Site News: We Have Our Super Bowl Prop Bet Winners, Finally

Folks, sorry it took almost a week to get this figured out but we’ve finally gotten our prop bet winners for our Super Bowl contest. You can thank/blame Jimmy Traina at SI’s Hot Clicks for making me sift through hundreds upon hundreds of entries. Oh, and to those of you who filled out a poll without putting your name or email address…you are idiots. It’s a contest. How the hell am I supposed to figure out who you are if you won?

Idiots. 117 of you are idiots. You know what else? The 17 people who filled out the FAKE FORM I put up after the game started with CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS that the contest had ended and the form was just there as a reference…you aren’t just idiots but I can only assume are cheating idiots. I mean, seriously, folks, read the damn directions.

Now to celebrate those who didn’t just get called an idiot: Nick ended up with 15 correct answers, meaning that you needed to score 16 or higher to be eligible for some prize.READ MORE

NFL Does Smart Job Making Good On Super Bowl Seating Debacle

The last thing the NFL PR and operations people needed last night was angry fans. Certainly with all the weather issues and logistical challenges during the week at Jerry’s World, the league couldn’t have foreseen the disaster of 400 fans without seats. Alas, you don’t have to go home, but you can’t sit here.

How can you sell tickets for seats that don’t exist? How can you sell tickets for seats that aren’s safe enough to sit? You trust Jerry Jones. That’s obviously how.

It’s ridiculous that the 100,000 plus seats weren’t enough for the league that they — and Jones — had to squeeze in extra seating. It’s a disaster and it should always be a footnote in the history of this Super Bowl; the Packers beat the Steelers, it snowed all week in Dallas and a fan seating disaster.

Having said that, the league sure has come through with a make-good for the ousted fans. Per NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy:

So the fans who couldn’t be placed in seats got to stand outside and watch the game onREAD MORE

DL520: Super Bowl, Commercials & Do People Just Hate Joe Buck Because It’s Trendy?

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Nick and I talk about the game, but try to focus more of our time on the other stuff…the stuff that’s more fun to debate than a game that was entertaining, but not fantastic by any means. Maybe it’s the “holy crap football might be gone for a long time” depression or the fact that the game featured two teams that you really can’t hate, but it just ended. It was there, it was fun and now it’s over. Congrats, Packers.

So, Nick and I focus on the commercials a lot. Plus, why does everyone pile on Joe Buck so much? Is it a, pardon the pun, pack mentality or is Buck really that terrible an announcer? Doesn’t it feel like ripping Joe Buck just makes people think they’re cool. He’s not that bad, and he’s much better suited for a big game situation than some other announcers who repeatedly make it all about them with over-the-top calls. He’s not the best, but Joe Buck is fine. At some point everyone isREAD MORE

Call of the Day: The Top And Bottom Five Super Bowl Commercials

For someone who watches as much TV as I do, the Super Bowl has usually been more about the commercials than the game. In recent years, however, the game has been fantastic and the commercials have been way too safe, making the Super Bowl actually about football again.

This year, we were treated (?) to a host of questionable (and certainly not safe) commercials, including a British game show that simulated having anal sex with a car, a coupon company insulting…everyone, a guy licking another guy’s finger (and sniffing someone else’s pants), plastic Joan Rivers and a dude re-animating a dead man’s ashes by sprinkling salty snacks on him.

Try explaining THAT to a three-year old.

Maybe the ad wizards have broken out of their shell a little with the Super Bowl ads this year. Did it work? Here are our top five, followed by our bottom five. Let us know your favorites too. (Quick note: we are not including any ads for FOX shows — including the very good House spoof of Mean Joe Greene — andREAD MORE

Note To Super Bowl Media This Weekend: Enough About The Damn Weather

If you’ve been following the Super Bowl run-up as closely as I have, you’ve noticed that everyone in Dallas is talking about one thing: the weather. It’s cold. It’s icy. It’s cold and icy. And windy and snowy and cold and icy and SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT THE WEATHER YOU ARE AT THE SUPER BOWL.

(Takes deep breath. Continues.)

The Twitpics of your hotel rooftop were cute on Tuesday and there was a time early Wednesday when the ice storm was causing rolling blackouts, creating an actual modicum of news, in that the people who are at the Super Bowl to cover the game may not have had enough power to file their stories, talk on their shows or, gasp, surf the internet.

Today, there’s actual news about the weather as people have been getting hit by sheets of snow and ice falling off the stadium, at least one person critically injured. So by all means, cover that. It’s a terrible situation and it warrants hard-news coverage.

The rest of you? The sportswriters there to cover the game whoREAD MORE

DL519: Pick Against Our Super Prop Bets To Win Prizes! (Seriously)

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Nick and I decided to run through some of our favorite prop bets for the Super Bowl with the person getting more right taking home an awesome prize of lunch or ten bucks or something just to have some action on the game.

We thought it would be fun to get you involved too. Fill out the form below with your picks for all the props Nick and I selected on today’s show. If you beat us*, you get a prize including but not limited to a P&G Swag Bag full of really cool products, a $25 iTunes gift card, some cool movie giveaways or something else really cool we can find. The better you do, obviously, the better your prize will be. If anyone gets them all right, you’ll win a car or something great like a car (note: you won’t win an actual car).

Fill it out, tell your friends. The more people we get the better the prizes will be.

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Now The NFLPA Is Really Getting Desperate With These Let Us Play Ads

You’ve probably heard that the NFLPA produced a video called “Let Us Play” and that video was rejected as an ad submission by CBS College Sports during a Players’ Association-sponsored All-Star game.

The fervor caused by CBS turning down the ad gave the NFLPA far more attention with the spot than they’d ever have gotten if it ran. Following up on their first video, the NFLPA just released a second, called Let it Air.

Lame.

Why not just play the original, extended version of the Let Us Play ad. You know, the one with footage from the 30 year-old movie that gave you the idea in the first place.

Here, I did it for you (with all apologies to Kogod who wrote at KSK that this was a dumb idea or ripping off Simmons or whatever. I honestly didn’t see what he said until after I did this, so…enjoy, Jack!)

DL518: Two Best Things About The Super Bowl? Food And Gambling.

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This is a two-part show, focusing on the two best things (other than maybe the commercials and the actual football) that are associated with the Super Bowl: food and gambling.

FOOD

First, we talk with Sarah Sprague about her amazing annual series 28 Days of Super Bowl Recipes. We talk about how important good food is for a good Super Bowl party and we go over some of her favorite recipes in this year’s edition. Like, for example, Coffee Glazed Pepper Chicken Drumsticks or Sriracha Fried Pickles (!!!).

We talk about how she can make anything into a hot dip and talk about how delicious Spicy Peanut Butter Honey Chicken Tenders must be. I mean SERIOUSLY. Read those words together. Spicy. Peanut Butter. Honey. Chicken. TENDERS. All delicious on their own, combined they make create the greatest Super Bowl snack ever devised. EVER. DEVISED.

So there’s more of that. If your mouth doesn’t water at the end of this segment, you hate football…or food. Oh, and make sure to check out Sarah’s site (through the above links)READ MORE

News@Noon(ish): Signing Day Fun, BP Reboot, NFL Labor, ‘Burgh QBs, Groundhog Day

Very busy day with two shows (go listen to them) and a host of other things going on. So…to the links. • Signing day? Follow EDSBS, where they likely won’t break any recruiting news, but you can see a rubber duck covered in sludge. And other hilarious college footballish things. (this is less link and more PSA. You’re welcome.)

• It’s almost Super Bowl time, so let’s get depressed about the likelihood of a lockout. Stephanie Stradley — a fellow BFL participant this season — has a rundown at her Chron.com blog Texans Chick.

• For this year’s game, I was starting to hope Pittsburgh wins just to get the on-air exchange between Terry Bradshaw and Ben Roethlisberger. Bradshaw is handing out the Lombardi Trophy and it would be hilarious to see Roethlisberger take the trophy from him and the two deck each other, then hug it out like Rick Vaughn and Roger Dorn at the end of Major League.

Alas, it happened already; the meeting, not the deck and hug. From Dan Wetzel at Yahoo:

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DL517: Will Brinson Has The Super Bowl Blackouts

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Will Brinson of CBS Sports NFL Facts and Rumors (where Rumors are always trying to sack facts) joins the show to talk about Super Bowl Week. We talk quite a lot about the blackouts invading the power grid of the Dallas metroplex before, you guessed it, Brinson blacks out himself.

Or should I say, his power blacks out (note, I believe he is sober during this conversation, so the blackouts are certainly weather, not alcohol, related).

We do talk about the logistics of the weather in Dallas and if that will impact the media covering the game (note: yes). We also talk about media day and wonder if it’s as big a circus as we’re led to believe on TV. Also, how many people are there to cover the teams and how many people are there to cover the people covering the teams.

And why, exactly was Brinson taking photos of Jay Glazer?