Yeah, I think this is probably a question only Americans will care about. Maybe Canadians too.
I don't care much about football, but I'll be watching for the commercials. It's the biggest advertising event on American television, and there are usually some really well-made and entertaining commercials.
I am supremely disappointed at a rematch of a Super Bowl from only five years ago. That said, Tom Brady is an arrogant jackass. Therefore, fuck the Patriots, go Giants!
I am supremely disappointed at a rematch of a Super Bowl from only five years ago. That said, Tom Brady is an arrogant jackass. Therefore, f*ck the Patriots, go Giants!
I gotta tell ya, I do not like this matchup. Mainly because I wanted the 49ers and the Ravens duke it out.
But I think the Giants are going to win. Why? Because Tom Brady made fun of Buffalo, and if there's anything I learned from Lebron James and Dwayne Wade, is that you shouldn't make fun of someone, like they did to Dirk Nowitski.
So, GO GIANTS!!
Because Tom Brady made fun of Buffalo, and if there's anything I learned from Lebron James and Dwayne Wade, is that you shouldn't make fun of someone, like they did to Dirk Nowitski.
Actually no, he didn't. What happened is that during the 2-week long media circus before the Super Bowl, a bunch of so-called "journalists" (really, they're mostly just gossip columnists these days) took a quote of Brady's completely out of context.
Brady was talking about how much his parents loved and supported him, and that they would travel everywhere to attend his games. That included Buffalo, which "if you've seen the hotels in Buffalo, is saying a lot!"
It was obviously meant as a joke about run-down hotels, but as soon as Brady said it, he realized it would be taken out of context as "arrogant, rich quarterback callously talks shit about an entire city!" Thus, he quickly added "But Buffalo is a wonderful city, don't get me wrong..."
And people wonder why athletes today give only the most generic, vanilla responses to every question under the sun. It's because any mildly interesting response (or worse, a joke) will be twisted into some gaudy, insulting headline used to get more page views.
And judging by Captain Forehead's post above, plenty of people will believe it.
Focus-
The excuse of "commercials" also doesn't work this year because the adverts were almost all crap.
