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God favors the team with the racist name over the godless sodomites

Admittedly, playing the game in Las Vegas did give Satan an edge, so the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers, 25-22, and obviously God just threw up His hands at the galaxy of sin and pride beneath Him in overtime. See you all in Hell, He figured.

I could care less. However, I admit to favoring the 49ers a little bit, but only because my late Uncle Ed was a dedicated partisan of that team. He was always complaining about how they let him down, so nothing has changed.

I didn’t watch the game, so I don’t know…did Taylor Swift rise up in all her glory at the end and usher in a new millennium of Democratic tyranny by endorsing Joe Biden? Did CIA snipers take out a few San Francisco players to rig the game? I might have missed some epochal events.

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Comments

  2. John Morales says

    I could care less.

    Gotta love that idiom.

    —

    One thing I do know, though. The supper bowl is all about the advertisements.

  3. Walter Solomon says

    I couldn’t care less if I tried. I didn’t watch football all season and I doubt I would’ve watched the Superbowl even if “my team” was in it.

  4. KG says

    I could care less. – PZM

    So you do care, at least to some extent. I, OTOH, couldn’t care less ;-}

  5. cartomancer says

    PZ is, of course, an American, and so should be permitted his people’s idioms.

    I concur with my fellow British English speakers, however, in expressing patronising concern. The David Mitchell Soapbox video is required here.

  6. KG says

    cartomancer@5,

    We have to ask – was Liz Windsor’s distress at “I could care less” a factor in her sadly early demise? IOW, did Americans kill Our Queen, and if they did, what are we going to do in retaliation?

  8. Hemidactylus says

    The Niners lost a major linebacker to a sideline injury. Weird. One receiver went out briefly with a hamstring. The Niners were hot early but fizzled on offense. Their defense was swarming Mahomes most of the night. Chiefs pulled it out toward the end (in overtime) as I drifted into sleep. They obnoxiously did the tomahawk chant they took from the ‘Noles. Taylor cheered in the box seats. Her BF was frustrated most of the game and confronted the coach in an almost insubordinate manner. “My GF is watching me coach”. Tony Romo called the game. I forgot about his thing with Jessica Simpson.

    The commercials were mostly ok except the Jesus gets us ones.

  10. StevoR says

    Football? What they played a soccer game over in the US of A?

    Huh.Not Aussie rules footy nor thugbyer rugby nor even cricket! It’s just not cricket.

    Anyhow.. Fair enough. Whatever floats people’s boats and they enjoy, Cool.

    So much for the conspiracy theories tho’ – not that that ever stops them.. Sigh.

  12. birgerjohansson says

    I saw an image of Joe Biden with shining luminous red eyes celebrating the success of the plot, at Youtube. The spoofs of the conspiracy theory are everywhere.
    KG @6 What I really want to know is, did young Joe Biden murder Diana?

  17. Akira MacKenzie says

    Oh, there was a Big Sportsball Game™ yesterday? I hadn’t noticed.

    No, I spent my evening lounging in my room like a nerdy teen: Playing WH40K Boltgun on my Switch with some classic hard rock playing in the background. I felt pretty chill and relaxed for a change. Of course, I also took some PERFECTLY LEGAL IN MY STATE Delta 8 gummies, so that may have had more to do with my laid-back mood than the music and video games.

    Oh THC, where have you been all my life and why did I believe all those adults–especially my parents– who said you were bad?

  19. Matt G says

    One of the lowlights was the RFK Jr. commercial. Many out there on the interwebs thought it might be a spoof mocking him, but no.

  20. StevoR says

    Why assume sodomites would be “godless” eh? I mean if Charlemagne can be a god then why not Achilles and Alexander the Great and even King David, I mean, it’s not like religious people have ever persecuted others for ..Oh wait.

    Yeah.

  21. Rich Woods says

    @StevoR #20:

    You might have selected the examples of Achilles and Alexander for their love interest, but coincidentally they are both described — at least according to legend — as having divine parentage.

  22. microraptor says

    But the big question is, did Tucker Carlson follow through on his promise to kill himself after Kansas City won?

  23. robro says

    I don’t know what PZ intended, but I could say “I could care less” meaning, “I wish I had less knowledge and involvement with the game of football, this game in particular, and the particular team…the Niners as we say around here…than I do.”

    I lived in San Francsico during the Joe Montana years, and I can safely say that being trapped in a big city with a bunch of raging football fans is not fun.

    I now live outside the city but in the Bay area. It was unusually quiet around my neighborhood. One person i know drove through the city and over the Golden Gate Bridge to Marin. She said traffic was really light. In fact, she cited the scene in The Graduate where Ben drive’s across the Golden Gate Bridge…there is no traffic which is unheard of.

    I did go to a music jam party yesterday afternoon ostensibly to ignore the game. Unfortunately, the TV was on with the sound up so a lot of folks were glued to the tube. Music playing had to happen outside, which was fine while the sun was up but once it got dark it was too cold.

    I left before the game was over.

  24. UnknownEric the Apostate says

    I actually do enjoy (with reservations) a good game of American football (go Bills), but I didn’t bother watching The Big Game last night. Had no interest in either team or the Taylor Swift Sidelines Show, so I listened to an old Casey Kasem show instead. “Centerfold” was number one.

  25. says

    I could care less. However, I admit to favoring the 49ers a little bit […]

    Looks alright to me. PZ could care less, since he cares just enough to favour the 49ers.

  26. Hemidactylus says

    Nemo @1
    Though the outcome of the game was mildly disappointing IMO, the MAGA-melting Taylor celebrations were cool to see.

    UnknownEric the Apostate @24
    I was hoping the Bills would play either the Lions or Bucs instead.

    Wow people are dragging PZ for some minor phrase choice. I too could care less about that (even predictive text corrector is flagging it).

  28. birgerjohansson says

    The game would have been interesting if some baddie had broadcast effective subliminal messages through the TV ads.

    Like “obey me, mortal vermin” or “strip off your clothes and run around in circles”.

  29. says

    I could care less: It could have been baseball.

    But then, I’m the wrong kind of couch potato. I was raised not by (bad) TV,† but by the library. So much so that I was reading a book and occasionally glancing up at the TV during the game…

    † Really, now: Have those with nostalgia for old TV ever forced themselves to sit through one week of prime-time TV from, say, 1972? And then perhaps — just perhaps — that exactly one show, across the three networks (PBS didn’t even have a full weekday-prime-time lineup yet!), showed a woman with true agency. In the television business. We won’t mention the racial/ethnic “diversity” or “misrepresentation” problem because there wasn’t one; it looked very much like today’s Heffalumps.

  30. robro says

    I recommend finding Abraham Piper videos where he talks about grammar. Piper is from Minneapolis, a “serial entrepreneur” per Wikipedia, and a former Reformed Christian…his father is John Piper a Reformed preacher and educator. Abraham has been excommunicated twice from the church. His videos delve into Christianity some but he does a lot about grammar rules. He’s fairly iconoclastic about grammar, as well as Christianity.

  31. robro says

    Oh, one more and then back to work. I just got an offer from Apple Music to “relive” the Usher half-time extravaganza. I couldn’t actually relive it because I didn’t live it in the first place, but I clicked and the video started. I watched 10 seconds. Good enough. Got it. Meh.

  32. Jim Balter says

    “I could care less” meaning, “I wish I had less knowledge and involvement with the game of football, this game in particular, and the particular team…the Niners as we say around here…than I do.”

    That’s not what it means. Duh. Leave such idiotic rationalizations to climate deniers and Trump supporters.

    Here’s the full run-down:

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/could-couldnt-care-less

  35. says

    Apparently the 49ers quarterback is super christian so the fundies wanted it to go to the 49ers. Me? I just wanted to see the MAGA nuts lose their oil over Taylor Swift’s boyfriend winning. 😁

  36. birgerjohansson says

    I half expected the nuts to find some important symbolism with the number “49”.
    Like, the number seven is attributed to mystical…er, things. And 49 is seven times seven. It either means a victory by the 49ers is a portent of a Trump election victory, or that Taylor Swift is Satan. Taylor Swift drank beer, which starts with the same letter as Belzebub. The arguments practically write themselves.

  38. silvrhalide says

    Opportunity knocks but once; temptation pounds constantly at the door.

    I couldn’t help myself. More or less.

  39. robro says

    Jim Balter @ #32 — You may be missing my point.

    birgerjohansson @ #36 — They really are the “Niners” around these parts. The numerologists have lots of meanings for 9. Of course, the “SF” in their logo is now a joke. They should have changed that to “SJ” several years ago which we could then say stands for “Smoke Joints”…aptly.

  40. Ridana says

    @28 birgerjohansson wrote: Like “obey me, mortal vermin” or “strip off your clothes and run around in circles”.
    I guess that explains the streakers (though I guess the message got garbled, since they only stripped off their shirts).
    .
    And I can’t understate how much I could care less about all this. ::sits back with popcorn::

  41. Hemidactylus says

    Moving forward— I may not like the Chiefs very much as they keep beating teams I do like, but if they ever play the Jets with Aaron Rodgers starting as QB I will 100% be cheering for the Chiefs!