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Title: NFL Super Bowl is/was on whatcha' doin'???
Post by: Rastus on February 02, 2014, 06:59:54 PM
OK.  I was fixing up rail on an AR for a bipod and cleaning my DMR.  The XYL has the bowl game on in the background so I see what is going on every now and again.  I've go the 2M/70CM handheld scanning the repeaters whilst working with the DMR.
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Post by: gunman42782 on February 02, 2014, 07:09:00 PM
Well, seeing as how there is not a damn thing on my cable that I pay dearly for, and never is on Sundays it seems, I am watching DVDs of That 70's Show!  I thought about watching Tombstone or Full Metal Jacket, but I have seen both of them hundreds of times.
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Post by: Rastus on February 02, 2014, 08:01:15 PM
Well you could watch Sniper with Tom Berenger to change things up a bit.  It's off the wall, I know, but considering the drivel out there it floats higher than most.

Edit-  Miami Vice movie...maybe The Recruit. 
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Post by: Timothy on February 02, 2014, 08:28:41 PM
Not missing much!  The #1 offense stayed in Denver ...  Sad, the first stupid bowl I watch in a decade and it sucks...  At least Bruno Mars kept his clothes on...
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Post by: billt on February 03, 2014, 07:35:58 AM
Denver was there?
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Post by: crusader rabbit on February 03, 2014, 09:17:18 AM
Watched a DVD. 

Kinda surprised at the end score (in a "who cares" sorta way).

Crusader Rabbit
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Post by: MikeBjerum on February 03, 2014, 09:43:06 AM
I love football, so I watch.  However, yesterday was a lot of house work and other work, so it was just on in the background.

Can someone explain to me what the subliminal message was that was being sent with the flames in the lower corner of the screen, and at another time a handgun being racked?  I'm sure it was a build up to a movie or tv show they were advertising, but if you don't glue yourself to the screen you miss the message.

My point in this question is that if Daniel Defense was banned for having a sihlouette of a rifle, why was the racking of a handgun allowed?
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Post by: tombogan03884 on February 03, 2014, 01:36:19 PM
I have discovered e books , and The Gutenberg Project .  ;D
I was reading "The Gatlings at Santiago" about the gatling guns used in the Spanish / American war by John Parker who was the detachment commander .

Probably the next one will either be Caesar's "Commentary on the Gallic War" or Churchill's account of the battle of Omdurman "The river war".
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Post by: Big Frank on February 03, 2014, 02:22:15 PM
Since there was nothing on TV worth watching I watched a couple of movies online instead.
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Post by: mkm on February 03, 2014, 02:35:42 PM
I watched it just because. I was actually hoping for a decent game even though I an much more interested in college football.

I did find something disturbing. One of the local news channels here had a piece on safety/travel to the game. During it, they showed some police patrolling the arrival areas on foot. At least one that was shown was wearing a decked out MOLLE/body armor vest with an AR slung over his chest. Yes, security is important, but I don't want to see that level of geared up cop just causally walking around. They also talked of multiple checkpoints and dogs. I think this is still the US?

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Post by: Timothy on February 03, 2014, 03:14:26 PM

I love football, so I watch.  However, yesterday was a lot of house work and other work, so it was just on in the background.

Can someone explain to me what the subliminal message was that was being sent with the flames in the lower corner of the screen, and at another time a handgun being racked?  I'm sure it was a build up to a movie or tv show they were advertising, but if you don't glue yourself to the screen you miss the message.

My point in this question is that if Daniel Defense was banned for having a sihlouette of a rifle, why was the racking of a handgun allowed?

It was a trailer for "24" with Keefer Sutherland coming back to Fox!
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Post by: MikeBjerum on February 03, 2014, 03:47:50 PM
It was a trailer for "24" with Keefer Sutherland coming back to Fox!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ....

So, since it is Fox promoting Fox a pistol being racked is acceptable, but since it is an advertiser ...

What about the "shoot 'em up" trailers for movies that were shown?

Sorry guys, but this one really has me miffed.
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Post by: alfack on February 03, 2014, 04:07:16 PM
As a long time Seattle fan who attended their first game ever, I watched the game and basked in their glory!!  :D

Never thought I would see the day!
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Post by: billt on February 03, 2014, 04:37:41 PM
Militarized cops are becoming the norm these days.
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Post by: PegLeg45 on February 03, 2014, 04:42:06 PM
Went to bed early and watched the original True Grit for the umpteenth time....never gets old.


I don't keep up with football like I did years ago..... I guess the appeal just got lost somewhere. I was glad for the Seahawks, though....when I did follow the NFL they were a team I liked, after my home state's Falcons.
And as a side note, if a bunch of Iranians got up a football team and played the Broncos, I'd root for the Iranians......... yes...I still hold a bit of hurt from Super Bowl XXXIII.  ;)
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Post by: alfsauve on February 03, 2014, 05:14:53 PM
I have to watch.  Not the game, but the commercials.  I do work in TV/Video after all.

First, it's expected that Budwieser and Coca Cola have great commercials (not the Bud lite one/Swarchenager one-blah).  You can't beat the Clysdales or the I-Want-To-Teach-The-World-To-Sing genre.   Beyond those, I think the knock-it-out-of-the-park was VW with the wings and rainbows.  Well done, well delivered.   Makes me want to go look at their product.   Cheerios was in there as well.  Besides being the cutest little girl, the "puppy" tie-in cemented it with those who had watched the Puppy Bowl early.  Well played placement.   And Radio Shack, "the 80's want their store back", was also cute.  "ALF" was in that commercial.  And I got to hand it T-Mobil and T-bow for their no-contract thing.  Did make for a good connection.

All the rest of the commercials were flat and left you wondering or wanting.

And on a local note, the Ga Lottery ran one of their commercials during the local time slot at about 8pm EST which featured MY SON.   Real kick think, even if it is only local, that my son was in a Super Bowl commercial.  Of course, its just a regular commercial and they've been playing it for a week now.

Oh the game?  Sorry about that Peyton.  I think Denver now has the record for the most SB losses at 5.  Of course there are teams who would just be happy to make it to the super bowl, so give'm their due.  They just got out-played, out-coached on a given Sunday.

My son the white rapper.



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Post by: ellis4538 on February 03, 2014, 05:52:57 PM
Read a good book!

Richard
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Post by: BAC on February 03, 2014, 11:52:40 PM
Worked.
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Post by: JC5123 on February 04, 2014, 09:08:03 AM
Sunday was shooting, going to town for groceries, then kicking back in my sun room and finishing Chris Kyle's book. (Very good read by the way.) I read his, and Luttrel's book in the last week. Last night I started Rawles Founders. 
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Post by: MikeBjerum on February 04, 2014, 09:24:05 PM
Which one of Chris Kyle's did you read?  I was at the airport bookstore and was going to pick one up.  They were out of Luttrel's, so I spotted Chris' book, and another, and another ... Between the three I couldn't make up my mind, and then I remembered I needed to get on the bird  :-[

They all looked interesting.
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Post by: JC5123 on February 05, 2014, 11:26:42 AM
Which one of Chris Kyle's did you read?  I was at the airport bookstore and was going to pick one up.  They were out of Luttrel's, so I spotted Chris' book, and another, and another ... Between the three I couldn't make up my mind, and then I remembered I needed to get on the bird  :-[

They all looked interesting.

I had the Kindle version of American Sniper. It's the Memorial Edition.