Divisional Round Gamethread
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That was entertaining -- I was actually going to say seven seconds is too much to play prevent Hail Mary defense.
Was it Shelley or Keats who wrote dilly dilly?I've always figured it's a personification of Ozymandias personified. Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive/stamped on these lifeless things, right?
Put the Falcons back indoors for the Super Bowl, and they'll look like a different team.
Just as you know I keep talking about, week in week out, starting in December, you can set your watch by which teams will struggle when they get into bad weather games. This isn't even "that" bad, but it's certainly not the climate controlled environment that Atlanta (and New Orleans and Minnesota for that matter) are used to playing in, and it shows.
Makes you wonder how different things might have been had Gillette been a dome.
Completely agree - you don't think the Falcons could have benefited with having another DB on the field instead of Julio?
Quinn seems to be an excellent coach six days of the week, but his in-game decision making ranges from mediocre to horrific.
Of course Atlanta has all kinds of weapons and they'd make me nervous for lots of reasons. But here's what their offense has done indoors this year:
Overall:
34 vs GB
30 at Det
17 vs Buf
17 vs Mia
27 vs Dal
34 vs TB
9 vs Min
20 vs NO
13 at NO
22 vs Car
Total: 223 points, 22.3 average
Last 4 (admitted cherry-picking): 64 points, 16.0 average
So it's not like their offense in a dome has been tearing it up. Just 4 out of 10 games have they scored more than 22 points indoors this year, and none in their last 4 games.
Ozymandias was by Percy Shelley and to a lesser degree, Horace Smith, who specifically referenced Egypt and London by his sonnet's end, but lost the race to have his version published first by a month--both published originally in The Examiner in London. Lavender's Blue, the origin of the phrase Dilly dilly in its song, goes back to approximately the 17th century, writer unknown.
DILLY DILLY! TRUE FRIEND OF THE CROWN!
Oh yeah. Dangerously so. I don't want their product, but I went to the point of finding out about the commercial's future, enough to find out they're making two new ones specifically for the Super Bowl. If that doesn't sound like brand recognition/identification, what does? As a business/marketing mind, love what they've done. Simple, brilliant, and makes an immediate mental connection.
Where does the theme whereby in the most recent iteration of the commercial, the Dilly Dilly King reveals himself to be wiser than King Midas fit into this analysis?
Don't get me wrong. I'm not afraid of Atlanta. Shit, they went 1-3 against the AFC East this year, and it should have been 0-4, but the Jets handed them a win. I think the Pats are so deep in their head that it would be a much better matchup than the Saints or Vikes. I just don't think they'll look like they have today. That said, all you need to do is look at those games against the Vikings and Saints this year to realize just how hard of a time they'll have getting passed next week anyway.
I've been working on an Edgar Allen/Dontari Poe joke for a little bit. Then I thought maybe I'd go for the home run by adding in the teletubby and I got all screwed up.
Fuck it, I'm just gonna get back to the game.
I would rather have the Pats face a recent SB noob team versus a team that was just there and would be out for redemption.
Happy to be there versus team on a mission.
Happy to be there versus team on a mission.
Bud Light will never have enough gold in its brewing endpoint color to get us to there. Then again, much like if you anagram Midas, much like if you drink the stuff, you'll get I'm sad.
Interesting fact about the real Midas: He married the Greek Damidice daughter of Agamemnon of Cyme. She is credited with the creation of money after marrying Midas. It ties in nicely with the ads though because Midas committed suicide according to Strabo by drinking bull's blood. This would then imply our king is finally tired of suboptimal quality in his beer, wanting something else to drink.
This reminds me of a comic I once saw where Lot is dragging his now deceased wife off dreaming of all the money he’ll make off of selling the valuable salt into which she has been turned.
It lacks the same commentary on feudalism that the Midas story brings though...
Does that make the King having turned his subjects into cheap consumables a commentary on late-capitalist labor exploitation?
Sarkisian literally stealing the outside rushing midlines gameplan from Alabama against Clemson a few weeks ago. This is hilarious.
The original Dilly Dilly is all about getting busy.
I heard one say, dilly, dilly,
since I came hither,
That you and I, dilly, dilly,
must lie together
Though there is a beer reference, too:
If you should die, dilly dilly, as it may hap,
You shall be buried, dilly dilly, under the tap;
Who told you so, dilly dilly, pray tell me why?
That you might drink, dilly dilly, when you are dry.
They are remarkable commercials, and they do us a solid by changing them up and introducing new ones.
I loathe the Verizon commercial with the dorky guy. I would shoot Flo if I could. Direct TV getting old. Thank you Bud Lite.
I loathe the Verizon commercial with the dorky guy. I would shoot Flo if I could. Direct TV getting old. Thank you Bud Lite.