There is no more cynical thing in America than the presumption that a box of 24 valentines will be enough for one elementary school class. Thank you for pointing this out Scott.
For a native Clevelander, being jealous of people from Cincinnati for reasons other than relative annual snowfall is a wholly unnatural and unpleasant experience.
This may be one of the first times I'm actually looking forward to the halftime show. The NFL should just eat the FCC fine and not censor out any words just this one time. The over-reactions of the pearl clutchers would be worth it.
In general I think we should all fight the urge to weigh in on everything, particularly when it comes to hating on stuff. With sports specifically, no one knows more than NFL fans about how the owners and Goodell suck, just like no one knows more than college sports fans about how the NCAA sucks.
And the smugness of this too, “Shall I go on?” Yes, please enlighten us with your wisdom oh wonderful Blue Check Mark.
Yes, yes, let’s just abolish sports and take our competitiveness to another arena like politics, local school board elections, grocery shopping? Come on man. These types of tweet authors are individuals who crave attention and will say anything but secretly want to be loved by someone.
I want to see what decadence someone makes out of the lowly chicken breast. The smell of smokers going all day in the neighborhood. 10,000 versions of cheese dip and chili. The halftime show that will cause outrage because the pearl clutches are upset that it wasn’t a chamber orchestra playing twinkle twinkle little star.
If the super bowl didn’t exist what would you do with a crowd of people between New Years Eve and Memorial Day?
I might have said this before but you do an amazing job articulating why sports are so meaningful to me, in a way I've never been able to explain to friends and acquaintances who scoff at the whole concept. Both the NFL and NCAA have SO MANY PROBLEMS, yet that doesn't have to stop me from enjoying it.
P.s. Pretty sure I still have stray "Cars" and Thomas the tank engine valentines in the desk drawer from having to buy two boxes and my son is aboit to graduate high school. (Yeah, should probably clean that out, huh?)
Off topic but swinging in to say that the barrel-aged cocktail I posted about a couple weeks ago (mezcal-amontillado bensonhurst) turned out perfectly, highly recommend
I'm not quite sure how this Sunday will go. As a life long Bengals fan and Cincinnati native now living in Oakland — will I be able to enjoy the game? I won't have other Cincinnati fans to look over at when things go right or wrong. My true reactions to what is happening will have to be self contained. If things go well (really well, because any true Cincy fan expects the worst) I know I'll be having the time of my life. Honestly I think I'm still in disbelief that this is even happening, but I think sometime around pre-game preparation I'm going to start feeling like I've had too many cheese coneys regardless if that is true or not.
I read the article twice to see if I could figure out a deeper context for the reference to Clinton-era one hit wonder Deep Blue Something (who I like to believe are newsletter subscribers and maybe Bengals fans).
As a Lions fan, watching Matthew Stafford hoist the Lombardi trophy is going to be the closest I ever come to watching my team win a Super Bowl and I am so damn happy for him
I'm okay with your being wrong and enjoying {what ever}.
Not sure when I stopped w/ pro-sports, although w/ college sports the pandemic pretty much tapered my paying attention to a seldom occurrence. Might pick up euro soccer again at some point although I'd probably like the lower leagues more than the top leagues at this stage in life.
I'll be happy for the fans of whatever team wins and hope the win occurs in the most stupid memorable series of plays or even just a play; that folks will have something to talk about during the late winter.
In re: the Superbowl: the interest in this house for some time has been limited to my daughters watching ads, but I have found over the years that other people enjoying things I do not enjoy has no actual downside for me (for things like sports and other elements of pop culture, I would not enjoy an enthusiastic purge of immigrants but I think that's understandable)
There is no more cynical thing in America than the presumption that a box of 24 valentines will be enough for one elementary school class. Thank you for pointing this out Scott.
There’s a charm in the Super Bowl being one of the last bastions of monoculture (or as close as anything can get to that now).
Also, since you mentioned the Bills/Giants SB, I’m going to go cry into my Bruce Smith jersey from that era, thanks.
For a native Clevelander, being jealous of people from Cincinnati for reasons other than relative annual snowfall is a wholly unnatural and unpleasant experience.
This may be one of the first times I'm actually looking forward to the halftime show. The NFL should just eat the FCC fine and not censor out any words just this one time. The over-reactions of the pearl clutchers would be worth it.
In general I think we should all fight the urge to weigh in on everything, particularly when it comes to hating on stuff. With sports specifically, no one knows more than NFL fans about how the owners and Goodell suck, just like no one knows more than college sports fans about how the NCAA sucks.
And the smugness of this too, “Shall I go on?” Yes, please enlighten us with your wisdom oh wonderful Blue Check Mark.
Yes, yes, let’s just abolish sports and take our competitiveness to another arena like politics, local school board elections, grocery shopping? Come on man. These types of tweet authors are individuals who crave attention and will say anything but secretly want to be loved by someone.
I want to see what decadence someone makes out of the lowly chicken breast. The smell of smokers going all day in the neighborhood. 10,000 versions of cheese dip and chili. The halftime show that will cause outrage because the pearl clutches are upset that it wasn’t a chamber orchestra playing twinkle twinkle little star.
If the super bowl didn’t exist what would you do with a crowd of people between New Years Eve and Memorial Day?
I might have said this before but you do an amazing job articulating why sports are so meaningful to me, in a way I've never been able to explain to friends and acquaintances who scoff at the whole concept. Both the NFL and NCAA have SO MANY PROBLEMS, yet that doesn't have to stop me from enjoying it.
P.s. Pretty sure I still have stray "Cars" and Thomas the tank engine valentines in the desk drawer from having to buy two boxes and my son is aboit to graduate high school. (Yeah, should probably clean that out, huh?)
Off topic but swinging in to say that the barrel-aged cocktail I posted about a couple weeks ago (mezcal-amontillado bensonhurst) turned out perfectly, highly recommend
I'm not quite sure how this Sunday will go. As a life long Bengals fan and Cincinnati native now living in Oakland — will I be able to enjoy the game? I won't have other Cincinnati fans to look over at when things go right or wrong. My true reactions to what is happening will have to be self contained. If things go well (really well, because any true Cincy fan expects the worst) I know I'll be having the time of my life. Honestly I think I'm still in disbelief that this is even happening, but I think sometime around pre-game preparation I'm going to start feeling like I've had too many cheese coneys regardless if that is true or not.
slouching toward Inglewood to be born
OK, that fan video made me cry. Also, the tiger striped onesies . . .
Unless you're from Detroit.
I read the article twice to see if I could figure out a deeper context for the reference to Clinton-era one hit wonder Deep Blue Something (who I like to believe are newsletter subscribers and maybe Bengals fans).
As a Lions fan, watching Matthew Stafford hoist the Lombardi trophy is going to be the closest I ever come to watching my team win a Super Bowl and I am so damn happy for him
I'm okay with your being wrong and enjoying {what ever}.
Not sure when I stopped w/ pro-sports, although w/ college sports the pandemic pretty much tapered my paying attention to a seldom occurrence. Might pick up euro soccer again at some point although I'd probably like the lower leagues more than the top leagues at this stage in life.
I'll be happy for the fans of whatever team wins and hope the win occurs in the most stupid memorable series of plays or even just a play; that folks will have something to talk about during the late winter.
In re: the Superbowl: the interest in this house for some time has been limited to my daughters watching ads, but I have found over the years that other people enjoying things I do not enjoy has no actual downside for me (for things like sports and other elements of pop culture, I would not enjoy an enthusiastic purge of immigrants but I think that's understandable)