Meh, I’m watching a Helium balloon float up to 23 miles high.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MrIxH6DToXQ#!

Then some crazy Austrian is supposed to jump out of it!

Isn’t Icarus Greek?

Along with 6 TDs, 6 INTs and a longest pass of 66 yards.

Holy shit!

Baumgartner could become the most famous Austrian in the world since…well, you know.

They should have made the capsule look like a wedding cake.

It’s only game 1 of the NLCS …

Maybe that freakishly huge eyeball-balloon will wink…

I guess maybe not wedding cake, just cake. I don’t think they had scantily clad women jump out of wedding cakes. Though it’s all before my time, everything I know about history I learned from cartoons.

Sweet!

Yes, that 3 yard scamper by JuiceBox was something else!

What? Oh! Freefall-man!

833.9 miles per hour

Mach 1.24

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I woulda pooped my suit!

Probably don’t want the butt-flap open at 800 mph!

I think we can all be grateful he didn’t tebow after he landed.

As I’ve noted previously, I have only the vaguest idea how the game of football works. However, based upon previous comments in this thread, I’m gathering that the game is an integration of the laws of physics, the TV machine, a ball, uniforms that look fucking ridiculous, Mach 1.24, juiceboxes, “Holy Shit,” and Jeebuz. (I’m guessing the last two items are somehow related, but I obviously can’t be certain about that.) In any case, I’m feeling more confident, almost as if I’m actually starting to get the hang of this thing.

Now…what’s the deal on this “point spread” thingie I keep hearing about? (And don’t be telling me it’s even more of that “fuzzy math” crap that’s become so fashionable these days. I really don’t think I could handle that…)

I’m feeling more confident, almost as if I’m actually starting to get the hang of this thing.

You’re well ahead of JuiceBox Jesus!

Close. Basically if the guy holding the ball known as the “quarterback” throws the ball at more than mach 1, it causes a sonic boom that in turn creates a “wobble” or “really crappy pass”, at which point he must jump out of a capsule from the stratosphere or we wish anyway.

That makes sense.

If the guy throwing the ball throws it a little bit less than mach 1 is there a name for the guy trying to catch it?

at which point he must jump out of a capsule from the stratosphere

Nice. I’m assuming no pressurized suit, correct? I mean, where’s the challenge in that?

Arnold Schwarzenegger?

If he were a real Austrian he would have said that inflating the balloon was too dangerous and recommended contracting it instead which would lead to expansion by creating confidence.

Okay had to be there maybe.

Arnold’s balloon capsule woulda been a ginormous syringe, pumpin’ iron, uh the good stuff.

I hate John Elway for killing TeBloodTime…

Right before he jumped, did he happen to yell, “To infinity and beyond!”?

Harshing the TBuzz….

Damn, the Rapture Index must be about to blow. When you see prophetic activity spike around the Jets, it’s way past itme to fasten your seatbelts.

You forgot to mention how the balloon’s rapid expansion and sudden collapse represents the effects of fiat money without a gold standard to back it up. Oh, and Glenn Beck.

Oh Jeebus Ashurbanipal on a Slinky, who wrote that thing, Tony Dungy?

Talk about your hagiographies. Poor Misused Widdle Timmey fell down the well again, this time shoved down it by an evil coach.

Somewhere, John Elway must be laughing.

If it were funded by fiat money the capsule would be smaller and would need to go into the shop halfway up.

The fifth paragraph is cut and pasted from Green Eggs & Ham.