[Dan Halberstein]

I know J.A. Crider has noted that tomorrow is an event of some importance for the teeming masses, myself included, who watch real (American) football.

Given that this year's Super Bowl features a quest for perfection on the part of one team, the reemergence of otherwise unimportant veterans of a "past perfect" team, and a setting of byzantine intrigue touching on scandal and now senatorial politics, I am sure somebody here can offer up a few lines of poetic pre-game.

By the way, it's Super Bowl XLII, if you want to do some sort of three-sonnet set.

Have at it!

Dan

[Michael Juster]

Once more The Super Bowl is nearing.
The Patriots are folks worth fearing
and Giants will regret appearing.

[Henrietta kelly]

Is that the real football where the players all wear helmets and body padding?

lol that’s how the crowd dress to see a match in other parts of the world .

now a good game of rugby against that sissy team the all blacks might be nearer the mark. “BWG”

[Dan Halberstein]

Whether you love or abhor us
for this reason join in the chorus:
If New England can go
to nineteen-and-oh
We'll at last shut up Mercury Morris.

[Dan Halberstein]

Hey Henrietta. The world's down to one superpower.

The 95% of the world that's not a superpower, what game do they play? Soccer.

The superpower part, what game does it play?

Yeah that's what I thought.

So I don't want to hear about how our game isn't violent enough from a country that doesn't even have nuclear weapons, capisce? Christ, people get killed and paralyzed every year playing real football. Get off yer high warhorse and run along to a thread about a rugby championship. I'm sure it will be staggeringly popular.

This one's about the Super Bowl, a spectacle of such magnitude that it successfully got Janet Jackson's bare booby on prime time network television. You know how hard that is to do?

[Tim Murphy]

Dan, that's one of the best limericks I've seen in years.

[Dan Halberstein]

Thanks Tim - and have a great Super Bowl!

[Henrietta kelly]

Soccer!! na! that's for girls

look at Irish football and Aussie rules-- then rugby

now that’s the game for tough men

the boys from the bush play barefooted and can kick a ball the length of the field --and get it between the posts.

anyway the games i have watched were too slow.

All the same it give a guy time to go for a pee pee

---hope your side wins

PS after all what is a win? nothing but free gain lol

[This message has been edited by Henrietta kelly (edited February 03, 2008).]

[Michael Cantor]

Prediction

The Gods, at times, may feel that pity’s nice,
and let the loser Sox win once or twice;
or feel nostalgia for the Age of Bricks
so that the Celtics overtake the Knicks –
but with this recent hubris from the Pats,
the end has come, the omens hum that that’s
more than enough – Olympus sees the light:
restore the proper order, set things right.

So ox-like Brandon shall persist today,
fleet Bradshaw show them all he comes to play,
and well-borne Eli calmly throw the bomb,
as Strahan and his band dismember Tom.
New York, New York will call back ghosts from Heaven
and triumph, 28 to 27.


Put this up originally on Ethan's thread pre-game. My boys are still well in it, and pretty-boy Brady is certainly getting battered, if not dismembered. Let's see.

Go Jints!!



[This message has been edited by Michael Cantor (edited February 03, 2008).]

[Quincy Lehr]

Originally posted by Dan Halberstein:
...the teeming masses, myself included, who watch real (American) football.

But Dan, everybody knows that real football is this:
http://www.gaa.ie/page/football.html