Filed under: domestical, sporty spice | Tags: 24-20, 43, arizona cardinals, baby, bud light, budweiser, channing tatum, chris farley, commercial, doritos, e-trade, ftizgerald, g.i joe, gatorade G, get out of jail free, hinds ward, jack black, jason mcelwain, john belushi, kurt warner, land of the lost, matt leinart, meeting, michael cera, mike tomlin, monopoly, pittsburg steelers, polamalu, rochester, roethlisberger, santonio holmes, super bowl, superbowl, type-cast, what G means to me, will ferrell, XLIII, year one, youtube
being from the capital of north america, buffalo ny, my love of all things underdog meant i had an obligation to cheer for the cardinals. in other words, i watched the super bowl to vicariously live my football dreams through kurt warner. (side note: maybe next century, matt leinart. you should probably go home and play with your kid.)
as a female, i watched the super bowl for
1. kurt warner, the rags-to-riches story that is so decadent, oprah keeps it in her nightstand next to the lube and…
2. the commercials. you can talk during the game all you want, but prepare yourself for core meltdown if you so much as chew with your mouth open during a media time out.
now everytime i see a snow globe barrel through a vending machine, i’ll crave doritos. nice.
will ferrell’s movie doesn’t impress me.
but the g.i. joe movie? omigaw yes. (tan, stoic, backwards hat-wearing channing tatum will be my get-out-of-jail-free card when i’m married–purely because he is not my type. duh).
and how about michael cera, starring as the small spoon in ‘year one.’ he’s is so adorable with his awkward, “it’s not illegal to picture me naked– you’ll just feel guilty” naivite. other than being the clinically obese, perpetually drunk best friend (chris farley, john belushi), cera has the ultimate type-cast.
budweiser, the silly ho of super bowl commercial history, had me unimpressed with the absurdity of booze-fueled corporate meetings. then, it redeemed itself. (but it almost didn’t.)
gatorade G made my mom’s eyes water:
e-trade made my mom angry that there are no e-trade grandchildren in the near future (if everything goes as planned):
and here is golf baby. i mean, shameless. who doesn’t love babies sporting bite-sized hats.
Filed under: and... judged., sporty spice | Tags: 2/9/2008, arena, buff state, buffalo state, c-block, canisius, carl hudson, corner crew, golden griffins, griffs, hockey, ice griffs, jason weeks, jre, mike, RIT, rochester, suspension, taylor anderson, tiger babe, tigers, youtube
tomorrow evening, the canisius golden griffins are taking on RIT at buff state’s arena. ’sgo griffs.
that being my attempt to wrangle up a seemingly relevant thought, here is something my friend mike stumbled on last year.
http://ritcornercrew.org/tigerbabe.htm
and here’s my two cents:
1. why is her brother taking these pictures of her.
2. she can’t be a model. either tiger stripes do her no justice at all, or her photos accompany articles written in braille.
anyways, to see more proof that RIT has more computers than girls on campus, you should swing by to see a pretty good game. while these two teams don’t have a true rivalry, there is bound to be a great deal of tension and spite, along with freshman rowdies trying to prove themselves (ie. walking by the other team’s cheering section with their team’s banner).
here’s a dose of last year’s mayhem:
Filed under: and... judged., sporty spice | Tags: andrew peters, bit, buffalo, hungry hungry hippos, jarkko, ottawa, ouch, ruutu, sabres, senators, thumb
who’s up for a game of ‘hungry, hungry ruutus’?
side note- who would have thought that a taste of peters’ thumb would cost $31,000?
addendum to side note- no homo.
Filed under: and... judged., sporty spice, what's going on here | Tags: ball on a bit of string, billy elliot, billy idol, broadway, daft lads, dance off, dancing with myself, england, footy, futbol, geordie dancer, green street elite, green street hooligans, hear the drummer get wicked, mackem mover, newcastle, soccer, soccer AM, sunderland, you got served
think: ’green street hooligans’ meets ‘you got served’ meets ‘billy elliot the musical’ (followed by light spooning and long talks about feelings).
Filed under: sporty spice | Tags: 31-27, 42, 75, bills, bloody nose, buffalo, center, duke preston, fumble return, highlight reel, jeff triplette, jets, jp losman, knock, new york, nfl, referee, shaun ellis, stripes, touchdown
as if shaun ellis scoring a touchdown on a fumble return (so much for your highlight reel, loserman) wasn’t bad enough, jeff triplette will be picking turf out of his gums for the rest of the season.
welp– life’s tough. wear a helmet.
Filed under: sporty spice | Tags: 61, brian boitano, buffalo, ice skater, ice skating, isabel, losman, maxim afinogenov, mike, murphy's law, nhl lockout, robitaille, robitaille real estate, sabres, skates, south park, thirtysomething, what would brian boitano do, wwbbd
afinogenov has now replaced losman as numero uno on my list, “buffalo athletes that i really dislike, but can’t quite commit to hating- yet.”
from 2005-06 (post-lockout), afinogenov had 133 points in 134 games (spanning 2 seasons). now, he’s not even thirty and he has one goal in sixteen games. i would bet that you could plug me at center ice (packed in bubble wrap) and, relying on little more than murphy’s law and general physics, i would put up better numbers than that. it doesn’t look like his number’s getting hung from the rafters anytime soon, and he’s spent about eleven years with the sabres. bummer, man.
either mrs. afinogenov stopped her wifely, pre-game duties, or maxim needs to ask robitaille how to get into the real estate industry.
however, i will say that he is a phenomenal skater- but so is brian boitano.
Filed under: sporty spice | Tags: bills, buffalo, denial, epic failure, HDtv, jason peters, lindy ruff, losman, madden 09, miller, nathaniel hackett, offensive line, patrick lalime, ryan miller, sabres, sean kugler, T9, texting, turk schonert
madden 09 jinxed us. duh.
my mom just texted me that the sabres won. she’s hasn’t entirely grasped T9 yet, but i understood the general idea.
it’s no coincidence that i’ve failed to post buffalo sports awesomeness for the past three weeks. i’ve ignored it. with almost every game we’ve lost, i would stop watching with about 30 seconds left. then, i would curl up in a ball on the floor and rock back and forth pretending that it didn’t happen.
anyways, since i’m a girl and everyone will benefit from my knowledge of sports, here goes nothing:
the bills- i want jason peters shot or ”removed” by whatever method football players are choosing to kill people this season. i’m not picky. also, i want $100M spent on an offensive line- not wasted. and since the money was “spent”- Turk? Kugler? Hackett?- are you out there? can you chisel that fleshy mass into a real, live offensive line?- like the one’s on TV? it’s been three games in a row of me shattering my remote against the wall and it’s because of you and your big-boned gents.
the sabres- i want to see the team show up for an entire season, not just every other game. good lord. i have HDtv. give me something to watch on it. and lindy- you see that guy with the goofy smile that signed in july?- the one with gear similar to miller? um… use him? i mean, unless he’s losman on ice, things might improve. not that miller is bad- i mean, when you talk about excellent goalies, hasek and brodeur top my list. miller, in my book, is good. he makes amazing saves, but he’s not consistent enough to rate any higher. maybe he’s overworked. i don’t know.
Filed under: sporty spice | Tags: 17-2-3, 22-0, blue devils, bulldogs, casey sheehan, championship, clarence, cody rouse, east aurora, james quinn, kenmore east, phil pinzone, red devils, regional, sectionals, soccer, states, troy weber
kenmore east is one of three WNY high school soccer teams that are going to the state tournament this weekend.
i care not only because i graduated from there four years ago, but because my little brother (baby ‘zoner, if you will) scored the winning goal in the regional championship match against honeoye falls-lima. sick header off a picture perfect corner kick- no big deal (it was casey sheehan’s corner– remember that name). here’s the clip; his is the second goal shown on the footage: ken east vs. hf-l (11.08.2008)
of course, the buffalo news hasn’t covered soccer in the area nearly as much as it should (mind you, clarence-ranked 33 in the nation, 6 in the state- and east aurora are 22-0; kenmore east was not even ranked among large schools at the beginning of this season). and what the buffalo news managed to cover, they screwed up. ugh. but at least williamsville east and their women’s tennis team has gotten covered. i don’t know what i would do without those updates.
whereas our area used to get dominated by rochester’s high school teams, buffalo has an excellent chance of seeing what one of those championship rings really look like up-close.
anywho, here’s the full story. my bro has a couple of nice quotes. you should take a look: regional championship coverage (11.09.2008)
Filed under: sporty spice, what's going on here | Tags: 2nd base, hand check, sabres, sabretooth, slide
you say, “2nd base with a mascot,” i say, “hand check.”
Filed under: sporty spice | Tags: 26, boston bruins, buffalo, buffalo sabres, penalty, ryan miller, scissor fake, shootout, thomas vanek
sabie babies won in a shootout. miller turns away 4 out of 5 (including the chara’s abortion of a shot). thomas vanek scores the shootout winner (vanek will be performing at the casino alongside trent edwards, healing the sick and walking on water. don’t believe a thing i say). blah blah blah.
of course i loved the scissor fake– but let’s not forgot vanek’s sickest penalty shot ever:
