FRIDAY, January 30, 2009
Friday, 1/30, 6:00PM: So CIS has an internal ‘box pool’ going on where the two last digits of the half time score and final score are winners. Of course, since gambling is illegal in the illustrious and mind-blowingly well-written CIS Handbook, the half time winner gets a CIS notebook and pen and the final score winner gets a 3 hour Government Programs 101 Training courtesy of GP Practice Lead Chris Cobourn. Therefore, there are clearly no winners and no CIS Handbook violations. (For the record and for fun throughout the game, I have: Steelers 0, Cardinals 1; Steelers 7, Cardinals 6; Steelers 6, Cardinals 8; Steelers 3, Cardinals 9; and Steelers 4, Cardinals 5). I’m calling Steelers 17, Cardinals 6 at half-time and a final score of Steelers 27, Cardinals 16 for the final score. Then, God willing, I’ll have a notebook to take a lot of notes for my GP 101 Training.
SATURDAY, January 31, 2009
10:33AM: Last year my wife and I were distraught that the name Plaxico was snatched away as a unique name for our first born. This year, we just chatted about the odds of Anquan also being taken. We’re obviously cursed.
4:34PM: I was watching a little golf on CBS on Saturday and found out that the Mean Joe Greene Coke commercial is being retired and can’t win the “Best Super Bowl Commercial” on their show tonight. Troy Polamalu will be taking his place in a ‘re-filming’ of the commercial. Nice touch, and Title IX appropriate, that they decided to use a little girl from a shampoo commercial this go around.
4:34PM and 3 seconds: My boss is a huge Steelers fan.
Random Thought: Does Phil Mickelson need a “Bro” or “Manzier”?
8:57PM: Mean Joe Greene was supplanted by the 2008 Rocky Clydesdale theme from last year. Because I think it’s important for writer’s to always stand by their words, this was my exact review from last year’s Super Bowl Glog:
“7:13PM (2008) - Bud commercial using horses, a dalmation and a Rocky theme. Fantastic. Best ad of the Super Bowl thus far. A-. There's still an A and A+ out there!”
SUPER BOWL SUNDAY, February 1, 2009
Random Thought: Is Kurt Warner old enough to be my Dad?
6:54AM: I’m going for the Cardinals not because I hate the Steelers or like the Cardinals, but because I like the underdog. That’s why I like myself so much.
11:12AM: The Cardinals were 8-8 this year. If they win the Super Bowl it would be as impossible as the New England Patriots making the playoffs without cheating.
3:21PM: Taking another walk with the wife. It’s 53 degrees in Media, PA on February 1st. I
wonder what that pesky groundhog will say tomorrow…
6:00PM: Watching golf and marveling at the fact that Super Bowl coverage began at 1PM this afternoon. Did anybody really watch all of that??? By the way, Kenny Perry just made a bad bogey on 18 to force a playoff with Charley Hoffman. Much like last year, 99.9% of you care more about just about anything else.
6:13PM: ‘Duplicity’ with Julia Roberts. Nope.
6:15PM: Kurt Warner just won the “NFL Man of the Year” award for his Habitat for Humanity efforts. Good for him. He’s still old.
6:16PM: Faith Hill sings “God Bless America”. I wonder if Carrie Underwood is bitter that Faith has the spotlight on Super Bowl Sunday. (Few of you will get that and a part of me is ashamed to have written it).
6:18PM: The crew from US Air Flight 1549 enters the field. I don’t have a joke here. It just wouldn’t fly.
Random Thought: What will the pharmaceutical industry’s presence be like this year during the ads?
6:19PM: Jennifer Hudson. B-.
6:28PM: Heads.
6:28PM and 1 second: YOU KNOW IT! (So the NFC has won the coin toss 12 times in a row. That’s amazing.)
6:32PM: Kick off --- FINALLY!!!! The Cardinals’ kicker makes the tackle at the 28 yard line or so --- good for him!
6:38PM: Touchdown Steelers. That was scarily easy. Oh wait. We have a review coming…
6:39PM: Bud Light’s Drinkability commercial with a guy ending up getting thrown out of the window for suggesting that they stop drinking Bud Light at every meeting. C. Mostly because “Drinkability” is a stupid ad campaign. If you drink it, it should be drinkable. I’m Steven Moore and I approve this message.
6:42PM: 4th down! Review says NOPE for the touchdown. 3-0 Steelers. That will help the Steelers get to 17 at half time for me.
6:44PM: Bob Dylan and Will.I.Am commercial. Nicely done. Pepsi gets the first B of the night.
7:00PM: End of the first quarter. 3-0 Steelers. That was a fast and relatively boring quarter.
7:01PM: Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head Ad. B.
7:05PM: Go Daddy.com commercial with Danica Patrick. Interesting to see that her racing talent can be combined with her racy talent.
7:08PM: 10-0 Steelers. On our way to 17-6, but I have to say that this game is headed in a bad direction.
7:11PM: So the Clydesdale fetches a bigger stick than the Dalmatian. Cute, but I thought they were friends. B.
7:13PM: The Budweiser Clydesdale’s are the theme it seems. So the male Clydesdale finds the female and jumps over the Grand Canyon in the process. I’m trying to figure out how this makes me want to drink a Budweiser --- just like a horse fetching a giant stick? Oh, that’s right, because it’s drinkable. C+.
7:21PM: Touchdown Cardinals --- Ben Patrick out of The University of Delaware. The same school as my beautiful wife is getting her PhD! 10-7 Steelers and my first half hopes of winning a notebook are waning.
7:31PM: My wife and I just spent 15 minutes reviewing the numbers on the block pool and figuring out how I could win. That’s how exciting this game has been.
7:33PM: Hyundai Genesis commercial with Mercedes, BMW and Lexus executives pronouncing Hyundai correctly. I absolutely love the ‘in your face’ style of this commercial. B.
7:36PM: E*Trade Baby Commercial. Our favorite baby from last year and his friend baby singing Mr. Mister. “Take these broken wings…” B+. I laughed out loud.
7:39PM: CIS. Complianceability. (Brought to you by Grey Goose vodka)
7:43PM: TeleFlora commercial with talking flowers saying, “Nobody wants to see you naked.” “You have an ugly mug.” I get the point, but that’s like having a car commercial where the car crashes.
7:47PM: Apparently pigeons love Cheetos too. Eatability. C+.
7:53PM: 100 yard interception return for a touchdown by James Harrison! Wow --- the longest play in Superbowl history! That changes the complexity of this game. Thanks Einstein. 17-7 Steelers. Congrats to Justin Will for having 7 and 7. Enjoy your CIS Notebook and Pen. Jerk.
7:57PM: “The President set the terror level at Brown because I have to change my pants.” From the preview for the movie Monsters versus Aliens movie. Very nice. (Movie previews don’t get grades).
8:31PM: Took a shower at half time because I have to travel to our Raleigh, NC office tomorrow. How was Bruce?
8:33PM: John Madden says, “If the Cardinals had lost Anquan Boldin, it would be a big loss.” This just in: If Tiger Woods gets hurt, others have a chance.
8:36PM: Beer commercials 8. Drug commercials 0. Wait --- isn’t alcohol a drug?
8:37PM: Denny’s is giving away a Free Grand Slam breakfast.
8:40PM: Another Budweiser Horse commercial. I’m still gonna grab a martini. (A.K.A. Stevetini)
8:48PM: Terrible Rouging the Passer call on Cheesberger. It’s football, not figure skating.
8:54PM: For the first time in the history of the NFL, there was a “Roughing the Holder” call. I repeat: a “Roughing the Holder” call. What a stupid play and call. The odds of the holder scoring a touchdown after the ball was kicked were…
8:58PM: CareerBuilder.com and Monster have both had advertisements. Have they seen the unemployment numbers?
9:01PM: Coke Commercial with the bugs --- A-. That was an amazing commercial. The graphics and feeling of it were both fantastic and so very ‘Coke’ (I’m a marketer in a past life). That commercial is in the lead for me.
9:05PM: Usama Young of the New Orleans Saints was selected as the NFL’s best story for a Super Bowl Ad. Great to see him make it so far with the first name ‘Usama’. It’s almost as if you could be President of the United States of America with the middle name Hussein. Perhaps it’s because Usama has USA as the first three letters…
9:12PM: Yawn.
9:18PM: So the new Coke commercial with Troy Polamalu was far worse than simply copying the original commercial with Mean Joe Greene --- which is the best I’ve ever seen. The concept of Coke Zero having the same taste as Coke is like the people who think driving a Camry is like driving a Lexus. D.
9:26PM: Larry Fitzgerald is amazing. What a catch! 20-14 Steelers.
9:33PM: I love MacGyver. Best TV show ever. However, that was a horrific Pepsuber commercial. D.
9:41PM: James Harrison punches a guy and hits a guy hard while he’s done. Shameful. Cardinals should get the ball back for that nonsense and he should be tossed out of the game.
9:42PM: Almost a safety --- that would have killed my hopes for a 21-20 Cardinals win and a FREE Government Programs 101 Training!!!!
9:45PM: A Safety!!!! Dangit. 20-16 Steelers. I need a 27-16 Steelers win here for me to get that GP 101 Training I oh so covet.
9:48PM: OH MY GOD!!!! 23-20 Cardinals after a remarkable TD by the MAN Larry Fitzgerald. What a game this has turned out to be!
10:00PM: WHAT AN INSANE CATCH!!!! I think he had it! Steelers 27-23.
10:10PM: The Steelers win and are the Super Bowl Champions. Good night. Troy Polamalu is a girl.
(John Jordan wins the FREE GP 101 Training. Congrats John. It will be the most fascinating 3 hours of your life)
For Your Space,
Steven.
stevenmoore@cis-partners.com
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The ads were lackluster at best with a few smatterings of good one's in between.
My favorite was the E*Trade Babies, with one of them singing excerpts from the 1984 (Dang, I am old!)hit "Broken Wings" by Mr. Mister. Hilarious. Although, I am still trying to figure out what the line "That you're half of the flesh and blood that makes me whole" means. What were you thinking when you wrote that John? (He's the lead singer for Mr. Mister). For those of you keeping score at home, and I know you are, they had another hit song by the name of "Kyrie" back in 1985.
Was Faith Hill singing "America The Beautiful?" If she was, why was the choir not miked?
Jennifer Hudson's rendition of our National Anthem was ok, but I commend her for standing in front of 60k people after the tragedies that she has been suffering through over the past couple of months. I don't know how she got through that without breaking down.
Great to see the Flight Crew from 1549 honored before the game. By the way, one of our tugs was the first to see the plane land so effortlessly into the Hudson River, and then called the Coast Guard in the process. Well done on the part of the Ross Sea, and her crew.
Yes! Roethlisberger's knee was down. I saw that on the first replay before the Cardinals even threw the challenge flag out.
By the way Steve, Kurt Warner is only 6 years older than I am!
Bud had some great ads, but like you, I don't like the "Drinkability" angle, partly because drinking Bud Light is like drinking water. You could add hops, barley and water to Poland Springs, and it would probably taste better.
Will Forte's MacGuyver spoof was terrible. I think SNL only aired that bit once, and shelved it. What was Lorne Michaels thinking when he said yes to that?!! No wonder their ratings are tanking. Bring back "Church Lady" and "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood," and then come talk to me. Pepsi was lacking "marketability" on that one-F.
Another little nugget of facts for you all...Did you know that Coke was orginally green, and cocaine (hence the name Coca-Cola) was used as the pick-me-up before caffeine was discovered.
UDel being represented at the Super Bowl...That must have been a first for that school.
Fuquon is still out there now that Plaxico and Anquan are taken. Turk and Carla on "Scrubs" didn't use it when they were kicking around names before landing on Izzy. So there's hope yet.
Halftime starring Bruce and The E-Street Band. I chose not to watch as I am no longer a fan of his. We get it Bruce, you're from Jersey. Time to hang it up there buddy. Silvio from the "Sopranos," aka Little Stevie must be sick of playing those songs. I watched WSOP: Europe instead, and Phil Helmuth's constant whinning. I can't stand him. The guy to watch is Daniel Negraneau, and his uncanny knack for figuring out what cards his opponent might have. It is amazing to watch if you're a fan of the WSOP.
James Harrison. The longest touchdown in Super Bowl history, and what does he do for an encore...kick and punch a Cardinal while he's down. Absolutely dispicable, and really waranted an ejection from the game. Play football, or join the MMA Circuit.
Larry Fitzgerald is one of the best receivers I have seen in a long time, and I have seen a lot of them over the years.
Lastly, I hate the Steelers!
For Your Approval,
Tom
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