Huh? How do you equate animal abuse with speaking out politically?

It's just how I think I guess. The Dixie Chicks were considered almost treasonous at the time. Vick did the crime, did his time, and actually seems genuinely sorry. Can you forgive him for what he did and enjoy his playing?

Give me a freaking break.

FWIW You do not go to a foriegn county in a time of war and disrespect the US. This happened shortly after 911.

Back to the Super Bowl


What is with the wrestling/boxing belt and the Packers?

Aaron Rodgers is a tool

But he won the Super Bowl

So what's with the Belt?

he thinks he's a pro wrestler?

it really is one of the lamest touchdown moves

it looks good in fake sports though

Amen. And it's a reference to FAKE wrestling! Jeeze....drives me nuts. And my brother, the cheesehead, likes to send me youtube videos of Rodgers doing to belt thing to further irritate me. Argh....
I am not a bitter Bear fan. OK, maybe a little.

In wrestling and boxing, instead of a trophy, the reigning champion receives a large gold belt that is passed on from champion to champion--you may have seen him with a replica on his shoulder after the game. During the season he would mime putting on the belt after a touchdown ("We're coming to take the belt").

Why does he do it in football? Probably because he's still young enough to have fun and isn't a jaded old fogey obsessed with "professionalism".

I'm only 6 years older than him. Besides, that's Hulk Hogan's move and Rodgers stole it.

QCL - I know you're not *bitter*

Stonecutter - Thanks! Can you tell that I don't watch the Packers much.

I think it says more about your wrestling watching in the mid 90's. I mean, come one...the nWo, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Sting...What jr. high kid wasn't into it?

and that would be - - - - - None

Linda, er, I mean Hulk Hogan

Thought this was a good article. From NBC Sports.

Oh - and why do they call it North Texas and not Dallas-Fort Worth?

The folks in Indianapolis must have loved the events in North Texas over the last week. They have to be thinking: No matter how cold it gets here in February 2012, we’re bound to be an improvement over Dallas as a Super Bowl host city.

North Texas is being widely panned as a Super Bowl host, calling into question whether Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will get his wish to make his billion-dollar football palace a regular host of America’s biggest sporting event. Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post has a good column today taking aim at the excesses of what she refers to as “Jerry World,” while Jarrett Bell of USA Today points out that Dallas made a lot of mistakes it will need to learn from if it’s ever going to host another Super Bowl.

I point out the reports from Jenkins and Bell because they’re particularly well done, but you’ve no doubt seen plenty of similar reports. At this point it would be easy to dismiss all of us in the media as whiny sports writers who don’t realize how lucky we are to get free trips to the Super Bowl. I would counter that we feel fortunate to have jobs that send us to the Super Bowl. But we wouldn’t be doing our jobs if we didn’t challenge statements like Roger Goodell claiming that the North Texas “community has responded favorably” to the bad weather. That claim simply doesn’t hold up to the facts on the ground of streets and sidewalks that remained an icy mess for days after the Tuesday storm.

It bears repeating that this is not a complaint about the weather. Goodell is correct when he says that the host city can’t be blamed for a storm that affected most of the country. But he’s wrong when he says that the response to the weather was acceptable. It wasn’t, unless you think the correct response to an ice storm is, “Wait until the temperature gets above freezing.”

And even if the weather had been perfect, there were all kinds of other problems in North Texas over the last week. The broken hotel elevators. The false fire alarms. The bus drivers getting lost on the way to the stadium. Almost everyone who attended has a horror story to tell about getting stuck somewhere, getting lost somewhere, getting treated badly somewhere. Are all of those Dallas’s fault? Of course not. My horror story involved shoddy treatment by a security guard at the Dallas airport who works for a company called Flight Services & Systems. That same shoddy treatment could have happened at any airport staffed by Flight Services & Systems. And yet it seemed like you couldn’t talk to a soul in Dallas without hearing a similar story during Super Bowl week.

When we found out on Super Bowl Sunday that 400 ticket holders wouldn’t have seats for the big game, that felt like a fitting end to a bad week.

Jones will continue to claim that the last week was “an experience that will begin the process of bringing future Super Bowls to North Texas.” That’s fine. No one should expect anything different from the owner of the Dallas Cowboys.

But for the the vast majority of visitors, this Super Bowl will be remembered as a great game coming at the end of a week that North Texas botched.

Gotta hand it to the NFL for their customer service for those 400 ticket holders... Guests of the NFL for next year in Indy, including free tickets, food, and lodging, refund of ticket cost times three, a place to watch the game on a VERY large TV at what turned in to a very large party, and a heartfelt apology. Can't really ask for much more.

Big difference for some.

Might not be able to ask for more, but considering many of these people paid good money, got a huge run around for hours the day of the game, not being able to see the action on the field, and for many, a once in a lifetime experience (especially if it was their 'team') its all too little too late.

If Jerry and the NFL weren't pushing for a record and realized the limitations of the stadium they built, then this ugly scenario never would have happened and good people would not have been hurt by greedy people.

BF - they had a man on TV last night. He spent $10,000 on the weekend, and was either a Green Bay or Pitt fan. Even a free ride next year (or, as I heard, to a 'future' Super Bowl) isn't going to pay for his expense this year, or make up for not being at 'your team's' game.

JJ and Valencia are like two pees in pod.

That was my first reaction, too. But then I found out that in addition to all the freebies, and tickets to next years game, they also got to go on the field after the game. When you consider that the seats weren't the greatest to begin with, that's pretty good compensation for all that changed was that they had to stand up instead of sit down for 3 hours.

Many of the reports from these peeps have been that where they were assigned to stand, they still could not see the game.

No, IMO, being able to be let onto the field to celebrate a game you couldn't see isn't a reward, or even close to 'pretty good compensation'.

Hadn't seen that. I thought they were able to see the game from the SRO platforms.

There were more about 750 total without seats. They found seats for some, but 400 were left without and ended up in a tent outside the stadium. I wouldn't be too happy either.

And they're giving them tickets, lodging, food for next year, but what about the big expense - travel?

No, that's why B_F was so VERY impressed by the VERY large TV.

It might have even been as VERY large as the one we watched at BWW...


Um, sorry, but no, we don't. LOL, they sold them tickets that weren't usable!

Gotta hand it to the airline - yeah, they overbooked the flight and I got bumped and missed the birth of my grandbaby on Christmas Eve, but they've given me a refund and promised me a free future flight with an upgrade! Woo-hoo!