. But there is no being fair to Papa John’s – lilke most pizza chains, pure evil.
Perhaps this is all for the best. You see, the Broncos have lost 5 super bowls. More than any other team – and I’ve witnessed all of them. Worse, all were blowouts, by an average margin of 30 points. The last three were much worse than the first two, which by scores of 27-10 and 39=20 were almost nailbiters by comparison to the last three.
In the first one the Broncos were a weak Cinderella team who simply didn’t belong in the big game. In the next three the Broncos were coached by the classic “pretty good – coach not to lose” coach (Dan Reeves) who was cannon fodder against the best the NFC had to offer.
Well, ditto John Fox. Clearly the Broncos were utterly unprepared today. (Although I congratulate Seahawk fans, and Seattle sports fans in general, who have long deserved a championship – the reality is that New England, Indy, and even San Diego would have given Seattle a better game than Denver did today, albeit likely with the same result.) The last time I saw a team this unprepared for the Super Bowl was the 2000 New York Giants. And before that … I have to go back to the middle 1960s. John Fox = Dan Reeves. And when (not if) the Broncos give Fox his 3-5 year contract extension this off-season then finally I can rid myself of football and do useful things with my Sunday afternoons. Because John Fox will never, ever, ever win a Super Bowl. Period.
If it’s any consolation, I think the Seahawks won the Super Bowl more than the Broncos lost it. This was a blowout that held my attention because the Seahawks put on a clinic. Also, the Broncos had lost a lot of players to injury, while the Seahawks were healthy.
This city is going nuts. The victory parade on Weds or Thurs will be off the rails.
It’s not just that the city hasn’t had a pro championship in any men’s sport since its only one in 1979, by a team that’s no longer here (the Sonics). It’s that only five years ago Seattle cemented its sports irrelevance with perhaps the worat sports year for a major city ever. The Mariners were supposed to be a playoff contender; they lost 100 games. The Seahawks, in Holmgren’s last season, collapsed, going from a playoff contender to (IIRC) 4-12. The Sonics’ new owner tanked the season, finishing with the worst record in franchise history (but a pretty good rookie named Kevin Durant), and then was allowed to move the team to Oklahoma City, a market one-third Seattle’s size, despite strong fan support here. Oh, and Washington State’s football team, which regularly lost by 60 points, was being talked about as the worst major college football team ever – until in their last game they beat the Univ. of Washington, a former power which finished 0-12 only seven years after winning a Rose Bowl.
That kind of year – combined with all the close calls, inept owners, and decades without a champion – leaves quite a inferiority complex. In nearly a quarter century here I’ve never seen anything like this level of mania for a team – the short version is that this region is really, really starved for a good team. And the Seahawks are lining up, barring injury, to be good for years to come.
Seattle may be the flagship but ALL of Washington is going nuts, Bellingham is over the top with celebrations, and eastern WA, Leavenworth and Winthrop cheered into the night. This is one happy state!
Gawd, now we just have to get the team home safe! After looking at weather forecasts for northeast looks like it’s going to get ugly for awhile.
Good commentary Mr. Parrish. I would only like to add that this area also had decades of no pro sports whatsoever. When I was a kid and first started watching the NFL, the closest teams were the LA Rams with Roman Gabriel and the SF 49ers with John Brodie. LA also had the Fearsome Foursome. In Tacoma, we would just choose teams. For me, I always picked a team my older brother didn’t like. He was a Packers fan; thus, I was a Baltimore Colt fan–Bart Starr and Johnny Unitas. Then, there was this upstart AFL and we had favorites in that league. As a result, I am often very flexible and can root for whoever is playing. But, this year has been a special year with a truly exciting team. It was great fun! Now, maybe I know what the Chicago, Dallas, San Fran, Green Bay, etc., fans feel like. It’s a great feeling.
As someone said later, it was like a pro team going up against a college team. A great/near great pro team actually, and if anything under hyped, vs an overhyped college team.
So glad the progressive west coast Pete Carroll team beat the GOP’s Peyton Elways.
And it’s probably too much to wish that next season the analysts eased off their embarrassing and unwarranted Peyton worship, along with perhaps a 35% reduction in all the nonstop ads featuring Manning.
Best QB all time remains Joe Montana. Probably then Tom Brady.
Peyton might not ever win his 2d SB, but will likely continue to overachieve with big numbers during the reg season, for a year or two. Maybe 5th best of all time at best …
Manning is an awesome QB–clearly the best since Unitas–but I’m from Baltimore and he’s only played for teams I root against on principle. I would love to have a video of John Elway watching that game–I’d relish every minute of it.