Perfect for Flopping

OMG, wearable sleeping bag! It rolls up pretty small, too.

I like the picture where the guy looks like he just collapsed and fell asleep on the spot. Rag doll physics!

Rebuttal

Right after the Super Bowl, I too felt like perhaps the Seahawks had caught some bad breaks. Then everyone started saying that the referees had given it to the Steelers. Here’s what I have to say to that:

• The officiating wasn’t that great. They were calling the game tight. But it wasn’t like the Steelers were getting away with everything while the Seahawks weren’t. You have to adjust to tight officiating, and the Seahawks didn’t.
• The Locklear holding call was pretty bad, I’ll admit that. But the Jackson pass interference: yes it was ticky-tack, but when you push off right in front of the official, it’s going to get whistled. A push-off is a push-off, even if it was a minor foul.
• Ben Roethlisberger’s touchdown crossed the plane of the goal line. This shouldn’t even be a dispute. They would have scored next down even if he didn’t get it.
• You can’t make the argument that Seattle got whistled for X number of yards worth of penalties and would have converted them to points. Almost all of those penalties were legit, and if you actually watched the game you know that Seattle was screwing up mentally on plenty of plays.
• This isn’t the case where the one last definitive play that would have won it for the Seahawks was incorrectly called. It was a few bad breaks sprinkled throughout the game. There’s no way to predict how the rest of the game would have gone if the calls had gone the other way.

Quite frankly, Seattle didn’t play that well. The Steeler’s defense was good, but hardly dominant. Porter and Polamalu were quiet all game. Matt Hasselbeck’s pass protection was so good he could have done his taxes in the pocket. If you can’t beat the Steelers on a night when the running game was almost non-existant (except for Fast Willie’s run) and Ben Roethlisberger has an efficiency rating of 22.6 (isn’t that less than half of what the next lowest winning Super Bowl quarterback’s efficiency rating is?), then you don’t deserve to win. I mean c’mon, that’s like a gift-wrapped victory and the Seahawks blew it, end of story. If you’re gonna be mad at someone, be mad at Jerramy Stevens; that guy sucked.

One for the Thumb!

Pretty amazing how the Steelers just won Super Bowl XL. Some impressive luck, and a great end to a storybook season. Bunky actually had the Terrible Towel hanging on our console table, and we consumed so much food out of nervous eating that I think I’m going to be puking all night.

I’ve Never Seen One of You Before

Had a pretty awesome incident with the new landowners yesterday. I got a call from the agent saying that we had paid rent twice. We had given them a check for all the application fees and deposits, and then Bunky had paid the first month’s rent online. I figured the agent was simply confused, and thought the first check was for rent as well. After several back and forth calls and emails between Bunky, the agent, and me, I finally just told the agent that I’d stop in with Bunky that afternoon.

So we get in there and the agent’s supervisor is the only one there. We argue some more and finally she shows the check to us. The name on the check reads something like “Byon Hung Jun”. For those who don’t know me in real life, this is not even remotely close to my name. So the agent must have gotten a check from another Asian person and just assumed it was from me, even though she called me and used my correct name! Unbelievable! And by “unbelievable” I mean it’s unbelievable that there are two Asian people living within 5 miles of each other in Williamsburg.