dagblog - Comments for "Football grows up: The new face of dissent"

I thought Heidi was the

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 14:57:15 +0000

In reply to yeah the game,so not really

I thought Heidi was the classic? ;-) (now that's an old joke/reference)

yeah the game,so not really

artappraiser — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:47:34 +0000

In reply to For commercials or the game?

yeah the game,so not really addressing your comment, scuse, I really got no input on the commercials. I watched 5 mins. went back to young Queen Vicky on PBS. Back in the old days, was traditional for quite a few years for one station to play Gone with The Wind for us folks, I think PBS was doing the modern version of that.

For commercials or the game?

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:22:45 +0000

In reply to ah no wonder you're not as

For commercials or the game? I only saw the last third anyway, and couldn't really *hear* the commercials, but Martha Stewart confronting what looked like a psychopath snowman dandy over some fast food seemed like a new low, and overall the target audience seemed 13-year-old locked-in-room male.

Even the freaks and punks

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:03:37 +0000

In reply to ah no wonder you're not as

Even the freaks and punks would go sit w 100,000 in a stadium on Saturdays - the first year.

Another lol: Nikki Haley

artappraiser — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:34:42 +0000

In reply to ah no wonder you're not as

Another lol: Nikki Haley praises Justin Timberlake for 'awesome' Super Bowl performance

ah no wonder you're not as

artappraiser — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:30:10 +0000

In reply to Surprised watching first Bowl

ah no wonder you're not as passionate about it as I am, now you see. I got emails that this was the best one in years.

P.S. Did lol @ support the troops. I forget because, I guess, teh baseball does that one to excess, too, it's just standard part of sports stuff these days like hoping god will help you win!. But it reminds me of back in the day, as an undergrad at UW Madison, early 70's oh boy, a whole nother thing then, the support the troops people went to games, and we peaceniks did not. Sports meant troops and vicey versa....they actually created a "Posture" course for us humanities hippies to fulfill the phys ed requirement because we just did not do sports, sports was war, despite the one book by that Chicago 7 guy from NY on his love for baseball.

Surprised watching first Bowl

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:05:10 +0000

In reply to Also all the more makes clear

Surprised watching first Bowl in 25 years(?)how bad the famed commercials seemed, even at $5mill/30 secs. Nothing like the famed Apple 1984 commercial by any means.

And looks like Trump will have the Eagles boycotting the White Supremacist House.

But don't forget to support

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 21:11:21 +0000

In reply to Also all the more makes clear

But don't forget to support the troops!

Also all the more makes clear

artappraiser — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 19:46:05 +0000

In reply to Exactly - those 2 Packers

Also all the more makes clear to me what has disturbed me about it for a long time. It progressively became more gladiatorial spectacular coliseum contest, and then the whole "I'm going to Disney World" thing is thrown on top. About as close to Juvenal's bread and circuses thing as you can get.

Exactly - those 2 Packers

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 19:15:16 +0000

In reply to Oh it was I that was blind

Exactly - those 2 Packers wins were great, but they were still in the Knute Rockne pleistescene age. And even the Jets' megawhoopdiedoo was quaint compared to after they rolled in the AFL and Monday Night Football became big time.