Monday, February 07, 2011

Game Review: Packers 31, Steelers 25 (plus a zillion interceptions). Oh, yeah. Habs "played" too... I guess.

"And in the end, the [Packers of Green Bay] triumphed by kicking an oblong ball made of pigskin through a big "H". It was a most gripping victory."

OMG you guys, what a game!! I didn't even notice the fact that Montreal doesn't get American commercials anymore (Curse you, CTV!!) because I was sooo absorbed in the action on the field. Seriously, can you believe how many interceptions that...

... Oh, wait. I'm supposed to review the Habs game?

Oh.

Well, either the Habs seemed to know that they were predestined to lose to the Devils as usual or they were busy thinking about kickoff in a game in which they weren't even playing. How else do you explain the fact that they didn't show up for the first period (or much thereafter) and, even though Fat Marty wasn't around for the second period and was busy stuffing his face with hotdogs, much like Cammy D was stuffing A-Rod's face with popcorn (for the record: ewwww) they still didn't manage to win against those devilish fuckers, ad nauseam, ad infinitum. Way to sully a pretty outstanding week, fellas!!

Much like the Habs, I stopped paying attention after the first few Devils goals too. Clearly, we all had better things to think about on Super Bowl Sunday.

Next year, I'll show them how to make chicken wings in their slow cooker so that they can stop fretting about their snacks and concentrate on the game instead.

But, hey, at least there were Habs jerseys somewhere in the vicinty of an actual sporting event yesterday:

Too bad those jerseys saw more action than those on the Bell Centre ice yesterday afternoon.

19 comments:

moeman said...

Nicely done lg.

WV = fuck.

Steve said...

The commercials mostly sucked like Mex's wrist shot. For sure bad karma for Groupon or anyone who uses their service. The Sebring was possibly the worst car ever made in North America on purpose, but the EM spot for its replacement made me all jiggy. Pirates of the Carri bean must be a lousy movie, why would Disney waste money promoting it. FOX could not sell more than half the ad time so all we saw was mattress commercials and promos for American Idol and Glee.

Habsfan10 said...

Kessel told Elliot Freidman he wants to be a Leaf forever. So apparently he's as dumb as we all suspected.

Anonymous said...

@10

Great point, he did play for the B's after all...

Young HF29 said...

I think we should consider just dumping the Super Bowl twin matinees already

Orangeman said...

The thing about Groupon is that they actually have a section on their website where you can donate to the causes they bring up in their commercials and they will match it. Once I found that out it put the commercial in a whole new light.

Not to get all policial, but which is worse; a Walmart commercial ignoring the fact they exploit people in China to make their cheap goods, or a Groupon commercial that jokes about our society's neglect of the issue while also giving you the opportunity to donate to the cause and pledging to match that donation? To me, the outrage at Groupon is more about being forced to aknowledge the truth than anything else.

And so forth.

Orangeman said...

Oh, about the game, yes. Just a note on the reffing. It's not the reason they lost, but it's not always rainbows when they 'just let them play'. That rule doesn't really work out when one team gets an early lead and spends the rest of the game hooking, grabbing and interfering to keep it. Or when one team uses speed and the other uses the trap. Or when one team high sticks one defender and grabs another to score their first goal. In theory it's great, like letting 'boys be boys' but some boys need a good whoopin' once in a while.

Steve said...

@orangeman, based upon my expert knowledge of Tibet, which comes exclusively from watching 7 years in Tibet, I thought the Groupon was exploitive of the tragedy of Tibet and Richard Gere going prematurely gray. I thought the Groupon was the best of a bad bunch, like being a sniper on the leafs.

Steve said...

Aside from a lack of finishing skills that make sleeping in your own vomit look adorable, there were good signs in the Devils game.

1)Mex is effective at gaining the blue line and making a play again.

2)Tits looks like he wants a better contract or make himself more attractive to little tits team.

3)Swiss Miss II gets better every game.

Orangeman said...

@Steve: I guess I was trying to say was which is more exploitive; a company (ie almost all of them) that uses injustice in the world as their business model and whitewashes it, or a company that aknowledges using those injustices as unavoidable, brings up the issue, provides space to donate to it and matches those donations. Everyone is up in arms simply because Groupon mentioned the oppression of Tibet, yet no one seems to care that countless companies use that oppression daily. I guess it's ok to exploit people as long as you don't remind those benefitting that's why a gross of tube socks is only a buck. Really, people seem to be more upset about the commercial than the actual oppression.

But anyway, I liked both Volkswagon commercials I saw online. The Darth Vader one and the insect one.

Steve said...

@orangeman

I agree with you on the hypocritical eye of the market, but I think the Groupon ad was to clever, and almost flippant about a very shameful situation.

None of the ads measured up and the etrade ones were juvinile!

Steve said...

Things that make me go Meh little tits

Oh the humanity

Steve said...

Can you believe fucking Phil the donut boy, yes, can you see Chocula sucking up to him after such an outburst, no.

Burka's head is going to explode.

Young HF29 said...

Steve I had a reader send in that L'il Tits goal and I avoided posting it like the plague. thx for ruining my day!

Young HF29 said...

Have finally seen all (or most of) the SB commercials, and I agree with Steve they were crap. the highlight was actually a commercial for the NFL

Fishfeet said...

The Habs didn't do too bad when you consider the rough game against the Rangers the day before. I think about half of the Habs' passes were completely off-target, even in their own zone.

On the Kessel meltdown, I just pray we won't end up with this pile of shit. Instead of a car, he should've received a box of no-name waffles.

Orangeman said...

What's the point of producing a $10 million dollar commercial for a 30 second spot now anyway? I saw most of them before the SB anyway. It used to be companies had to make outstanding spots for the SB to catch your attention in such a small time. There were more eyes are on the youtube, faceplace and twater yesterday than the SB.

WV: ballsac. Seriously.

moeman said...

Holy fucking shit, T(oronto)HockeyNews says something fucking positive about the Habs.

The CH rose in the fucking tsn rankings too;

http://tsn.ca/fantasy_news/rankings/nhl/

moeman said...

CHicoutimi!