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The Monday Roundup (1/20/14)

Ryan

January 20, 2014

It’ll Be A Broncos-Seahawks Super Bowl XLVIII

Superbowl XLVIII will pit the Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos against Russell Wilson’s Seattle Seahawks. The Broncos dominated Tom Brady and the New England Patriots and Seattle secured a win over the San Francisco 49ers with a late interception. It looks like tickets are available through Ticketmaster’s Ticket Exchange. Prices range from $2,700- $25,572 per ticket. Coming up with the “chump change” necessary to buy a ticket may be the least of your worries.  Getting to and from the New York/New Jersey area will cost about $1,000 by air and actually getting to the game will be a whole different ballgame. You won’t be able to take a taxi or a limousine right up to MetLife Stadium. You’ll need to take a bus or a train. Once you get to the stadium, the security lines will probably take you a bit of time getting through. The whole dressing for the extremely cold weather probably won’t make the line go very fast.  You well get ear muffs, hand warmers and lip balm upon entering the stadium, though.

This will be the first Super Bowl in which two teams representing states where marijuana is legal will play for the trophy, although the players on those teams aren’t allowed to use the pot.

The Super Bowl Is Being Played In New Jersey, Not New York, FYI

While MetLife Stadium is actually in East Rutherford, New Jersey, New Jersey is largely getting shut out of the festivities around the big game. The NFL’s Super Bowl Boulevard Engineered  By GMC will be held along Broadway in New York. East Rutherford’s Mayor is not real happy about the whole thing. Mayor Cassella recently announced that his town and Secaucus will host their own events, but can’t use the Super Bowl name for them despite hosting the game.

Don’t Talk About Richard Sherman

Richard Sherman tipped the pass that landed in the arms of his teammate and gave the Seahawks the win. He gave a very spirited interview after the game.
 

The social media world exploded with all sorts of takes on the interview. A Forbes contributor had this piece about why he thought the interview was awesome another one wrote about “trash talking” is part of the game. Former Ram Tyoka Jackson joined The Ryan Kelley Morning After show this morning and gave a great take on the interview. He pointed out that it made no sense for Sherman to call Crabtree a “sorry receiver”. It’s just like a team’s fans chanting “over-rated” when they beat a higher-ranked team. Why would you devalue your own accomplishment by saying your opponent isn’t as good as they say? A flag was thrown on Sherman when he made the “choke” sign to Crabtree after the play, which was also dumb. He’s saying Crabtree “choked” and that’s why he was able to make the play. So Richard, the interception happened because Crabtree “choked”, not because you made a great play? Interesting.
Championship Hats Again Look Terrible

Here’s a picture of the hat the Seahawks put on after their win.

 

 

 Why are championship hats always so terrible? Move the logo up and put “conference” above “champions” and maybe make the fonts a tad bit smaller to fit. That would make the hats look 10 times better. The stickers contribute to making the hat look terrible. Peyton Manning removed the stickers and rounded the bill before putting his hat on. Denver punter Britton Colquitt appears to have folded his as well before making a “confetti angel”.

Photo Credit: Jamie Squire/Getty Images

At least the shirts look somewhat better.  

Drake Hosts Saturday Night Live

Drake hosted 2014’s first episode of Saturday Night Live. It was awesome and marked the debut of Sasheer Zamata. Entertainment Weekly had a solid recap of the show. I agree with them that this was the best sketch of the night.

We also appreciated his monologue where he mentioned Degrassi and apologized for birthing “YOLO”.

Aerie Ditches Airbrushing

Did you know American Eagle had a lingere line? I had no clue until I read this piece from Refinery29 shared by a friend of mine. While Vogue is in the news for photoshopping the hell out of Lena Dunham (Jezebel offered $10,000 for the original photos and received them within two hours) American Eagle has taken the approach of vowing to leave the tattoos, dimples and stretch marks in promoting Aerie. The line is being marketed as a “teen lingerie” line, which has led to some people being uncomfortable seeing the advertisements in malls. Aerie isn’t using tweens to market the line, the models look a good deal older and definitely healthier than many top supermodels. Several of the Victoria’s Secret Angels still can’t legally get into bars. American Eagle launched the new campaign on Good Morning America

Limited Edition Cookie Dough Oreo?

This picture made the rounds on Twitter over the weekend. Are they real? No one seems to know.


Considering Oreo Ice Cream Rainbow Shure, Bert! cookies are a thing. It would be perfectly reasonable to believe these are real.

Oliver Stone No Longer Making MLK Movie

Oliver Stone was set to making a biopic on civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Stone took to his Twitter account to explain why. It’s not cool to talk about his mistress that pretty much everyone knew he had. This issue also sunk a project by Captain Phillips director Paul Greengrass. Considering that his mistress was allegedly staying at the hotel where he was killed, it’s reasonable to think she should at least be mentioned in any film.

Facebook Blocking Ads From Certain Dating Sites

Facebook recently went to a system where actual people reviews ads before they go up on the site.  People have apparently been complaining to these humans that there are too many advertisements for dating sites. Of course, most dating sites are putting a ton of money into the advertising with Valentine’s Day coming up. This led to the CEO of one of the companies that couldn’t buy ads to complain that Facebook was doing this to cater to companies that could spend more money. Facebook is a business that needs to make money, it’s also somewhat of a sinking ship. They’ve been making lots of changes lately that are good for some people and bad for others.

Oh, that CEO that was complaining? He’s the CEO of HiDine, which is a dating site for food lovers. They currently have 328 Facebook fans and 139 followers on Twitter.

Target Hacked By A 17-year Old

Remember that massive breach at Target? The one that may have compromised 110 million accounts? A 17-year old allegedly wrote the code.

Bieber Really Makes Selena Gomez Mad

Justin Bieber is on a fast-track to rehab. Anyone that isn’t blindly in love with the Biebs can tell you that. Justin apparently got into a pretty heated text battle with quasi-girlfriend Selena Gomez. He tried winning her back with some unsolicited nude photos but thankfully she didn’t fall for it. For some reason Gomez’s stepfather had the texts on his phone and then forwarded them to a friend of his, according to RadarOnline. This will makes things really awkward if Bieber and Gomez ever get back together.

Paul George Goes 360 Windmill

In an NBA game over the weekend, Paul George of the Indiana Pacers  nailed this 360 Windmill dunk. (On a sidenote, it’s funny that this dunk came against the Los Angeles Clippers and Blake Griffin.) The super-talented Patrick Truby created this awesome animated GIF and posted it on Deadspin.

BatKid Tab Picked Up

Hopefully you remember the feel-good story of how BatKid saved San Francisco recently. While the Make-A-Wish program organized the event, the city of San Francisco still spent $105,000 to put it on. John and Marcia Goldman decided to go ahead and pay that for the city. 

(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

 

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