4th Annual Forvm Meaningless Super Bowl Prop Bets Diary
Once again, I am posting a diary to allow the inhabitants here to win bragging rights by making the most correct WAGs about random or almost completely random occurrences associated with today's national event. Without further ado. . .
--who will win the coin flip?
--which team will be penalized first?
--which team will kick a field goal first?*
--will the combined score of the two teams at halftime be an odd or an even number?
--(Tie-breaker) what will be the final score?
*--picking "neither" and being correct counts double!
My picks: Saints, Saints, Saints, even, 35-31 Colts.
Enjoy the game and the parties, everyone! :-)
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Traveller
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)But none of 'em were this good:
--Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. - W. Somerset Maugham
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| parent )Thanks, Traveller
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| parent )IMHO, the winner of the second major event on last night , i.e. the Super Bowl Advertising Derby was Doritos, hands down. ALL their ads were clever enough not to make me want to groan and/or head for the bar right away. A hard trick to pull off... Second prize for Bud Light's "human bridge" spot;
BTW, when did they run the infamous Tim Tebow/FotF piece? I was looking for it, but seem to have missed it. Did anyone see it?
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)Totally forgettable. If I didn't know in advance it was pro-life, and if it wasn't put on by FotF, I would've assumed it was some general health spot. Much ado, etc.
The Letterman ad was obviously the best.
A lot of the ads seemed especially dumb this year.
--Bene vixit, bene qui latuit
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| parent ). . .the obligatory Amanda Marcotte temper tantrum over it.
Oh well, I suppose we should cut her a break: she's obviously got near supernatural abilities to sniff out abusers when they're under her nose.
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| parent )Save me some time. Just copy the code.
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| parent )...that it was just incoherent.
Good grief, this was the anti-woman Superbowl, tho. Even the fairly mainstream guys in the room started to get uncomfortable, and all the women were starting to give each other looks.
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| parent )(thankfully!) but even the few I saw spread out over the 3.5 hours were enough to make me wince.
The Dodge one stuck out to me: "I think of myself as a completely emasculated, pitiful creature, but driving a sh!tty muscle car wannabe is more than enough to compensate" is an, uh, interesting message to craft an ad around.
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| parent )as "I'm a passive-aggressive whiner who hates his life and only by buying toys can I achieve any measure of happiness at all". As you said, not really the best message to put across.
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| parent )"and I can't work out if I'm married to my wife or my mother".
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| parent )I mean they have to realize how emasculating it is to just admit that one has no control over their own life except for the car they drive, don't they?
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| parent )There was the one with a guy being led around a department store by his ditzy girlfriend who "won't let him watch the game" with an even less subtle version of the same message.
The middle school male experience of being attracted to girls who are more developed and mature, and who are indifferent-to-repulsed by same-age boys, is apparently a very scarring experience.
Or so I've been told.
--Bene vixit, bene qui latuit
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| parent )and I think we should as a society do more work on making it easier on those poor kids (on both sides of that divide).
But, um, I got over it?
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| parent )Perhaps that ad is crafted for their exact demographic. I suspect anyone with a more sophisticated view of gender relations that wants a performance vehicle is driving something made in Germany.
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I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.
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| parent )I didn't even think about target demographic.. Middle-upper Middle class, Suburban, White collar, 25-45 Male, Married, HHI of 65-110 combined seems about right...
--Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility. Cherish your species and your
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| parent )we've heard all this moaning from the other side of the gallery for a long time. I can't say I particulary want to hear it again with a male twist but heaven knows, woman as domestic martyr is well trodden ground. I just hope we don't get a female equivalent for the "stupid harmless dad who means well but can't get anything right" foil so ever present in ad-land.
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| parent )...because of course men are people and women aren't, a 35-65 split on housework is totally unacceptable.
Again, I didn't mind the "I get up and work and nobody likes doing that, so I'd like a nice sedan to drive in sometimes." I find that very reasonable. But undies in the hamper? Seriously? Do you think they migrate there on their own, like salmon to spawn?
Anyways, you know outright woman hatred is mainstream when it's used to sell stuff.
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| parent )I see people.
Anyway, the ad remined me a little of American Beauty. Fantastic film, but not something I'd want to attach to my product.
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| parent )these days. So why shouldn't we see these dummies / slackers whinging a bit about their plight?
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| parent )Was that the one that opened with the swarming sperm? Weird.
I'm a guy, and *I* got uncomfortable listening to that sort of hoary stereotypical crapola - one would have thought that by 2010 ad agencies would have moved on from simplistic nonsense like that. Oh, wait, I said ad agencies ... my bad. Never mind.
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| parent )- thanks for the opportunity to use that as subject line, JC! - were in a different ad, IIRC. That one was for some skin care product for men, and didn't have an ounce of misogyny in it.
The Dodge one was a close-up of a stoic-looking, attractive middle-age-ish man's face, while the voice-over talked about everything he goes without (due to those shrewish hags that pester him to put the seat down[?!]) - until the money shot of the Dodge Charger or whatever speeding down the highway.
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| parent )In part because some of it was spot on.... Maybe it was just the humor of some of the things being stuff she has nit picked me into changing...
Mostly for the better...:)
It was my favorite.... Still I guess you take it in a different way... My wife was like wow I need to let up... :)
--Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility. Cherish your species and your
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| parent )It started ok -- when they stuck to "I get up in the morning and work hard all day, so I'd like some toys," that's a fundamentally reasonable message. But putting your underpants in the laundry? Being polite to people? That deserves a (admittedly unremarkable) car?
I honestly don't know why a lot of these men pursue relationships. If you hate women that much, either find one that hates them just as much, or hire a housekeeper and be happy.
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| parent )no blowout, no shootout (which was surprising), good performances all around but one mistake by Manning put them behind and a dropped pass by Reggie Wayne put the icing on the cake. Aside from that INT, if you look at the stats it's hard to imagine a closer game.
Congratulations to New Orleans! How I wish I could be on Bourbon Street tonight. I'll drink a glass of Knob Creek in their honor.
--I blame it all on the Internet
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)Those were two truly excellent football teams, and it was a pleasure to watch them play.
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| parent )...where's the shootout?
Duh and dull.
Gutsy call by Payton, Saint's Coach, to go for it, 4th and goal...(I would not have done it...but it did, weirdly, work out....hummmmm)
Traveller
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). . .cost me $25 in the pool--my brother in law was the beneficiary.
*grumble*
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| parent )...you.
manning looks very good, but Colts unable to put away the Saints at all.
Manning will look very, very bad if he loses this puppy, legacy-wise.
Traveller
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| parent )That final touchdown gave me the win on the final score: $50.
*Scott wanders off, looking rather smug*
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| parent )....Tracy Porter killed Brett and now just did it to Payton.
Wow....
To intercept Farve and Manning late in back to back play-off games...The Golden Boy Killer.
Best Player of the Game(s)...the indispensable man, without whom the Saints would not be here.
Best Wishes, Traveller
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| parent )The census in the Emergency Department drops during the Super Bowl (not to mention other major sporting events on TV.)
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)The gentlemen from Indiana
Who Dat
Colts
Odd
35-24 Saints
off topic:
--Bill Parcells: 'I've Always Hated Football'
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)Thanks,
Traveller
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| parent )Colts
Saints
Colts
Odd
41 - 37 Colts
Additional predictions:
- Jim Nantz and Phil Simms will suck as announcers
- I love The Who, but they're going to make a lot of people who first saw them on black and white TV feel very, very old
- The officials will make at least one unbelievably bad call
- If this post-season is any indication, at least one very easy field goal will be missed
- I'd like the Saints to win, but I think the Colts will probably win. Almost everyone I know who follows football feels the same way.
--I blame it all on the Internet
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)New rule: when half the band has died, it's time to retire.
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| parent )I'm really torn with the Who, on one hand they're just not the Who without Keith Moon and John Entwistle, on the other hand they were just so f(*king great that even a lesser incarnation is still pretty good.
--I blame it all on the Internet
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| parent )...but I hope Townsend doesn't try to do a windmill with his arm and dislocate his shoulder. Just sayin'...
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| parent )Coin Toss: Saints
First Penalty: Colts
First Field Goal: Saints
Odd
31-28 Saints.
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