I’ll take that action.

Ray “Ol’ The One That Got Away” Lewis mentioned as involved in a murder – 0.

Tebow Mentions
No Other Factors – 2
Tebow In Stands – 5
Player Tebows – 10
Tebow In Stands With Katherine Webb – Brent Musberger’s head goes splodey.

Makes me think of this:

http://my.firedoglake.com/dennistrainorjr/2013/02/02/super-bowl-winner-chosen-by-god/

As a comment says, “Tim Tebow must have been praying to Satan all this time.”

EDIT: I’m a baseball fan myself and have never paid much heed to football. The one football game I’ve paid to see was dull and the experience less than pleasant because of loud and drunken fans sitting close to me (one of whom was eventually ejected.)

The hype this year must have been tremendous. Even I’ve heard who was playing before the game. Wow!

The Gold-diggers vs. The Carrion-eaters.

I wonder how many fundie christians already believe this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t535BjVmXq8

Super Bowl? Bleccch. I’d rather listen to pronunciation diagnostics from non-native English speakers…and, in fact, I will.

Hey! I’ve learned a great deal of valuable life-lessons from Ray Lewis.

For example, NEVER hang on to incriminating evidence. Do NOT hesitate to destroy it, even if it is a REAL nice white suit, if it’s covered in your victim’s blood, into some nameless dumpster it goes! Or, when it comes to murder, use a knife – no traceable ballistics or purchase record, complete deniability (see Simpson, OJ).

Also, too, if you get away with murder, be quite vocal in your thanks to god that you are living a great life making millions rather than rotting in prison like regular (black) folks…

I’ll leave the prayers, incantations and lamentations to the devout and focus on my calling for the day — eating.

My pork shoulder, smothered in seasoning, onions and sauerkraut has been in the oven since 530 this morn. It will be added to the full Thanksgiving dinner my buddy makes for the Super Bowl each year along with Maria-the-caterer’s homage to the Lunar New Year, a full spread of Chinese foodstuffs.

Add in the odds and ends others will bring, including locally grown and slaughtered pig from the pig man, oysters from the bay and fresh crab just off the boats in the harbor and we’re all ready to go.

I’ll be wearing my University of Delaware “Fear the Chicken” Fightin’ Blue Hens hat in honor of Flacco (where he ended up after Dave Wannstedt, coach at Pitt decided that Tyler Palko was a better QB) and after several beers and a good helping of Humboldt lettuce we’ll sate ourselves in the fashion our forefathers wished — over-eating, over-indulgence and over-excitement at the display of large men bashing themselves into one another for three hours.

God. Bless. America.

So I’m gathering that there’s some sort of ball game on the teevee machine today. Assuming that’s true, and assuming the number of people glued to the box is inversely proportional to the number of people who will be driving on the nation’s highways and byways during the game, I intend to fully exploit the opportunity by concurrently violating all manner of California traffic laws. Why waste good weather and traffic conditions?

And though I obviously feel terrible about the fate of the hapless Timmy Tebow, my anguish is slightly diminished by the knowledge that the esteemed police officer who was previously employed by UC Davis has already landed a new job.

Just be thankful that He doesn’t have a CBS sitcom to promote.

Good heavens.

Fit for a king. Or perhaps a Quarterback…

Oh, he’s that guy. Also, out-of-court settlements: good thinking. May his retirement begin in sadness:

“God is calling,” Lewis said. “My children have made the ultimate sacrifice for their father for 17 years. I don’t want to see them do that no more. I’ve done what I wanted to do in this business, and now it’s my turn to give them something back.”

David Caruso was Tebowing when Tebowing wasn’t cool.

YEEEEEEEE-AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

Also too: I will keep with tradition and skip the Premature-Dementia Bowl this year, as always.

I know you’ll all be relieved, as I was, that golfer Phil Mickelson is probably going to win a golf tournament today. After learning of his family’s hardship with a 3% increase to his tax rates, I was worried for his children. They’re such a great story with all the sacrifice that family has made to make America great and keep it safe, just as his soon-to-be ex-neighbors, the Rmoneys have done.

Yes, my family owes a great deal to the Mickelsons. I wish my grandpa and grandma were here to give their thanks to the Mickelsons and the Rmoneys for their great sacrifice, especially since my grandpa sustained a major disability in battle in WWII, yet still went on to start a successful-for-40 years family farm with my grandma, where they raised 6 kids, until the economic policies and changes to laws brought on by the Reagan Administration, which allowed conglomerates to buy up everything in the region and collude on prices, drove my grandparents into bankruptcy in 1990 along with almost every other family farm in the area. They died basically penniless after 50 years as pillars in their community. If only he would’ve thought to open a P.O. box in the Cayman Islands! Thank you again Republican trickle-downers such as Phil Mickelson!

And my father who served in Vietnam and came back with a major case of PTSD, and my public school junior high school teacher mother, who helped him as best she could and provided as nice a home for us kids as possible despite the challenges. As the economics changed through the 80s into the 90s in our blue-collar town, as off-shoring became the norm and factories were closing left and right, my mother reported the anger and violence at the school increased substantially over time, and even led to some scary situations with out of control students where she feared for her life. That along with the stress of the Vietnam-induced issues with my father are considered major contributors to the aneurysm that caused my mother’s death at the age of 50. If only we could understand the sacrifices of the Mickelsons and the Rmoneys who literally commute to their jobs on their own private jets and have multiple mansions.

Even though George Rmoney, Mitt, nor his 5 able-bodied sons ever served in any military or any sort of public service whatsoever, I’m sure they understand what sacrifice to America means from all that tax money they pay, since they’re clearly struggling too, just like Phil Mickelson. That $1 million dollar prize Mickelson will likely win today for less than a week’s work, should be able to keep this great family afloat…at least for another month after the gubnint takes all it from them. Thank you Phil Mickelson and the Rmoneys for showing us what “We, the people…” is all about. God bless Republicans for showing us the way.

It’s like the NRA always says–it’s not guns that kill people, it’s overhyped, pseudo-religious linebackers that do.

America’s Finest News Source has a Super Bowl Preview. I can’t really speak for the Ravens side (nice witness-stand reference), but they got the 49ers pretty well, notably in the start of their analysis of our QB:

Strength: Lack of NFL experience still allows him capacity to move, use brain

*whimper*

That’s a post, my friend.

Get thee over to MyFDL and turn it into a diary.

Thanks for that very interesting post. Agree with PW (above), I strongly urge you to write 2 posts on MyFDL. Expand on what happened with your grandparents’ family farm post Reagan, and expand on your mom’s issues with violence in schools as jobs got off-shored.

Personal narratives are often the most informative for highlighting what’s really going on.

Best to you, and – as you say – my heart simply bleeds for poor poor poor poor poor benighted Phil Mickelson who’ll ONLY win $1mill for this tournament, and golly-gosh-darn-it, *no less than* $600,000 of it, apparently, is gunna be RIPPED OFF to pay for teh lazeee poorz ‘n stuff. Where’s the world’s tiniest violin, so I can commence to playing it for poor poor poor poor poor pathetic downtrodden Phil Mickelson???

If my failing memory serves me, I seem to recall that Eric Liddell, the British runner upon whom Chariots of Fire was based was very religious. I think Liddell refused to run in an important race bc it was on Sunday, despite heavy criticism even from the British royal family. I guess Liddell stuck to his convictions, fwiw.

So it does raise the question, really, of what all this attention-seeking behavior is FOR when Tebow does his “thing.” After all, doesn’t his team play most of their games on Sunday?? I could be wrong bc when it comes to US gridiron football, I’m clueless.

Just saying… That, and isn’t there something in teh Bible about praying in private?? And how that’s preferable?? Or did the “NEW” Christiany Bible change that verse in their re-written conservaBible edition? Hard to keep it all straight what with these Christiany types re-writing just about everything to suit their own little fictional fantasy-land narratives ‘n all.

Odd, I seem to recall Ray Lewis having a trial and not being found guilty.

Oh, the picture. Is that the way the rapture comes?

As I recall he copped a plea and charges were dismissed.

Although my memory seems to be getting so fuzzy I totally forgot about the UCD Occupy tear gassings. (And Tebows too).

Yes, IIRC, he pled out to obstruction, testified (badly) for the prosecution and his ‘friends’ were found not guilty.

I also understand that he did make confidential out of court settlements with the families of the 2 victims

Of course, one of the wonders of our ‘judicial’ system is I can believe he is guilty guilty guilty even if he had been found not guilty.

Book Salon up with Hedrick Smith’s Who Stole The American Dream? hosted by Ariadne Allan Autor

Speaking of Ray Lewis, Bovida.com offers a prop bet on how many times he will refer to “God” or “the Lord” if he is interviewed after the game. The over-and-under is 3.

http://sports.bovada.lv/sports-betting/football-player-props.jsp

So – haz Mrs. TBogg adopted Sally the dachshund/bassett cross puppy on teh Puppy Bowl yet? ‘Cause I want to adopt her if she doesn’t. And after I adopt Harry, teh dachshund.

I was definitely rooting for Marta as Most Valuable Puppy, but Shadow was awfully cute.

Inteviewed before by Shannon. Jesus, what an asshole. “God never makes a mistake…God, blah, blah, blah, God. I screamed “Ah, shut the fuck up” at the TV machine and then emptied the trash.

I’m really getting tired of having to refer to my post which notes that no “murder” was ever demonstrated, whoever might have caused such.

After the game, all can sit down and have some Humboldt Coffee. I recommend the Horowitz blend, named after a work colleague’s neighbor.

Yep, there is Tebowing in that video all right, but is that the real David Caruso? Professional Carusologists might note that the absence of action shots with the sunglasses, as well as the missing corny one-liners, would be cause to question the authenticity of that clip. Which would be a shame, because the combination of Tim Tebow and David Caruso just seems natural somehow.

You raise some legitimate questions.

I believe that it is, indeed, David Caruso, because in several of the shots it certainly appears to be him. But while the clip is unarguably missing any corny one-liners, it does feature, if you watch carefully, Caruso putting on his sunglasses. He rises from his Tebow, the camera pans back, and you can see him going through the motions of putting on the sunglasses.

YEEEEEEE-AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!

Wow, Bey was weak.

Thank you for the correction. I’m so glad to be wrong about that, because plans can now proceed for the production of THE TIM TEBOW STORY, with Caruso cast in the role of Mr. Tebow’s coach at Denver.

{Tebow throws second interception in a game…}

COACH: {removes sunglasses} There’s a problem here, and it’s named
…{replaces sunglasses}… SATAN!

{Tebow barely eeks out a 1st down on a 3rd-and-inches…}

COACH: {removes sunglasses} That worked, all because of …{replaces sunglasses}… THE LORD!

The lines, they write themselves! And it would merely be an extension of a type of brand promotion already in progress.

Maybe someone here can get her ass to shake like Shakira’s.

whoa, power outage… is this the apocalypse? or just limbo?

Ooops

I’d never even been aware of Puppy Bowl until just now… GAWD! Criminal levels of cuteness… And yay for teh gurlz, what with Sally scoring the first TD.

I loved that movie! Those were the days – before unsafe lithium batteries grounded entire airliner fleets – when they knew how to properly design airplane components, such as the emergency autopilot.

The lighting crew picked the wrong day to quit…….

He would not be the first rich asshole to be found not guilty because he had some of the best legal defense money can buy.

Funny how that seems to work in this great country of ours….

Cheeses frowned on the Niners. Not enough Tebowing in Sodom by the Bay, I guess.

Jim Harbaugh will be bitching about that (non)call for the next century.

There’s many systems of “Justice” in Team USA. Those with the most $$$$ always “win.” It’s a crap shoot for the Middle class but helps to be white & male. You’re fucked if you’re poor & triply so if you’re a minority. But everyone here knows this.

I am shocked, shocked – totally – that equal justice under the law isn’t even a bad joke any more.

Let’s just note that the LVP was the gay-baiting bigot in the Niners’ secondary.

Of course, their decision to play Bill Donahue there was a curious one.

+1!

Well, I had to eat out at a good local eatery tonight (professional obligation), but I did get back in time to see that the Ravens were way ahead and that something weird was going on — why game delay? But before learning why the delay I had to go to Downton Abbey. No less junky than the SB, but more compelling (though tonight’s installment felt like a total transition/setter-upper/filler — inevitable, I guess, after the Sybil-death episode). Glad the Ravens won, I guess — makes the Pats look better, maybe. (Though, heart of hearts, I am still Giants.)
All this while preparing a class in a course on drama, spectacle, bread and circuses stuff. And while playing ball in the living room (talk about a game that gets very boring through routinization) with my English Springer, who’d been deprived of her normal after-dinner games by said eating out.
Civilization in a ditch.

Teh Puppy Bowl is the greatest sporting event of the whole year! And teh tiggy-wiggies did superb cheerleading!

I don’t blame you one bit. It’s like trying to explain the facts behind Chappaquiddick to people who bought the GOP/media spin.

Long after, but that was a nice article; still, this was better.

Drama, spectacle, bread and circuses? Show your class the Republican debates of 2012. Now THAT was a circus!

I didn’t watch the SB, but of the many who did, some offered good commentary on the commercials, including (or so I read) on a spot depicting a salt-of-the-earth farmer with his Heartland Values pick-up truck. Some comments in the post over at Cole’s place:

aimai @97:
…Wish they’d do spots about big city EMTs and teachers rushing to work in the mornings. I hate this hagiography of the horny handed sons of toil which exalt a largely mythical (or at any rate long gone) past of hard work by some to sell shit to others. Farms have either become highly mechanized, absorbed into larger agribusinesses, or the work is mostly done by migrant workers on a seasonal basis. But you will never see that acknowledged in advertising because it makes white people uncomfortable.

When I used to visit Atlanta, long ago, I noticed that all advertisements for jobs that you knew were performe by black people had white people to the fore to reassure the presumed consumer that black people wouldn’t be coming to their houses. Ditto the farmer thing–we know how much of the labor on all kinds of farms, especially fruit and nut and grapes and stoop labor is actually performed by migrant workers. Are they showing those guys in the back of trucks?

chopper @118:
i would have loved to see an ad instead (not selling trucks tho) about teachers. i.e. ‘god needed someone who would get up early and get home late, to deal with 30 worthless teenage slobs all day who couldn’t care less about anything, who would drive home in a 1970s orange hatchback with bald tires and a brown door just to spend three hours at home grading papers. someone who would paint houses over the summer because the paycheck sucks. who would get shit on by society just for having the job. and deal with all of it because education is important. so god created a teacher.’

Davis X. Machina @119:
@chopper: As we used to say when I was working for the Jesuits, ‘It’s a good thing that teaching is one of the spiritual works of mercy, because as a job, it sucks.’

I’m sure that out of 30 students there are (often) at least a couple of kids who are (mostly) glad to be there, but otherwise, I like these observations very much.

Well, kinda OT but I was living in the Denver area when Tebow first starting playing there, and I became thoroughly sick of hearing his name. However, I do miss TBogg’s weekly posts about the Juicebox Jesus.

The NFL is a strange land. Juicebox Jesus may yet return to the Denver Promised Land, riding a white unicorn, wearing a pink polo and sporting a bionic madd-throwin’-skillz-enabled left arm. Heck, he may be sporting 3 or 4 arms, a crown made of horse teeth and a bottle of bad revenge juju…

TBogg, TBogg, why hast thou forsaken us?

Tebow is past his expiration date with nothing to show for it but knee calluses.