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COOL LEE: Sure, I watched the game and I was very entertained by it. Now who was playing again? I think it was the Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia 76ers. I forget who won, but the commercials were great. |
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LEFT GUARD LARRY: I was disappointed by the outcome. The New England Patriots have now won 3 of the last 4 Super Bowls while the Philadelphia Eagles have now been close four years in a row but haven't won the big prize. I was really hoping for Philly to win just to silence Rush Limbaugh about saying quarterback Donovan McNabb ain't no good and only got the job cuz he's black. Now it looks like Limbaugh won the Super Bowl, which is just as bad as Bush
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BROKER BOB: Well, I try not to gamble - beyond the stock market. But I did have $100 on New England. I just figured they're the defending champions so it was their game to win or lose. Brady looked great. He knows how to barely win and make his team look like a dynasty. |
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WORKER JOE: Man I was so for the Eagles til the last five minutes. They could've won but
their two minute hurry up offense looked lazy while time was running out. You can't win playing in slow motion. That was obviously terrible coaching. Man, it ruined my day. I lost what little cash I had left and it bummed me out that both teams made so many mistakes. Man, I usually rely on football to educate me about life, but this game had no meaning. |
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FATHER SULLIVAN: I took offense to the half time show. While last year's fiasco with Janet Jackson was obscene, this year's show with that Beatle guy was too much of a flashback to the sixties. It started making me think about when one of them said the "Beatles are bigger than Jesus," which led to a lot of my friends burning Beatle albums. I just hope the FCC comes down really hard on the network for trying to rehash the sixties. |
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WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST: I tend to boycott any event that purposely excludes women. Even though they try to sneak in a few female commentators and the sidelines are stacked with cheerleaders, I wanna see girls on the field. They say the game is too rough for women. Tackle football should be illegal anyway because the point of the game is not to hurt someone, it's to score touchdowns. They keep changing the rules every year anyway to make the game safer, so why can't they just speed up the changes to the game's inevitable destiny: coed flag football with no one allowed over 150 pounds. |
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JOHN SKERRY: How 'bout my New England Patriots? This has been such a great decade for our region of the country with the success of the Red Sox and the Patriots. What more could a New Englander ask for? You might say, "well, we could have added the White House to the list of victories," but you have to remember, Bush is really a New Englander himself from New Haven who went to Yale, just like Kerry. I like to think that Bush and Kerry are on the same team anyway, that way last November's defeat doesn't hurt so bad. Hooray for the New World Order. |
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COUNSELOR JENNINGS: I sat watching the game feeling much sympathy for the Eagles and all they have been through. To miss the Super Bowl by one game three straight years, and then to finally get there and lose must be devastating to the players. I am willing to offer group therapy sessions for the whole team to try to deal with this depressing ordeal. I want to convince them that losing a big game like that is no big deal, but judging how they played in the last five minutes, I think they might already feel that way. |
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OLD MAN WICKER: I was really pulling for Terrell Owens, who went against doctor's orders and played with a sprained ankle. Yet, he caught a bunch of passes and looked like the best player on the team. If the Eagles would have won, that would have set a whole new precedent that doctors don't always know what's best. Who knows? It could have loosened the laws regarding prescription drugs, which is all I really care about, to be honest. |
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REAGAN DEMOCRAT: Looks like Brady won another one for the Gipper. I really admire Brady for backing Bush and the war on terror at last year's state of the union address. I like the way Brady conserves his offense and only puts up just enough points to win the game. They've now won three Super Bowls by three points. Those are what I call lean healthy victories because they trimmed all the fat out of all those extra unnecessary points. |
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JOE DOAKES: Even though it came off like a pre-season game full of mistakes, especially in the first half, I enjoyed it. I didn't care who won because my team is the Niners, the worst team in football this year.
But to compare the Patriots' so-called dynasty with that of Joe Montana and the 49ers of the eighties is a little pre-mature. I have yet to see the Patriots make legendary hail mary plays or drive the field artistically. It's more proof that mediocrity wins by default, which I actually can identify with, since I consider myself to be a generally uninformed mediocre mainstream consumer. |
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GOOFBALL GREG: Wow, I was totally for the Patriots all the way. The only thing I didn't like was the half-time show with Paul "McCarthy." At least last year they had Janet Jackson taking her top off. This time they got a guy who is old enough to be my great grandfather. You can't expect anyone these days to relate to someone who was lead singer of the Monkees over eighty years ago. |
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GURU DION: I actually was blown away by McCartney. Ever since he teamed up with Michael Jackson in the eighties, he's tried to cater to the brain-dead bubble gum scene, but this time he actually rocked. It made me think the sixties tribe of visionaries is still alive and that the New World Order is just a fantasy, even though the exact opposite is true. Other than that, I look at football as a reflection and endorsement for the military industrial complex, the way they line up like troops and try to win by throwing bombs. Since America cares more about football than war anyway, why can't we just settle international disputes with football games? |