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February 5, 2017: Oh Right, That Game

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Last night while my wife and I were at the Ladysmith Black Mambazo concert, she reminded me that the Super Bowl is tonight. Huh. I'm off, but not sure if I'll watch. I've never skipped it, but I've worked about ten of them in a row, so I haven't had to make the call recently, either.

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  1. for the second year in a row, without thinking about it, i scheduled myself to be in portland for the game. oh well. see you guys in a little bit.

        1. It IS all it's cracked up to be!

          BTW, was up at 4:40 this morning to a beautifully dark east horizon and saw the southern cross in all its glory.

          entered while enjoying the technology of a hammock

          1. On my screen that got split on the sidebar as "gettin-goldersucks." Spent a few moments trying to think of a situation when becoming "golder" would be a bad thing.

    1. They moved us up to noon. 2-2 in the second beginner league.

      Question: Is it legal to throw the stone out of bounds on the side intentionally? Does it have to go a certain distance first?

      1. I think a throw has to cross the far hog line to be a valid throw. Or is it the center line?

        1. The stone needs to fully cross the hog line to be valid, but what algonad is asking about is a situation where they're probably on the hammer and are already laying points. Most likely there's no way to get more and the only possible outcome is messing up and losing points, so he's asking if its ok to just toss it into the side board so it can't screw anything up.

      2. I don't know of any rule prohibiting that. The only thing that miiiiiight be iffy is whether the other team considers it a bit unsporting. Usually, though, when a situation like that pops up, there's space on one side or the other to just throw up weight and really wide to avoid any risk of hitting anything.

        We had a bye last Sunday and I had to miss Thursday this past week so my wife could do something work related (though we still won and are currently at 11-0 and have already qualified for the playdowns.) so last night was the first time I'd been out in a week and a half, and, ugh, it went poorly. I threw well enough but it was one of those nights where every break went for the other team. We're 0-2 and effectively out of it, so I'm going to let my third skip the rest of the half. Ah well, the Thursday league is the more important one anyway.

        1. My problem is that I feel like I'm getting worse as our team improves. In the first session, everytime I threw, we were behind so there was nothing to lose. Now, there are more ways to screw up so I'm thinking "don't go too long" or "don't miss left and knock them in." I end up overcompensating to avoid the really bad shot and then don't make a good shot.

          1. Curling can be a cruel sport like that. Basically you just have to trust your throw and let the sweepers take care of any miss. Generally, its the skips responsibility to understand the other three members and adjust broom placement according to their tendencies. If it makes you feel any better, this is my seventh year and I still throw in-turn takeouts way wide. In fact, I did it again last night in a critical spot, which is so much worse when its skip stones. Eventually, you'll start hitting the broom more and your weight will start falling into place.

  6. It would be very hard to find a Super Bowl halftime act more corporate than that. Everything from her awful mapping and lyrics to the laugh-worthy mic drop...oh man. I think I'm glad I saw it. Painful.

    1. yeah I was hoping Gaga might throw at least a subtle "FU" to the establishment. Alas. Budweiser did a better job at that

        2. No doubt. I was thinking to myself that we don't have to worry about Gaga "Pulling a Cher" and surprising us with her acting chops anytime soon.

    3. It was so weirdly subdued.

      I mean, it was clearly six years too late to be doing a Lady Gaga halftime show, but even so, it was certainly bloodless.

      1. I saw a certain crazy person's tweet that claimed she was going to do a satanic ritual at halftime. I didn't watch at all, but I think I would have made some effort to watch if that were true since it almost certainly would have been more entertaining than what was certain to actually happen.

  7. That was one of the best super bowls ever and I found it mildly entertaining. After Game 7 of Cubs/Indians I couldnt fall asleep for 3 hours.

    2. Can a game be considered an all timer if half the game (in this case the first half) was awful?

      1. There were about three times I almost switched the game off, then thought "I'll just watch a little bit more". I'm glad I did.

    4. It was a strangely boring comeback. Very sneaky. Even when they scored to make it a 8 point deficit, it didn't really feel real.

      The choke definitely falls on the coaching, though. With that disparity in the time of possession and those running backs, how do you not run the ball more in the second half?

    5. I'm stealing this for FB. It needs a wider audience. Not that my feed is particularly wide.

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