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Where's Fitzgerald?
Oh, he's the guy blowing past your defense for two touchdowns. Don't mind him.

And then Fitzgerald catches four passes in that last series, including the touchdown.

Predicting the Future
FYI, the game on TV is apparently delayed, because you can get the updates on nfl.com on some plays ahead of the actual play. So if you are watching the game with a sucker, this is a good time to make some prediction bets and get some money.

And an all-leather cow interior.

Please don't.

That's because you are listening to "Springstein," the Jewish polka artist, and not "Springsteen," the guru of classic rock stations across the nation.

It was a textbook defensive play against a West Coast setup. Act like the defensive end is going to rush, then drop him back into short coverage to stop those quick slants that the 49ers used to tear defenses up with. Nowadays, defensive ends are athletic enough to make it happen.

That challenge call may itself wind up being the play of the game. At first I thought it was a foolish decision, but after looking at the knee-touching replay, I got some new respect for the Cards coach. He just earned his team four points.

When was Fatboy Slim cool?

She was lip-synching to a tape, I think. She had to take a breath during her last note.

Intro Music
Based on the music used to introduce the teams, the Cardinals win. How could the Steelers come out to such weak dancey music? That was silly.

"Audition" meets "On Golden Pond."

Seriously, only Robert Downey Jr. is fit to play Mr. T.

Agreed. In this day and age where any kid with a laptop fancies him/herself as a "writer," whether they are a blogger, commenter, or pontificator on a Myspace page, Updike was a true writer — enthusiastic for the art, and able to turn his pen to almost any subject with incredible vividness, originality and clarity. …

Pink 'Roid: Standing room only.

If you actually read my comment, you would not see a claim to the effect that "Lincoln would have done just what GWB did after 9/11." I merely noted that Lincoln did some hardcore stuff that went well beyond what GWB did, and that fact tends to get glossed over when people examine Lincoln.

And one of them was seriously loony.