The Big Game

[cadaverdog]

The Big Game is today. Who's gonna win? I'm betting on the Patriots but Atlanta looked good in the NFC Championship game.

[FORD]

Grudgingly rooting for Atlanta, because I'm sick to death of the Cheatriots. But not forgetting that Atlanta needed a corrupt referee's help to beat the Seahawks.....

[Seshmeister]

I'm putting a bet on Atlanta...


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7rgZotIQAMmsKP.jpg

[Seshmeister]

Got 27/20 odds.

[Seshmeister]

Motherfucker I should have put more on.

I can cash out at evens already. :)

[Seshmeister]

The only thing less convincing than her miming singing is her miming Keetar...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNcSbLIliNo

[DONNIEP]

I didn't watch the half time show. I can't stand that chick or Transginger or whatever she is.

[Seshmeister]

It always seemed logical that the reformed Van Halen would do it at some point but I think one of the reasons that will never happen is it's all about the demographics the priority is getting women and younger people not middle aged white guys who are already watching anyway.

[Nitro Express]

Amazing. Who gives a rat's ass about the NFL anymore? Did Lady Goo Goo have male dancers in Trump wigs give her a massive golden shower?

[DONNIEP]

Amazing. Who gives a rat's ass about the NFL anymore? Did Lady Goo Goo have male dancers in Trump wigs give her a massive golden shower?

That I would have paid to see!

[Seshmeister]

The KGB have the footage already. :)

[FORD]

Goddamn it.... now that Trumpsucking cheating fuck gets to gloat for another year. :puke:

[Seshmeister]

For someone whose knowledge about American Football is mainly based on Madden Playstaion games, the only consolation is I'm feeling pretty fucking smug about cashing out on my bet at better than evens early in the 4th quarter when I got a bad feeling about Atlanta choking. :D

[FORD]

Good move. I almost bet on this game myself. Now I'm glad I didn't. :biggrin:

[Seshmeister]

Unfortunately not a life changing amount.

What the fuck were Atlanta playing at? Usually the shitty thing about American football is that it is so easy to kill a game when you are ahead, fucking morons.

[Seshmeister]

Wow look at all the old rich white men here tonight!

To a non US person very odd that it's the owner that picks up the trophy rather than the team that won it...

[FORD]

It's like he first half and second half were two completely different games. And the first half was definitely better. Maybe we could blame it on Lady Gaga?

[Seshmeister]

I feel like I had a bet on Apollo Creed but cashed it in during the final round. :)

[cadaverdog]

It's like he first half and second half were two completely different games. And the first half was definitely better.
The second half started out looking like the first but it got much better as time went on. Won a hundred bucks but could have won much more betting the Patriots would come back after halftime at 10 - 1 odds.

[cadaverdog]

To a non US person very odd that it's the owner that picks up the trophy rather than the team that won it...
The owner represents the organization.

[cadaverdog]

For someone whose knowledge about American Football is mainly based on Madden Playstaion games, the only consolation is I'm feeling pretty fucking smug about cashing out on my bet at better than evens early in the 4th quarter when I got a bad feeling about Atlanta choking.
How did you go about doing that? I've never heard of anyone cashing out early.

[Seshmeister]

You can do it on online betting forums. Even better is that you can just do part of your stake.

Say you back a team $10 to win who are 2-1 against. If they are winning at halftime you can just cash out your original stake $10 for say $14 of your potential winnings and still leave the other $6 on and walk away with with $16 at the end if they win rather than the $20 you would have got if you had just left it alone.

Betting now is basically just a marketplace where the online company allows people to trade bets with each other so you can be a bookie yourself.

It's still a bit of a dumb thing to get into but there are certain bets IMHO that a worth a go because people will make the odds different than they should be.

In this case my guess was that the Patriots being far more well known and previous winners 4 times would slant the market to make them have better odds than they should because of the casual gambler. I was proved right and then was able to bail out in time and double my money.

I'm no expert in this I only do every so often and although I'm up, it's not by much.

Sport is really unpredictable, proved again tonight in the 4th quarter.

My golden rule is when I gamble I assume I've lost already, I have enough vices without getting too deep into it.

[cadaverdog]

You can do it on online betting forums. Even better is that you can just do part of your stake.

Say you back a team $10 to win who are 2-1 against. When they are winning you can just cash out your original stake $10 for say $14 of your potential winnings and still leave the other $6 on and walk away with with $16 at the end if they win rather than the $20 you would have got if you had just left it alone.
I don't do on line betting. I've had guys offer to give back half my bet at halftime when I was losing. If I took it and my team won I screwed myself. If my team lost or failed to cover the spread I saved half my money.

[FORD]

It always seemed logical that the reformed Van Halen would do it at some point but I think one of the reasons that will never happen is it's all about the demographics the priority is getting women and younger people not middle aged white guys who are already watching anyway.

Ever since that horrible performance by Roger Daltrey & Pete Townsend (fraudulently billing themselves as "The Who") there hasn't been any live bands performing at the Super Bowl. Which is too bad, because there was a fairly solid decade of performances before that. So instead you get these pop singers like Katy Perry, Beyonce, or Lady Gaga, who most probably weren't even actually singing. Not to say there weren't entertaining aspects to their performances, but with no actual live singing or musicians involved, there's less chance that the NFL and/or Pepsi (or whomever sponsors halftime that year) is accused of putting on a "bad" show.

If they were still booking live bands, I'm sure Van Halen would have been chosen sometime between 2007 and now. :(

[Seshmeister]

Watching that tonight the thing that went through my head was 'This isn't anything to do with music at all'.

I guess that's ok but sell it honestly.

Next year put on Cirque Du Soleil or the cast of Hamilton or fucking David Copperfield.

It's not been about music since Prince and incredibly that's 10 years ago already.

[twonabomber]

Didn't watch any of the game. Watched the halftime show on YouTube this morning.

http://pianoarc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/wildcircle.jpg

It's cheaper to do it my way. :D

https://peopledotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/lady-gaga-halftime-show-7.jpg?w=2000&h=3049

Roland AX Synth.

[Von Halen]

I don't think she was lip syncing.

I still can't understand why in the fuck any VH fan would want them to go out there and embarrass themselves on the biggest stage. If anybody would need to lip sync, it would be Dave.

[vandeleur]

I saw Mrs ed's tweet and thought please no and fuck she hates Dave.

[Nitro Express]

Watching that tonight the thing that went through my head was 'This isn't anything to do with music at all'.

I guess that's ok but sell it honestly.

Next year put on Cirque Du Soleil or the cast of Hamilton or fucking David Copperfield.

It's not been about music since Prince and incredibly that's 10 years ago already.

The Super Bowl has degraded into a popular culture political promoting rape den. It used to be a game. Then clever ads got attention and people watched the ads. The halftime show used to be the best marching bands doing elaborate marches on the field and they would film it from the blimp flying overhead. Then the half time show became a cookie cutter Disney whore predictable junk grab. Now they are putting political innuendo in the ads and halftime show. Now they no longer want to entertain you and make money off you. They want to politically persuade you. It's become a true idiot fest.

[Seshmeister]

Watch it on BBC, no commercials.

[Nitro Express]

I don't think she was lip syncing.

I still can't understand why in the fuck any VH fan would want them to go out there and embarrass themselves on the biggest stage. If anybody would need to lip sync, it would be Dave.

Van Halen are just a bunch of old men. They were a high energy act and old guys look stupid trying to do it. Yeah it's nice to see Ed still has the guitar skills but that's about it. It's a guitar legend playing with his fat son on stage with old Uncle Al and crazy Dave who looks like some crazy old sailor up there but his voice is gone. At least he's keeping his old wrinkly butt covered these days.

[Nitro Express]

Watch it on BBC, no commercials.

Ah. I had better things to do than watch a bunch of overpaid pricks throw a pig skin around.

[Nickdfresh]

I don't think she was lip syncing either, but I think she had a backing voice track but was singing along with it (most of the time)...

[Von Halen]

Watch it on BBC, no commercials.

In HD or 4K? I know you guys are still getting your signal with rabbit ears...

[vandeleur]

In HD or 4K? I know you guys are still getting your signal with rabbit ears...

Doesn't matter it's still a bunch of lady toilet parts fucking about in armour ya puffs :D

[vandeleur]

Just saying :D

[cadaverdog]

Ever since that horrible performance by Roger Daltrey & Pete Townsend (fraudulently billing themselves as "The Who") there hasn't been any live bands performing at the Super Bowl. (
I call bullshit on your entire post. By your logic The Ramones were a fraudulent band after Marky quit, legit after he came back and fraudulent again when Dee Dee left the band. If John Entwhistle was OK with The Who continuing on as The Who after Moon died I'm sure he would have been cool with Pete and Roger continuing to tour and record as The Who. Here's their Superbowl performance. I thought it was pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScA2FqJn9ic

[cadaverdog]

Ah. I had better things to do than watch a bunch of overpaid pricks throw a pig skin around.

I usually feel that way about regular season football and baseball but once the playoffs start I start watching games. Don't feel the same about auto racing because of the deadly nature of it if you fuck up. Even if you don't fuck up there's a chance you'll die every time you race.

[Nickdfresh]

Watch it on BBC, no commercials.

The commercials were the worst I've ever seen...

[cadaverdog]

The commercials were the worst I've ever seen...
There was one I liked before the game began but I don't remember exactly what it was about. It had a bunch of famous people in it. I don't know about you but I was glad politics didn't degrade the game in any way.
The one with Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart produced a few giggles.

[vandeleur]

There was one I liked before the game began but I don't remember exactly what it was about. It had a bunch of famous people in it. I don't know about you but I was glad politics didn't degrade the game in any way.

By definition it is a shiiite commercial if you don't remember what it was about.

[vandeleur]

As for the who halftime show I went to see them live about then and they were still pretty good live. But watching a live band on stage where you can't hear the vocals because you're singing so loud with a dozen bottles on board for starters is different from watching a live band at home on tv with fuck all atmosphere.

It's all about context .... movies are just lots of still pictures dont you know :)

[Von Halen]

Doesn't matter it's still a bunch of lady toilet parts fucking about in armour ya puffs :D

Right. How many faggit foot fairy soccer players are suffering from CTE?

Not to mention, you can be queer and thrive in soccer. Very few homo's have the ability to thrive at football. Not at the highest level. Prancing around like a faggit is encouraged in soccer. It'll get one killed in the NFL.

FACT!

[cadaverdog]

By definition it is a shiiite commercial if you don't remember what it was about.

True But I was already buzzed on rum and Coke.

[vandeleur]

Right. How many faggit foot fairy soccer players are suffering from CTE?

Not to mention, you can be queer and thrive in soccer. Very few homo's have the ability to thrive at football. Not at the highest level. Prancing around like a faggit is encouraged in soccer. It'll get one killed in the NFL.

FACT!

Sounds tough , how about no helmet , no pads , no steroids, no vaginal protector and it's called rugby.
Now stop fucking around and buy a ticket for the ballet ;)

[vandeleur]

Ooooh FACT

[Von Halen]

Sounds tough , how about no helmet , no pads , no steroids, no vaginal protector and it's called rugby.
Now stop fucking around and buy a ticket for the ballet ;)

A rugby player tried to make it in the NFL, and found it to be too rough for him. He promptly went back to the lesser sport of rugby, that pays him minimally compared to what he made in the NFL.

Again, how many rugby players are suffering from CTE? Zero.

[twonabomber]

The Alfa commercials were okay. Haven't watched any of the others.

[vandeleur]

A rugby player tried to make it in the NFL, and found it to be too rough for him. He promptly went back to the lesser sport of rugby, that pays him minimally compared to what he made in the NFL.

Again, how many rugby players are suffering from CTE? Zero.
Most I would imagine , they just don't go ooooon about it :D

[vandeleur]

This is how I show you how tough a sport it is by the injuries the ladies get taking part in it ..... jeez

So these ballet season tickets tough guy ... but hey how many rugby players get bad ankles from all the pirouettes.

:)

[Von Halen]

Bad ankles don't cause death.

Now go light your flowery candles, and put on a foot fairy match.

[vandeleur]

Bad ankles don't cause death.

Now go light your flowery candles, and put on a foot fairy match.

If you're not gonna bite am not going to bother :biggrin:

[FORD]

The one with Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart produced a few giggles.

I did find that one amusing. And I imagine most of the Martha Stewart fans being completely clueless as to most of the references made in that video. Let's hope that's also true for Jefferson Davis Beuregard Sessions IV and the rest of Team Cheeto, or T-Mobile will probably be accused of violating some stupid archaic federal anti-weed laws, and then Verizon will be the only major cell phone carrier left.

[FORD]

Bad ankles don't cause death.


No, but the arthritis can be a pain in the ass (and the ankles) when the weather changes every other hour. :(

[Nickdfresh]

The Alfa commercials were okay. Haven't watched any of the others.

It was fake news! The Alfa drove over 200 yards without requiring a tow to a garage!

[cadaverdog]

Sounds tough , how about no helmet , no pads , no steroids, no vaginal protector and it's called rugby.

During Hell week in high school, the last week of summer football training, we played bloodball. It was sort of like rugby or team smear the queer. No helmets, no pads but we wore cups and mouth guards. Several guys got hurt bad enough to end up in the hospital. They quit playing bloodball after that. I made it through with just a black eye. Later we played picnic type games to celebrate the end of Hell week. I broke my wrist being the wheelbarrow in a wheelbarrow race and missed the first 4 games of the regular season.

[Von Halen]

During Hell week in high school, the last week of summer football training, we played bloodball. It was sort of like rugby or team smear the queer. No helmets, no pads but we wore cups and mouth guards. Several guys got hurt bad enough to end up in the hospital. They quit playing bloodball after that. I made it through with just a black eye. Later we played picnic type games to celebrate the end of Hell week. I broke my wrist being the wheelbarrow in a wheelbarrow race and missed the first 4 games of the regular season.

That's not very politically correct. You better watch out, Sesh might ban you.

[cadaverdog]

That's not very politically correct. You better watch out, Sesh might ban you.
In Scotland a queer is a guy who wears pants and dates woman.

[Romeo Delight]

I call bullshit on your entire post. By your logic The Ramones were a fraudulent band after Marky quit, legit after he came back and fraudulent again when Dee Dee left the band. If John Entwhistle was OK with The Who continuing on as The Who after Moon died I'm sure he would have been cool with Pete and Roger continuing to tour and record as The Who. Here's their Superbowl performance. I thought it was pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScA2FqJn9ic

The drummer looks like Nigel Tufnel
:biggrin::jammin: