on February 8th, 2010 by White Sox Cards
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on February 8th, 2010 by danhitt
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on February 8th, 2010 by T.S.
Next year it’s going to be different. I’ve had a policy in place now
for a long time that the television remote-control thingy gets put away every year
at the Super Bowl, but no more. They’ve turned everything upside down: it used
to be that the game sucked and the commercials were good, but not anymore.
That was a damn good game last nite and I was rooting for a tie so we
could have had a sudden-death finish. If anything would put some pressure on the NFL’s
dumb overtime rule, having somebody win the Super Bowl based on a coin toss would
be it.
But a rare Favre-like moment for Peyton Manning shelved that idea as
well – for the moment – and now I’m just left with a gala football game that’s come
full circle. Started out as a football game 44 years ago, rather quickly devolved
into a laughably silly capitalistic orgy and is slowly turning back into a football
game once again.
(The Super Bowl has gotten pretty silly in 44 years, but the potential for the
truly historic stuff – like Joe Willie’s brash prediction of upset in Super Bowl III
– means that the game itself is still important and nearly worthy of the hype.)
Oh, the excess is still there, still silly as ever – old geezer rock
bands at halftime? And I’m an old geezer! – but I think all that stuff is just tolerated
because the underlying product, the championship game, still matters.
All the sideshow stuff has kind of mutated into wretched self-parody,
starting first, last and always with the overpriced commercials. I can’t even say
decisively how it happened, but I do suspect that all the genuinely talented people
who used to work on Madison Avenue have spied the bigger bucks available by simply
waddling a bit further downtown. At least with the intriguing Super Bowl commercials
you always had the suspicion that real creativity was being rewarded; I don’t share
that fantasy when it comes to what happens in the financial district.
So no longer will I shelve the remote control on Super Sunday. I am going
to flit around the airwaves just as I do any other Sunday, hoping to find some billiards
on ESPN2 while the NFL behemoths are swatting each other on the butts in the huddle.
Still, I guess it’s an improvement to be disappointed in all the auxiliary
foolishness rather than in the game itself.
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on February 8th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
Jim Palmer 2008 Upper Deck Masterpieces
Taking a quick break from my strict player collection guidelines, I picked up this 2008 Upper Deck Masterpieces card featuring Jim Palmer.
I like the Masterpieces set – and I love how they brought back so many of baseball’s greatest players from decades past – Palmer included.
And while I would never [...]
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on February 8th, 2010 by steveisjewish
I think by now each of us bloggers have had an experience with another blogger that really blew your mind as far as generosity is concerned. Whether it be rookie cards, autos, memorabilia, the giving level of this community (without asking much in ret…
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on February 8th, 2010 by Dan
Who: Ken Harrelson Team: Kansas City AthleticsCard: 1966 ToppsAcquired: In Person, Soxfest 2010Comments: In juxtaposition to the Steve Stone Experience™, there was Ken “Hawk” Harrelson, who was great with the fans in line and put down this fantas…
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on February 8th, 2010 by JRJ
Jeff Figler, from the St. Louis Today site (special to the Post-Dispatch) is calling on all atheletes to use their best hand writing when signing baseballs.I’m not a fan of horrible signatures either, but as long as it’s unique and I’m able to read it,…
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on February 8th, 2010 by rosschrisman2003
On January 3, 1993, Frank Reich led the Bills to the largest comeback in NFL history. At halftime the Bills were losing 35-3 and in the second half Reich led the Bills to a 41-38 victory over the Oilers.
Reich was a rookie for the Bills in 1985, but didn’t get an actual rookie card made [...]
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on February 8th, 2010 by dgreen1899
Congratulations to the Saints and their fans for a huge Superbowl win last night! I was rooting for them, but really wasn’t so sure that they would win. They really found a way to contain Manning in the second half…Don’t give him th…
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on February 8th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
Now that my Eddie Murray player collection is complete I wanted to take the time to show off my favorite 5 cards from this set.
Card #5 – 1983 Topps
When card number 5 of a ‘Fab 5′ list starts with the 1983 Topps base card, you know that the list is going to be good!!!
I love [...]
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on February 8th, 2010 by Chris Harris
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on February 8th, 2010 by Captain Canuck
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on February 8th, 2010 by chemgod
Yesterday Brian Giles was offered an invite to LA Dodgers Spring Training camp along with a minor league contract. This comes on the heels of a terrible season where Brian was suffering from an arthritic knee. Last year he put up a 0.191/2/23 in just 225 at bats. Always being the stand up guy, he [...]
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