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"Upton on Sports" Blog by Larry Upton
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Super Bowl Sunday- "MORE THAN JUST A GAME!".........
02/05/2012 @ 07:10 AM
Super Bowl Sunday is all about over-indulgence.............
Soccer "MADNESS"...........................
02/02/2012 @ 05:52 PM
More than 70 people killed and hundreds injured in Soccer's latest disaster in Egypt. It's the worst in the country's long soccer history.
The "NFL" - "something to cheer about!"........
02/01/2012 @ 07:26 AM
Lawsuits filed by ex-NFL players over brain injuries
may be consolidated......
"HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED"........................
01/31/2012 @ 08:10 AM
NFL Super Bowl II vs. Super Bowl XLVI...how things change over 46 years.....
"SUPER BOWL XLVI" - expect the unexpected.....
01/29/2012 @ 08:57 AM
The NFL Super Bowl games always provide the "unexpected." This year's game will be no different.
"SCORECARDS", get your scorecards here !.......................
01/27/2012 @ 06:57 AM
Another Major League baseball player, Cleveland's Fausto Carmona arrested for falsifying name and birthdate so he could sign with Indians.
"DON'T THREAD ON ME"..........................
01/25/2012 @ 07:25 AM
Boston Bruin star goalie Tim Thomas tells White House and President Ibama "stick your invitation", your all out of control in Washington...
America's Bloodiest Sport - "POLITICS"............
01/23/2012 @ 01:27 PM
If you ever wondered what our country's bloodiest sport is, "it's shaping up to be our political elections.
"Fly Away Home" - part 2............
01/22/2012 @ 07:51 AM
A flock of Cranes heading for Florida guided by an ultralight pilot grounded in Alabama by FAA.....
TENNIS - "how it's changed".................
01/20/2012 @ 07:04 AM
The game of tennis is played around the world. It's one of the world's major sports with millions of participants, and it's changed.
"WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR".........................
Posted on 02/06/2012 @ 07:26 AM
Over the years Boston Red Sox fans have had to say, "WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR" as they suffered defeat in baseball's pennant race's to their enemies, the New York Yankees. The deadly virus that yearly seemed to strike Boston's elite baseball team "attacked" the New England Patriots yesterday. The deadly virus carried to Indianapolis by the New York Giants. Fans of the New England Patriots now forced to echo words well-known to every fan of the Bay state's baseball franchise. The Patriots went into the game favorites, but obviously Vegas smart money forget Boston players have "inadequate" immune system's against players from New York. The Giants snatching the win late in the 4th quarter. Super Bowl XLVI now in history books. This morning Giant fans around company water cooler's are still pumping their fist with excitement over winning, while Patriot fans are chewing "Tums" or "Rolaids." Did you know "ANTACIC" sales increase by 20% on Monday's after the Super Bowl game? Another 6% of our work force will not show up for work. They'll be calling in "sick" this morning. Most will be Patriot fans.
The game was great to watch. But how about those commercials? Was it me, or did you have trouble understanding what many of the spots were selling? Commercial spots sold for close to $3 million dollars for :30 seconds of air time. "A dog went on a diet" so he can slip out of his "pet door" and chase an automobile? Then "Ferris Bueller" showed up, again calling work to say he was "sick," followed by a college kid who thinks he's getting a Chevy convertible for graduation but his "gift's" a mini-fridge? Or how about the Toyota ad featuring a couch made of "lingerie models?" If you didn't like the couch of models, did you enjoy the polar bears attempting to catch a "Coke" bottle? We can't forget the crime-fighting "Plant," or "poopless baby?"
If the commercials didn't leave you crossed-eyed, or scratching your head, Madonna's half-time show entrance should have. It was "CLEOPATRA" arriving in Rome. Rugged Roman soldiers pulling her chariot while bugles sounded, the beating of drums sounding like thunder, lightning bolts, coming down from heaven. I have no idea what this half-hour production cost the NFL to put on, but they should have stuck to their usual 12 minute rest period and saved money. The show was big on production, short on "substance." Madonna's entrance made me think, "does she see herself as the modern-day "CLEOPATRA?" She's a "shrewd" strategist, her show-biz longevity proves that, she's obviously "ingenuous", traits the Queen of the Nile had. Hmmmmmmm???
The NFL has come a long way since Super Bowl I. Did you know there is "NO" network footage of that game played January 15th,1967? Not one foot of film or tape. The network reportedly taped over the game with a "soap opera." Bean counters say 1 in 12 people watched yesterday's game for the "commercials", not the "game." One quick question, "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?" Do you know any of them? Does anybody? It's been a long, tiring, Super Bowl week for football fans. It's now time to "WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR!"...................
Larry Upton
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