CNN Calling This The 'First International Superbowl'

[matcom]

because the stadium is ONE MILE from the Canadian border :eyes:

[yvr girl]

1. Unless we invade

and conquor by game time, I don't see it...and that's not very Canadian.

'Sides, we already have the Grey Cup.

[matcom]

2. ooooo can i be your slave?

:bounce:

i for one look forward to serving my yvr girl overlord :D

[yvr girl]

3. Yes, you can START by giving me that massage

My lower back is killing me.

[kedrys]

19. I'd pay some serious bucks to see that...

:rofl: Denis Leary used to joke that on quiet, still winter nights, you could stand outside in Wisconsin and hear the sound of thousands of ice skates being sharpened north of the border in preparation for a cheese-seizing invasion.

I grew up in Eastern Canada, so my monay is on the Great White North. Especially if the U.S. freaks and Mother Russia feels compelled to protect her interests by flying everything she's got over the North Pole, which last time I checked is about 30 meters from Canada. :rofl:

[meegbear]

4. Oh good gravy!

[NJ Democrats]

5. That's crap.

Because the US and Canada are the only countries who watch it.
100 million in the US and 5 or 10 million in Canada.

[regnaD kciN]

6. Oh, I thought they were saying...

...that Seattle wasn't part of Bush's America.

;-)

[Giant Robot]

7. We're pretty blue in Michigan

so we are DEFINITELY not part of Bush's America!

[Benfea]

9. Yeah, but Michigan conservatives give me the creeps.

Must be something in the water up there.

[Giant Robot]

11. I'm curious what you mean? n/t

[Benfea]

I happen to have known a couple who moved here.

I've had some pretty angry words with them. I am mostly joking about my own personal experiences, not necessarily painting all of Michigan with the same brush. Engineering types tend to be on the conservative side (in addition to the natural arrogance most engineers have), while engineering types from the UP…

*shudder*

[Giant Robot]

24. I've known may MTU students

Engineers all. Mostly conservative, and yes arrogant, but also pretty kind people as well. I know some conservative nutjobs here too, people with whom I just cannot be left alone with for fear something bad will happen. I was just curious what your experience was that prompted that comment.

[Benfea]

27. "Engineers assume everyone else is stupid, especially other engineers"

That's a Dilbert quote, but sadly it's all too often true. Combine that with a conservative mindset, and the result is nails-on-a-chalkboard annoying.

[Giant Robot]

29. I guess I've known the good ones

but the quote is hillarious!!!!

[Lefty48197]

32. My brother-in-law is an MTU engineer. A rocket scientist even.

And he's a dyed in the wool right winger. Best part? My nephew laughs at my George Bush jokes!

[Lefty48197]

31. Hey, hey! All the right wingers live on the Lake Michigan shore.

The rest of the state is cool.

[Giant Robot]

38. We have some pretty redneck kind of areas

up in the Northern lower peninsula too. Not to be too judgmental or generalize, but the redneck stereotype is not just for people down south you know. Usually from what I have seen people on the shores are pretty upper class kind of right wingers.

[Benfea]

8. CNN calls it WHAT?

Why are so many Americans so fantastically ignorant about geography?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

14. 'Cause we're MURIKANS!

All your geography are belong to us!

:D

[Midlodemocrat]

10. I thought it was because the

Rolling Stones were playing at halftime








:hide:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

15. ...

:rofl:

[GOPisEvil]

12. CNN writers are morans. Is there any angle they won't try?

CNN's standards are for shit.

[Hand]

39. Umm... accuracy. They don't do accuracy. Yeah, that's it! nt

[WritingIsMyReligion]

13. CNN is just fucked up, then.

But we already knew that.

;)

[gollygee]

16. I guess they don't understand the meaning of the word "border"

One mile in the US is still in the US.

*sigh*

[billyskank]

17. That is priceless!

:rofl:

[Kellanved]

18. CNN has no idea

The Super bowl will be shown live on German Public Television. :crazy:

The late hour aside (3-ish IIRC), I just can't imagine the event will work well with zero commercials, as required by the rules for public broadcasts. And add the total absence of any qualified commentator.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

20. I'd PAY to see that broadcast...

:rofl::rofl:

[ContraBass Black]

21. So, what will happen when a comercial is playing in the US

And the players are standing around waiting for it to finish?

[Kellanved]

23. The commentators will try to bridge the time

It will be a lot like the Simpsons episode with the soccer riot.

[Benfea]

28. I always hoped American football would catch on with Germans.

Baseball is popular with east Asians and central Americans because it looks simple on the surface and has a lot of subtlety to it once you understand it.

I always figured American football would some day be popular with Russians, Germans and Arabs because all of the complexity is right on the surface and can be intimidating to people unfamiliar with it.

[Benfea]

30. Oh, speaking of non-knowledgeable commentators...

…does anyone else remember the first time American stations started showing the World Cup? The commentators were so horrible I started watching the Spanish language channels despite the fact that I don't speak a word of Spanish.

I still remember "Uh… he's… kicking the ball." The fact that he wasn't fired on the spot says a lot about American sports journalism. *shudder*

[Kellanved]

37. unlikely

For starters the pro sport is disconnected from the pasttime level players. With soccer both are basically the same: same club, same uniform, different league. The NFL teams are artificial, commercial entities; they're even using American players for their European subsidiaries.

Then, with the NFL as a monolithic organization, there is not the international spirit that a sport needs to be "big". There is no way for a local club to get pegged against a big-shot - especially not for a European club. But that's an essential part in league-based sports.

Then, it is too slow - nothing ever happens . For comparison, soccer is a living, entertaining sport where something happens all the time. No time for commercials, every second counts; yet it is more startegic than Basketball and without the inflation of "score" scenes. American Football is too slow and dry.

I could see rugby gaining more support, though.

[Catch22Dem]

22. Is Detroit really that close to the border?

I guess I never realized.

ON EDIT: I looked at a map. Wow, I had no idea. I mean, I knew the border was nearby, but I guess I just had never actually looked at a map of Detroit and seen the border runs right through the city basically.

[GirlinContempt]

34. What map are YOU looking at?

[dolo amber]

35. We call that other half of Detroit

"Windsor". :D

[gollygee]

36. Detroit is on one side of the river, Windsor Ontario is on the other

so Detroit is right on the border. You look across the river at Canada.

[hfojvt]

25. what if a group of communists

has a meeting at half-time or something.

[EstimatedProphet]

26. It's scary that CNN doesn't understand the concept of 'international'

[UrbScotty]

40. At least they're not Fox News (nt)

[EstimatedProphet]

41. I would expect such egocentric stupidity from Fux News

[Lefty48197]

33. All those Super Bowl fans going to visit the Canadian massage parlors

Think of the Canadian hookers as ambassadors to Detroit.