by Eric Martin
Here's your Super Bowl open thread, with some pictures of the baby for good measure.
Me: I'm pulling for the Saints, but fearing the Colts. Either way, I really think it should be a good game. And that's all a long suffering Raiders fan can hope for (seeing as there are no evil franchises to root against (ie, the Patriots, Cowboys, Redskins and Broncos).
Eric was able to lean up all by himself today, and he was quite proud of himself. That was actually the consensus in the room at the time.
Also, too:
who dat!
I don’t care much about football, but I love NOLA.
I have no attachment to either team in the Superbowl and this miserable weather has damped (and snowed) my plans to spend it with people who do care about such things.
Eric’s a Raiders fan? A quick GIS (questionably safe for work) suggests that lawyers are a tiny minority amongst that demographic.
On the Open Thread topic, Sarah Palin doesn’t need a teleprompter!
We probably got 24 inches of snow here DC this weekend at my house. Even five separate shoveling sessions were barely enough to keep it at bay, and that doesn’t count shoveling the cars out today. Whew.
Anyway, can’t say I have a clear favorite today, probably will be happy if either team wins, but imagine the party on Bourbon Street…
I don’t care about football at all. Trying to decide whether to walk 3/4 mile up Connecticut Ave to a Super Bowl party. Not sure how well the sidewalk has been cleared for the whole distance, especially at the intersections where the snowplows make huge walls that block pedestrians. And it’s been sunny enough today that there’ll now be plenty of slush starting to refreeze.
KCinDC – not sure where you are coming from or headed to but based on y experience up by chevy chase circle today it might be a hard slog.
who dat!
I don’t care much about football, but I love NOLA.
I don’t either, but have enough NOLA connections – family and friends – to like the outcome. Plus I’m tired of hearing about the wonders of the Manning family.
I’m in Cleveland Park and would have been heading north past Van Ness, but I wimped out. Didn’t intend to have it on but got drawn into Twitter discussion of the ads so did turn in on while I did laundry.
Looks like we’re getting more snow Tuesday. Has a shot at being the snowiest winter on record for DC.
A self-professed Raiders fan wearing Yankees lounge pants has no business calling any other sports franchise (even Dallas!) “evil.”
I watched the game with one of my clients. I don’t care about sports myslef but I can enjoy a game if I’m watching with someone who cares about the outcome. So we were Saints fans and we won!
Eric, that is a beautiful baby!
Eric’s still rocking that Mohawk. Very edgy. Fluffy, but edgy nonetheless. And so cute.
A self-professed Raiders fan wearing Yankees lounge pants has no business calling any other sports franchise (even Dallas!) “evil.”
I admit that I have certain vulnerabilities in this regard.
We were just driving through Alameda the other day and saw an SUV with a Star of David sticker and a Raiders sticker. The Bay Area is diverse!
Eric Jr is pretty damn cute. We took Eli on a multi-hour Ikea trip yesterday and he chirped and cooed his way through it all good-naturedly. He’s super mellow (with occasional moments of hysteria).
Super Bowl Sunday is my unofficial US immigration anniversary. I arrived during the game in 1999, although I think it was some time in January that year…
Don’t give a rat’s a** about football, but that is one beautiful baby – congratulations!
Elijah was one of the three finalists for the “baby to be named later.” In a bit of ObWi synergy, Sebastian was the other. Eric won out – the name of my grandfather and my, um, middle name (but people call me Eric).
Oddly, my grandfather’s name was Roland but everyone called him Eric too. So, in a way, my son is the first true “Eric” (but definitely not an “Eric Jr.”)
Which means he’ll probably be called something else. I’m thinking “Eli”…
“E” works as a nickname too. Not getting any shorter than that…
Just don’t name the next one with an E. We had Jacob & Joseph in our family, which meant I was perpetually called Joseph-Jacob-rather.
Eli was going to be Solomon. That turned out to be a lot of name for a little tiny baby, and it took us a few days to settle on something else.
Then I had to convince my wife that I was serious about his middle name, Merlin. Yes, yes, I do wish to saddle him with a name that will earn him mockery for life. It’s CHARACTER-FORMING!
John Murtha has died.
Indeed he did.
(pauses for respect)
JD:
Right now he’s working with E-Money. Or “E-Money the Great” as his uncle calls him.
Although after watching Jersey Shore, he started calling himself “The Premiere.” The wife isn’t sold on that yet, but she ain’t Italian. American.
Jacob, sounds like you had it easy.
When speaking to one of us, my mother routinely ran thru the names of my father, myself and all of my siblings. In chronological order. Except she would drop the name of whoever she was actually addressing from the list, and tack it onto the end.
So I got called Don-David-Judy-John-Bill, and my dad got called Bill-David-Judy-John-Don. Just meant we had to listen for the end, to see if we were being addressed.
Ah, parents!
We were just driving through Alameda the other day and saw an SUV with a Star of David sticker and a Raiders sticker.
Is this surprising? Al Davis is Jewish.
I didn’t say it was surprising, did I? I thought it was amusing that someone chose to put just those two symbols on the back of their car, since we were talking about (claimed lack of) diversity in Raiders fans. I guess the juxtaposition is either innately amusing to you or not.
Is this surprising? Al Davis is Jewish.
Whether there are more Jewish owners or athletes in professional sports is an interesting question.
Relevant trivia: The 1989 World Series, the Oakland-SF one that was interrupted by an earthquake, is the only World Series where the owners of the two teams belonged to the same synagogue.
Wonder what Pat Robertson would say about that?
Wonder what Pat Robertson would say about that?
Damn Yankees?