Sunday Super Puppy open bowl thread
As posted previously, I like the paired entry of identical twin cattle dogs Fava and Garbanzo to win the Puppy Bowl. Which airs from noon to 2:00 PM PST, and on continuous loop thereafter until I start channeling Iggy Pop. If you like a longshot, Tater Tot (Basset hound mix) might be the dog to back.
I also have a sumptuous buffet of wagers down on the Super Bowl. Because we live in the decadent final days of empire, there are of course many venues which will cheerfully accept your cash-flavored cyber-bytes against the (cough) promise of riches as just compensation to the insightful. Yeah, verily, meritocracy doth rule triumphant in this new age.
An assortment of point spreads and proposition examples.
In different amounts but similar proportions, I have made the following wagers:
- $500: Indy �4.5, @ -110.
Lines between 4 and 5.5 points mean the bookmakers are uncertain; more typically lines come in +/- a half point of a FG or TD. I thought Indy should�ve been a 7.5 fave out of the box, the line seemed to be headed that way, but has returned to this unsettled range. People are talking themselves into New Orleans. Those people are wrong. Indy 41, NO 24.
- $200: Indy �14.5, @ +275.
I want more money down at a bigger payoff, and I�m willing to risk the extra points for the 2.75:1 reward.
- $100: Largest lead of game will be Over 15.5 points, @ +115.
Volatility seems certain.
- $50: Peyton Manning (IND) to score the first TD, @ 30:1.
These �who�s gonna be first among a huge field� bets are usually bad, but I like this one. I can see the Colts running something different than usual the first time down near the goal line. Manning bootleg to flummox an over-aggressive Saints D feels right.
- $50: Total number blocked punts will be Over 0.5, @ +700.
Something weird�s gonna happen, and I like the odds on this weird thing.
- $50: Steve Tasker will be the first sideline reporter on TV after the opening kickoff, @ -115.
He�s on the Colts sideline (Soloman Wilcots is with the Saints), and I expect a Dwight Freeney report to be the first bit of �news� the sideliners provide.
- $50: A member of the Who will smash a guitar during the halftime show, @ +115.
I am just barely resisting the temptation to put my life savings on this.
Fava totally ruled the first quarter. And the hampster blimp is exactly the kind of cutting-edge innovation which makes Puppy Bowl Sunday awesome.
You’re a degenerate gambler. And I think I love you.
Damn – all these puppies are making me really miss my dearly departed Cocoa.
Jake the Chug has owned the 2nd quarter.
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Hell yes. Jake ran circles around the field. Now it’s time for the never tedious kitty halftime show.
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Oh – they’re using real cats. I was hoping for a different kind of kitten show.
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The strobes, confetti, streamers and cat toys of the halftime show are a grisly experiment in feline sensory overload.
Is the Puppy Bowl ref the actor who plays House’s private eye/nemesis character?
Are these puppies on steroids? They look awfully big.
Whoo hoo! Fava wins Subaru Drive of the Game! I’m playin’ with house money now!
Jake the Chug – MVP!
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No contest…he dominated.
Sigline!
No guitar smash. Life savings barely retained. Still, I could go 0-fer-$1,000 today and still not look one-millionth as foolish as Roger Daltry did.
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agrd.
That was 500 times less of a catch than that play in the Raiders first game. Rooting for the Saints though.
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regardless of who you were rooting for, I thought the game was terribly officiated. No more noticeable than at the onside kick. The referees did not take control of that situation at all and the whole thing turned into a scrum. There were coaches out on the field and general chaos throughout.
At the end of the game, when the ref finally decided to throw a late hit or unsportsmanlike, whichever it was, it seemed completely arbitrary to start calling it at that point. Both teams had been smacking the shit out of each other all game and the refs had nothing to say for it. Just a poorly officiated game.
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Late to the party, but that was my exact thought. Argued with dad for 5 minutes over it (I think I paused it at one point to argue before we got the call).
His arguement was the simple “it crossed the goal”. Mine was exactly that if the Raiders one wasn’t a TD, this can’t be a score either. I realized halfway in that my arguement encouraged bad logic, but by then I had too much invested…
So can pitchers and catchers report now?
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they report tomorrow, right?
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12 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes till pitchers and catchers report. Woohoo!
And… I might be going to spring training this year! I’m so excited!
(still tentative at this point… but there’s hope!)
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ALL the way from Tejas? fun fun fun.
I’ll be making signs.
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One good thing about being in grad school: spring break. I was planning to do nothing/do homework, but I found other baseball-loving people, so we might be taking a road trip to stalk the A’s (and the Rangers).
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My opening night tickets came in the mail yesterday. Life is good.
I blame the drugs. And society. And Bumpits.
1. The Saints winning is pretty damn awesome.
2. The Who were terrible, just terrible. Bridgestone should have just sucked it up and paid the money for Beyonce.
3. Brees’ kid was sooooo cute in his little earphones.
4. Tebow’s mother looks just like Mary Steenburgen. And that ad was an overhyped load of nothing.
5. I liked the waterbowl cam in the puppy bowl. And Tater Tot.
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6. The Danica Patrick commercials didn’t get much of a rise out of me this time around.
7. I want WinExp data on stuff like: Leading by 1, 4th and 2 just across midfield, 13 minutes left: Go for it (and make it but fail to score anyway) or punt?
8. 30 days until A’s split squad vs. Royals at Surprise on March 9. I measured the fresh snow on my deck at 8.5 inches this morning so I’m kinda looking forward to that.
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THAT’S why I thot TT’s mom was hawt! I got a thing for Mary Steenburgen, or actually it’s her evil twin, Jeanne Tripplehorn. She looks A LOT like an ex.
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re 4: concur. It was bland and inoffensive.
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Which is perfect from their point of view. They got a ton of free publicity from the controversy beforehand, and then aired something non-controversial.
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It’s Obama’s 12-dimensional chess HCR long-game strategy!
MB: does Obama still suck at massaging? I could really use a front rub.
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Theory: since mb hates football so much, he holes up in his house with an old Victrola that only plays Grampa Jones’ version of “Mountain Dew” over and over again, while he rocks methodically on his rocking chair, stroking an aged tabby cat perched on his lap, said lap covered by an afgan.
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Afghan? I don’t let nuthin’ come between my lap and a cat.
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do you wear pants?
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What’s “football,” Precious?
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something to distract us between baseball seasons.
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Smart, very smart. In many ways.
It’s certainly not too little — hopefully it’s not too late, either.
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That’s certainly a very welcome development. It seems like there are two different parts of the leadership/messaging issue. One is essentially PR – selling HCR and the process behind it to the public. The other is the political work – knocking Reid and Pelosi’s heads together to make sure they get their acts together and pass something that he can sign.
The first of those can help the second – politicians are more likely to pass something if they think that doing so will make them more popular (or not doing so will make them less popular). But spending too much time trying to look bipartisan can also be a distraction; it seems clear in retrospect that the Baucus “Gang of Six” and the courting of Olympia Snowe were mostly wastes of valuable time. I hope that this time they can get a clear indication of whether any Republicans who participate are serious about compromise, and ignore them if they aren’t.
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Do you wear pants?
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no. I don’t own pants.
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You don’t gots to own ‘em to wear ‘em.
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or to poop in ‘em.
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he didn’t axe me if I pooped in pants. I poop in pants. Who doesn’t?