Super Bowl XLIII: The Basics

·         This year, the Arizona Cardinals play the Pittsburgh Steelers in Tampa Bay, Florida.

·         This is familiar territory for the Steelers — they’ve been to the Super Bowl six times, winning five of those games (if they win another, it’ll be a record — they’re now tied with Dallas for most wins ever). The Cardinals, however, have never before made it to the Big Dance.

·         But after an improbable win over the Philadelphia Eagles, fans everywhere came to terms with the previously unthinkable: Arizona’s going to the Super Bowl.

BLACK & GOLD: The Pittsburgh Steelers

·         The team’s name is a reference to Pittsburgh’s steel industry history, and the team’s mascot is a laborer named Steely McBeam. Random fact: The Steelers are the only NFL team that puts its logo on only one side of the helmet (it’s the right side, if you care).

·         Who to Watch: Team quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is great, but wide receiver Hines Ward was MVP in the Steelers’ last Super Bowl win. Plot twist: He got a knee injury, but swears he’s going to play on Sunday (so Kerri Strug of him!).

·         Root for Them if: You like working-class heroes, grinders and teams who always win.

RED & WHITE: The Arizona Cardinals

·         The Cardinals move around like military brats. They started in Chicago in 1920, relocated to St. Louis in 1960, and and then moved to Glendale, Arizona, in 1988. The team currently holds the NFL record for the longest championship drought.

·         Who To Watch: Quarterback (and one of the most religious dudes in the NFL) Kurt Warner. Recruited in 1998 to play for one of the worst teams of the decade (St. Louis Rams), he MVP’d them to their first Super Bowl championship in 2000 … a pretty big success story considering he was working at a grocery store before that. Now the Cardinals have made it to the Super Bowl for their first time ever. Coincidence, or Kurt?

·         Root for Them If: You like underdogs, surprise endings and pretty birds.How the Game Is Played. Literally.

·         Here are the basics: Each team has 11 players on the field. The team with possession of the ball — the offense — gets four tries (called downs) to go ten yards, with the ultimate goal of making it into the end zone for a touchdown. If they do go ten yards, they get four more downs. If they get a touchdown during that time or use up all their tries, the other team gets the ball.

·         A touchdown is worth 6 points. If a team scores a touchdown, they try to kick the ball through the uprights for an extra point. (They can also try a two point conversion, but that gets complicated.) If a team doesn’t think they can make a touchdown — because they have used their first three downs and still have a lot of yards to go on fourth down — they can punt (aka, kick) the ball from wherever they are to the other team.

·         If they are close to scoring a touchdown, but have used up their first three downs, they may choose to try to kick a field goal through the uprights, which is worth 3 points.

STATISTICS: THE AVERAGE GUY AND THE SUPER BOWL (Men’s Health)

·         Number of Super Bowl parties held each year, more than any other at-home party: 141.4 million

·         Average calorie intake during a Sunday football session: 1,200 calories

·         Potato chips: The most popular football snack, accounting for 27 billion calories and 1.8 billion grams of fat on Super Bowl Sunday alone.

·         20 percent: Increase in antacid sales on the day after the Super Bowl.

 ·         13,333: Number of NFL linemen, at 300 pounds each, it would take to balance the 4 million pounds of fat consumed from potato chips alone by Americans on Super Bowl Sunday.

·         10 feet: Depth to which the 43.8 million pounds of avocados consumed on Super Bowl Sunday would fill a stadium.

·         1.5 million: Number of television sets sold the week before the Super Bowl.

·         30 million: Pounds of five popular snack foods Americans consume on Super Bowl Sunday (11.2 million pounds of potato chips, 8.2 million pounds of tortilla chips, 4.3 million pounds of pretzels, 3.8 million pounds of popcorn, and 2.5 million pounds of nuts) — Snack Food Association

·         28 percent: Increase in number of fatal heart attacks among men on days when their football team lost at home (Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)

IMPOSSIBLE QUESTION

According to the Flint Journal, how many available seats are in Raymond James Stadium?

A: 72,500

·         Here’s how the tickets are distributed: 75 percent are given to the 32 NFL teams. The Cardinals and Steelers get nearly 18 percent of those, and the host team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, gets 5 percent. The remaining tickets are controlled by the NFL and distributed to NFL affiliated companies — NBC (the network broadcasting the game), corporate sponsors, media, VIP’s charities, the host committee — and then what’s left go to the fans. Of those tickets, 1 percent are put into an annual random drawing — the NFL’s only method of distributing tickets to the general public.

Living in Las Vegas appeals more to men than women. Affluent adults are twice as likely as poorer folks to want to live in Boston. Young people like big cities such as New York and Los Angeles. More Americans would rather live in a place with more McDonald’s than one with more Starbucks. Those are some of the findings of a Pew Research Center survey out today on where Americans would most like to live. Whether they favor cities, suburbs or the countryside, almost half wish they lived somewhere else.

While that may the case for some, it is not they way I see it.  I’ve been in over half of the states and in 6 countries. None and I do mean NONE compare to the upstate of South Carolina.  There is a reason so many people are leaving other parts of the U.S. and moving here. 

The reason? Its better here.  The north sucks and the mid-west during the winter is bleak.  We win…hands down.  If you don’t believe just try and get a transplant to move back. You can’t do it with a gun to their head.

Here’s a Superbowl ad that has been pulled because of its suggestive nature.  Who would have thought is came from PETA!  WOW!

WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT!

You know….I’m all for “self expression.” 

Every day I get paid, such as it is, to express myself on the radio.  During that time I frequently make a total and complete ass of myself.   

Having said that, I think I can recognize when “self expression” has tip-toed over the line. 

THIS might be the worst idea for a tattoo ever.

Now…..for lunch we have steak or sushi. 

Steak it is.

for my monday blog I thought I’d share my 2 favorite things with you all through the magic

of video

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and number 2: click on the address below!
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Just thought I’d brighten up everyones Monday by sharing things that can make a day go oh so much better!

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Well, if the CEO of Merill Lynch can spend $1.2 million to spruce up his office, i’m sure we won’t have a hard time getting this by the budget department.  Just imagine this beautiful Sea Ray adorned with the Mighty ROCK 101 logos cruising the waters of the Upstate cranking out 101 % Classic Rock gathering listeners and I’m sure lots of revenue from everyone around…

All it would cost would be $386.000!  That’s Boat Show price as well, normal every day price is close to $600,000, so thats a massive savings!  John Hall General Manager of Sea Ray of Greenville said he would even give us a bigger discount on top of that because it is for the ROCK 101 Gang.  How cool is John!

See you on the water…

Ever wonder why they call it “dope”?

This is 24-year-old Jessica Parker from New Hampshire (yes, it’s a girl).

She was arrested early Thursday morning for holding people at knife point against their will in her apartment in Nashua. 
Apparently, Jess stole some stuff from a store, evaded police and then held people hanging out at her apartment hostage so they wouldn’t rat her out to the cops.

Cops came to the hostages’ rescue after one of them sent a text message to authorities alerting them of the situation.

Jessica Parker is why you shouldn’t do drugs, kids.

The inauguration of 44 is over and the tons of trash had barley begun to settle when I got my first chance to see “pretention” in living color.

As expected, President Obama and his team were flawless in their execution.  I was wrong in assuming his speech would be written by the team that had given him the message throughout the campaign.  It has been reported he wrote over 90% of the speech and it was a very very good speech.

The pretention I referenced above was delivered by the universal gasbag, Oprah Winfrey.  Wednesday’s edition of her show was predicated on an analysis of the inauguration and the impact on society.  Oprah and her guests were going to review the entire weekend and help us common folk understand how import and life changing the ceremony and surrounding events were.

To do this, Oprah spared no energy in reaching out to a stellar collection of experts on the American psyche, observers of American life, and educators who have dedicated their lives to understanding this country and interpreting the meaningful events and their inherent impact.   Who to get…who to get.

Here are the assembled intellectual  luminaries:

Forrest Whitaker – Actor from Forrest Gump, Good Moring Viet Nam, etc

Jon Bon Jovi – Musician and representative of the hair club for men.

Doris Kerns Goodwin – Author of biographies on Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Gayle King – Human hemorrhoid and Oprah’s best “friend.”

Now friends, I admit I’m not the most astute observer of life, but when I look for a well formed opinion regarding historical references, I don’t need Gayle King, Jon Bon Jovi, Forrest Whitaker or Oprah to tell me whats what.  

If this keeps up we may have to reinstate the “Thin the Herd” process.

 Fours ago the Junior Senator from Illinois had a dream to become President, the first black President.  Who would have thought in just four years he, Barack Obama would become the 44th President Of The United States.  After watching all of the festivities today, the speech that he presented was powerful, and there is a renewed hope for the future of our country, and our thought processes.   

The last time I saw so many american flags waving, was September 12th, 2001.  There is once again passion for the USA, passion for what the United States Of America stands for.  For one, i’m glad to see, I look forward to see what is ahead.  

The funniest thing I heard over the weekend was a report about the Obama family studying Lincoln’s inaugural words, carved into the memorial’s stone, they began discussing Mr. Obama’s own inaugural speech, he told CNN. His 10-year-old daughter, Malia, then turned to him and blurted out: “First African-American president. Better be good.”

From the mouths of babes… 

Wow what a weekend. I admit sleeping through most of it, I was underthe weather. But I was awake for the important stuff. Like the Cardinals making it to the super bowl. You got to love seeing Kurt Warner turn his team around ago for a run that just might end up bringing a championship to the Desert. And when the dust settled from one of the hardest hitting games I’ve ever seen, we find our AFC champion Steelers. So our super bowl set.     Then we start our week with a new president. And for all the pomp and circumstance, the speeches, the celebrations, the transition of power, and the shift in leadership in this country, the one thing that struck me was President Obama’s in-ability to handle the oath of office. Nerves? Impatience’s? Lack preparation by Chief Justice Roberts?I don’t know. But I’m still waiting for him to talk without stumbling through his words without a teleprompter. He is my President and I pray that he leads us out of this bad time in America that he keeps us safe, and truly does break through finds away to end the ugly era of partisanship that makes all Americans sick. But I just look back at all the negative shots taken at our now former President, the fun that people made of him the cheap shots sent his way and the total lack of respect for him till the day he left and I wonder will the honeymoon ever end for President Obama? We’ve got serious problems in this country and I wonder if conservatives/republicans will act like the democrats acted towards President Bush. I mean it was Bush who offered to “reach across the aisle” to work with the opposition. If the opposition now acts the same way, is that really right or wrong? Let’s watch and see and let’s give our new President the support of all of us. He’s going to need it!