space lesbians v the reanimated corpse of ben roethlisberger: welcome to the first superbowl of president obama's changeocracy

seriously what is this

ARIZONA/PITTSBURGH - pitt

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/cardinals/articles/2009/01/18/20090118spt-cards.html this article is a treat: the headline + the denny green referencing lede!

I would've picked the Cards over the Ravens, but not over the Stillers.

http://www.azcentral.com/i/sized/3/0/A/e298/j350/PHP4973C4AD3CA03.jpg

Stillorz

Howie Long sez, "You want to crown them, go ahead and crown their asses" you latte truck drinking pussy with a tramp stamp.

Peyton Manning Productions Script Meeting

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST:
Parlaying Cards getting 7 + the over @ 47 = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ BIG BUCKS $$$$$$$$$$$

and if you're feeling frisky:

Parlaying Cards straight-up money line + the over @ 47 = $$$$$$$$$$$ EVEN BIGGER BUCKS $$$$$$$$$$$

there's no fucking way the steelers are winning this.

The universe doesn't make any sense after the last three weeks. Not picking.

i refuse to believe that arizona's defeats of loltlanta, carlolina, and philoldelphia are indicative of anything other than a combination of good fortune and three teams with a young confused qb, an occasionally int prone comedy qb, and a dense, unaware qb. then i remember that roethlisberger fits all three descriptions so all bets are off.

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^^ gifs together at last!

let's go CARDS!

Prediction: least watched Superbowl in history

Nah...it's the Steelers, they are like the Cowboys for fans that drive trucks.

a dear friend of my mom, my aunt julie, who was from wv and a huge steelers fan, once gave me a steelers rain poncho in about 1977. i wore that shit like every day. i never saw ANYONE else with a rain PONCHO. esp on those sunny days.

anyway, she's gone now, but for her, and my 10 y/o self and that damn pvc rain poncho, it's the steelers this year. (i miss you aunt julie, you were a sweetheart. rip.)

heh. my hometown is in the panhandle of MD, and the WV border took on a lot of significance there as far as ppl being snobby about "ok we are in a kinda rundown small city in appalachia.. but at least we don't live in west virginia." even though it is a couple miles away and not that different (lower taxes, worse roads, can buy beer and cigarettes on sundays). i also realized the majority of folks on the MD side are likely to be redskins fans, and *all* the steelers fans i know are from the WV side.

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/08571.jpg

um cards fan dude changed his avatar to this

http://s.azcentral.com/home/File-/picture/14479/1/0/258/1024/

:(

yurgh... matt ryan is on carson daly tonight... such conflicting emotions~

during the regular season if you had told me that arizona v pittsburgh was on, i would've asked what the night game was.

These essays are really good, but Christ, why does the Village Voice have to bring up politics all the goddamned time? I hate politics! If I wanted to read about the election, I'd read a fucking Newsweek.

Sorry. Just venting a little. Go Cards.

what are you talking about

what is this new devilry

i hate this stupid superbowl you guys.

I'm hoping it's just a 60-min highlight reel for Fitzgerald, but that's probably out of the question.

http://patsblog.projo.com/steelers0122-thumb-200x309.jpg

ok that's special

oh btw another giants wide receiver got shot. with a gun!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jpCCryvk3XXW2FeRTUwSm2o3RqyQD95SI2H00

i think what's going on in arizona now is probably the biggest bandwagon jumping of all time...

I think I'm jumping on the Cards bandwagon in a complete ridic way

I'm on it. Go Cards.

the presence of warner means i can never fully have love for the cards, but otherwise i'm there.

I love watching Warner play, just turn off his interviews and you will be fine.

I will basically be thrown out of my family if I don't root for Pittsburgh. That would be very sad.

suggest banned: all of you

i think im just going to continue rooting for the giants

i feel like brownie should be given a dispensation because he is a browns fan.

"i think im just going to continue rooting for the giants"

Where, on the golf course?

good one bill magill

shooting range

i feel like brownie should be given a dispensation because he is a browns fan.

― horseshoe, Friday, January 23, 2009 5:00 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya i agree, if he can't root against the steelers then dangit what's the point of anything~

also i dont mind warner too much cuz at least he walks the walk re: the jesus shit, dude is mad generous and also doesnt like murder dudes or have multiple families

applebees

GO CARDS

(ps i cannot be sb'd, nelson-laugh x1000)

okay fine but he seems so filled with rage when he's playing!

xposts about warner

warner is filled with a righteous anger!

i'm on the cards shit b/c of fitz but i'm also sort of on the steelers shit b/c of tomlin

i am rooting for the steelers entirely because mike tomlin is dreamy. well, and wtf @ the cardinals.

rooting for the cardinals is in keeping w/the spirit of this bizarro nfl season - going w/pitt is pretending everything still makes sense - rip tom brady

yeah Underdog vs. Omar Epps is a dilemma here

this is becoming a Parade of Meta :{

I'm going to root for the Cards because I'm a huge Ozzie Smith fan.

"also i dont mind warner too much cuz at least he walks the walk re: the jesus shit, dude is mad generous and also doesnt like murder dudes or have multiple families"

That's not a bad point. And on purely football terms he's been the QB on two of the most entertaining offenses of the past twenty years (Vermeil Rams and current Cards)

Tomlin does seem like a coach that I'd want to play for-plus he's a dead ringer for the dude from House. But still, go cards.

xxxx post

i'm not really rooting for anyone except maybe adrian wilson, either team winning will just make me make that marge simpson noise

anyone rooting for the cards who isn't a fan of a steelers rival team: st. peter will have his say with you, when you are at the pearly gates. trust me.

i liked how u left out the possibility of being a cadrs fan because there arent any

wait why am I getting suggest banned for rooting for the Steelers due to familial obligations

Oh, he's already got plenty of ammo against me, so rooting for the Cards as a Bears fan won't really be the clincher for me spending eternity roasting.

St. Peter I mean...xxpost.

i liked how u left out the possibility of being a cadrs fan because there arent any

― ice cr?m, Friday, January 23, 2009 5:15 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

pretty sure ally left out that possibility because she knows all six of them and none of them post here

do u really know 6 cardinals fans ally

- jake plummer
- my sister

...
...
...

no, i only can think of 2

bill magill what does st. peter have against you

and honestly i'm just assuming on the first one

also dan i did not suggest ban you, i'm sorry for causing alarm.

honestly i've suggest banned no one but was tempted @ "no one can SB me LOL"

phew!

the fact that the cardinals have only 2 fans and one of them is fully focused on handball is reason enough to root for them - i mean they need fans - maybe ill by some cardinals gear and get all psyched for the superbowl

tbh i already have the fierce cardinal trampstamp so its pretty much a natural fit

"bill magill what does st. peter have against you"

I rooted for the Rams in their first Super Bowl against the Titans. Yes, I admit it. However, I went with the Pats the next year and they won me $500.

I'm a Cards fan at the beginning of EVERY season, actually. But I'm usually disappointed and over it by Week 6. I just like the idea of "this could be the year."

Oddly, I never feel compelled to do that with the Lions.

Thanks for the suggest ban dispensation everyone- I do have respect for the steelers and their scrappy sandlot antics. I've decided to temper my anti-Steelers rage into something constructive (ie. a sword of vengence) so we'll see how that works out.

lol no one cares about this game

"And on purely football terms he's been the QB on two of the most entertaining offenses of the past twenty years"

When Warner was/is on, the dude is a freak in the deep passing game like few QBs that I have ever seen. Deep passes are freaking cool, I'd much rather watch that than two defensive juggernauts bash each other on 2 yard runs and trade field goals.

hey schef

^lol. shit's why i was nearly rooting 4 mcnabb/reid 2 beat nyg. that plus the current batch of other IRL giants fans i interact w/ are racist loudmouths who latently h8 all the nfl + think every team plays dirty xcept 4 nyg who can do no wrong

WUHHHHHHHHHH BLUBLUBLUB ;_;

"bill magill what does st. peter have against you"

I rooted for the Rams in their first Super Bowl against the Titans. Yes, I admit it. However, I went with the Pats the next year and they won me $500.

― Bill Magill, Friday, January 23, 2009 5:23 PM (2 days ago)

dude wait LOL you think st. peter and god even gave a shit about that game.

omg loooool a drunken sobbing giants fattay XD

so this just randomly came into mind because alex was complaining about lack of football today: has viciously condescending religious fuck kurt warner ever explained why he feels the sabbath doesn't apply to him? this is a serious question!

i mean, the dude is REALLY ASSHOLISH in interviews about his christianity, yet he goes off every sunday to play football??

he's on a mission from god

why do you think dude throws so many hail marys?

holy shot @ sobbing giants fattay indeed

yelling at the end totally makes it

eat it sobbing giants fattass lolllllllllerz

For some reason, the fact that Phoenix is only five hours away from San Diego is compelling me to root for the Cards.

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0126/nfl_tomlin_whisenhunt_576.jpg

during the regular season if you had told me that arizona v pittsburgh was on, i would've asked what the night game was.

― i wanna roll stuff UP, i don't wanna NOT roll stuff up!!!! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:05 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Hey forks, just wanted to say thanks for helping me do my job for me this morning.

lol no one cares about this game

fuck u, I care

good profile of tomlin in the nyt today. dont feel like linking up

okay I don't really care, but I have to say I do

oh I might get to see my ex-Steeler cousin-in-law this week ^_^

bubby br1ster?

C4rn3ll L4k3!

Rooting for the Cards because Ken Whisenhunt and I were in high school trigonometry together. My wife is getting really tired of hearing about this.

as a pats fan there is a host of AFC teams i reserve the right to root against whenever it suits me.

and with warner, it's not the religion, it's the goddamn arrogance. the two need not go hand in hand.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/sports/football/26tomlin.html

At William and Mary, Tomlin bulked up and became a downfield receiving threat, establishing a team record by averaging 20.2 yards a catch. But football also provided Tomlin an opportunity for the perfect melding of the academic and athletic, and perhaps the underpinnings of his coaching style: he memorized his opponents’ biographies, the better to trash-talk them.

hahah guys i just saw on the bottom line of espn that dan's cousin-in-law c4rne11 l4k3 was hired as the cb coach @ ucla

brad c, u from augusta?

lol i just remembered that a high school buddy of mine got a ring w/the colts two years ago!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Angry-letter-from-the-Steelers-Dan-Rooney-re-SB-XL_W0QQitemZ270335449645QQihZ017QQcategoryZ2832QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

http://www.tampabay.com/sports/football/bucs/article970224.ece

Man about town: Where are the Cardinals fans?

Steelers fans are everywhere.

Ordering coffee in front of me. Cutting me off in traffic with their team flags fluttering in the wind. Buying Super Bowl merchandise at the mall.

Everywhere.

Cardinals fans?

Nowhere.

No, really. I checked.

because they do not exist

it's just that awful deadspin person, and, i dunno, i guess maybe the bidwells like their team? that's debatable.

i will stake my reputation on the fact that there are more Steelers fans in Cleveland than there are Cards fans at the Super Bowl

you literally cannot swing a dead cat without hitting a wearer of the black and gold in Northeast Ohio, it's disgusting

oh i forgot about the tomlin/william & mary connection

i will stake my reputation on the fact that there are more steelers fans in arizona than there are cards fans at the super bowl! i mean c'mon

it's like the wearers of the green and gold in northern IL

there was a small group of people rooting for the cards when i stopped by 51st state to catch some of the atlanta game. they had jerseys! so they have 3 fans somewhere near foggy bottom. also the animated gif guy. so that makes..

1 deadspin guy
2 bidwells (are there more?)
1 animated gif
3 GW students
1 younger sister of the schef (right?)

so the cardinals have 8 fans, I think.

lol no one cares about this game

fuck u, I care

― Barack You Like A Husseincane (HI DERE)

lol u r a minority

dudes its the superbowl its awsome basically

i'm only interested in mr. bruce springsteen and his "e street band"

in some ways its better if no one gives a shit abt the game cause then all the n00bs at yr superbowl party going on abt the commercials and stuffing their faces wont be too annoying

i have a solution: don't invite ppl who go on about commercials

the Steelers won this 3 years ago -- who knoo?

like everytime the pats were in it i had to arrange for a special l33ts only party and its a totally diff experience - less superbowl more super important football game - i mean the superbowl is the most special of all holidays and should be treated as such

i find that it is impossible to go to a super bowl party without half the dudes lolling at a beer ad where a fat woman gets run over by a truck carrying swedish models and bud light

morbius i'd venture to say every single person on this board and several others knew that.

no Mean Joe Greene no cred

im going to get wings probably

and a MULTILAYER DIP

what u to good for plain blue cheese

i can't decide if I should I drive 45 minutes to a party. this game should be on Saturday imo

C4rn3ll L4k3 was grebt!

brad c, u from augusta?

lived there in the late 70's ... still have family around there

i think i might just sit quietly in my house and pray

no dude the multilayer dip would be for my chips

i mean i was a cards bandwagon jumper last year and they're a pretty good team but if the d hadn't gelled so perfectly during the playoffs they'd be a hot mess. Steelers are just fine to watch but they never really excited me and I have a feeling pitt is either really going to demolish them or get swamped in big play points. I'm certainly going to watch, but I'm just not that into it.

/blubbering giantitans fan

challops in pp's poll

where I work is doing this; I may stop by:

Sunday, February 1
SUPERBOWL XLIII Party: Arizona vs. Pittsburgh
Hosted by Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg of HOT 97 FM
with All-You-Can-Eat Buffet, $4 Beers, ½ price drinks and special guests
THE BUD GIRLS
Watch the big game on the big screen and enjoy a delicious all-you-can-eat buffet! Price includes a delicious all-you-can-eat buffet featuring Red Pepper & Cabbage Cole Slaw, Potato Salad, Crispy Apple Wood Smoked Bacon, Buffalo Style Spicy Chicken Wings/Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce, The Ultimate Macaroni and Cheese, Hickory Smoked Baby Riblets, Kosher Hot Dogs/Mustard/Ketchup/etc, Char-Grilled Mini Burgers/House Ketchup, Pita Pizza/Mushrooms/Zucchini/Red Onion, Nachos with Jalapeno Cheese Sauce, French Fries with Homemade Ketchup, Pretzels/Potato Chips and Chocolate Chip Cookies/Brownies

THE BUD GIRLS

that will either be pretty fun or totally intolerable

the ULTIMATE macaroni and cheese!!!

baby riblets come to papa

it's a pretty goddamn good mac and cheese to be fair.

I would add at least 2 Georgetown students who are Cardinals fans to the 3 GW ones Daria listed, based on my viewing of Eagles-Cards at a bar out here. There was another guy with them who was making way more noise, but he was wearing a Manchester United jersey (which was also red, I guess) and really seemed mostly interested in being a dick to the Eagles fans. Still, we're into double digits!

Also, there are the Cardinals fans boards (whom I discovered when I was looking for the gif of Jake Delhomme) but I am not entirely sure those people are real.

they're all trolls who showed up to troll cardinals fans

THE BUD GIRLS

― O-mentum (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:14 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the ULTIMATE macaroni and cheese!!!

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:20 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ok i pretty much need to experience this - can we all come 2 ur party forks plz

yeah i will go to that! ULTIMATE mac and cheese

i find that it is impossible to go to a super bowl party without half the dudes lolling at a beer ad where a fat woman gets run over by a truck carrying swedish models and bud light

― the gush of yesterday (omar little), Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:45 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ugh this is so otm i hate super bowl parties

The trick is to host your own party and not invite those dudes.

^^^ exactly! you pick your parties very carefully on this the holiest of days. it's a more awful amateur hour than nye.

i know what you're saying but i feel like some of these commercials turn even heretofore honorable-seeming dudes into "lol @ dudes watching horses playing football" and "we hate all women" kinda guys

those commercials and those reactions to commercials always make me afraid that my mom was right about football

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/01/27/tiki-barber-has-crotch-painted-by-children-and-blue-man-group-finally-regrets-retiring-probably

most super bowl parties i've attended i've missed the ads by going outside to smoke, it's true. so for all i know the two non-smokers i know are inside lolling @ horses and fatteys.

i like that ice craem and i read the same blogs

and btw ally u should dvr them sometimes theyre really bad but occasionally theyre awesome! i've always thought that ppl overlaugh at SB commercials though; i've seen commercials and thought 'ok if that was on during the super bowl everyone would have laughed.' i realize alcohol is a big factor obv

i think also ppl think they're SUPPOSED to laugh at them so they laugh more than they should. the only one in recent memory i can even recall was that weird racism panda cartoon and i was like, ugh, i should've had a cigarette instead.

tho what is worse -- the ppl who overlaugh at ads, or the ppl who critique them as being "not funny" or "not worth it" because they expect some kind of goodfellas experience from their super bowl ads due to the overhype/cost? O_o

i think i know more of those types than the laughers.

it's like, they are still just advertisements -- were you expecting them to stick the ups guy into some wickerman ritualistic murder scenario to appease your wants and dreams in this ad, sir?

i watched the pats <3 <3 <3 def carolina at a "super bowl party," right, me and the one other person who actually liked football, got kicked into the other room on the small TV during the fourth quarter (THAT GAME. it was a very important fourth quarter!) because there was an ALL NEW episode of sex and the city that night. the only people i was friends in new england were fellow grad students in the humanities. normally they threw v good parties but as far as NFL, they just didn't appreciate.

i think also ppl think they're SUPPOSED to laugh

yeah ^this was what i was trying to say. it's a subconscious thing, and when you have a lot of ppl who are having a good time + alcohol it's bound to happen

wait, didn't we switch to puppy bowl for all the ads during colts-bearz? that was a pretty good plan.

oh man that game. i just did not care who won that one, so played drunken ping pong all night. aw, i miss high school sometimes (rarely)

i miss high school lots kev

i actually kind of hate the super bowl

i certainly cared about the 2004 game, but i didn't know jake delhomme was super cute, maybe i'd have been secretly rooting for carolina.

i hated last year's, it was stressing me out & ruining the entire week, wished i could just take something and wake up monday & find out who won. of course on monday i was hoping i'd just taken something and that didn't really happen.

mookie i guess it's more fun when your team's not in it?

i watched the pats <3 <3 <3 def carolina at a "super bowl party," right, me and the one other person who actually liked football, got kicked into the other room on the small TV during the fourth quarter (THAT GAME. it was a very important fourth quarter!) because there was an ALL NEW episode of sex and the city that night. the only people i was friends in new england were fellow grad students in the humanities. normally they threw v good parties but as far as NFL, they just didn't appreciate.

― NFL RUNOFF miss u plaxico (daria-g), Tuesday, January 27, 2009

this is the saddest story i've ever heard in my entire life. the only thing i have that is CLOSE to that is that debacle the giants lost the Y2K season (i blame the computer problems) but we put on music and not sex and the city.

but speaking of LAST season, i just found out they are in the process of updating the america's game series on the nfl network to include the colts and giants! the giants episode will be eli "unstoppable" manning and michael strahan -- looking forward to this one.

the nfl playoffs are basically always better when your team's not in it, unless they go to the SB

dogg the america's game ep on the giants aired months ago

that pats-carolina superbowl i watched with my friend, his girlfriend, and her dad. only the dad (who i didn't really know at all) liked football so we bonded pretty fast; i was FREAKING OUT late in that game and the only person who was even close to my level was this weird old guy with a neatly trimmed moustache and a vintage pat the patriot sweater.

i watched the steelers-seahawks superbowl with a bunch of film students who knew nothing about football and did my best to explain the finer points of hating the steelers.

probably the best group i had for an sb was last year, but that game was so beyond intense that i really could have been watching with anyone/no one.

dogg the america's game ep on the giants aired months ago

― mad loli vamp bone (cankles), Tuesday, January 27, 2009

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DAMN YOU TIME WARNER CABLE

u didnt miss much, it wasnt that great compared to the 06 colts ep, where it has all these shots of saturday and peyton screaming and calling each other motherfuckers on the sidelines

i dunno, i'm not watching it this year i don't think. i mean, i saw it last year w/best pals in NYC on a dope wall TV in a o_O lol hueg apt and now all i've got is like chips and dip with my parents

DAMN YOU AGAIN TIME WARNER CABLE

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

i dunno, reading the notable quotes, manning talking about how he's a better athlete than that other manning and how david tyree had the shittiest practices he's ever seen in any sport ever sounds good? but peyton calling ppl motherfuckers sounds a+

PUT THESE ON DVDS NFL NETWORK, I DEMAND IT, AS ADAM SCHEFTER.

xpost all any of us have is chips and dips and parents and the goddamned cardinals :(

yeah now that i think abt it, it was pretty good - strahan killed it

aren't the first 40 eps on DVD? idk why this shit isn't available anywhere else

besides i will have homework :(

yeah i have the first 40 eps on dvd in a fancy boxset that comes with a fun book! the other 2 happened after i no longer had available nfl network :(

also, i only saw part of the second half of the pats-colts afc title game the year they ended up beating carolina, and watched that from the ER waiting room, it was a much better experience than that party. (accidentally had too much caffeine + took ADD medication on an empty stomach, so that afternoon went from 'OMG i'm actually going to die of a heart attack in the parking lot of rhode island hospital,' to 'thank you football gods for football and the new england patriots')

the nfl playoffs are basically always better when your team's not in it, unless they go to the SB
otm, i've enjoyed all these playoff games in bizarro NFL this year. i don't know what i'm doing for the super bowl, i guess i should figure that out

schef, u also have hatcat! never forget

hatcat truly makes things better is the thing about hatcat.

he's on the desktop background of one of my monitors @ work, whenever it seems necessary i just hide the window that's open and

http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG

the super bowl is like everything bad baout the nfl x 10:

·extra week off
·neutral site
·everything is too long: pregame, halftime, commercials
·amateur hour at parties and in the stands otm
·florida or a dome
·non-rivalry game
·joe buck every third year
·egregious patriotism schtick
·<3 prince/heartbreakers/boss, but the halftime performance is usually suck
·hobbit motherfuckers

btw i think people who are disappointed in the SB commercials are just as bad as overlaughers, i agree.

lil wayne picks the cards:

I'm taking the Cardinals by 14 to 17 points. A lot of people will think that's crazy, but you gotta understand the Cardinals have all the motivation right now. Nobody expects them to be there, so they're out there trying to prove something. That's the best situation to be in, period. That's the way all the most successful people on the planet motivate themselves. So yeah, Arizona is gonna stomp their hearts and Kurt Warner is going to win the Super Bowl MVP, go into the Hall of Fame and become an excellent commentator for ESPN in a few years.

bulletproof logic right there

if it ever stops snowing I may buy a leg o'lamb and haul it out to the party. i will baste it with butter and honey and cloves and mint and tears

go into the Hall of Fame and become an excellent commentator for ESPN in a few year

nfl drug bloggin

http://www.slate.com/id/2209525/pagenum/all

this is all basically otm imo even if it is obviously written by an angry bostonian

I like seeing barely .500 teams winning championship in any sport but beisbol

GO CARDS

says the mets fan

angry bostonians are the most otm people - take me or teddy kennedy for example

That article was totally unconvincing and flat out wrong, even though it was entertaining. The best part was the Tebow stuff in the first paragraph.

says bill magill

stfu abt the pats game lawd - he calls it the moral equiv of point shaving or whatev? get (1) clue angry bostonian

Yeah, exactly. Sorry Pierce that you froze your ass off watching your beloved Pats play a team that had 1) already wrapped up their division 2) had no chance at a bye and 3) just flew across the continent to play your team. What were you expecting, the '74 Steelers, you putz?

lol i don't think he's completely OTM but i love me some Charles Pierce.

I generally like him too, this article sucked.

angry, paranoid Pats fan mad that his team wins football game !_!

anyway, I'm off the Cards bandwagon and it's Steelers all the way.

actually the main failing of the article is that he doesn't acknowledge how shitty and stupid the other "storyline" is--i.e. let's ballwash the steelers for the 184757th time and talk about how great their franchise is, and their history, and their fans, and "Ben" and "Hines" and "Troy." It's splitting the difference between how uniquely bad football media is among the major sports (very, very strong case) and how the Cardinals blow (not quite as strong of a case).

he basically forgot that every team sux this year

yaya another angry pats fan pissed off b/c the fackin retardinals shouldn't be there.. i'm not actually angry today but i was kind of pissed about that game in foxboro, i don't get to see them play all that much here & that wasn't even an actual football game.

Send them north out of the pleasure dome that the Bidwills blackjacked out of the state of Arizona, and the team did things like give up 56 points to the New York Jets, playing such shoddy defense that Brett Favre threw for six touchdowns. This, of course, ignited another outbreak of hot and steamy Favre love from the easily smitten television press corps, so we have the Cardinals to blame even for that.

hahaha

Photos: The Long Sad History of Cardinals Football

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1874258,00.html

Huh. Never knew before that it was just coincidence that both teams in St. Louis were the Cardinals.

^^ post in character.

"i.e. let's ballwash the steelers for the 184757th time and talk about how great their franchise is, and their history, and their fans"

The New York Times had an article about Dan Rooney yesterday that his descendants can conceivably use as his application for sainthood. I gagged reading it. Go Cards.

ok i pretty much need to experience this - can we all come 2 ur party forks plz
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:53 PM (Yesterday)

Lol, email me and see.

emaild

and repsonded!

troo

Sorry Pierce that you froze your ass off watching your beloved Pats play a team that had 1) already wrapped up their division 2) had no chance at a bye and 3) just flew across the continent to play your team. What were you expecting, the '74 Steelers, you putz?

― Bill Magill, Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:55 AM

yeah, how terrible it would be, for teams to actually play well and hard consistently all year round, instead of this system we have now where no one gives a shit and .500 teams are in the super bowl. how HORRIFYING THIS WOULD BE!!!!!!!!!!! thank god you were here to point this out.

i mean jesus i have no interest in this whole "the pats beat the cards ergo they should be in the playoffs" cockamamie bs (i mean first of all you two are not even in the same division -- think it thru) but the argument that you just made is for assholes, straight up, and that mentality has turned the nfl into kind of a shitshow versus the olden days.

1) already wrapped up their division 2) had no chance at a bye and 3) just flew across the continent to play your team

yeah because at the time everyone was real impressed with how wisenhunt was strategically preparing for a deep playoff run.

Charles P. Pierce is a staff writer for the Boston Globe

Charles P. Pierce is a staff writer for the Boston Globe

Charles P. Pierce is a staff writer for the Boston Globe

yes as we mentioned he is from boston, tho 'staff writer' really consists of writing excellent one-paragraph takedowns in the sunday magazine.

Schef did you see they found the Giants' Super Bowl rings?

"i mean jesus i have no interest in this whole "the pats beat the cards ergo they should be in the playoffs" cockamamie bs (i mean first of all you two are not even in the same division -- think it thru) but the argument that you just made is for assholes, straight up, and that mentality has turned the nfl into kind of a shitshow versus the olden days"

Whatever. I guess the Cardinals should apologize for being in the Bowl. Fuck that, that's about as retarded as it gets.

well, if the steelers beat the hell out of them by an embarrassing margin, maybe they should.. i'm sure that won't happen, this season being what it is, they will probably win.

http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/story?id=09000d5d80e10696&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true

predict bruce's setlist! i'm hoping for 'hungry heart' personally but that'll never happen

I'm hoping for that patty smith tune that he may or may not have sung but wrote for her but I can't remember also hoping for that plaintive acoustic ballad about the plight of Browns fans everywhere.

most underrated storyline of this superbowl is that the cards and the steelers were actually the same team in 1944

During World War II, the Steelers experienced player shortages. They twice merged with other NFL franchises to field a team. During the 1943 season, they merged with the Philadelphia Eagles forming the "Phil-Pitt Eagles" and were known as the "Steagles." This team went 5-4-1. In 1944 they merged with the Chicago Cardinals and were known as Card-Pitt (or, mockingly, as the "Carpets").[7] This team finished 0-10, marking the only winless team in franchise history.[9]

i hope he sings "reason to believe"

i might've seen an actual cardinals fan yesterday. although, the only evidence was a pair of sweatpants that said "cardinals" so it might have been for baseball..

maybe i will buy a cardinals tshirt before the superblol

OK I'm going to make my first pick of the playoffs: Cards by 4.

here's hoping someone spears jesus warner today

Does Ditka use punctuation?

lol tiki is so awkward

al michaels: "so many matchups to talk about"

(omg, are they actually going to talk about football? they're going to talk about football!)

"let's start with the coaches"

(sigh)

loling at roethlisberger's thing of headbutting every teammate in lieu of hi-fives. dude sustains three concussions, you'd think he's figure out a better way of going about things

http://misterirrelevant.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/gus_frerotte_headbutt.gif

sports columnist @ my hometown paper (mostly covers stillers country) breaks it down:
1) we don't like change
2) bruce springsteen and the pittsburgh steelers never change and are awesome
3) the real question in this game is, what will bruce play at halftime

rodney harrison: "the best team is gonna win, unlike last year"
lolz..

maybe big ben plays better when his brain is just a little bit scrambled?

i walked from dupont to downtown & over to georgetown earlier, it looked like nobody cared about the superbowl. not that many people in the bars. 2 steeler fans sighted. one of them had a PINK hines ward jersey

that is terrible

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im happy no team i care about is big enough to fux with the pink/baby blue jerseys

so this is a pittsburgh home game then? did you see the crowd..

hey guys what did prince play at halftime when he played?

btw the one song that bruce will undoubtedly, sun-rises-in-the-east play is "born to run."

haha wtf at sully

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hey a GI Joe trailer.

They let Eccleston keep his accent.

Madden holding forth on who will and will not get penetration this evening.

Good challenge.

hmm. he might be correct on that challenge.

er wtf just happened

wow i bet fitzgeralds nuts hurt

holy shit that was awesome

and now it is time for 'a good man is hard to find (pittsburgh)'

i'm a little surprised none of the cards could manage to knock dude out of bounds.
been following this over @ a pats board..

Today, 07:49 PM

Re: Superbowl Discussion Thread
Warner also keeps throwing off his back foot. Danger.

matt light, patriots tackle, is in that stupid ad there

haha and ray lewis, justin tuck

God hates kurt warner and will always let him feel let down hahaha!

playing this song makes me ^_^

ya im down with all "BTR" fwiw

omfg @ bruce

if there isn't a gif of him sliding into the camera by tomorrow morning im gonna be so ;_;

^^^

He's out of breath.

cue indentured black choir to give his boring new song "soul."

oh man glory days

cue "wtf did Alfred, Lord Sotosyn just post" post

I was ready like Stevie for his solo.

where is the hercules & love affair halftime show that i demanded!

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runnuing into the holder, wtf

j0rdan s@rgent sleeps well tonight

omg that commercial F-

i'm trying to stay medium here, right? this super bowl is not very super

those idiots in the chuck 3d ads need to be told by somebody that they are in 2D and not 1D

this is like watching a redskins-browns game. so do you guys think the prime time sunday game will be any good?

"theres no one better than that than larry fitzgerald...at getting the ball at the highest point. i mean he is super super super at that"

-john madden

at that

those 3 catches by fitzgerald - by far the highlights of this game

hey what about RANDY MOSS, madden

"i think thats why you need to have big hands and strong hands. if you have big hands and strong hands, you can make touchdowns like that"

-john madden

cards touchdown drive was 3:57

hmm. zona offense not really built to chew up 5:40 of game clock, is it.

lol pepsuber

wow that stat. pitt is 141-1 when they have an 11 point lead all time? that can't be right

yah thts bonkers

that stat can't be right

some mortal kombat there

roffles, throw one pick 6

yo that wuz saftey imo

game over

OMG OMG OMG

WAU

how did he fucking catch that anyway

did the refs just convene before the game and decide, let's make this the most retarded super bowl ever???

the refs have been pretty retarded imo

running into the holder my azzz

yeah that was absurd - where was he supposed to go? i thought the roughing ben roffles call was a little.. much, too

lol "dan rooney, jacking off"

"dan rooney, jacking off"

lol xpost

EPIC!!!!

:-O

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

THIS IS THE MOST RETARDED SUPER BOWL EVER

<3 <3 <3

tht ws too intense

I'm shaking

LOOL OMG MADDEN JSUT DREW A PENIS

lol

also madden and michaels convened and decided "lets announce this as lol as possible"

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still lol

i'm really glad i don't like either team that much

no wonder dan rooney was jacking off

guys, what if we get OVERTIME..

HOW DID HE ESCAPE THAT

HOUDINI

good thing he got that incomplete pass away before the 2 min warning

this is seriously ridiculous

holy shit!

hooly shit

lol xp

tht ws massive, thought QB'd lost it after the pump

NOoooooooooooooooooo

nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fkn hell

epic

omg

4th quarter has totally justified this SB imo

loltarded as it's been

outrageous

ohno.gif plz

what do they do now?

how did 3 defenders give up that TD

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

they need some friday night lights shit now right?

http://dingo.care2.com/pictures/c2c/galleries/albums/191/695947907/Some_Gif_s_4_U/ohno.gif

WARNER

YOU HAVE MORE DOWNS

THROW IT AWAY

the arm is not coming fwd!

tuck rule

ZS plz 2 drunkenly animate slidingspringsteen.gif

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

― eman, Sunday, February 1, 2009 10:05 PM

forget it, those cards linemen just standing there like UH

well, that was a thing

fuck football

ya p much

highlight of the evening: 1 second 'highlife!' ad

reminded me of last year..

also, 'PUT DOWN THAT GUACAMOLE DIP'

that's basically it

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thank u pats fans:

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there's no fucking way the steelers are winning this.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, January 19, 2009

there's no fucking way the steelers are winning this.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, January 19, 2009

there's no fucking way the steelers are winning this.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, January 19, 2009

there's no fucking way the steelers are winning this.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, January 19, 2009

there's no fucking way the steelers are winning this.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, January 19, 2009

there's no fucking way the steelers are winning this.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, January 19, 2009

there's no fucking way the steelers are winning this.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, January 19, 2009

there's no fucking way the steelers are winning this.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, January 19, 2009

so one of my facebook friends (philosophy prof, go figure) was like "i am rebelling against the unwashed masses by ignoring this whole thing." & before i even had a chance to write something, he already got a reply from someone else saying basically you just don't appreciate NFL, but it's true that without the patriots this year there's not much of a point to watching.

basically this is the first time ever that i have sympathized with the point of view that the commercials were more watchable than the game, because they were (pepsuber, koala punching, etc)

game was pretty dope imo

NFL is lucky the end turned out that way so that people forgot.. mostly the first 3 quarters? and way too many penalties in that.

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST:
Parlaying Cards getting 7 + the over @ 47 = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ BIG BUCKS $$$$$$$$$$$

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:41 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and if you're feeling frisky:

Parlaying Cards straight-up money line + the over @ 47 = $$$$$$$$$$$ EVEN BIGGER BUCKS $$$$$$$$$$$

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:43 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ah well. One out of two ain't bad.

TS: australian open final 2009 v super bowl xxxviii

Congrats to the Steelers and all even though I hate them, but will somebody please tell me why the booth didn't review that "fumble" at the end? That was so obviously an incomplete pass. If I was a Cardinals fan, I'd be fucking FUMING right now.

nah dude that was def a fumble. he was already losing it as his arm was going forward

People slagging this game must actually hate football. No matter who won, this was a great game.

I had a question about that fumble call too, but then I remembered how much I hate people who still bitch about a bad call months and years after the fact.

Still, two Steelers SB wins in the last four years with questionable reffing...

OK maybe "so obviously" might've been a stretch, but at least review it!!

dudes on sportscenter or whatever on ESPN just now asked the same question - at least review. if they'd overturned it, there was a 15 yard penalty on pittsburgh on the play so that would've given the cards the ball and one more down.. uh.. maybe around the pittsburgh 45?

I have no problem with people bitching about bad calls, as long as it's justified. (xpost)

4Q, 1:57 Jeffrey Marcus reports from the below the stadium that four men with black Reebok gum bag full of “Steelers win” hats and T-shirts who had walked onto the field, just came running back through the tunnel. They returned with bags that said “Cards win.”

lol

the one roughing roffles call was bullshit, but the rest were whatevs. and that was a fumble at the end.

Harrison probably should have been ejected for that personal foul, but yeah...whatevs.

Surprisingly good game.

http://www.1secondad.com/

Favored team does not cover the spread again, in the Super Bowl.

As usual.

Easy money.

It's honestly been easy money dating back to the Green Bay/Denver Super Bowl

it was the right call i think but they probably should have reviewed that final play just to confirm.

are those legendary 4 hour springsteen concerts just a bunch of bullshit like that?

Fix was obviously in on this. Rooney paid back for delivering Pennsylvania to Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

non-review total bullshit, wanted the Cards to win but already had my money so not too pissed.

Springsteen RULED ... 10th AVENUE FREEZE OUT as first song, R U kidding me?!??

zach s i love you

i've never been down with the boss except on his "quiet storm" shit, like racing in the streets.

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well, the boss is the boss, I.E., the boss

kinda feel that online florist ad was pretty much the most repellent ad i've ever seen

geez, how many posts with no mention of CASH4GOLD?

yeah the florist one ugh

yeah basically i think some companies think the way to get business is to alienate every single female viewer and hope that misogyny flies with the male viewers.

the florist one was totally awkward and just weird

i mean it was worse than that but it caused about twenty seconds of uncomfortable silence at the place i was watching the game

florist was really, really terrible

why don't you put this shit on earlier in the day so we brits can watch it without falling asleep? it's damned rude and inconvenient.

"i think thats why you need to have big hands and strong hands. if you have big hands and strong hands, you can make touchdowns like that"

-john madden

― k3vin k., Monday, February 2, 2009 2:30 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol madden wuz obsessed w/ 'big strong hands' all game. the casual football fans i was w/ were disturbed

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So glad the 3D had finished by here. I almost dropped a wing.

lol http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7864733.stm

I was in gay bar for the first half hour and Madden got big laff first time he said "penetration"

shiiit, will Bruce cockbumping cameraman lead to new FCC furor?

how many years have they been torturing us with godaddy.com ads??

i think i counted eleven Heroes promos.

what was the florist one?

http://cdn.kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com-s1.simplecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/lol-ben-trophy.jpg

it's also great how there was a 'dude gettin hit in the nuts' ad within 5 mins of the game starting - a real tone-setter

the florist one was this ad where a woman gets a cheap box of flowers that insult her in every misogynist way imaginable (the notion being that if you send a cheap box of flowers that's the message you're actually sending).

http://www.hulu.com/superbowl/55645/super-bowl-xliii-ads-teleflora-talking-flowers

;_; I hate flying coast to coast on Superbowl Sunday

^_^ STEELERS WON!

Teleflora tagline "Make Her Thorny".

http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/harrison_hit.gif

scariest is when hes just hanging over him, i would wet myself

http://www.arcadefever.net/GIF/blanka.gif

hope that misogyny flies with the male viewers.

Yeah, a real risky bet, that.

okay superlolz at the story mookieproof posted

http://i39.tinypic.com/21kz0hw.gif

it's also great how there was a 'dude gettin hit in the nuts' ad within 5 mins of the game starting - a real tone-setter

― welcome to the own zone population you (cankles), Monday, February 2, 2009 10:49 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

the best ads involved dudes getting hit in a. the nuts b. the head - tried and true

Harrison should totally have been tossed for that, but in retrospect: fuckin BEAST

harrison beat up his old lady too. what a delight.

ya any huge ass LB can go all roid rage on a dude - dunno how commendable that is. guy just seems like a dik imo

btw

Wayne hits up the ESPN Mag Super Bowl party and chops it up with
Kenny Mayne, John Lynch, Mario Williams, Chester Pitts, Joe Flacco, Jason Campbell, Brandon Jacobs and others.

^___________^ flacco and wayne

i despise the espn steez

GUYS I'VE HAD NO INTERNET FOR A LONG WHILE D:

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had the second half been uneventful, i wonder if that would have cost harrison the mvp

http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp127/deanofsomething/stillerz.jpg

wtf was guy fieri doing on the steelers last night btw?

jeff reed's always looked like that - world class douchelord

http://predominantlyorange.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/jeff-reed.jpg

what in gods name

http://drunkathlete.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/jeff-reed-pittsburgh-steelers-drunk-pictures1.jpg

i think he imagines himself goin super saiyan on the football whenever he kicks it

chix at my party last night couldn't get over dude's thighs

i dont get women

lololololol

anyone over 14 who is still rocking the mid-arm wristband not during athletic competition needs to be terminated on sight

http://www.fansview.com/person/dr07b080.jpg

gis for this guy is hilarious:

http://beliketike.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/jeffreedswang.jpg

is that agent zero?

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/WK-AO507B_MADDE_G_20090129222854.jpg

wtf was guy fieri doing on the steelers last night btw?

haha, that took up about ten minutes of discussion at our super bowl party.

I absolutely think Harrison's roidraging cost him MVP consideration; if he'd shied clear of personal fouls, it woulda been an argument.

i kinda think warner shoulda won it

warner was pretty epic last night esp considering the steelers d

omg that florist commercial. i watched the super bowl with a bunch of women and there was stunned silence after that "these flowers mean you're not fit to be seen naked" line.

hi this game was dumb. PUT DOWN THE GUACAMOLE DIP!

I thought the game was pretty good, but I spent a lot of time flipping over to the Puppy Bowl and also listening to records and chitchatting and eating stuff and getting high, so who knows how I would feel if I actually had to just watch the game.

I was kind of boggling about the fact that you watched the Puppy Bowl until I saw the "getting high" part.

I watch the Puppy Bowl every year, even when I'm not high. I am crazy about puppies.

i tivo'd puppy bowl and watched about twenty minutes after the game with my girl.
that pitbull was a joy.

PHIL COLLINS SHOULD GET A SUPER BOWL RING
Posted by Mike Florio on February 3, 2009, 1:21 p.m.

If the NFL truly is a copycat league, pregame preparations throughout the next couple of years will feature heavy doses of Phil Collins’ In The Air Tonight.

Ed Werder of ESPN reported before Sunday’s game that Tomlin played the song for the team at the secret Saturday night hotel where they stayed.

Receiver Hines Ward told Werder that it put the players in a “meditative state,” and that he imagined himself on the field, making plays.

In The Air Tonight has enjoyed tremendous staying power, given that it was released in 1981 — before Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was born, and when Tomlin was only nine years old.

omg omg omg omg omg

thats MY psych up song too

im basically on the steelers

this is weird:

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/89310-family-claims-hayes-sister-is-a-fraud?cnn=yes

ok the first three comments on that are batshit insane

Yo you like Phil Collins?

I have two ears and a heart, don't I?

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i figured something out today. the new england patriots were actually videotaping the opposing teams' sidelines for the purpose of creating animated gifs. mangini had to go and mess everything up, and we all lost.

NO ONE DENIES THIS

oh man, I clicked on this thread hoping that I might find a larryfitzgeraldno.gif somewhere in it, and I was not disappointed!

don't know if I could ever use it, though, since it's so heartbreaking I almost cry whenever I watch it

also: I missed the entire first half and most of the third quarter because I had to help my girlfriend move into her new place. and then on top of that, I left my laptop charger there, so I didn't get to spend 12 hours yesterday talking about the game on the internet. I AM BASICALLY THE WORST DUDE EVER

because I had to help my girlfriend move into her new place
because I had to help my girlfriend move into her new place
because I had to help my girlfriend move into her new place
because I had to help my girlfriend move into her new place
because I had to help my girlfriend move into her new place
because I had to help my girlfriend move into her new place
because I had to help my girlfriend move into her new place
because I had to help my girlfriend move into her new place
because I had to help my girlfriend move into her new place
because I had to help my girlfriend move into her new place
because I had to help my girlfriend move into her new place

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???

lettin the country down bro

I'm trying to decide whether I should immediately end the relationship or just gradually become withdrawn and distant

i just gis'd 'bitchmade' to look for an appropriate response to mr. snowy's post, and this was the very first result

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lol thats crazy
start a thread, post a random pic, and reply to yrself like 25 times and see if u can GISbomb 'cankles'

More Phil Collins discussion:
Future NFL Hall of Famer Ray Lewis of the Ravens, listens to Phil Collins to get "psyched up".

look at these ppl cheatin and fronting on cardinals fandom

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lol they are wearing BEISBOL CARDINALS apparel!

The only reason I own an Arizona hat is because my aunt thought it was for St. Louis.

From last year:

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at least his heart was in the right place

If by right place you mean "snacks", then you're absolutely otm.

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lions crawl is cracking me up; goku up there strikes me as the kind of guy who would draw on your face after you passed out.

the thing that seems to have gone undiscussed in the media analysis of the lions crawl is that they were really just stating a fact.

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looooooooool

^_____________^

i love that

omg

Hey forks, just wanted to say thanks for helping me do my job for me this morning.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, January 26, 2009 11:20 PM (1 month ago)

I googled my way to this online earlier by accident; yer welcome.

http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200902280014

el rushbo & I actually agree on something: no fans of kurt warner

how do reanimated corpses rape ladies? i think we're gonna get the deets soon!

Luckily he was wearing his helmet this time, so that must be why ESPN hasn't reported about it at all.

wau

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/07/21/complaint-gets-very-specific-regarding-interaction-between-mcnulty-roethlisberger/

holy fucking shit

wow

a. so why is this civil and not criminal?

b. if this is true how many 45+ year old white sportswriters will commit suicide? CAD i think you should call boston pd right now over to peter king's place just as a preemptive measure

statute of limitations maybe?

well that's lovely

wonder how my father-in-law is doing

(he treats the Steelers like they were his family)

srsly jordan if it was favre i think i'd drive to the south end right now and hold vigil.

i never liked "ben" but i didn't have him pegged as a rapist.

Citizen Strange says:
July 21, 2009 11:04 AM
She claims that he said in response, "Don't worry, I'll pull out," which he ultimately did.

..... which ultimately hurts her case because it proves that Roethlisberger is a man of his word.

uh

a. so why is this civil and not criminal?

guessing there are some complicated reasons for this, it can be anything from him pulling out didn't leave enough dna evidence for the rape kit to she just didn't want to go to police to whatever, i dunno. that is kinda weird though.

also it appears espn is not reporting on this, at all. 100,000 fucking stories about michael vick's years old dog fighting charges and what his release means but nothing about roethlisberger being accused of assaulting a woman?

Yeah, ESPN is fucking pissing me off about this. There is an AP story out there, this is big news, they need to be running it.

http://www.kansascity.com/stargazing/story/1337628.html

first google hit for Ben Roethlisberger

gross

oh, roffles. they're covering this on my favorite program on the fox news channel at 3, i will report back

there are 8 or 9 other defendants in the suit, others are former coworkers who are accused of encouraging her to cover it up? florio was on the tv but didn't have any other new facts.

Has he posted about this on his blog yet?

sheesh, i never figured ben to be all rapey mo. weird story.

yeah fuck espn for protecting this guy

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/local/team?team=pit

You have to navigate to the Steelers clubhouse and click on news stories for this to even register on the ESPN site.

This is really bizarre; why would ESPN have any vested interest in keeping Ben Rapeysberger pure?

they may have some extra info or a promise of a comment that theyre waiting on before they publish?

yeah, and none of those stories are ESPN's -- they're all links to local papers, it's just an RSS feed basically. i have no idea why they are blatantly ignoring this. schefter twittered about it but that's the closest i've seen ESPN to touching it. i mean, i dunno, same reason they sweep the favre drug addiction shit under the rug i guess?

xpost possible but at this point they look fucking retarded and i don't think they'd hold out.

according to deadspin, an "espn source" told them that they have a preexisting company policy to not report on civil cases involving athletes

that explains it - i mean as much as i would love to vilify espn for protecting their glorious (white?) rapey qb (ben's face is on sportscenters intro) - and well i already did vilify them - they pushed pretty fucking hard on like... the marvin harrison murder conspiracy or whatever that was, for instance

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/07/21/source-espn-issues-do-not-report-alert-on-roethlisberger-story/

Just for entertainment porpoises, I submitted a "why are you sitting on this story?" question on the ESPN Nation site. Live chat there is supposed to be starting momentarily.

The Super Bowl MVP's lawyer tells NBC Sports that the charges are false. "Ben has never sexually assaulted anyone, especially Andrea McNulty," said David Cornwell

lmao @ "especially"

yeah what a weird ass quote

Dear Ben,

Get a new layer.

DJP

ROFL @ Especially

wow this dude is going IN

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/07/21/too-little-too-late-from-espn-on-roethlisberger/

Too little, too late from ESPN on Roethlisberger

Posted by Mike Florio on July 21, 2009 4:23 PM ET
ESPN spokesman Mac Nwulu has provided us with a statement from the folks in Bristol regarding their decision not to mention the civil sexual assault suit against Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, which to our knowledge has been ignored by every national ESPN platform.

"At this point, we are not reporting the allegations against Ben Roethlisberger because no criminal complaint has been filed," Nwulu said. "As far as we know, this is a civil lawsuit that Roethlisberger has yet to address publicly."

Actually, Roethlisberger has addressed the lawsuit publicly, via a Monday night statement from lawyer David Cornwell, who has been retained to represent Roethlisberger.

And let's be realistic about it. If he's smart (and, frankly, the jury is still out on that one), Ben won't ever comment on the case publicly, other than to say, "No comment."

Besides, we don't buy for a minute the notion that a civil claim unaccompanied by a criminal complaint makes the situation not newsworthy. Indeed, ESPN posted last night on its NFL page a blurb from the AP regarding the civil suit filed by former NFL kicker Tony Zendejas, in which he claims a violation of his civil rights in connection with, coincidentally, a rape prosecution.

In that case, have the folks who allegedly violated the civil rights of Zendejas been charged criminally? Nope. But that hasn't kept ESPN from posting the AP item.

And that's the kicker on this one -- ESPN uses stuff from the AP all the time, and the AP has issued a story about the lawsuit against Roethlisberger.

So while we appreciate the fact that ESPN provided us with a statement, we choose to regard it as a hollow attempt to explain away what appears to be a strategy for remaining in the good graces of Ben Roethlisberger.

Ben....

http://209.85.48.11/9326/75/emo/monocle.gif RAPELISBERGER http://209.85.48.11/9326/75/emo/monocle.gif ?!?!?!

"As far as we know, this is a civil lawsuit that Roethlisberger has yet to address publicly."

translation, LA LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA

devil's advocate: this woman could be some nutbar for all we know, the only established fact is that she has filed a suit, and there's no reason that in itself should be news - i could file a similar suit vs Ben tomorrow even though i've never met him, and it would make for a tremendous story even though the only 'news' would be that i am indeed some nutbar. if he gets done for it, write it large. but in the meantime it may not be very fair splashing around the lol rapist headlines.

so you can at least explain the stance of espn (aka the devil)

yrs, Keanu

lmao canks

she seems like a nutcase.

i do wonder if they sent some 300 lb handyman guy to fix his tv, would he have raped him as well? the world may never know.

from TMZ:

The woman accusing Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault claims she tried to tell the head of hotel security about the incident the day after it happened -- but the guy completely blew her off and threatened her job.

In her lawsuit filed last week in Nevada, Andrea McNulty claims Guy Hyder -- the chief of security at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe -- told her she was "over-reacting" and that "most girls would feel lucky to have sex with someone like Ben Roethlisberger."

McNulty also claims Hyder told her that John Koster -- the president of the hotel - will "personally fire you for starting rumors about Roethlisberger's personal life."

McNulty also claims Hyder told her that Koster would be impressed by the sexual encounter, allegedly saying "Koster would love you even more if he knew about this ... Koster would suck his d*ck if Roethlisberger let him."

In the suit, McNulty claims she assumed the incident would be investigated by hotel security, but Hyder "did not do his job of investigating the assault." McNulty also claims she was "afraid of the consequences of going to police authorities since it was obvious to her that Harrah's and it's personnel ... would side with and support Roethlisberger."

McNulty also claims several Harrah's employees broke into her home and ripped files off of her computer, presumably for the purpose of defending themselves against a possible lawsuit.

Several months after the incident -- after McNulty claims she sought psychological treatment because of the encounter -- she claims she had a conversation with Hyder. McNulty says she told Hyder that she had been hospitalized specifically because of the Roethlisberger incident. Hyder allegedly replied, "I figured that was what was wrong, but I thought it was just like a date rape thing."

McNulty claims her bosses told her she was on thin ice at work ... so she preemptively lawyered up.

McNulty is seeking $380,000 in medical fees plus an unspecified amount of punitive damages.

>>McNulty also claims several Harrah's employees broke into her home and ripped files off of her computer, presumably for the purpose of defending themselves against a possible lawsuit.<<

lawyer should have dumped this, b/c it sounds very O_o unless they have proof

http://a4.vox.com/6a00c2251f58b7549d00e3989994b40004-500pi

Yeah, i dunno on this one, lotsa weirdness.

"interesting" stuff coming out on the girl; seems like this could really go either way

it's very odd that he's one of NINE defendants

i didn't read closely cause honestly it's too depressing but there's some story going around about how she made up an affair with a deployed soldier or something? i don't fuckin know; shit is just too crazy.

yeah, i have zero opinion as to what actually happened, but all this crazy stuff in the periphery is probably not gonna help her too much imo

cankles getting politically correct up in here

I cannot wait for Spike Lee's Ben Roethlisberger film Doin' Rapes to come out now.

What would Marc Loi, facebook feminist, say about all of this?

damn

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4359721

so i guess the dude who marvin harrison allegedly shot (or did not shoot) was once again shot up last week while sitting in his car and is in critical condition? and a second man claims harrison shot him (in what sounds like john woo style.)

jesus wtf

harrison = scariest dude in the league (or formerly in the league as of last year i guess)

BTW FWIW RE: ESPN non-coverage of this raep story...

I don't doubt for a moment that there is a golden boy ring of safety placed around BR to protect a white QB player (and yeah, that's a little shady), but at the same time, the Duke LAX raep thing -- the jumps to conclusions, the finger-pointing in national media and the eventual dismissal and exposure of the DA on the case -- lets me sleep a little better.

sleep a little better WRT non-coverage. Obv things need to play out for more than 10 minutes before media should comment sometimes.

In a statement released by lawyer David Cornwell, Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger takes a howitzer to the lawsuit filed against him alleging sexual assault.

Cornwell attaches to his statement e-mail messages sent by McNulty to the soldier that had been fabricated by the wife of a man with whom the plaintiff supposedly had been involved.

Says Cornwell: "We believe that [the plaintiff's] own words directly refute the scurrilous allegations made in her Complaint. The attached documents, containing what we believe are [the plaintiff's] own words, are merely the tip of the investigative iceberg.

"[The plaintiff] should abandon her lawsuit immediately and admit that Ben Roethlisberger did not rape her."

Per Cornwell, the plaintiff wrote two days after the alleged sexual assault that she was looking forward to having dinner with Roethlisberger and other celebrities attending the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship.

Then, five months after the alleged assault, she wrote that she "would date Ben Roethlisberger" if the made-up soldier were to end their relationship.

We'll be looking over the e-mails and possibly adding more details and analysis. For now, it's clear that Cornwell and Roethlisberger are adopting a very aggressive posture. It remains to be seen whether it works.

This imaginary soldier business is weird.

"takes a howitzer to the lawsuit filed against him alleging sexual assault"
congratulations on stringing together a series of words never spoken before.

Stillers fans, jeez.

http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp5mwh2vAC1qzu7bio1_500.jpg

*mandatory keep mike vick away joek*

also thats fuckin crazy

guys, i'm watching ben rofflesberger play shaq in a game of touch football and this is a thing that is actually on ABC network television?

yeah i watched that already

i wont tell u who wins tho

is it america?

;-)

actually, no.
those shaq shows are great for five minutes if you have a tivo, but at minute six you can begin to feel your eyes melt.
on the plus side, roffles DOES beat shaq at a game of horse that big aristotle claims he threw "to get in his head"

the highlight of this episode is when shaq makes an interception

from the bench!

it's like australian rules football happened there or something

Shaq boxing golden boy was some real comedy.

Golden Boy got whooped imo