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The Rest of the Super Bowl Movie Spots & other Commercials
Hey folks, Harry here... Did you loathe the commercials at this year's SUPER BOWL as much as me? The only two that really made me smile and think... damn, that was good was the Barry Bonds/Hank Aaron one and the Belly Button/Wireless spot. I also liked the Lipton DANNY DEVITO - puppet protest spot and the Levi weirdass dance spot. Everything else just didn't really do it. The movie spots were not created to be jaw-dropping, or to blow us away it seems. It looks like they said, collectively... Um, here's some footage, let's throw it together and stick the name of our film on it... and in the case of at least one... they didn't even have a name to place on it. Can you imagine if NEW LINE had just spent this weekend's gross for FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING and placed that nearly 4 minute trailer on the SUPER BOWL.... hehehehe...
I personally wanted Paramount to put a SUM OF ALL FEARS spot on the Super Bowl. But if you want to see another bad SCORPION KING spot... you'll see it. If you want to see another SIGNS spot that is almost exactly the same as everything else you've seen but with a new creepy sentence.... go ahead. If you want the profound disappointment in the Coen Brother's TAX MAN spot, click below... Or if you just want to watch Britney's jugs bounce... or not bounce... hmmmmm... go ahead. IFILM has them all for you. Personally I wanted to see spots for CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND, ADAPTATION, RULES OF ATTRACTION and THE HULK. Hehehehe, I know its early. But, that's what I wanted. Hehehe...
Click Here To Go See Them All!
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At the end of the Austin Powers commercial, where the announcer says "This film not yet rated", I couldn't help but think "This film not yet titled..."
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though I had to explain the whole Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon to my parents, and they probably could have done this about 5 years ago, but, still! And I dug the Barry Bonds/Hank Aaron spot, too. But, Harry- the fucking Belly-Button commercial?!? I kept waiting for it to be some low-ridin' jeans commercial or something (a'la Belly-Buttons singing, "I'm Comin' Out"), and it's a *wireless* ad? Jesus, that's almost as bad as that ridiculous 'Little Black Dress' Dockers commercial! Ob-noxious! // e.
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I thought the *exact* same thing! Very, very sad state of affairs, this MGM vs. NL grunt-fest.... // e.
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But the rest were disposable. None of em seemed make specifically FOR the Super Bowl, like the ID4 one("Enjoy the Super Bowl. It may be your last") or Armageddon("The entire world is watching the game. Someone should be watching the sky").
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You Have Now Revoked Your Right To All Future Forms Of American Entertainment. No More Hollywood Films For You! (Wait- then you don't get stuff like Survivor, or Fear Factor, either....Hey! I think you're getting the better deal here....) Fecking Scots..... ;-) // e.
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That first ad about the terroritst funding was really well done. It definitely caught me off guard. Brutally tough...and suddenly I've developed much more of a taste for Pepsi. Britney, I don't care for your music, but you can dance around on tv all you want, baby.
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Worst commercial of the night (and that's saying something). Just what you want to see while working on a chicken wing, a child birth scene. Truly AWFUL advertising campaign, it did more to make you think of MET LIFE throughout the night than AT&T.
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A day that will live in infamy.
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http://www.liquidgeneration.com/poptoons/britney_breasts.asp
It's the "mystery of britney Spears' breasts". It's fascinating, she literally goes from A cup to D in a couple of months time then back again, check it out. -
I can't believe people still think they're fake. If they are fake, they're the worst fake breasts EVER!
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a low point was struck with the filthy lies of the anti-drug spots. the government program that causes the greatest amount of crime in our nation would have better served its purpose by calling out suburban soccer moms who support terorism with every turn of their gas-guzzling fucking SUVs. irresponsible and frightening.
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Have you ever noticed that these people who say "What's the Superbowl" actually know perfectly well exactly what the Superbowl is, and are just trying to show how wonderfully international they are? The only thing more annoying are those "Infect*Truth" ads. I'm thinking of taking up smoking, just to spite their sanctimonious arses.
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so you can now all think it's cool to like it.
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Feb 04, 2002 1:15:51 PM CST
Met Life is right to sue....I thought 'mLife' was for Me
by notchjohnson
Hi folks, Notch here. Loved the Britney ad. She is like junk food, not very nutritious or stimulating, but always hard to resist. The 'mLife' ads I could have sworn were for Met Life. What was AT&T thinking? Couldn't they find another name with all of the fancy options, and there are 26 letters in the alphabet! Well, that campaign really sucked, because I'll bet most people were thinking about insurance and not some new phone service.
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The 2002 World Cup? Are you fucking kidding me?!? And don't give me that crap about soccer being the most popular sport in the world either. The reason why soccer is the most played sport in 3rd world countries is because it is absolutely the most primitive sport next to boxing. No other sport is as strategically intricate, detailed, or nuanced as American Football.
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It was strange watching the ad for the new Austin Powers movie. At no point during the commercial did they mention a name for it. It sort of looked like the name was "This film is not yet rated".
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really impressive. I had no idea where they were going. Too bad Ted Dammne didn't listen sooner.
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american football is garbage, soccer is THE game!!!
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Why did their owner claim they were "world champions"? I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but only American teams are eligible to play in the superbowl, correct? So that would make them American champions. I know a lot of amerians have difficulty grasping this concept, but their is actually a world outside your borders.
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One reason I'm complaining about Britney because she's a f'ing pop icon! You can name all of these people that suck, but a lot of those people have SOME semblance of talent, and they don't have HALF the success of Britney.
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The Canadian TV networks have this incredibly annoying habit of replacing US transmissions with their own whenever they show the same program at the same time. Which means every break in the Superbowl instead of the big-budget American commercials, we get the same old sorry-ass, luvvy-duvvy, bread 'n' butter ones (and yes, you do hear the voice-overs say 'aboot' instead of 'about').
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to all those pasty ass limey's whining about american football:
have you ever watched soccer? have you ever noticed how goddamn boring it is? all i need is that great simpson's episode to back me up on this. for those of you who remember, commence laughing now. soccer is inane, boring, and stupid. and why is it the most popular sport in the world? because it is the cheapest to play in your goddamn underdeveloped third world nations. all you need is something to kick. while american football is like strategic warfare. also, the equipment is expensive, and americans can afford it.
and about people complaining how the commercials sucked:
you know, there might be a group of people out there who actually turned the channel on to see something called a "football game". yeah, just making sure you knew about that. -
sorry, had to do it. tobytyke - you're kidding right? i'll quickly admit that there are TONS of sports in which the U.S. is not the world power. but...FOOTBALL AIN'T ONE OF 'EM! most people, including americans, don't understand or grasp the athletic ability, speed and raw un-freaking-believable power on that field. the pats ARE the 'world champions' every bit as much as the world cup winnner are world soccer champions. and don't give me the rugby or aussie rules arguement about how football players aren't tough cause they wear pads. what do you think happens when a 260lb (120kg if it's easier for you) man running a 4.5 second 40 yard dash hits you? nfl players are the strongest, toughest, fastest athletes on the planet. if the rest of the world ever gets a team(s) worthy of consideration, give the nfl a call. better yet, start with college, cause miami (the hurricanes, not the dolphins) or any other good college team would beat any international team at this point as well.
you're right about one thing chief, there is certainly a world outside of the US, it just doesn't play football worth a crap.
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The bellybutton one was the worse, it didn't tell you what the product was, didn't show a good allegory of what it could do, it mislead me to beliveing it was a clothing/food ad, and it didn't tell me anything about the product. "we were ment to be wireless?" I'm supposed to get that shots of belly buttons? Now the budwiser ads. Those were great! The robot wars was hillarious, the satin sheet one was funny but the one that brought a tear to my eyes was the one called Respect. With the Clydsdale bowing while facing the New York City skyline! Almost had me in tears. For the benifite of our for on Non-US or Non Football watching TBers, These spots can be seen at http://www.budweiser.com (you must be 21 to enter the site because its about beer) I am not endorsing Budwiser, nor am I endorsing alchohol. As for you non North American Football bashers. You cannot compare American Football to European Football-it is apples and oranges. AF is war, with many battles before the winner has one the game. EF is an advanced game of keep away;) We would probabbly like European soccer...if you guys would stop acting like your sport is so damn superior.
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Feb 04, 2002 4:34:32 PM CST
I've read most of these TalkBacks and I want to smack 90% of
by happywaffle
Commercials may be pornography but they are also funny now and then. Get your hyper-liberal head out of your ass and stop acting like you're so fucking above the proletariat. (Or is it bourgeoisie? I get those confused.) And people on BOTH sides of the America/rest-of-the-world argument are complete cocky morons. The Patriots could take any American-football team in the world and rip them a new one. Stop fucking attacking each other over this. Damn, this is a lame TalkBack. But then again so were most of the commercials.
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It was on before Malcolm in the Middle. My favorite shot, is an unmasked Spidey, on the ceiling as Norman Osbourne and a couple other guys come in, Spidey is bleeding and a drop of his blood falls on the ground at Norman's feet! Cool. Also it looks like they are going to throw Kirsten Dunst off a bridge. I thought the Bud Lite commercials were classics, from the Cedric the entertainer one(How much?)to the Italian version of WHAZZUP! but with the country guy. I could care less about Britney, though it looked like she had no bra on, though the breasts didn't bounce. So who knows?
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Feb 04, 2002 8:07:57 PM CST
whats world cup..is it a cup shaped like the world? ...or a cup
by misterwinkie
ok..i respect your opinion...but this site...being "semi" international...is American based...American Created...its American...so...get with it. Super bowl here is OUR world Cup....u might have rugby...or soccer or Futbol...or whatever....but we have World series, Stanley Cups, Super bowls, etc etc..(and all u have to show that we know is a world cup?) and we love it....and besides....our players make more than your players so nyah nyah nyah nyah nyaaaaaaah fucker.
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Finally a Jack Ryan we can all be proud of. I'm psyched that Ben Affleck has taken over the role. He's a SuperStar with Sex Appeal and Charisma. NOT!
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to call your game football when you acctually only ever kick the bloody thing about 1\2 a bloody dozen times during a game and as for aussie rules and rugby i'd love to see you yanks get out there and get your backsides kicked by real men who dont need padding and as for the world series , when teams from outside usa and canada compete then you can call it a world series.bring on the world cup,oh glaswegian who are you going for scotland arent in it?
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The MiB2 clips during Malcom were good. The Falcon and Beer commerical was the best non-movie spot. The Spiderman trailer was REALLY disapointing. What happend there Sony? All that money for the spot and you cut down a trailer that has been on the internet for a month now...
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I support terrorists. Can someone out there who knows how do to computer things please make a commercial along these lines? It shouldn't be hard, they've already got 2 million dollar-minutes worth of car footage in the commercial, just change the visa (or mastercard?) rip-off text. Someone's gotta speak up for us druggies.
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Why the fuck wasnt the commercial on during the fucking actual game? Why after the game? It was the one I was most looking forward to as well.After it didnt air I thought it wouldnt come on at all so I stopped watching. PITY!
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Can't play for more than 20 seconds at a time! Pros can't handle that kind of exertion! And the biggest strategy in football is trying to get your receivers out of bounds when there's two minutes left. Real strategic. Can't let the players think for themselves, we need eighteen assistant coaches with radios telling these "pros" what to do. Then there's John Madden, what is he supposed to be, a football guru? And he's saying that the patriots should play for overtime? If that doesn't demonstrate how pathetic the sport has become in the NFL I don't know what is. Thank god there was a player out there who didn't fit the status quo. But soon good ol Brady will start conforming to NFL standards like everyone else, and we'll see even more of this so-called excitement. Rugby's everything good about football minus the pussies.
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One of the "assholes" here...relax. Noone was comparing drug users to terrorists. The commercial was simply saying that lots of terrorists use drug money to fund their operations. I don't think I'm an "asshole". I'm just a son of a bitch. (Go see The Royal Tenenbaums!)
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Regardless of your political leanings, you've got to recognize that there is a lot more contributing to terrorist funds than drug money. No kidding, there are some bad fucking things about drugs, they do ruin peoples lives yes -- but to associate _everybody_ who smokes up with terrorists at such a sensitive time is a damn cheap ploy tactic. By the way, how did Clinton get into office if he used to hang out with "terrorist supporters" in his youth, anyway?
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Center, passes to midfielder...Holds it, holds it, holds it, HOLDS IT!!! All this commercial talk aside, isn't The Simpsons the best show ever? Yes. It is.
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Feb 04, 2002 11:02:53 PM CST
britbuffguy - you are totally right about Creed, Nickelback, and
by elgyn6655321
They all blow and they all can`t hold a candle to the original "grunge" bands.
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Feb 04, 2002 11:05:55 PM CST
anti-drug commercials were fucking stupid.i swear i thought it w
by bankythehack432
it was saying:box cutters:2$ ak47:4000$---i exppected the end to say:middle easterns dead:priceless
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How the fuck did we get to this bizarre US vs. Football Loving/Rugby Hugging nations of the world? Because we have this ridiculous game on every year, and 800 million people around the world watch it? Whoopty fucking doo! Y'all grew up with your games, we got ours, and that's that. Forget about it. This odd testosterone-fueled obsession to say, "Oh! Our athletes are so very much more ______ than yours!" is kind of fucking pointless when we, ourselves, happen to be a BUNCH OF FUCKING COMPUTER GEEKS HANGING OUT AT A SITE CALLED "AIN'T IT COOL NEWS." We bitch, piss and moan back and forth about who is "better": Lucas or Jackson, we get annoyed at bad TV commercials, and we spend hours debating the merits/debits of casting Ben Affleck in a $70 million dollar flick about a BLIND LAWYER, WITH SUPER RADIOACTIVE VISION, WHO FIGHTS CRIME WHILE WEARING MOTHERFUCKING TIGHTS!!!! Do you get it? National Pride pissing- matches are kind of pointless at this level, you know? Jesus! Now, I'm gonna go change into my X-Men Underoos, watch Buffy DVD's, call my girlfriend, and possibly play a video game! While I smoke cigarettes! And drink Coca-Fuckin'-Cola! // God-damn! We'd inherit the earth, but we'd be too busy arguing about the relative merits of organic vs. artificial Web-Slingers! Fuck! // e.
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i'm excited about the Panic Room.
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Feb 04, 2002 11:39:04 PM CST
And If You Think Smoking A Joint Puts $ In Terrorists Pockets...
by ericalan69
...(since we're going to be snippy about it)....You Probably Think That Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No!" Campaign Was An Effective Means Of Dissuading Our Youth From Becoming Addicts And Alcoholics!!! (and I can say that, 'cause I'm a recovering alcoholic, and, anyway, I FUCKING NEVER LIKED POT!) But, people, PLEASE! Wanna know how the "terrorists win"? When our illustrious government blows wads of the budget to buy a multi-billion dollar missile defense system for use against and enemy who FLIES OUR OWN FUCKING AIRPLANES INTO LARGE BUILDINGS! And when we spend another buncha-billions bailing out fucking Enron! Fuck! Shit! Cock-Smoking Pig-Fucker! // e.
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I, too, find myself looking forward to the latest work from Fincher- the trailers I've seen harken back to the classic "Wait Until Dark", and they drip with atmosphere. I say, 'Bring It On!' // e.
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Football is far superior to American Football. It is considerably more strategic than a bunch of guys heavily padded running for a minute or two taking a ten minute break for ads, running for another couple of minutes, taking a ten minute break for ads....etc, etc, etc............ Don't get me wrong, I enjoy American Football, the Superbowl was a cracking game, but to say it's more strategic than football is just lunacy. Cheers....Statto4ever (from Scotland!)
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There is no comparison between "football"and "football". How you can call the American version football is beyond the comprehension of the whole world outside of your sugar sprinkled donut munching burger belching fat bastard norman no mates computer fuckwit tiny little immaginations, just another case of you yanks trying to make the round world fit your little square hole. The only reason you used the name was because you are so crap at the real game and you were feeling left out, not being able to compete in all those World Cups. Hell, lets all make our own World Serious and exclude everyone from the rest of the world, yeah right, fuckwads!
Oh, the superbowl ads, the best by far were the Bud ads, namely the bird handler and how much.
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Typical American arrogance - 'football' is popular because the 'Third World' plays it. And people ask why Americans have a bad reputation throughout the rest of the world.....
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damn funny talkback.
whoever said soccer involves no elegance, power, strategy is talking bollocks. You obviously haven't seen any david beckham or alan shearer free kicks, or Ronaldo's foot work.
Gridiron was popular over here in the eighties as everyone looked to america for coolness, but then they realised that it's mind numblingly boring and you end up watching commercials every 10 minutes.
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Feb 05, 2002 5:02:41 AM CST
All this time i thought my drug money was going to my dealer
by magic_ninja
but instead it's been going to the Taliban to fund terrorism. Gosh darn it, i'm so glad my governemt took the time and money to make such an informative commercial to let me know that by purchasing a joint I help kill police officers and blow up planes. not since the anti-smoking commercials of thetruth.com have i ever experienced such enlightment.
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>> Imagine Raiders fans, drunk and frustrated, but also surrounded by hostile foreigners... << You know, that is a pretty fucking scary thought, regardless. // Oh, and since no one could follow my advice, and 'turn the other geek', well, I apologize for my fellow American's show of chutzpah (see that's a Yiddish word, which relates to the Jews....and, y'know, ye Europeans pretty much screwed the pooch with *that* whole thing, huh?), but it's all good, really. Just please do me a favor: boycott all goods from the US, especially entertainment properties, because we've been debasing your cultured cultures with our barbarism. You bitch and moan about how much you detest American football, yet every *one* of you goofy motherfuckers WATCHED THE GAME, ANYWAY! Are you simple, or what? I don't sit here in front of BBC America and watch a 14 hour futbol extravaganza (final score: 1 to 2) just to bemoan the evils of all non-US culture, for fuck's sake....Oh, and finally- those of you from the U.K.? Um, I thank you for creating the language that we use, but could you whiny motherfuckers possibly learn how to spell when using it? Gits.... ;-) // e.
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The Afghans used the decapitated head of a person to play a variation of polo.
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Feb 05, 2002 5:31:02 AM CST
Um... BUSH GAVE $43 MILLION TO THE *TALIBAN* IN MAY 2001... BECA
by snapt
http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01_columns/052201.htm
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Weren't we talking about Britney's breasts? Now it's the Taliban? That's quite a leap, gents. Rugby? Terrorists? Puddle of Mud? Come on, people, back to the basics- first they were *big*, now they're *small*. If my tits did that I'd sure as hell hear about it! Love that Simpsons episode, though. "You'll see all your favorite soccer stars. Like Ariaga! Ariaga II! Bariaga! Aruglia! And Pizzoza!"
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Man, I cannot hardly wait until the next "Ben Affleck" film comes out. Do you like the Ben Affleck? That guy shoulda had his baby booties imprinted at birth at Mann's Chinese Theatre. His is a natural born SuperStar. A movie is guaranteed success if he's in it. Just make a list of your favorite Affleck films and you'll see why you'll always cherish them. -
Unless they were imitating South Park. American bastards.
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American Football?!? Fuck off! We have exactly the same game over here, and we don't have to dress up like panto dames in huge f**k-off suits of armour in case we get hurt! It's called Rugby. AMERICAN FOOTBALL IS RUGBY FOR BENDERS!! And we don't pussy around with meaningless statistics just to get a few minutes rest, either! And FOOTBALL (not 'SOCCER') is the fastest, most fluid, most physically demanding of the lot: How can your Rugby-For-Girls require that much physical strength and stamina when it's mostly just standing around waiting for something, anything, to fucking happen!
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Remember last year when they had that Doritos commercial with the really hot blonde guy playing tennis? I was on him like Winona at a white sale. And then Ali Landry gets wacked in the gob by a flying chip? Brilliant. I believe that ad was written for the screen by Norman Mailer.
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Isn't it ok for both sports to be good? I grew up playing soccer and it is a very challenging game physically. It probably requires greater conditioning than any other sport. You are constantly running around a HUGE field for a long time. You need to be in amazing shape to keep it up. Endurance is key. And to those of you who think there is no strategy in it, you're terribly mistaken. Ball control is very important to the strategy. Hence the passing back and forth so much. It's a tough complicated game. And now here's the amazing part...football is really tough too! You've got bigger, stronger guys battling for position play in and play out. People spend the whole game knocking other guys around. And the strategy is easy to see here. They'll never move the ball unless the whole team works together. So in the end, both games are good, and that's ok, isn't it? Although I still don't think I'd watch a soccer game on tv...
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Really you think that was a great super bowl? Well that was an average Grey Cup (super bowl equivalent) Every year, our Grey Cup comes down to the final play of the game. Much better game.
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we all need a laugh.
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'Ya, you heard me right. The greatest sport in the world is Hockey! No other sport comes close to matching its speed, intensity, and physical demands. Americans don't watch hockey because it's too frickin' bright on TV. For some reason, american broadcasters feel the need to shine 50 million candlepower onto the ice, not realizing that below the ice surface there is a white background that just blinds you in return. No wonder FOX felt people couldn't follow the game, because they bloody well couldn't see it!
Oh, and I thought the commercials were OK. I liked the Iced Tea one as well as the Bud commercials. I don't like Britney Spears but MAN, did she look hot in those Capri pants! -
Curling, as a general rule, beats the hell out of football, futbol, fuctballz, hockey, rugby, Cambodian Rules Croquet, basesketball, hockey, *and* volleyball. You want to talk about skill? You try this amazing amalgam of shuffleboard and, um, not falling down while walking on ice. The sport of Kings, I tell you!
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.....this reply is not for you. I was just wonering if anyone could tell me the name of the song that was played in the 'XXX' teaser please?
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According to the LAST TalkBack for the xXx teaser, this would be P.O.D. performing their ditty 'Boom'. Um....I guess that's why he keeps saying, "Boom!" in the song, huh? I'm an old guy who thinks that rap-metal began and ended with rage against the machine, so I'm not really hip to this band- aren't they like, ChristianMetalRappers for Jesus? (Sort of like Creed being the ChristianPompousAssbiters for Jesus?) // e.
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You need more than a little practice if you are going to be as good as the Jamaican's at the glorious game!!
As for "American Football", you think it's the best because it has the word "American" in it, but face the truth ladies. It is nothing more than a bunch of fat overgrown tubs of lard who can't think for themselves or play for more than two minutes at time without going off for oxygen. They just run into each other at the behest of the busload of coaches sitting on the side who must be laughing themselves silly that those brainless morons keep smashing into each other because they are told to. How many of them actually touch the ball during the game for christ sake, 4 out of the 50? Compare that with rugby where the players run constantly for 80 minutes, taking the same kind of punishment, but all contributing with the ball and doing their own thinking with regards to making the plays. They only leave the field for injury or red cards, not because they have just run 20 yards and can't breathe any more (ahh, better put Billy Bob in for Jim Bob - he looks a bit puffed out - big fuckin' girls blouse). And take another look at a "soccer" game too, they run constantly for 90 minutes whilst actually controlling the ball with their feet, oh yes, that's right, football, I knew there was a reason why it was called that!! Wish I could invent a game where we pick the ball up and throw it, use 50 players on a team but only let 4 of them touch it and call it football. Pansies! -
But they're not really all that relevent outside of art...Joe Rogan said it best when he said "other countries suck! Why do you think they're all sneaking over here!? Call me ethnocentric if you want, and i'm not totally serious...but this whole soccer/football argument is for the bloody birds. soccer's just boring...and primitive! what do you guys think opposable thumbs are for?
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A damn sight more entertaining than American throw the ball.
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Even the Coen Brothers commercial wasn't brilliant. Maybe I just had my hopes set too high.
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Joe Rogan? Oh wait a minute I forgot he is a fucking genius, right?
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dumbass.
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What the fuck? Isn't that a damn oxymoron???!! I really mean no offense by this but as Don King said 'Only in America'.
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at least none of our friends across the pond has brought up cricket vs. baseball (yet)... let it lie men, i'm just bustin' yer balls a little. still stick by my claim of football being the most physical game in the world. do football players have the most endurance? of course not. but pushing with all your might against another guy that weighs 325lbs for 60-80 plays per game is unreal. lost in this entire excitement/strategy/stamina discussion is 'ultimate' (frisbee for the uninitiated). anyone who has seen top national teams goin' at it will tell you the level of play is incredible. you've never seen so many full-on laid-out diving catches in your life. and per several studies i've heard quoted - ultimate burns more calories than ANY other sport.
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EricAlan, you're my hero. One of my favorite players, too, when he was with the Eagles (well, all right, Eric Allen, but I digress). Regardless, being an avid football fan, I feel a need to say a few things which have likely already been said: 1) Soccer (it's easier than writing "football and American football") and football cannot be compared; 2) No, football is not "better" than rugby either; 3) Yes, as a whole, American sports leagues have better athletes. Here's why: Todd MacCulloch, a marginally above-average player, has a $33 million contract (he's the center for the New Jersey Nets). Because of people like our good friend Todd, the best athletes in the world come to play in American leagues (see: Dirk Nowitzki, Peja Stojakovic, Ichiro Suzuki, Ivan Rodriguez, Manny Ramirez, Pedro Martinez, et al.). NFL franchises, and those of the other three major sports, have scouts in the European leagues, and all over the rest of the world. And, yeah, to reiterate someone else's point without sounding too "Yay America! Sports!", Ray Lewis is simply a terrifying physical specimen. But as scary as he is, Brian Urlacher is even scarier. Warren Sapp is a pushover (as much as someone who weighs 330 lbs. can be called a "pushover" -- he just outtalks himself), but I would be very surprised to see any human being who can match the sheer athleticism of the first two. People as big as Urlacher simply aren't meant to run that fast.
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