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Jan. 23rd, 2012 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretUm... Holy Fuck the Giants game!!!!!
I should probably say more than that, but really, that's all there is to say. I listened to the post-game show on WFAN and Roman Oben totally shut down a guy who called in to shout about it, begging for intelligent conversation, but really, that's all there is to say. Holy Fuck the Giants game! And really, what a great football weekend altogether.
I was down at Penn on Saturday night for Alai's movie night. We watched the De Niro film "Ronin", which is interesting but kind of slowly-paced in a way that at times made it feel padded. We watched "Danger 5", which is still the coolest thing ever. And we watched the DS9 episode "Our Man Bashir", which is never not hilarious. Being in Philly made it easy to drive down to Baltimore Sunday morning to watch the games at Steve's. He's a big Raven's fan; I'm a big Giants fan. It seemed like it'd be fun to root for both our teams to make the Super Bowl.
Unfortunately, the Ravens lost in brutal fashion, which knocked the wind out of Steve's sails for much of the Giants game, but both the Ravens-Pats and Giants-Niners games were amazing examples of why football is so compelling (as well as full of reminders of why football is so problematic.)
I kept thinking about the Giants-Packers game from the last time we went to the Super Bowl. It was me, Soctt, and Belle in a Cambridge bar, having ditched the Dr. Awkward Mystery Hunt for the game. And there was a puzzle in the Hunt called Giant Game, which as I recall was a Princess Bride puzzle, but after the game we called HQ and said "We know the answer to Giant Game. It's Super Bowl." And we spelled it out, S-U-P-E-R etc.. and I was dizzy with glee and I didn't even know that the best was yet to come. Hopefully the big game will bring more of the same this year. Pats be going down!
I should probably say more than that, but really, that's all there is to say. I listened to the post-game show on WFAN and Roman Oben totally shut down a guy who called in to shout about it, begging for intelligent conversation, but really, that's all there is to say. Holy Fuck the Giants game! And really, what a great football weekend altogether.
I was down at Penn on Saturday night for Alai's movie night. We watched the De Niro film "Ronin", which is interesting but kind of slowly-paced in a way that at times made it feel padded. We watched "Danger 5", which is still the coolest thing ever. And we watched the DS9 episode "Our Man Bashir", which is never not hilarious. Being in Philly made it easy to drive down to Baltimore Sunday morning to watch the games at Steve's. He's a big Raven's fan; I'm a big Giants fan. It seemed like it'd be fun to root for both our teams to make the Super Bowl.
Unfortunately, the Ravens lost in brutal fashion, which knocked the wind out of Steve's sails for much of the Giants game, but both the Ravens-Pats and Giants-Niners games were amazing examples of why football is so compelling (as well as full of reminders of why football is so problematic.)
I kept thinking about the Giants-Packers game from the last time we went to the Super Bowl. It was me, Soctt, and Belle in a Cambridge bar, having ditched the Dr. Awkward Mystery Hunt for the game. And there was a puzzle in the Hunt called Giant Game, which as I recall was a Princess Bride puzzle, but after the game we called HQ and said "We know the answer to Giant Game. It's Super Bowl." And we spelled it out, S-U-P-E-R etc.. and I was dizzy with glee and I didn't even know that the best was yet to come. Hopefully the big game will bring more of the same this year. Pats be going down!