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The Super Bowl, 2011

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OK, wait, just for one second let’s talk about the Puppy Bowl.  Did you guys see Two Face?  He was clearly the best and my favorite because he just wants to chill.

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I’m also probably going to be good friends with Oliver (and maybe his brother River) because we share a love of movies.

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But anyway, the Super Bowl.  So, this seems like it’s going to be a good game.  Most people that I’ve heard have been picking the Packers to win, but they aren’t huge favorites.  It should be close.  Plus, both the Packers and the Steelers have huge fanbases and storied histories.  There is a lot going on here.  And somehow, I absolutely could not care less.  I can’t remember the last time I was this uninterested in this game.

My desire to watch it is also hurt by the fact that the television rights this year belong to FOX, which means this is going to be really overproduced and will constantly pander to the lowest common denominator.  And will feature a robot.

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The unparalleled sports coverage of the New York Times.

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The New York Times proves once again that it only pretends to like sports:

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Because on game day what we all really want to read is an analysis of the opposing quarterbacks’ personal styles.  At least the Jets vs. Patriots preview coverage features players that are currently alive.  For the Chicago Bears they’re transporting us all the way back to the Great Depression.

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I suspect that they run stories like this because they still regret their adoption of color photography back in 1997.

Someone should tell the editors that when you’re talking football you need to tap into fans’ deep-rooted anger, aggression, and bloodlust.  The New York Post gets it.

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Columnist Steve Serby considers anything short of the literal decapitation of the opposing team’s coach and quarterback to be a failure, regardless of the score.

At the very least, The New York Times needs to employ more pun headlines.  ESPN has at least twelve people on their pun-writing staff at all times.  Look at the gem they came up with today:

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I think they might also need to hire a pun ombudsman; that headline can’t possibly be considered up to their standards of journalistic integrity.  It took me a full minute to even realize that it was a play on “fair-weather friends.”

New York Times, I love you, but you’re doing it wrong.

Music Video Monday

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Best Coast – “Boyfriend”

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This is the second time I’ve posted a video from an artist while openly complaining that they hadn’t made a video for a different song that I prefer only to find a video of the preferred song in my RSS reader just in time for Music Video Monday!  It’s like I control the internet!

[Via Stereogum]

Flying Lotus – “Kill Your Co-Workers”

I can’t get into Flying Lotus.  I know he’s John Coltrane’s great-nephew and everybody thinks he’s a visionary and everything, but I’m just not feeling it.  That said, this song serves as a pretty awesome soundtrack to a video about robots killing people during a parade.

[via Pitchfork]

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