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One more thing…

The grocery store was packed with swarms of people (I was the only one wearing a mask, naturally), and I was wondering what was going on until I noticed that their carts were packed full of snack foods. Oh, right, it’s the Super Bowl today. I won’t be watching and know nothing about it except for one thing: I know which team I hope loses.

I know I’m petty. It’s OK to be petty about silly trivial things like this.

I also know my “hope” is going to be just as effective as Kenny-boy’s “prayer” in affecting the outcome of the game.

Turning on orange lights at their temple of ignorance didn’t help at all » « Pray for me

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  2. simonhadley says

    I gotta give Hambone some credit here for giving an accurate, logical explanation for the orange glow instead of calling it Jesus light or some such thing.

  5. woozy says

    “I gotta give Hambone some credit here for giving an accurate, logical explanation for the orange glow instead of calling it Jesus light or some such thing.”

    Well, that’s his schtick. He claims he loves science and he’s perfectly scientific and science reflects god’s glory. But trusting empiricism when it counters god’s eyewitness account… Well, that’s sinful hubris.

  7. PaulBC says

    I see. The Super Bowl watchers bought all the Fancy Feast cat food? What strange customs these sports fans have.

  8. Akira MacKenzie says

    Meh… let the jocks have their sportsball bowl. I’m spending the afternoon with friends painting miniatures then the evening watching RiffTrax. A small respite before another week of workday stupidity.

  9. PaulBC says

    One of weirdest Christian phenoms, that I have never understood though I was raised Catholic, is the persistent belief that His Almighty gives a blessed flying fuck about the outcome of football games.

  10. lumipuna says

    A pillar of orange glow is God’s promise to mankind that he will not destroy the Bengals again. A rival team will have to do it instead.

  13. says

    It just occurred to me this morning that no team with a cat mascot has ever won the Super Bowl, so I was actually leaning Bengals. Yes, it’s trivial, and yes, I know too much about football.
    I’m also reminded that Rush Limbaugh used to make “politically correct” football picks in the early 1990’s, always picking animal and Native American mascots over Cowboys, Oilers, Vikings etc. I really hate when I remind myself of Rush Limbaugh. I’ll be watching with my daughter’s three cats, who don’t seem interested in the game for some reason. At least the younger two are not finicky eaters.

  14. Walter Solomon says

    simonhadley @2

    I gotta give Hambone some credit here for giving an accurate, logical explanation for the orange glow instead of calling it Jesus light or some such thing.

    I think the proper term for it is “divine light.” According to Hitchens, Malcolm Muggeridge was a believer in it so it may be too Catholic for Hammy.

  17. says

    Look at all that light pollution. Clearly modern astronomy is the enemy of his god. Can’t have people discovering that the universe wasn’t created 6000 years ago.

  18. Reginald Selkirk says

    Thanks to the new 17 game season, this is the latest Super Bowl in human history. source That means the Sportsball Finale is running smack into Valentine’s Day. The local supermarket was a mess, with early snack shoppers trapped in the produce section because a few aisles were blocked for Valentine’s specials, including chocolate-covered strawberries and flowers.

  22. hemidactylus says

    I’m not partial this year unlike last year when I went from hating the Patriot GOAT to cheering for him as a Buc. I do think it interesting Cris Collinsworth is calling a game featuring his old team that lost a SB to the Niners TWICE. It would be funny if the Bengals did something he couldn’t. But I also liked Stafford when he played for the Lions. It’s good to see him now at the level he deserves to be. Hopefully an exciting well matched game. No preference.

  24. hemidactylus says

    Ken Ham is a bad reason to root against the Bengals out of spite. I can’t think of any arbitrary reasons to cheer against one of these teams versus the other, but that one is kinda silly. If he were still alive maybe Gene Scott would cheer for the Rams? Ark Encounter isn’t even in Ohio, though close enough to the border.

  27. robro says

    I wonder how Dumb Idiot Ham would feel if the Bengals end up losing the Super Bowl.

    Well, at this point we’re going to find out. By the way, I wonder if Ham likes the Bengals orange because it reminds him of his love god, DJT.

  28. wzrd1 says

    Well, Rand Paul is hoping that the Toilet Bowl and every major city is gridlocked by “protestors” against not being allowed to infect and kill their neighbors.*
    Perhaps, on his next return home, his community should greet him with a fence rail…

    @Walter Solomon, there actually is a proper name for that orange glow. Fire glow.

    Perhaps, someone should have a talk with his insurance company…

    *Way back during the Younger Dryas, we held one special football game. The players were those who injured someone else in gym class. The local orthopedists loved that game, it bright them ever so much new business.
    The school’s insurance company quickly shut it down when they learned of it.

  29. birgerjohansson says

    The photo of the optic phenomenon contains a legit mystery.
    In liquid-water temperatures the light diffuses randomly, creating a fuzzy globe of light around the light source (as in fog).
    In frozen-water temperatures the light is refracted horizontally by the ice crystals, creating the illusion of pillars of light oriented vertically.
    But ice chrystals do not know what is up, down or sideways.
    I have tried to solve the puzzle, has it got something to do with temperature inversions (temperatures initially climbing the first hundred meters) ? Different speed of light passing through different layers of air? (unlikely)
    This is way more intriguing than any game.

  30. says

    By the way, I wonder if Ham likes the Bengals orange because it reminds him of his love god, DJT.

    No surprise to discover that Dumb Idiot Ham being in league with that Stupid idiot, if it’s so.

  31. says

    The Stupor Bowl:
    Drunken fans in 2022.
    Punch-drunk former players with CTE in 2042. Intimate Partner Violence spikes during and after “major sporting events”, and not just because of alcohol. Losing has a lot to do with it.

    Seriously, who wants to live with those people? NOT ME! Sure not all men are abusive monsters, but I will NOT take any chances.

  32. hemidactylus says

    Wow the Bengals caught fire fast in opening of 2nd half. The Rams defense seems to be getting more aggressive. With Beckham out (dammit!) the Rams are going to have a little rougher time on offense. Hopefully Stafford calms down and adjusts. Great game!

  33. John Morales says

    I caught something on the news about EVs being the big thing in advertisements for this occasion, indicating their time has come.

  35. hemidactylus says

    Crap Stafford might be hurt. Whatever happens in this game I wanted Beckham and Stafford in playing their best game. Hopefully Stafford is ok.

  36. hemidactylus says

    Now Burrow (Bengals QB) might be hurt. WTH? Hope he comes back. Grimace on his face was not a good sign. Stafford back in and seems ok. Neither team running well. Rams defense brutal at this point. Bengals defense playing well too. Down to the wire nail biter?

  37. killyosaur says

    @Hemidactylus. looking that way. Still kinda hoping for the Rams to pull this one off. After 12 years with the Lions, I feel like Stafford is owed this one :P (though I know that is not how this shit works). All of Detroit is rooting for the Rams (except for the parts that are not happy with Stafford leaving).

  38. tacitus says

    Watching this on a UK stream certainly helps you appreciate how much standing around doing nothing goes on in a football game as they wait for people to return from genuflecting to the idols of capitalism.

  39. killyosaur says

    eh, some of the ads were fairly entertaining, Rocket Mortgage’s Barbie and He-Man ad featuring Anna Kendrick was fun. Also finding out about all the new all electrics coming out of the various auto manufacturers :P

  42. hemidactylus says

    @37- killyosaur
    I always thought Barry Sanders was better than Emmitt Smith. He and Stafford were in similar circumstances at Detroit in different eras. Glad to see Stafford show he’s a Super Bowl caliber QB and get a ring. He paid his dues in Detroit. Both teams played hard. The Bengals showed they are a Super Bowl caliber team too.

  45. killyosaur says

    @42 – Hemidactylus

    agreed on all counts. As my wife put it, this just proved how messed up the Lions are as a team from the management on down…

  46. StevoR says

    Isn’t orange kinda the Buddhist colour? .

    Symbolically speaking – makes me think of traditional Buddishist monk robes anyhow? Not that any religion can ever exclusively “own” any colour in any case.

  47. Rich Woods says

    @StevoR #46:

    Not that any religion can ever exclusively “own” any colour in any case.

    I think the Eighth Day Pratchettists can lay a fair claim to octarine.

  48. John Morales says

    StevoR, SE Asian Buddhist monks traditionally use saffron, but Tibetan monks use maroon.

    So, no.

  49. astringer says

    birgerjohansson @ 29

    Try watching pennies sink in honey. Ice platelets are so small they find air viscous and sink horizontally. Any turbulence will rotate the fluid, and the platelets with it, and hence the sundogs / sun pillar effect goes away if it’s windy.

  51. Rob Grigjanis says

    birgerjohansson @29:

    In frozen-water temperatures the light is refracted horizontally by the ice crystals, creating the illusion of pillars of light oriented vertically.

    It’s not refracted (as it is with sun dogs). It’s reflected off the bottom of roughly horizontal crystals between the source and you.

  54. Rob Grigjanis says

    numerobis @53: I didn’t know basketball qualified as one of the football codes. There is a ball, and there are feet involved, I guess…

    In other, actual football news; Canadian men’s soccer team needs only one point from their last three group matches (as near to certainty as possible, given the opposition) to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

  55. PaulBC says

    Rob Grigjanis@54 I remember hearing somewhere that “football” simply means it’s not played on horseback like polo, so basketball would qualify. (This was probably some random thing I saw when trying to referee my kids’ soccer games. I don’t have a source handy and I’ll resist the urge to google.)

  58. John Morales says

    SC, you made me think of buzkashi.

    Rob made me think of pelota maya.

    (Pretty tame, modern sports)

  59. says

    John Morales @ #58:

    SC, you made me think of buzkashi.

    Gross and stupid:

    The morning of the match, the goat is chosen and slaughtered in halal fashion. Calves are used in high-level matches because they are heavier — up to 100 pounds. The throat is slit and bleeds out. The animal is then decapitated and gutted. The hooves are cut off. The skin is stitched back together. Game time.

    Rob made me think of pelota maya.

    Very cool, but hmm. I’m quite skeptical of some of the claims at the WP link (up to and including the hip-ball claims – I’ve played rubber-ball sports, and this seems questionable).

  61. says

    SC, presumably hipping a solid-rubber ball would be untenable.

    But, modern version:…

    Uh… Sure, you can hit a ball with almost any part of your body, but hips, chests, shoulders, abdomens, backs, necks,…are not preferred for a reason. Not to mention that injuries would abound.

  62. John Morales says

    Ah, the difference between being doable and being sensibly doable.

    I might almost note how the Mayan game had ritualistic purpose, but then… Well, Superb Owl.

    (Time to stock up on snacks!)

  64. says

    Ah, the difference between being doable and being sensibly doable.

    Of course it’s doable. My question is whether or not hip-ball is plausible as a popular sport.

    I might almost note how the Mayan game had ritualistic purpose

    “Ritualistic purpose” (in WP, “ritualistic aspects”) is quite broad.

    The rules of the Mesoamerican ballgame are not known, but judging from its descendant, ulama, they were probably similar to racquetball,[3] where the aim is to keep the ball in play.

    This, to me, is plausible (and cool!).

  65. StevoR says

    @John Morales :

    StevoR, SE Asian Buddhist monks traditionally use saffron, but Tibetan monks use maroon. So, no.

    Fair point. You’re right.

    Although actually turns out those SE Asian Buddhist robes are mad dyed from cheaper turmeric – or jackfruit or now Gamboge instead :

    Buddhist monks wear saffron-coloured robes; however, the robes are not dyed with costly saffron but turmeric, a less expensive dye, or jackfruit.[102] Monks’ robes are dyed the same colour to show equality with each other, and turmeric or ochre were the cheapest, most readily available dyes. Gamboge is now used to dye the robes.

    At least accoridng to wiki : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffron#South_Asia

    @47. Rich Woods : Yup!