Gradually degenerating into ignorance and complacency.

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Superb bowl?

I went to MR's to watch the game.
This was on HDTV -- clearer, better. I didn't much care who won.
I did like some plays, including the cheat of Steelers getting their first touchdown, which wasn't.
I was also watching the commercials. There certainly were some stupid ones like:
Diet Pepsi and P. Diddy, "Brown & Bubbly butthead commercial"
The sex between city-destroying beast and city-destroying robot yielding an H3, stupid and sick to think about it.
Whereas they didn't have costume malfunctions, they did hint at it with ABC's Dance With the Stars. "See partial nudity here!"

I liked the, I suspect expensive, Fed Ex commercial in the prehistoric era.
I'm sure the hidden Bud commercial will air again, but I thought it stupid and it isn't a good beer. The Bud commercial I did like was the underage clydesdale pulling the wagon. I guess they had the costume malfunction with the naked lamb/sheep not Boundin'.

During the half-time I was hungry. MR and I ordered a half/half taco pizza meat and meatless. They messed up when we got there so they gave us a medium no meat as well as the large meat pizza.

During the phone call, there was a strange noise ... perhaps, more on that later.*

MR noticed that the Steelers have a Predator on their team, hence their winning.

It was good to know that Michael Jackson was not featured.
The opening groups, sad to say were hastily run together -- lacking professionalism. I like Stevie, but that rush, rush, rush thing ... not good.

Ivan Neville: typically takes the National Anthem and makes it his own -- cat scratch chalkboard. The singers were not a good sight. Surprising was the complete group of MVPs from 1-39. That might be the last year they can do that, as some were in great shape and others didn't look too well.

Another suggestion to people who aren't listening: dump John Madden, not a good speaker and not a good commentator.

*"There's always a disturbance with you." -- Spiderman 2

1 comment:

MR said...

I have to say, I have seen the future, and it is good. After watching 3 hours of HDTV while taking in the Super Bowl, I found it very difficult to go back to that blurred mural of a picture on regular TV, it's amazing how much is lost in translation when you don't have a 16x9 aspect ratio and a clear picture that clearly deliniates people and objects instead of letting them all run together. But sports is HDTVs true medium. Football is the "killer app" for HDTV. Just like tax software sells a ton of personal computers, so will sports with HDTVs. I suggest you consider how much time you spend watching TV and then consider the investment. And if MH chimes in about not watching a lot of television, I'm going to have to give him the Samual L. Jackson speech from Pulp Fiction: "YES! But you ARE aware there's an invention called a television, and on it they show shows?! And some televisions are clearer than others!"