Make Your Choice

The Super Bowl is set, and the Packers and Steelers meet in Jerry's palace in Dallas. Two well known teams, no upstarts here. Vote for your choice to win.

I was going to vote Steelers. But the Steelers won before when the refs jobbed the Seahawks. So figuring karma in, the calls will probably favor the Packers this time, and I voted for them.

Refs are still on the Steelers side (Steelers' sides? Grammar?). At least the powers that be got the matchup they wanted. No way they wanted Bears-Jets. They want a classic sell.

pilotram wrote:Refs are still on the Steelers side (Steelers' sides? Grammar?). At least the powers that be got the matchup they wanted. No way they wanted Bears-Jets. They want a classic sell.

Although it looks plural, Steelers is a trademarked singular entity, so unless they have more than one side, it's not sides, despite what the Brits think about team being plural.
I suppose you could be thinking of offensive and defensive sides, but that's another thing and would imply different treatment for each.

Even if the trademarked name didn't include the "s", you could also think of Steelers as the genetive instrumental case of Steeler. Just as we now Think of days as plural ("he works days and nights"), it's actually the old english genitive instumental construct of day, not necessarily plural. Think of it as "at time belonging to day" and "at time belonging to night". Presumably there is a break between shifts

We also think of United States as singular, but that wasn't always so.


The important possession it of the refs, not the side, so the enclitic "on" phrasing takes the place of the Steeler apostrope.

Let's not even get into the thought about whether the refs are actually owned by the team.... The last book by a basketball ref on that subject sucked.


And a classic matchup would be Jets-Colts. I was at the first one.

Class dismissed.

More karma - Brett Favre's last year in the league and his old team wins the Super Bowl with his heir?

I voted Packers.

"Brett who?" - Packers fans circa 2011

Where's my option for Bud Light? They always dominate the Bud Bowl.

Purplegeezer wrote:

pilotram wrote:Refs are still on the Steelers side (Steelers' sides? Grammar?). At least the powers that be got the matchup they wanted. No way they wanted Bears-Jets. They want a classic sell.

Although it looks plural, Steelers is a trademarked singular entity, so unless they have more than one side, it's not sides, despite what the Brits think about team being plural.
I suppose you could be thinking of offensive and defensive sides, but that's another thing and would imply different treatment for each.

Even if the trademarked name didn't include the "s", you could also think of Steelers as the genetive instrumental case of Steeler. Just as we now Think of days as plural ("he works days and nights"), it's actually the old english genitive instumental construct of day, not necessarily plural. Think of it as "at time belonging to day" and "at time belonging to night". Presumably there is a break between shifts

We also think of United States as singular, but that wasn't always so.


The important possession it of the refs, not the side, so the enclitic "on" phrasing takes the place of the Steeler apostrope.

Let's not even get into the thought about whether the refs are actually owned by the team.... The last book by a basketball ref on that subject sucked.


And a classic matchup would be Jets-Colts. I was at the first one.

Class dismissed.

Dang, where'd you get educated, UP or somethin'?

up7587 wrote:I was going to vote Steelers. But the Steelers won before when the refs jobbed the Seahawks. So figuring karma in, the calls will probably favor the Packers this time, and I voted for them.

Amen. Go karma! I hope that ref who finally came out and apologized to us Hawks fans in the past year officiates the game. At least it's being played in a place further from Pittsburgh than Detroit...

PITTSBURGH STEELERS ALL THE WAY!!!

pilotram wrote:
Dang, where'd you get educated, UP or somethin'?

Nah, I'm not sure they would put up with that. You did ask, though.

Purplegeezer wrote:

pilotram wrote:
Dang, where'd you get educated, UP or somethin'?

Nah, I'm not sure they would put up with that. You did ask, though.

try google & spell check, lol, lol, lol, he's likedouble kk's grandpa addicted to his ipad.....

MesaPilot1 wrote:PITTSBURGH STEELERS ALL THE WAY!!!

Pittsburgh has the wounded center but all of the experience. GB has the problem of riding their emotions since their guys have very little experience... It should be a close game.

Good luck to the Steelers on getting their second Superbowl in the past few years! (as the one against Seattle has a few ***s next to it now that the ref admitted that he botched the game in the past year). Hahahahahaha. Go Packers.

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Referee confessional box: http://seahawknationblog.com/2010/08/hey-stealers-refs-get-it-right-even-long-after-the-fact/

I'm waiting till the Pro-Bowl is over to reserve judgement.

Say goodbye, Steelers fans. Go Packers! Up 21-10 at this point...

And there's the karma - 3 Steeler turnovers.

up7587 wrote:And there's the karma - 3 Steeler turnovers.

Amen! Good to see Roethlisburger and company go down. Somebody please remind him to wear his motorcycle helmet as he drives home! Hahaha...

How about screwing up the national anthem!!!??? Just terrible.

As soon as I heard the mistake, I switched to another channel. And at halftime, when it was obvious the sound system was not right, I switched again.

On the other hand, the singer did a nice job with America the Beautiful, if a little but overwrought.

Rochin54 wrote:How about screwing up the national anthem!!!??? Just terrible.

You mean screwing up the lip syncing, or the track she was lip syncing to? I wasn't paying that much attention because nobody who's famous enough to sing the anthem before a Super Bowl is going to do it very well.

Maybe next year they bring in the merlo crowd, they usually do a pretty good job whenever the sound system cuts out (every other game)...

DaTruRochin wrote:Maybe next year they bring in the merlo crowd, they usually do a pretty good job whenever the sound system cuts out (every other game)...

Complete with the Pokie tossing?

And seriously, let's get a wired mic for the field...

wait a minute...

one guy voted for the Steelers after the game.

Make that two Geezer. I actually did not notice Christina's mistake when watching it live. I kind of tuned her out when I realized she was doing terrible, which was very quickly. When I got him I had to check the recording to see (hear) it. It was even worse the second time around. I would put her performance below Carl Lewis AND Roseanne.

It is truly amazing how many Packer fans have popped out of the woodwork the last few weeks.

mattywizz wrote:It is truly amazing how many Packer fans have popped out of the woodwork the last few weeks.

I've decided that Packers fans are pretty much the NFL equivalent of Red Sox Nation...