The Marmot’s Hole

15 Comments

1. boshintang
   Posted February 4, 2008 at 5:01 pm | Permalink

   I was rooting for Phoenix Arizona, my hometown, where the Superbowl was held. Phoenix is the real winner with all the cash flow generated to the city through tickets and advertisements.

2. a-letheia
   Posted February 4, 2008 at 5:08 pm | Permalink

   David Tyree’s catch on 3rd down on the last drive was a testament to the power of the human will.

3. dissidentdave
   Posted February 4, 2008 at 5:10 pm | Permalink

   re #2: “David Tyree’s catch on 3rd down on the last drive was a testament to the power of the human will.”

   or at least to having stickum slathered on his helmet.

4. a-letheia
   Posted February 4, 2008 at 5:16 pm | Permalink

   #1 Hmmm … One account was negative about Phoenix as a host for the SB.

   Right off of Yahoo:
   “It’s far too spread out and the downtown lacks life, which means you wouldn’t even know the Super Bowl was really happening. The stadium is nice, but it is one of the strangest architectural works you’ll see, plopped down in the middle of a suburb that still is a lot of desert. The NFL’s decision to stage its fan “NFL Experience” out in a parking lot there didn’t help. Oh, and it’s not even warm there this time of year.”

   http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/ne.....;type=lgns

5. a-letheia
   Posted February 4, 2008 at 5:25 pm | Permalink

   #3 “or at least to having stickum slathered on his helmet.”

   Aw, man, how can you pooh-pooh that catch…?

6. dissidentdave
   Posted February 4, 2008 at 5:34 pm | Permalink

   wasn’t pooh-poohing the catch at all. i intentionally said stickum on the helmet (and not on his hands) so as not to pooh-pooh.

   i still can’t believe he caught it. it was such an amazing catch, even more so in slo-mo, that it seemed like he had stickum on the helmet.

7. Andy Jackson
   Posted February 4, 2008 at 5:38 pm | Permalink

   Somebody please link to a video of said catch.

8. boshintang
   Posted February 4, 2008 at 5:55 pm | Permalink

   #4

   Hey, I never said Phoenix was a nice place to live. And the yahoo sports guy saying it’s not even warm there - that’s because the spectators were lucky. Warm in Phoenix is over 100 degrees farenheit.

   By the way, yahoo sports man did make a mistake. Glendale is actually not a suburb of Phoenix but an entirely different city. It just happens to be next to Phoenix.

9. a-letheia
   Posted February 4, 2008 at 8:25 pm | Permalink

   #7 Ask and you shall receive.

   http://www.nfl.com/videos?videoId=09000d5d8067d05e

10. a-letheia
    Posted February 4, 2008 at 8:28 pm | Permalink

    #6 I knew you were kidding around, man, … peace

11. John from Daejeon
    Posted February 4, 2008 at 9:50 pm | Permalink

    Millionaires not earning their money really makes me sad and disgusted with all the misplaced priorities in our world.

    What I really can’t stand though, is the Hollywood elite telling us “Joe Blow’s” who to vote for in the election since we obviously don’t have a brain to think for ourselves. I guess they can relate to the millionaire politicians running for the oval office better than those of us who teach, fix cars and people, wash dishes and wait on tables, grow the world’s food and drive it to its destinations, and other jobs that they find beneath themselves–you know us, the backbone of society, but definitely not the brains in their book.

12. John from Daejeon
    Posted February 4, 2008 at 9:52 pm | Permalink

    “Joe Blows”–damn apostrophe got away from me.

13. WangKon936
    Posted February 5, 2008 at 7:11 am | Permalink

    # 1,

    Is there any truth to the rumor that the sponsor for the statium was going to be King Taco before U of P swooped in?

14. WangKon936
    Posted February 5, 2008 at 7:12 am | Permalink

    Uh… is it just me or does Eli look like the down syndrome version of his brother Payton?

15. Bones
    Posted February 5, 2008 at 1:25 pm | Permalink

    Yep It’s you…..you left yourself wide open for that one LOL