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Day Nine and I'm doing fine!
Except I'm tired as F! Today was crazy! About the time I'm going to bed, NBC is showing four and a half hours of Olympics on TV here in the states, and then over five hours of pre Superbowl coverage all day, then the Super Bowl, Super Bowl post game, and then over two and a half hours more of new Olympic coverage! SMH!
In Kamila Valieva Gate, they finally made a decision, and she can skate. This does not mean she is innocent of anything, nor that she will ultimately get to keep any medals she earns, ect. I'm not going to dig into this tonight, she skates Tuesday, but as empathetic as I am to her situation, they made the right call legally, and the wrong call ethically, and we can talk about it all later, but feel free to voice your opinion.
Mens Hockey played today with America beating Germany 3-2 and moving into the Quarters on a first round bye. So there just a win from a 3/4 chance at a medal? Hmmm Please note that 15 out of 25 are college kids with the rest being I guess non NHL professionals
Over in Women's Hockey, Canada beat the snot out of the Swiss and sent them packing to the Bronze medal game, and the United States will face off against Finland today, Valintines Day. Ahhhhhh! Finland only won one game in the prelims, but did beat the Japanese 7-1, so this is not just a gimme, but I feel pretty good that we will be facing Canada, AGAIN, come the 17th.
Oh yea, Happy Valentines Day!
In the morning Women's' Downhill training was off and Mikaela Shiffrin said her bed was full of crumbs from snacking and in a later interview remained ever chatty. Hmm. Chatty, snacking, mood swings... not going to make either of the jokes that I could!
So...
Mens Team Pursuit Quarterfinals, three athletes skate six laps, top four teams advance. The USA came in as world champs and underdogs some how? Sounds good to me. Keep the pressure off I say. Apparently this was created to give the non Dutch some more opportunities in skating. Seriously, they said that. America also has "revolutionized" the sport by not switching front to back each lap but just using the back two to push the front person forward for the whole race, and to me that is interesting and we'll see if that pays off. The Dutch btw only have one gold in this over the years. They showed off most decorated Dutch skater Sven Kramers battle scars. Like six surgeries. He is a walking battle field, but still hopes to add to his nine medals.
So the Dutch beat Canada to go to the top and then Norway beat the USA, but just by .03, but the USA sat out a man who will presumably skate in the finals to let him rest. China fell to the ROC so badly, that I thought they would lap them. Were talking 14.78 seconds and they only start a half a lap off on this long skate track. So in the end that means the finals will see Norway Vs the Dutch and USA vs Ruuushiaaaa, with the winners and losers meeting up respectively to figure out who gets what. I would be both sad and amazed if we don't get something.
Mens Giant Slalom finally got off when the sun came out and the weather cleared. USA's Wild Hair Red River Radamus, a name that sounds made up but isn't, skied into first and looked good for a while. It was his 24th birthday and a medal would taste good, but his run was not as rad as his name. He was beaten out by just .26 seconds and ended off the podium in 4th. Swiss took the gold followed by Slovokia and France
The Women's 500m speed skating concluded today. America had three in the mix. Flag Bearer for the opening cermeony's Brittany Bowe originally was slated to skate in this event, but then not, and then she was. In the trials fellow teammate Erin Jackson slipped and was out, but then Brittany Bowe gave up her coveted spot knowing that Erin was a faster skater and would have a better chance to bring home a medal. An amazing gesture that she hoped would pay off. Then for reasons, Brittany ended up getting to join her teammate in this event anyway, as well as other fellow skater American Kim Goetz. So that all made for a really cool story to go along with this race.
Some context alert, no American has ever won Gold in speed skating since Shani Davis in 2010, no women since Chris Witty in 2002, and we have not won the 500m women's since 1994.
Kim Goetz went early and did not fair to well skating into 11th and ultametly finishing 18th. Brittany Bowe also went early took on Canada and moved into 3rd, but ultimately finished 16th as each new skating pair, 15 in total would seem to knock the previous pair on down as they took one of the top three spots. With just two pairs to go, Sport Illustrated cover girl Erin Jackson would skate off next to Poland and when she crossed the line, was in the first place position with just two skaters to go, so a medal was assured, the only question being what color. Another Polish skater then went against the ROC, and when it was done, Erin was the winner of a brand new gold medal and becomes the first black women to win a speed skating medal ever, so big shout out to her!
In two side-notes, while I get why the ring the bell at the 400m remaining mark in other races, must you ring it just 100M in, on a 500m race? Quite annoying if you ask me, which they I doubt the are. Still, just sayin. Also, I feel like Brittany maybe deserves a muffin basket or something for the amazing gesture that few would make. Maybe blueberries, or the more decadent chocolate chip. Cranberry muffins are also pretty nice. Maybe even scones who knows. Just throwing that out there on the off chance Erin reads my blog. Just sayin!
(Actually I think I just want a muffin myself?) 
Today we had the Mens Cross Country Relay 4x10km. 15 teams, 4 athletes each, 3 laps of about 2 miles each made for about 25 miles in total per team. Pretty sure the United States was not in this. Either that, or NBC choose to give us zero coverage, which would not surprise me one bit. The scene was set in gushing winds and frosty falling snow as nasty saliva snot beards were abound and plentiful! We caught up with them on the fourth man, ROC had choose to move out very early in the race and never gave up the lead and at about 1 hour and 54 minutes in, Sergey Ustiugov, man that is one russianie name, grabbed his countries flag as he raced towards the finish line...oh, wait, he had to grab the ROC flag! What? Man that was weird? Did he not get that this was just a flag assigned to them for doping? I get if if it was the Russian flag. Dude, what are you doing! Come on man! SMH! Oh well. So Sergey Ustiugov grabbed the ROC flag, waved it around, and skied to vitory with it in hand, taking a third gold in Cross Country for the ROC in these games. Norway came in second and France in third and USA who?
Women's 3000m Speed short track finals. The Dutch, South Koreans, Chinese and Canada took to the Ice along with USA who? Oh, not there again! The 28 laps went quickly and even though the Dutch were not the favorites as long track is there game, the are now apparently making inroads on short track as well, skating across the finish line first, followed by Korea, China, and then Canada just off the podium. Stupid freaking Dutch skaters!
Did I ever mention that the USA has 330 million people, and just 4 big speed skating arenas, and the Netherlands have just 17.4 million people, and 16 skating facility's? That's like one per million. So we wold need hundreds more to be on par. Did I ever mention that? That's another fun fact for ya! Enjoy!
Mens 500 sprint Finals was today. That's the chaotic one with all five at once, and not the one where they skate side by side. Hungry, ROC, Canada, Kazakhstan, and Italy squared off. 4.5 laps later, younger brother Liu Shaoang of Hungry took the Gold, unlike his older brother who got screwed out of one on a DQ by China in the 1000m, followed by Ruuuushiaaa, Canada with the bronze, and then Kazakhstan in forth, with Italy literally falling off in the last lap. I guess he might have got up and skated across. Who knows. Not this guy!
Mens Big Air Snowboard qualifier went off today, top 12 advance to the finals.It looks like this is Canada's and the Japaneses jam. Or so it seemed by NBC's coverage of them over the USA. According to Wikipedia, The USA advances both Red Gerard, and Chris Corning, and Canada got three in, Japan two, Norway two, China has one in there. Chris Corning got 4th four years ago, with Canadas Sébastien Toutant winning gold but not advancing this year. Canadian "I kicked Cancer's ass!" Max Parrot who won the gold in snowboard Slope style in these Olympics however is in and he is fun to watch as well, so it should be a good finals. Chinese actors waved flags in the stands.
Women's slope style skiing qualifiers were shown and it was a bit crazy all around. NBC's Valentine and American defector Eileen Gu was heavily covered over USA's own athletes. NBC was all like "Hey Gu, will you be my Valentine!" And Gu was all "Sure, but did you get me some chocolates!" kiss kiss! So I had to hit Wiki on this one as well to know what all was going on. I do know that USA's Caroline Claire did not complete and was taken off on a sled after she must have landed badly on a practice jump, no word on her status. Gu is in though in case your wondering, and I'm sure you all are, as well as Americans Marin Hamill who hurt her leg after her second jump and left in an ambulance, no word on her status yet, and Maggie Voisin. Both of their standings looked good though, especially Maggie, so who knows. Estonia's Kelly Sildaru was at the top though, so look at them! All scores will reset though in the finals.
Got to ask, does NBC think we care about Eileen Gu? I really don't get it? I mean she is good, but she is in fact a Chinese citizen now. Do they not get that? Why so much coverage? The put up her schedule like she was Mikaela Shiffrin or something. I wish I could say it is bizarre, but this is 2022 so there you go.
Speaking of Mikaela, they also got back to Women's downhill and Mikaela Shiffrin looked slow and landed at 17th going into the finals, and this isn't really her event anyway, so go Slovakia or something I guess.
Sigh! God this was a long day!
Ice Dancing pairs Freeskate finals were tonight with Gold medalist Nathan Chen looking on. The standings coming in were France in first, ROC, USA, USA, ROC and Canada. Tonight's score would add to their first score and then you would get a total score. When we came in Italy was in first over Canada, and then then I'll spare you the suspense as there was little, pretty much each successive pair skated and took over first knocking each other back. So the finals were fun to watch, but lackluster and France easily won, followed by the ROC, and USA's Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue took the Bronze knocking Madison Chock and Evan Bates to fourth and so on. I was hoping for some falls, but apparently they don't do that anymore in this event. There all just to good now.
Also you can lift your partner, but the lifter has to keep an elbow bent? What? Boy was that a weird compromise when this rule was made.
Finally we get to Women's Monobob, and that stupid Super Bowl cost us watching most of the event. We picked up deep into the fourth and final run with ROC into the lead, then Australia by .13, and then Elana Meyers Taylor for the US took her final run. Taylor is the oldest and coming off a pregnancy, as well as Covid, where she had to isolate for 12 days, training and working out in her hotel room, however you do that! She's kind of a baddass I guess! Well she took over the lead by .52 and then there were two to go. Canada's own Christine De Bruin took to the run and looked good, but came up short and took second. Finally we got to see the leader, Canadian defector and new American Kaillie Humphries take the final run of the night. Apparently two months ago she had to fly from Germany where she was racing, get her citizenship in the USA, and then fly back to race, all in 36 hours. Well it payed off for us and she flew down the track, never closer then 1.5 ahead and crossed the finish line 1.54 over American Taylor with the Canadians right above looking on. Your lose was our gain Canada, and she is the first Women's Monobob sledding Champion!
Seriously, I think this sport is going to grow big time in the next four years. Pretty fun stuff.
America ended the day tied with Canada for third most medals, but has seven gold to their one!
But of course we have 330 million people and them 38 million, but whatever! Let's not talk about that!
Oh yea, the Super Bowl
Superbowl 56 has come and gone. Good! Maybe I'm getting old, but I'm pretty over the whole thing. I think it's because it is so over the top now that it is just a spectacle that I have seen before done much better a dozen plus times. It seems to be more about GASP! maskless celebrity's that I don't watch or care about at every turn. On the sidelines, in the stands, in the tunnel, on the commercials that are so big budget that I'm not even sure what they are selling.
That Pringles commercial though did make me LOL!
The game was good I guess. The Rams sold out on draft picks and it was now or never as far as I'm concerned. There not going back to the big game next year I guarantee it. It was now or never for them.
The first half was nice and close, Joe Mixon can say for the rest of his life that he tossed a TD in the Superbowl.
Then this moron inexplicably came off the sideline to celebrate a TD and draw a penalty. It would have made more sense if I came out of the stands to dance like this, then that inactive nut doing that. What a clown.
Rams would go into the half up 13-10
Halftime show? Some reporter goes "This is going to be the best halftime show ever!"
News flash, it wasn't.
This one was: SB1993
They said it was the first time that we Got Hip Hop and Rap. I hope it's the last. This was literally like if you had artist from the 1950's, playing the SB halftime show in the 1980's. These are the same exact artists from my high school days doing the same stuff from the early 1990's. Except for Eminem, but even that dude is older then me! And for a second I thought he was just a lost fan until he started to sing. I mean just Imagine it's the Superbowl 1985, but the act is from 1955. Like the Crew Cuts. That was this! Sigh. I guess at least these guys didn't need Autune? And the set was cool pretty cool looking.
But you know what, they have had like Madonna, and Prince, and the freaking Who! Those old fossils! So I get it. It's just not my thing I guess.
Actually the whole stadium is amazing looking. I've been through all of Jerry World including Jerry's personal suite and unless they have remodeled since 2010, the locker rooms in SoFi are bigger and better then the Cowboys. Fun fact! Jerry has his own elevator in his suite so that he can get to the sideline in under 30 seconds!
At least it was mildly better then 1989 SB Halftime show ft Elvis Presto.
They told us going in that Sean McVey was 43-1 in the regular season and 4-0 in the Post when leading at halftime. I knew right then and there that this fact might not age well!
The Bengals would score just 12 seconds into the third. And the former Dallas draft pick Chidobe Awuzie got a pick and we still were not 30 seconds in. Three points later and the Bengals are up seven.
Chi, like chin-Dhoh-Bay A-Woo-Z-A)
The Rams would keep it tight despite loosing Odell to injury, but then Stafford would get gimpy and they didn't need the extra challenge. The Rams D would stiffen though and help keep the score tight, and then in the 4th, even Burrow got gimpy too! Actual these players were dropping like flies and attrition would seemingly win the day.
The Rams were down by four and first and goal, two minutes left and desperate for a score. You could see the Rams on the sidelines were in agony. I didn't think they would get a TD until the play got sloppy by both teams and stafford was able to hit Cooper Kupp the end zone and with 1:25 left, the Rams would go up by three, score 23-20
Burrow took the field and slowly worked the ball forward. A tough stop at three and one at the 50 did them no favors. Fouth and one, game on the line and Aaron Donald would play spoiler with a well timed (sack?) that would insure a Rams victory. Game over! Rams win Super Bowl 56! LA is going to be even more intolerable! FML!
Congrats to Rams' Van Jefferson on the birth of his new baby boy! Bye!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTM3qtGvOjg
Erin Jackson Skates for that Gold!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azTZCYNZ87o
Humphries and Taylor go one two!
Erin Jackson Gold Medal Winner!
Erin Jackson and Brittany Bowe Embrace!
Silver and Gold!
Rams Win!
The Other Ladies
Day Nine and I'm doing fine!
Except I'm tired as F! Today was crazy! About the time I'm going to bed, NBC is showing four and a half hours of Olympics on TV here in the states, and then over five hours of pre Superbowl coverage all day, then the Super Bowl, Super Bowl post game, and then over two and a half hours more of new Olympic coverage! SMH!
In Kamila Valieva Gate, they finally made a decision, and she can skate. This does not mean she is innocent of anything, nor that she will ultimately get to keep any medals she earns, ect. I'm not going to dig into this tonight, she skates Tuesday, but as empathetic as I am to her situation, they made the right call legally, and the wrong call ethically, and we can talk about it all later, but feel free to voice your opinion.
Mens Hockey played today with America beating Germany 3-2 and moving into the Quarters on a first round bye. So there just a win from a 3/4 chance at a medal? Hmmm Please note that 15 out of 25 are college kids with the rest being I guess non NHL professionals
Over in Women's Hockey, Canada beat the snot out of the Swiss and sent them packing to the Bronze medal game, and the United States will face off against Finland today, Valintines Day. Ahhhhhh! Finland only won one game in the prelims, but did beat the Japanese 7-1, so this is not just a gimme, but I feel pretty good that we will be facing Canada, AGAIN, come the 17th.
Oh yea, Happy Valentines Day!
In the morning Women's' Downhill training was off and Mikaela Shiffrin said her bed was full of crumbs from snacking and in a later interview remained ever chatty. Hmm. Chatty, snacking, mood swings... not going to make either of the jokes that I could!
So...
Mens Team Pursuit Quarterfinals, three athletes skate six laps, top four teams advance. The USA came in as world champs and underdogs some how? Sounds good to me. Keep the pressure off I say. Apparently this was created to give the non Dutch some more opportunities in skating. Seriously, they said that. America also has "revolutionized" the sport by not switching front to back each lap but just using the back two to push the front person forward for the whole race, and to me that is interesting and we'll see if that pays off. The Dutch btw only have one gold in this over the years. They showed off most decorated Dutch skater Sven Kramers battle scars. Like six surgeries. He is a walking battle field, but still hopes to add to his nine medals.
So the Dutch beat Canada to go to the top and then Norway beat the USA, but just by .03, but the USA sat out a man who will presumably skate in the finals to let him rest. China fell to the ROC so badly, that I thought they would lap them. Were talking 14.78 seconds and they only start a half a lap off on this long skate track. So in the end that means the finals will see Norway Vs the Dutch and USA vs Ruuushiaaaa, with the winners and losers meeting up respectively to figure out who gets what. I would be both sad and amazed if we don't get something.
Mens Giant Slalom finally got off when the sun came out and the weather cleared. USA's Wild Hair Red River Radamus, a name that sounds made up but isn't, skied into first and looked good for a while. It was his 24th birthday and a medal would taste good, but his run was not as rad as his name. He was beaten out by just .26 seconds and ended off the podium in 4th. Swiss took the gold followed by Slovokia and France
The Women's 500m speed skating concluded today. America had three in the mix. Flag Bearer for the opening cermeony's Brittany Bowe originally was slated to skate in this event, but then not, and then she was. In the trials fellow teammate Erin Jackson slipped and was out, but then Brittany Bowe gave up her coveted spot knowing that Erin was a faster skater and would have a better chance to bring home a medal. An amazing gesture that she hoped would pay off. Then for reasons, Brittany ended up getting to join her teammate in this event anyway, as well as other fellow skater American Kim Goetz. So that all made for a really cool story to go along with this race.
Some context alert, no American has ever won Gold in speed skating since Shani Davis in 2010, no women since Chris Witty in 2002, and we have not won the 500m women's since 1994.
Kim Goetz went early and did not fair to well skating into 11th and ultametly finishing 18th. Brittany Bowe also went early took on Canada and moved into 3rd, but ultimately finished 16th as each new skating pair, 15 in total would seem to knock the previous pair on down as they took one of the top three spots. With just two pairs to go, Sport Illustrated cover girl Erin Jackson would skate off next to Poland and when she crossed the line, was in the first place position with just two skaters to go, so a medal was assured, the only question being what color. Another Polish skater then went against the ROC, and when it was done, Erin was the winner of a brand new gold medal and becomes the first black women to win a speed skating medal ever, so big shout out to her!
In two side-notes, while I get why the ring the bell at the 400m remaining mark in other races, must you ring it just 100M in, on a 500m race? Quite annoying if you ask me, which they I doubt the are. Still, just sayin. Also, I feel like Brittany maybe deserves a muffin basket or something for the amazing gesture that few would make. Maybe blueberries, or the more decadent chocolate chip. Cranberry muffins are also pretty nice. Maybe even scones who knows. Just throwing that out there on the off chance Erin reads my blog. Just sayin!
(Actually I think I just want a muffin myself?) Today we had the Mens Cross Country Relay 4x10km. 15 teams, 4 athletes each, 3 laps of about 2 miles each made for about 25 miles in total per team. Pretty sure the United States was not in this. Either that, or NBC choose to give us zero coverage, which would not surprise me one bit. The scene was set in gushing winds and frosty falling snow as nasty saliva snot beards were abound and plentiful! We caught up with them on the fourth man, ROC had choose to move out very early in the race and never gave up the lead and at about 1 hour and 54 minutes in, Sergey Ustiugov, man that is one russianie name, grabbed his countries flag as he raced towards the finish line...oh, wait, he had to grab the ROC flag!
What? Man that was weird? Did he not get that this was just a flag assigned to them for doping? I get if if it was the Russian flag. Dude, what are you doing! Come on man! SMH! Oh well. So Sergey Ustiugov grabbed the ROC flag, waved it around, and skied to vitory with it in hand, taking a third gold in Cross Country for the ROC in these games. Norway came in second and France in third and USA who?Women's 3000m Speed short track finals. The Dutch, South Koreans, Chinese and Canada took to the Ice along with USA who? Oh, not there again! The 28 laps went quickly and even though the Dutch were not the favorites as long track is there game, the are now apparently making inroads on short track as well, skating across the finish line first, followed by Korea, China, and then Canada just off the podium. Stupid freaking Dutch skaters!
Did I ever mention that the USA has 330 million people, and just 4 big speed skating arenas, and the Netherlands have just 17.4 million people, and 16 skating facility's? That's like one per million. So we wold need hundreds more to be on par. Did I ever mention that? That's another fun fact for ya! Enjoy!
Mens 500 sprint Finals was today. That's the chaotic one with all five at once, and not the one where they skate side by side. Hungry, ROC, Canada, Kazakhstan, and Italy squared off. 4.5 laps later, younger brother Liu Shaoang of Hungry took the Gold, unlike his older brother who got screwed out of one on a DQ by China in the 1000m, followed by Ruuuushiaaa, Canada with the bronze, and then Kazakhstan in forth, with Italy literally falling off in the last lap. I guess he might have got up and skated across. Who knows. Not this guy!
Mens Big Air Snowboard qualifier went off today, top 12 advance to the finals.It looks like this is Canada's and the Japaneses jam. Or so it seemed by NBC's coverage of them over the USA. According to Wikipedia, The USA advances both Red Gerard, and Chris Corning, and Canada got three in, Japan two, Norway two, China has one in there. Chris Corning got 4th four years ago, with Canadas Sébastien Toutant winning gold but not advancing this year. Canadian "I kicked Cancer's ass!" Max Parrot who won the gold in snowboard Slope style in these Olympics however is in and he is fun to watch as well, so it should be a good finals. Chinese actors waved flags in the stands.
Women's slope style skiing qualifiers were shown and it was a bit crazy all around. NBC's Valentine and American defector Eileen Gu was heavily covered over USA's own athletes. NBC was all like "Hey Gu, will you be my Valentine!" And Gu was all "Sure, but did you get me some chocolates!" kiss kiss! So I had to hit Wiki on this one as well to know what all was going on. I do know that USA's Caroline Claire did not complete and was taken off on a sled after she must have landed badly on a practice jump, no word on her status. Gu is in though in case your wondering, and I'm sure you all are, as well as Americans Marin Hamill who hurt her leg after her second jump and left in an ambulance, no word on her status yet, and Maggie Voisin. Both of their standings looked good though, especially Maggie, so who knows. Estonia's Kelly Sildaru was at the top though, so look at them! All scores will reset though in the finals.
Got to ask, does NBC think we care about Eileen Gu? I really don't get it? I mean she is good, but she is in fact a Chinese citizen now. Do they not get that? Why so much coverage? The put up her schedule like she was Mikaela Shiffrin or something. I wish I could say it is bizarre, but this is 2022 so there you go.
Speaking of Mikaela, they also got back to Women's downhill and Mikaela Shiffrin looked slow and landed at 17th going into the finals, and this isn't really her event anyway, so go Slovakia or something I guess.
Sigh! God this was a long day!
Ice Dancing pairs Freeskate finals were tonight with Gold medalist Nathan Chen looking on. The standings coming in were France in first, ROC, USA, USA, ROC and Canada. Tonight's score would add to their first score and then you would get a total score. When we came in Italy was in first over Canada, and then then I'll spare you the suspense as there was little, pretty much each successive pair skated and took over first knocking each other back. So the finals were fun to watch, but lackluster and France easily won, followed by the ROC, and USA's Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue took the Bronze knocking Madison Chock and Evan Bates to fourth and so on. I was hoping for some falls, but apparently they don't do that anymore in this event. There all just to good now.
Also you can lift your partner, but the lifter has to keep an elbow bent? What? Boy was that a weird compromise when this rule was made.
Finally we get to Women's Monobob, and that stupid Super Bowl cost us watching most of the event. We picked up deep into the fourth and final run with ROC into the lead, then Australia by .13, and then Elana Meyers Taylor for the US took her final run. Taylor is the oldest and coming off a pregnancy, as well as Covid, where she had to isolate for 12 days, training and working out in her hotel room, however you do that! She's kind of a baddass I guess! Well she took over the lead by .52 and then there were two to go. Canada's own Christine De Bruin took to the run and looked good, but came up short and took second. Finally we got to see the leader, Canadian defector and new American Kaillie Humphries take the final run of the night. Apparently two months ago she had to fly from Germany where she was racing, get her citizenship in the USA, and then fly back to race, all in 36 hours. Well it payed off for us and she flew down the track, never closer then 1.5 ahead and crossed the finish line 1.54 over American Taylor with the Canadians right above looking on. Your lose was our gain Canada, and she is the first Women's Monobob sledding Champion!
Seriously, I think this sport is going to grow big time in the next four years. Pretty fun stuff.
America ended the day tied with Canada for third most medals, but has seven gold to their one!
But of course we have 330 million people and them 38 million, but whatever! Let's not talk about that!
Oh yea, the Super Bowl
Superbowl 56 has come and gone. Good! Maybe I'm getting old, but I'm pretty over the whole thing. I think it's because it is so over the top now that it is just a spectacle that I have seen before done much better a dozen plus times. It seems to be more about GASP! maskless celebrity's that I don't watch or care about at every turn. On the sidelines, in the stands, in the tunnel, on the commercials that are so big budget that I'm not even sure what they are selling.
That Pringles commercial though did make me LOL!
The game was good I guess. The Rams sold out on draft picks and it was now or never as far as I'm concerned. There not going back to the big game next year I guarantee it. It was now or never for them.
The first half was nice and close, Joe Mixon can say for the rest of his life that he tossed a TD in the Superbowl.
Then this moron inexplicably came off the sideline to celebrate a TD and draw a penalty. It would have made more sense if I came out of the stands to dance like this, then that inactive nut doing that. What a clown.
Rams would go into the half up 13-10Halftime show? Some reporter goes "This is going to be the best halftime show ever!"
News flash, it wasn't.
This one was: SB1993 They said it was the first time that we Got Hip Hop and Rap. I hope it's the last. This was literally like if you had artist from the 1950's, playing the SB halftime show in the 1980's. These are the same exact artists from my high school days doing the same stuff from the early 1990's. Except for Eminem, but even that dude is older then me! And for a second I thought he was just a lost fan until he started to sing. I mean just Imagine it's the Superbowl 1985, but the act is from 1955. Like the Crew Cuts. That was this! Sigh. I guess at least these guys didn't need Autune?
And the set was cool pretty cool looking. But you know what, they have had like Madonna, and Prince, and the freaking Who! Those old fossils! So I get it. It's just not my thing I guess.
Actually the whole stadium is amazing looking. I've been through all of Jerry World including Jerry's personal suite and unless they have remodeled since 2010, the locker rooms in SoFi are bigger and better then the Cowboys. Fun fact! Jerry has his own elevator in his suite so that he can get to the sideline in under 30 seconds!
At least it was mildly better then 1989 SB Halftime show ft Elvis Presto.
They told us going in that Sean McVey was 43-1 in the regular season and 4-0 in the Post when leading at halftime. I knew right then and there that this fact might not age well!
The Bengals would score just 12 seconds into the third. And the former Dallas draft pick Chidobe Awuzie got a pick and we still were not 30 seconds in. Three points later and the Bengals are up seven.
Chi, like chin-Dhoh-Bay A-Woo-Z-A)The Rams would keep it tight despite loosing Odell to injury, but then Stafford would get gimpy and they didn't need the extra challenge. The Rams D would stiffen though and help keep the score tight, and then in the 4th, even Burrow got gimpy too! Actual these players were dropping like flies and attrition would seemingly win the day.
The Rams were down by four and first and goal, two minutes left and desperate for a score. You could see the Rams on the sidelines were in agony. I didn't think they would get a TD until the play got sloppy by both teams and stafford was able to hit Cooper Kupp the end zone and with 1:25 left, the Rams would go up by three, score 23-20
Burrow took the field and slowly worked the ball forward. A tough stop at three and one at the 50 did them no favors. Fouth and one, game on the line and Aaron Donald would play spoiler with a well timed (sack?) that would insure a Rams victory. Game over! Rams win Super Bowl 56! LA is going to be even more intolerable! FML!
Congrats to Rams' Van Jefferson on the birth of his new baby boy! Bye!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTM3qtGvOjg
Erin Jackson Skates for that Gold!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azTZCYNZ87o
Humphries and Taylor go one two!
Erin Jackson Gold Medal Winner!
Erin Jackson and Brittany Bowe Embrace!
Silver and Gold!
Rams Win!
Testing, one, two, three.
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Re: Kamila Valieva Gate... I just only heard of this last night (because I'm not really paying that closely attention to the Olympics 
) and something about her testing positive for a heart medication. So at the risk of sounding like a total noob (as opposed to just a noob hehe) Does she have a heart condition? Or is it really *gasp*doping (and is that how she was able to skate so well?) 
Also, I know Humphries is marrying another fellow athlete, except he's American so I'm assuming that's why she traded the Maple Leaf for the Stars and Stripes? But she sued some group for something I shall not mention here.
LOL besides that, that dude wearing flip flops and socks on to the field...
Edit: Hmm... I learned that whatever it is increases endurance and blood flow efficiency. It seems since she's a minor, she gets a different set of rules: skate, but no medal ceremony. This is kinda embarrassing IMO (not just this one specific case, but the whole country being banned in the first place
)
On a lighter note, I find it so cute whenever I hear athletes marrying other athletes. Like of course, that's pretty predictable (duh, where else are you going to meet people?), but still cute.
) and something about her testing positive for a heart medication. So at the risk of sounding like a total noob (as opposed to just a noob hehe) Does she have a heart condition? Or is it really *gasp*doping (and is that how she was able to skate so well?) Also, I know Humphries is marrying another fellow athlete, except he's American so I'm assuming that's why she traded the Maple Leaf for the Stars and Stripes? But she sued some group for something I shall not mention here.
LOL besides that, that dude wearing flip flops and socks on to the field...
Edit: Hmm... I learned that whatever it is increases endurance and blood flow efficiency. It seems since she's a minor, she gets a different set of rules: skate, but no medal ceremony. This is kinda embarrassing IMO (not just this one specific case, but the whole country being banned in the first place
)On a lighter note, I find it so cute whenever I hear athletes marrying other athletes. Like of course, that's pretty predictable (duh, where else are you going to meet people?), but still cute.
