Minutes after the Giants won the World Series last October, groups of vandals took to the streets of San Francisco and started setting fires, smashing store windows, flipping taxis, burning buses, and acting like crazy idiot douchebags all night. They caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, and several arrests were made.
All the stars are out this week in New Orleans for the Super Bowl. Stroll through the French Quarter and you’re sure to see current and former NFL players, familiar faces from stage and screen (this intrepid writer spotted Neil Patrick Harris and Alec Baldwin at dinner on Friday night), television personalities and even a famous musician or two (you may have heard that Beyoncé is performing the National Anthem on Sunday).
The 2013 Super Bowl will feature many commercials. You can even check here for what movie trailers will be running during the 2013 Super Bowl. But what you won't see is a :20 ad for web site PornHub, which was summarily rejected by CBS. The good news? You can watch it now.
January 30, 2013
January 30, 2013 We're not quite sure what Volkswagen is trying to tell us in this ad for the new Beetle that will run during the Super Bowl this Sunday. In it, white people speak like Jamaicans. Is the new Bug a happy-making machine? Is it haunted by Marley's Ghost? (Bob Marley, of course.) Or, does it have a secret compartment of pot that sparks up with the ignition and blows smoke through the vents? At any rate, the real question people are asking is...is this ad racist? Vote below!
January 29, 2013 Check out this great animation video of former Green Bay Packer Paul Hornung telling the story of Max McGee and the most celebrated hangover ever. If you don't know, Max McGee didn't think he was going to play in the Super Bowl so he got drunk the night before. Turns out that the next day he would make history.
January 24, 2013 Welcome to another edition of Deep Dish Sports with the Iceman Brandon Cohn.
Today's program includes a discussion about the results of the NFC and AFC championship games, and a preview of Super Bowl XLVII, AKA "the Harbowl," between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens
October 16, 2012
August 3, 2012 The NFL officially gets underway this sunday with the Hall of Fame Game (which you can listen to starting at 5:30pm right here on 600 ESPN El Paso) in which the Arizona Cardinals play the New Orleans Saints.
The beauty of the NFL is that most of the teams are competitive. As matter of fact for that last 9 seasons, a team that has finished last in their division has won it the following year. One of the biggest factors that determines how a season goes for a team is injuries.