Super Bowl XLIX

[Guest]

I thought the big game should have its own thread. Hopefully, the P*tri*ts get destroyed.

[Guest]

[Guest]

Our Super Bowl drinking game

Take a drink every time:
There's an interception or fumble.
Passing or running play greater than 30 yards.
City of Phoenix is actually mentioned by name.
Rob Gronkowski is referred by simply “Gronk”.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is shown chewing gum.
Seattle’s 12th Man is mentioned.
Tom Brady is seen yelling on the sidelines (happy or sad).
Fox pimps a show by showing a celebrity from the show in the crowd.
Someone walks in and asks “who is winning” or “what just happened”.
The Patriots use a trick play.
Richard Sherman is mentioned along with any variance of “talks a lot”.
Marshawn Lynch is shown on the sidelines and he is not talking.
Marshawn Lynch touches himself… you know… down there.
Deflategate is mentioned.
The referees squeeze the ball to test it out.
Someone in the room defends Katy Perry.
Skittles are seen.

Car Colors – Everyone in the room picks a color. When a car commercial comes on, whoever picked the color of the car in the commercial doles out a drink to anyone in the room.

Celebrity Names – Whoever yells out the correct name of the celebrity in a commercial wins. The person to their direct left, takes a drink. 2 drinks if the celebrity was famous in the 80’s. Movie trailer commercials don’t count.

Mindy Kaling – Mindy Kaling will appear in a commercial. The last person in the room yell “Mindy” has to take 2 drinks.

Lindsay Lohan – The Lo will show up. When she does, the last person to yell "DRUNK" has to be the serving wench for the rest of the quarter.

Puppies and Babies – Everyone splits up into two teams – puppies and babies. Count up the number of appearances of either. At the end of the game, the team that had the least amount of appearances has to drink the total number (define a max beforehand).

[bonehead]

how many toilets do you have in your house?

[Guest]

how many toilets do you have in your house?

2 indoor and a lot more out back.

[bonehead]

2 indoor and a lot more out back.

OH GOOD

[Stinky Wizzleteats+]

SUPER BOWL
NFL lays out how Super Bowl footballs will be inspected, guarded

Gary Mihoces, USA TODAY Sports
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A Wilson Super Bowl football takes shape Wednesday.
PHOENIX — During Super Bowl XLIX, the NFL will have to keep track of nearly five times more footballs than for a typical game — and that will include whether they are properly inflated. The league said there will be "added security," too.

Amid a continuing investigation probing whether the New England Patriots used illegally deflated balls during the AFC Championship Game, the NFL held its first pre-Super Bowl officiating press conference Thursday. Ball inflation was a prime topic.
Prior to other games, each team prepares and breaks in 12 footballs it will use that day. They are presented to officials two hours and 15 minutes before kickoff for inspection, including an air pressure test.
For the Super Bowl, the Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will each have 54 balls.

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"The thing with the Super Bowl is during the first half, we rotate footballs in as much as possible, because then those balls are used for charity and NFL auction," said Dean Blandino, the league's vice president of officiating.
"So that's something that's been in place for many years at the Super Bowl."
The awareness over proper ball inflation has become quite heightened since the start of the controversy known as Deflategate. It has brought denials from Patriots coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady that they had anything to do with deflating balls, perhaps to gain a grip advantage in the rain against the Indianapolis Colts two weeks ago.
The protocol for who oversees the balls before kickoff changes at the Super Bowl, too.
"So we have 108 footballs that we take custody of on Friday," said Blandino. "The teams do practice with those footballs. They prepare them, and then we take custody of those footballs on Friday.

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"We have them in our control, and then they're brought to the officials' locker room three hours before kickoff Sunday. We inspect them, we gauge them and then basically approve or disapprove of the football."
There will be an extra wrinkle Sunday.
"There will be some added security just because of the environment that we're in for this game," said Blandino, though he offered no specifics.
"Just some additional security measures from Friday when we take custody to when they deliver them on Sunday," he offered. "Not quite Stanley Cup (protection for the NHL's famous trophy), but there will be additional measures."
The man in control of the balls in the days before Super Bowl XLIX will be Tony Medlin, equipment manager for the Chicago Bears.
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"(He) has been doing this for a long time, he has custody of the footballs," said Blandino, specifying that Medlin will bring the balls to the officials for inspection Sunday before turning them over to the ball boys.
Under league rules, balls must be inflated between 12.5 and 13.5 pounds per square inch of air pressure.
While the Patriots are still under investigation, the league has determined, "footballs that were under-inflated were used by the Patriots in the first half (against the Colts), (and) the footballs were properly inflated in the second half."
Were the balls in the AFC title game properly inspected by referee Walt Anderson before the game?
"We did review what happened pre-game, and from everything we reviewed and all the information we have ... the balls were properly tested and marked prior to the game," said Blandino.
Why were the balls checked at halftime?

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"There was an issue that was brought up during the first half. A football came into question, and then the decision was made to test them at halftime," said Blandino, who didn't reveal how the issues was raised.
"There's an investigation going on. I can't get into too many specifics. But really, that's the chain of events that occurred during the course of the game."
Might there be halftime inflation checks Sunday?
"We'll plan accordingly, and if a situation comes up, we'll adjust," said Blandino.
He expects the league to consider altering its pregame protocol for handling the footballs in the future.
"I think it's something that's going to be discussed by the (competition committee)," said Blandino.
"There's a lot of different things that can happen with the process. We can test balls at halftime just randomly. ... That's something that will be discussed."

[Stinky Wizzleteats+]

2 indoor and a lot more out back.

Lake Side toilet rules, SDFan would approve!

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2 indoor and a lot more out back.

That's 5 fewer than Jay Cutler had in his house in Denver.

[Guest]

That's 5 fewer than Jay Cutler had in his house in Denver.

Technically, 4. One was a douche closet.

[Guest]

I just looked on StubHub and there are 263 tickets still available. The cheapest one is $8,342.75. Holy shit.

[Guest]

Can't wait for all the commercials. This year, NBC is making $4.5 million per 30 second ad spot. That breaks down to $150,000 per second, or roughly the same amount as my student loan interest.

I'm loving the new Snickers commercial.