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Dustin Johnson Is A Lucky Guy, Is Dating Paulina Gretzky

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Just a great, happy couple.

What's that? PGA golfer Dustin Johnson is dating Paulina Gretzky, the scandalous daughter of Wayne Gretzky? Good for him!

What's that? PGA golfer Dustin Johnson is dating Paulina Gretzky, the scandalous daughter of Wayne Gretzky? Good for him!

Via: instagram.com

And look, she's even learning to play golf! How cute.

And look, she's even learning to play golf! How cute.

Via: instagram.com

Via: instagram.com

Dustin just looks so happy. What a lucky guy, a 7-time PGA Tour winner with a beautiful girlfriend.


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Your Official Super Bowl Rooting Guide

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Should you pull for the Ravens or the 49ers? It's a tough question, but tough questions yield satisfying, delicious answers.

Image by Mark Humphrey / AP


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How To Throw A Super Bowl Party That People Actually Like

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The dos and don'ts of doing it proper.

Anywhere Eli Manning goes technically counts as a party.

Image by Handout / Reuters

Along with New Year's Eve and Valentine's Day, the Super Bowl is part of a string of disappointing winter holidays — hyped-up and ostensibly festive events during which you go to elaborate logistical lengths to get somewhere crowded and terrible. Typically, it's not until St. Patrick's Day arrives with the flower blossoms and giant beers of spring that we return to the holidays that are actually fun.

It does not have to be this way. New Year's is already past us, and for Valentine's Day you're on your own because I don't know how to talk to girls, but your Super Bowl can be redeemed if you follow the rules below.

DO have two TVs.

DO have two TVs.

One for the die-hards, one for chattin'.

DON'T countenance any smirking at people who get really into the game.

DON'T countenance any smirking at people who get really into the game.

We don't come to your house to laugh at you while you're watching the Kardashian Channel, so don't snicker at us just because we're really excited about how the one guy caught the ball instead of the other guy. Leave the cultural snark where it belongs — in divisive, vicious, anonymous comments on the Internet. We already know we're acting a little ridiculous. Think of the way you get worked up over Orange County Hill Gossip Plastic Surgery Road Rules Housewives Beach, even though you know it doesn't really matter. Just go with the flow.

Image by Mark Von Holden / Getty Images


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Does Jose Canseco Have Bitch Tits?

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The inquiring world wants to know.

What The World Was Like Last Time The Ravens Or 49ers Won The Super Bowl

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Change is the only constant.

Last time the San Francisco 49ers won the Super Bowl was in 1995.

Last time the San Francisco 49ers won the Super Bowl was in 1995.

Image by Rick Stewart / Getty Images

Bill Clinton was the president.

Bill Clinton was the president.

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The Internet looked like this.

The Internet looked like this.

Source: telegraph.co.uk

Tony Bennett performed at the halftime show.

Tony Bennett performed at the halftime show.

Image by Doug Pensinger / Getty Images


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High School Football Coach Goes On Insane Anti-Gay Rant, Calls Michelle Obama A "Big Fat Gorilla"

A Second Grade Class Corrects The Grammar And Spelling Of Athlete Tweets

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Athletes tweet the darndest things.

Twitter is a great way for professional athletes to connect with fans, but some Twitter accounts are nigh unreadable, rife with misspellings and grammatical errors. A group of bright second-graders at Elmwood Franklin School in Buffalo practiced their grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills by correcting a batch of embarrassing tweets sent out by NFL players, including Super Bowl bound San Francisco 49er Chris Culliver.

It's looking more and more likely, Chris.

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Titus Young starts off strong by picking the right form of "It's," but it's all downhill from there.

Via: facebook.com

This was just a simple typo by Wes Welker, but it's a good reminder to remain vigilant while tweeting before a class of second-graders break down your errors.

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The 19 Best Twitter Accounts To Follow For Super Bowl Weekend

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Do it! Do it now!

Doug Farrar

Doug Farrar

The man behind Yahoo's great blog Shutdown Corner is both hilarious and knowledgeable. A must-follow.

Follow him here.

Darren Rovell

Darren Rovell

Rovell is often the subject of ridicule for his seemingly heartless, money and advertising-driven view of the sports world, but his feed is consistently a great place to find weird facts and stats.

Follow him here.

Ben Volin

Ben Volin

You may not think the NFL writer for the Palm Beach Post would be a must follow for a game in New Orleans played by teams from Baltimore and San Francisco, but his on the ground dispatches from New Orleans have been interesting and insightful.

Follow him here.

Arian Foster

Arian Foster

No guarantee he'll tweet about the game, but the NFL's most thoughtful player might end up tweeting a vicious take down of the logical fallacies in Jean-Paul Sartre's "Critique of Dialectical Reason." And that's something you'll want to see.

Follow him here.


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Even In The Shady World Of Sports Betting Tips, This Is A Pretty Bold Con

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The hottest new game in Las Vegas: stealing a professional sports gambler's identity.

Not the official website of sports bettor Steve Fezzik.

One way to try to get a leg up on sports betting, Super Bowl or otherwise, is to obtain info from a so-called tout, a person who presents himself as a winning sports bettor selling picks to the public. It's easy to be reluctant, of course, about sending money to some random guy making claims about his own savvy on a gamblers' message board. But what if your source was verifiably successful? How would you like to buy tips from the likes of Steve Fezzik (two-time winner of the Las Vegas Hilton's Super Contest, which is considered the World Series of handicapping), Bill "Krackman" Krackomberger ($490,000 winner of Cantor Gaming's High Stakes Football Contest), and Billy Walters (whom no less a source than 60 Minutes described as "so successful that many Las Vegas bookmakers are reluctant to take his bets")?

It sounds too good to be true, and it is; all three of those gentlemen say their good names have been used by scam artists who put up bogus websites purporting to sell can't-lose picks for hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars. It's a low-overhead con that's almost brilliant in its simplicity, given that its perpetrators never have to deliver anything besides a guess about the outcome of a sporting event. "It was horrible; people were taking shots at me, saying, 'Krackman went tout,'" says Krackomburger, who says he found out about the krackman.com website when acquaintances started asking him why he decided to get into the tout business, which is generally considered to be a step down from gambling one's own money. "The front page of the site had a picture of me holding up the $490,000 check."

Krackomberger offered "something better than money" as a reward for anyone who could get the bogus site taken down. "I promised to turn a square into a winning player," he recalls. "If somebody could have gotten the site removed, I would have done it. I would have shown him how to beat sports." (Krackomberger is not a man with a small ego.) Ultimately, though, a lawyer friend did it gratis about six months ago. Says Krackomberger: "The site played me up as being a genius. But I [still] was not at all happy to see it."

Billy Walters, who revolutionized sports betting by leading a computer-assisted team of gamblers in the early 1980s, took to YouTube to disavow BillyWaltersSportsPicks.com and two other phony sites. "I do not sell sports picks, I have never sold sports picks, I do not have any intention of ever selling sports picks," he said flatly. "I want everyone to understand that if anyone represents themself to be me or represents themself to be associated with me and attempts to sell you sports picks, that will not be true and that will not be the case." Walters filed suit against three sites that purported to be selling his picks. In court documents, Walters claimed to have received death threats and threatening phone calls from disgruntled customers of the bogus sites, which have since been shut down.

Unlike those two other sham sites, Steve Fezzik's remains alive and well, and, presumably, it will be for the foreseeable future. While Fezzik feels bad "that some Ethiopian prince can make money off of this," he operates under a pseudonym and says he doesn't want the exposure that legal action would require. When Fezzik began betting on sports in a big way, he was vice president of an insurance company and used a nom de gambling to keep his two worlds from colliding. By the time he turned to sports betting full-time and began to enjoy the modest revenue from moderating a paid-subscription chatboard on LasVegasAdvisor.com, he was established as Fezzik; he told told the L.A. Times that he prefers the relative privacy such a setup allows.

Fezzik's decided to take a hint from his identity thief — who charged $699 for an NFL season's worth of bogus picks — and enter the tout business himself via pregame.com. "The fake Steve Fezzik was emailing me and telling me how much he was making. I got frustrated to the point that I said, 'To hell with this guy — I will just go and sell my own.'"

Soccer's Nutsoid In-Season Transfer Period Gets Free Agency Right

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Well, more like free agency and the trading deadline rolled into a single month of deals that make the Yankees look frugal.

Fernando Torres, the January transfer window's most legendary horror story.

Image by Philip Brown / Reuters

One of the reasons free agency in the NFL, NBA, and MLB is so unbearable — and why you, me, and your typical fan still can't totally tune it out — is because it happens before the season, when there's hope that things will be different for your favorite team. We follow and daydream about all the rumors because there is NOTHING ELSE TO DO. Hell, even if your team doesn't sign anyone, it's easy enough to talk yourself into the idea that "it's all part of the plan" because you're "clearing cap room" or "stockpiling assets." (We are all, in the end, sheeple.)

But what if free agency happened during the season? You could follow along with it at your discretion, game-watching still making up the majority of your sports diet. You could take bites of free-agency news whenever you felt a need, instead of subsisting on rumors about the Jets' interest in "kicking the tires" on a 49-year-old Randall Cunningham or the Yankees' plan to purchase Central America. And, just for fun, let's say that every player on every team was always available, because wouldn't that be fucking insane? Yes, that would be fucking insane.

Well, this happens every January in European soccer's transfer window, and what results is the greatest and most blatantly-on-psychedelics player-movement period in all of sports. It's the NFL's free agency and the MLB and NBA's trade deadlines rolled into one kaleidoscopic neon space-tunnel and compressed into 31 days.

Most of the time in soccer, players switch teams by way of purchase: one team offers another team money for one of its players; if the player's current team accepts the offer and the player is able to agree to a contract with the offering team, the deal is done. There are no real restrictions as far as transferring players between countries. Outside of purchase, there's also free agency (known as "a Bosman transfer," thanks to Jean-Marc Bosman), which includes actually pre-contracts that can be signed, publicly, while a player is still on a different team. Then there are loans, in which a good team allows a young player to go play for a worse team for a set period of time usually so that he can get playing experience when he'd otherwise be riding the bench, and player-swaps, which can be straight-up (trades, pretty much) or with cash and other small-potatoes stuff thrown in. For those who enjoy hypothesizing about moves their team might make, that's a lot of angles to think about.

Since soccer doesn't have salary caps and many soccer teams have more-than-humanly-conceivable amounts of money, it's possible for any transfer to happen, as if the Shanghai Sharks could offer Heat owner Micky Arison $100 million cash for the right to negotiate with LeBron James even if he had five years left on his NBA contract. Couple that with the unscrupulous nature of the European press, which will report basically any half-cocked idea some bottom-level scout whispered in his girlfriend's ear, and the transfer windows (besides January, players can move during the offseason as they would in the United States) turn into something like basketball or baseball free-agency on steroid-enhanced bath salts.

Originally, there were no transfer windows, and players could be moved all throughout the season. Some leagues across Europe began limiting in-season transfers to a winter window in the early 1990s, though, and in the first part of the 2000s UEFA, European soccer's governing body, ruled that all leagues should have a uniform, one-month, in-season January transfer window. With everything compressed into a short timeframe, many teams feel pressure to make a move right now, super-inflating player prices in January. If a team thinks it needs to buy a player in the middle of the year, that team thinks it really needs to buy a player, and it usually needs to buy a player in the first place because it's not a managerially-sound club. Well-run teams generally don't do much buying in January. January is filled with bad teams talking themselves into big moves that don't work out and middling teams that thought they'd be doing better making disastrous crater-signings in an attempt to live up to expectations.

The most-recent and most-obvious example of how terrible January decision making can be is the 2011 menage-a-transfer involving Fernando Torres and Andy Carroll. On the last day of the window, Chelsea bought Torres, the epitome of the flashy but flaky Euro striker, from Liverpool for $80 million, which Liverpool then used to purchase Carroll, who is little more than a battering ram of a head and left foot, from Newcastle for $56 million. The Torres deal broke the British transfer record, and the Carroll deal would've broken it, too, had it not been for Torres. (Remember that the teams also then had to sign each player to a contract, in addition to paying the transfer fee. Mucho $$$.) Fast-forward to today: the pair have scored a total of 21 goals in the two years since the move. (For reference, Robin Van Persie has scored 18 goals this season. Manchester United bought him for $31 million over the summer.) Torres appears to be on his way out at Chelsea, while Carroll isn't even on Liverpool's roster right now; he's on loan at fellow Premier League club West Ham. Neither move was a sure bet at the time—Torres was clearly battling an injury, Carroll an unproven player — which just makes the enormous sums paid for both guys all the more January-esque.

Even though it pulled off the highway robbery that was that Carroll sale, Newcastle isn't off the hook, either. A year removed from nearly finishing in the top four in England — which insures placement in the prestigious and lucrative UEFA Champions League — they've fallen to 16th place, and their January response has been to buy every B-level French player in the world (is your name Jean-Luc or Moussa? Do you have feet? Expect a call), to the tune of $23 million for five (at best) fringe guys. Elsewhere: Tottenham bought a German player who they've already signed and who would have been arriving in the summer anyway, basically paying $2.4 million so he could play the last 15 games of this season; Galatasaray of Turkey signed Dutch attacking-midfielder Wesley Sneijder for $10 million, and he hasn't played soccer since the end of September; and QPR, who are in last place in the EPL, spent a club-record $12.5-million on a 26-year-old French striker who'd scored two goals this season. (Meanwhile, one of their starting centerbacks is the head coach of an MLS team in Canada and plans to leave the team in February. Yes, really.)

Player-movement intrigue is a nice way to pass the time, but in American free agency — and during the summer soccer window — the sideshow is our only lifeline to the game. At those points all the rumor-mongering in the world is never satisfying. In January, however, the season goes on and any transfer nonsense can be tuned out or feasted upon at your discretion. Sometimes, you can cackle knowingly as your team takes advantage of some desperate swap partner. And during those dark stretches, when it's your team scrambling to sign an aged David Beckham? Then you can grit your teeth, try and talk yourself into it, and, when that fails, just go and watch a game.

Hunters Say Ray Lewis (Sort Of) Has The Right Idea With This Deer Antler Stuff

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Could the wild-game diet be the next PED trend?

The author on the verge of mega-Animal Power.

Sports Illustrated's report that Ray Lewis ordered deer antler velvet spray to recover from injuries has easily been the funniest sub-plot of this year's pre-Super Bowl media feeding frenzy, but ask some hunters about it and they'll tell you the idea of wild-animal performance-enhancement isn't the craziest notion. He's just got the wrong part of the deer.

"I don't know about this deer antler stuff," says Shane Clifford, a former professional bull rider who's been living and hunting in the Badlands of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota since he was a kid. "But there's nothing like some fresh venison for your body. I've gone out hunting to get a fresh antelope or deer to eat right before a rodeo and that lean, wild meat really makes a difference."

Clifford is a member of the Oglala band of the Lakota tribe, who, before the arrival of Black Hills gold miners and the U.S. Cavalry, roamed the Great Plains living off of buffalo. It was traditional after a buffalo kill for the children to snack on the liver, and it's still a delicacy in Pine Ridge.

I'm a white guy from Massachusetts and didn't grow up hunting. The first time I shot a deer was on Pine Ridge a few years ago. My hunting buddies told me I needed to eat a fresh piece of the liver, to give me the energy to take care of the butchering after the adrenaline of the hunt wore off. I thought it was an old joke to mess with the city-slicker greenhorn until they started slicing off hunks of the innards for themselves. That led to a round of jokes about avoiding any "wild women" later that night — deer liver is also apparently a well-known form of "Redneck Viagra" in certain circles.

Over at Black Hills Archery in nearby Rapid City, asking people if fresh game will put some pep in your step is like asking if water's wet.

"I don't even keep any store-bought meat in the freezer at home," says store owner Al Krause. "When you eat a buffalo steak or elk, it's like a eating a fresh salad, you feel so good afterwards. And you're getting more protein than a bacon double-cheeseburger, without any of the grease."

Says Jack Holthaus, a long-time hunter who runs a non-profit group called Bring Back The Bow that teaches bowmaking and archery to kids on the reservation: "Before deer hunting season comes antelope season, and I've always said that eating antelope meat makes me fleet as an antelope for deer season. It's a joke, of course, but there's truth to it. A nice antelope steak for breakfast and a couple of sandwiches for the road will keep you running around after deer all day long."

Deer jerky is the super-food of choice for hunter and food writer Chris Eberhart of BowHuntingWildFood. "I try to get a couple of does early in the season and make them into jerky," says Eberhart, who grew up on a farm in Michigan eating mostly game. "Most of the weight is gone when you dry it, so that's just pure lean protein and energy."

There's something to the hunting wisdom, says professor Loren Cordain of Colorado State University, author of The Paleo Diet. "It's it's been proven that wild game and grass-fed meat is much better for your health and for muscle recovery than store-bought meat." As for Ray Lewis, though: "Even if this deer antler spray that everyone is talking about does have IGF-1," a growth hormone banned by the NFL, "I don't know if you could get it into your bloodstream orally. Hormones generally need to be injected, like with insulin," says Cordain.

Wild meat like venison and elk can have almost twice as much protein as a fatty, corn-fed beef steak, says Cordain, and that protein is filled with "branch-chain" amino acids, which help your muscles recover after a tough workout, or an injury. And Cordain has some anecdotes of his own.

"My wife and I started adopting what's now called the Paleo Diet, but at the time didn't really have a name, around 1990. Laurie was a triathlete at the time and her times started to dramatically improve. I was a lifeguard during the summers at the time and I noticed that my muscle mass increased without any change in my workout routine. My times in the running, swimming and paddling we did dramatically improved, to where I won the nationals in the two-mile beach run for my [over 40] age division. "

Professional athletes and teams spend untold sums on nutritionists, trainers and doctors of every stripe. They live by scientific napping schedules, cool off in sub-Arctic cryotherapy chambers and apparently risk their careers and reputations by taking dubious antler derivatives. Maybe they should ditch the spray and the strange chemical compounds, track down a deer, and have their personal chefs prepare Chris Eberhart's recipe for venison tenderloin with asparagus and morels. They might get accused of being a hipster-foodie-gourmand, but no one will call them a cheater.

Not that there aren't potential health downsides to what writer, hunter, and television hunting host Steven Rinella calls "the wild game lifestyle."

"Last year I spent four days in a hospital after I got hurt hunting," says Rinella. "Some of the places I hunt, in remote areas, avalanche territory, that's a lot more dangerous than eating a bag of Doritos.

"But there's no doubt eating fresh game is better for you. How much of that could be scientifically proven and how much of it is psychosomatic, I couldn't say, but it makes you feel stronger, gives you endurance. The healthiest thing would probably be to steer clear of the guns, and just hire someone else to go out and do all that hunting for you."

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Why The Super Bowl Is Awful If You Don't Care About The Super Bowl

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As told by cats who clearly don't care about the Super Bowl.

Everyone in America is basically like OMG SUPER BOWL SUNDAY. FOOTBALL. FUN.

Everyone in America is basically like OMG SUPER BOWL SUNDAY. FOOTBALL. FUN.

Source: 4gifs

And all your friends are like, "HEY LET'S WATCH THE GAME."

And all your friends are like, "HEY LET'S WATCH THE GAME."

Source: 4gifs

Except deep down, you're about *this* excited for the Super Bowl:

Except deep down, you're about *this* excited for the Super Bowl:

Source: ohmanfatcats

Of course, your friends are like NOOO c'mon let's have a Super Bowl party wahhh.

Of course, your friends are like NOOO c'mon let's have a Super Bowl party wahhh.

Source: thetvscreen.me


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The Super Bowl Drinking Game That Will Make Your Liver Cringe

How To Fake Like You Know Football At A Super Bowl Party

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The con is on. A guide in seven steps.

Step One: Pick A Team

Step One: Pick A Team

This is important. If you're going to fake your way through this party, you're going to need to choose a side. And furthermore you're going to have to have a reason you're supporting that team. Here are some sample reasons you can give that will make your support seem legitimate, but also end the conversation so that you don't get tripped up by a follow-up question. (If someone asks a follow-up question pretend to feel your phone go off and take the call. Answer it as though it is your father calling to talk to you about the game.)

Reasons for supporting the 49ers:
• "My dad grew up a 49ers fan."
• "They're one of the greatest franchises in all of sports."
• "The whole way the Ravens left Cleveland just rubs me the wrong way."
• "Ray Lewis totally killed that guy."

Reasons for supporting the Ravens:
• "My grandpa grew up a Colts fan." (Trust me on this one. The Indianapolis Colts used to be in Baltimore. Surviving Colts fans make for die-hard Ravens fans.)
• "It's Ray Lewis' last shot at it. I want him to go out on top."
• "After the anti-gay stuff, I just can't pull for the Niners."
• "The Ravens are hot. They have the momentum. And they're fun to watch."

Step Two: Follow Other People's Leads

Step Two: Follow Other People's Leads

Okay, so now you picked a team. Great! The next step is to find a few people who you know are also supporting that team and watch the game near them. When they cheer, cheer. When they get mad, get mad. It's a simple but effective way to fake it.

Image by Stephan Savoia / AP

Step Three: Use Key Phrases

Step Three: Use Key Phrases

This is probably the toughest step, because it will rely on a little bit of context from the game itself but I'm going to try to make it as simple as possible. Situations are in bold, what you should say is in italics.

Your team's quarterback (the guy who starts offensive plays) gets tackled behind his lineman.
We've got to give him some time!

The other team's quarterback completes a big pass.
We've got to put pressure on him!

Your team's receiver gets hit and drops a pass.
Pass interference! (Note: It does not matter if there actually was pass interference on the play. As long as you say this immediately and with frustration, people will accept it. If you're wrong, it's written off as passion.)

The other team's running back runs the ball for a big gain.
Did we forget how to tackle?

Your quarterback throws a deep pass that hangs in the air for a long time.
*Standing up* Come on... Come on... Come on... (And then react either positively or negatively based on the result. Remember, follow other people's leads.)

The other team's quarterback throws a deep pass that hangs in the air for a long time.
*Standing up* No... No way... No way... (And then react either positively or negatively based on the result. Remember, follow other people's leads.)

The game goes into overtime. (Note: The announcers will talk about it. It'll be hard to miss.)
Ugh. I hate the new overtime rules. Why can't we just do it like college football?

Any time there is a big hit and a player takes a minute to get up.
God, we have to do something about concussions.

If you're not sure what's happening, but it's clear something bad has happened for your team.
What are we doing?!

If you're not sure what's happening, but it's clear something good has happened for your team.
There we go! There we go!

AND REMEMBER... If anybody asks a follow-up question, pretend your phone vibrated, answer it and say, "Yeah, Dad. I saw it. I know. I know!"

Image by Sean Gardner / Reuters

Step Four: Party Etiquette

Step Four: Party Etiquette

You're pretty well on your way to pulling this thing off. But here are some tried and true ways to seem like you know what's up.

• Every once in a while, shush people during the game, if the noise gets loud. Don't hammer it too hard, or people will think you're really intense about it, which will most likely lead to someone wanting to have an in-depth football conversation with you. DANGER. But if you do it sparingly, you'll fit right in.
• Don't pay too much attention to the commercials. Use commercial breaks to get food and drinks and catch up with friends. This allows you to break away when the game comes back and rush back to the TV, which is a great looking move.
• Seem disinterested by the halftime show, but mention how it's better than the talking head bullshit on regular Sunday halftimes. Don't hammer this too hard. It's a fine line. Everyone loves to pretend to hate studio halftime shows.

Image by Handout / Reuters


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Pepsi Super Bowl Ad Will Mock Coke In Realtime (CORRECTED)

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A first in Super Bowl advertising history.

This is Coke's "Chase" Super Bowl commercial: three groups — cowboys, showgirls, and Badlanders — race through the desert (a la, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World) toward a giant Coke bottle, only to see that they still have 50 milles to go. Viewers are then asked to go to cokechase.com, where they can vote for the team they like best.

It is a big, overreaching mess, in this critic's opinion.

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This is the spot Pepsi will be running during the game (presumably after the Coke spot) for their Pepsi Next drink.
(UPDATE: The Pepsi Next spot will NOT run on CBS, it is only running online.)
Pepsi got some look-a-like cowboys, showgirls, and Badlanders, all who desperately prefer Pepsi Next to Coke.
It is far from a great commercial but as a stunt, it's check and mate, Pepsi.

Dick Vitale Photobombed By His Female Doppelgänger

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She's found him.

At yesterday's Indiana/Michigan college basketball game, ESPN announcer and loud crazy person, Dick Vitale was photobombed... But this wasn't just any photobomb.

At yesterday's Indiana/Michigan college basketball game, ESPN announcer and loud crazy person, Dick Vitale was photobombed... But this wasn't just any photobomb.

It was a gender-swap doppelgänger photo bomb!

It was a gender-swap doppelgänger photo bomb!

WHAAAAAAAAAAA?

WHAAAAAAAAAAA?

H/T Slade Sohmer at HyperVocal.


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37 Monster Expressions Of Ray Lewis

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Are you not entertained?!

Surprise Ray Lewis!

Surprise Ray Lewis!

Image by Scott Halleran / Getty Images

Ewwww Ray Lewis.

Ewwww Ray Lewis.

Image by Patrick Semansky / AP

'Can I have a peanut?' Ray Lewis.

'Can I have a peanut?' Ray Lewis.

Image by Joe Skipper / Reuters

Adjusting my contact Ray Lewis.

Adjusting my contact Ray Lewis.

Image by Pat Semansky / AP


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Coke- And Pepsi-Mocking Ad Banned From Super Bowl

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Though with over 2.5 million views, SodaStream's commercial is already a big publicity winner.

Apparently, the ad made CBS brass uncomfortable because it was a hit at two big Super Bowl sponsors, and — more importantly — two of network TV's biggest advertisers.

Considering some of the direct attack Super Bowl spots run by Coke and Pepsi against each over the years, this is a pretty transparent double standard by CBS.

SodaStream, a seller of home soda-making machines, had already had an ad banned in the UK because it "denigrated the bottled drinks market."

Below is the replacement spot they will be running in the 4th quarter of today's game.

This Is The Best Super Bowl Commercial Ever

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Not Apple's “1984.” For Tabasco, from 1998.

One character (well, two), no dialogue, production cost: a few thousand bucks.
Impact: immeasurable.
And very brave of Tabasco to use such an...unappealing character as the hero.
As you watch the game today, look for somebody —anybody — to air a beautifully simple, creative spot like this that cuts through all the stupid celebrities/talking, dancing babies/female exploitation/social media begging...bullshit.
I am not hopeful.

Another great spot, from 1999.
It was Monster.com's first commercial.
Brilliant.

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