<![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @Bartolos_Colonoscopy: Right there with you on the Duff's. On an early trip to Buffalo with the now-Mrs...er...Tamzarian, I suppose, I wanted to go to the Anchor Bar for wings, and everyone looked at me like I was a mutant, because that's where tourists go...

Also, good catch on the Hydrochloric Acid thing, although I've been on planes home more than once when it feels like that's exactly what I had consumed.

ArmandTamzarian

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @buttons: So you're the guy who didn't enjoy the Making of the Making of SportsCenter's Greatest Commercials, Part Deux?

Wyshynski

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> 'What? New Year's Eve at home in Pittsburgh? Pshaw! I know of a colder, snowier place! Where we can sit outside! And pay lots of money to watch hockey! Also, our colons will explode after we eat!'

Unamerican

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @Encouraging Referee Pitman: Touche' what a waste of a day off...

suedevsleather

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @FThat: ESPN keeps... warning the NHL not to over-exploit what was a success.

Well, tWWL would definitely be the voice of experience in that arena, no?

buttons

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @Rozelle's Bagman: Not to get all chemisty-professor-ish, but i think you might mean the "NaCl" [salt]. Some HCl (hydrochloric acid) and you'll wind up needing more than just tums.

oh, and beef on weck is delicious, but nuthin beats duff's wings.
/former upstater

Bartolos_Colonoscopy

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> We kept our rusty car in the driveway out front. It became something of a novelty to the other kids.

ItsAlwaysSunnyInGoldenState

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> Pittsburgh Black Tie: Steelers and Penguins jerseys and black jeans

You left out slicked back mullets and fupas.

cromartie

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> In fairness to ESPN they also completely marginalized the NHL when they were broadcasting it so in that regard they've remained consistent.

Hit Bull Win Steak

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @Rozelle's Bagman: Mmmm.... so delicious.

Please stay tuned for "Cooking With Deadspin" on the Ocho.

Jehovahs Witness Protection Program

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @Walker Told Me I Have AIDS: It's almost like ESPN has some sort of personal VENDETTA against the NHL and would benefit from promoting some other second-tier sport --like maybe basketball-- over it.

I understand that America doesn't love hockey like they do in Canada (or in Minnesota), but ESPN and its talking heads are really undermining the game out of spite, and it's getting irritating.

Shit, we get it; Hockey has a lousy commish and no national TV deal.

It isn't Hockey's fault that Rodger Goodell could have a game where two teams of blind retards play on a field covered in human waste --call it the "Peanut-Specked game of the Millennium"-- and 75% of America would watch/ESPN would love it.

ESPN and America don't apparently have much discretion.

God, I sound like a soccer fan. Ewww.

ThatMarkDude

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @Chief Wahoo: Imagine a roast beef sandwich on a the saltiest soft-pretzel you've ever had. Then add horseradish and more HCl.

Rozelle’s Bagman

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @kayceebk:

If you read it, it says he's from Shortsville, which is on the border of 585 and 315. Hence my initial confusion that thought he was a 315'er.

Afino

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> ESPN has had their "analysts" (paid lackeys) dump on the one good thing the NHL has done in the last few years, that everybody seemed to really enjoy.

Jesus guys! You've buried the NHL enough! Just let them have this for Christ sakes you heartless bastards!!!

Just to get a feel for how good this was for the NHL: I had my friend, a diehard Florida Gators fan, text about the Ice Bowl multiple times yesterday while his Gators were giving Lloyd Carr his going away present.

And Pittsburgh IS the greatest city in America. Ohhhh those that don't know doubt this, but those that do are smiling and nodding in quiet yet confident reassurance as they read this.

Walker Told Me I Have AIDS

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @UpstateUnderdog: Okay, I'm an onion roll guy all the way, but that looks pretty damn good.

Chief Wahoo

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @Chief Wahoo: it's a type of roll

[en.wikipedia.org]

UpstateUnderdog

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> Sunday, some women from Pittsburgh were telling me how they were pelted with donuts when they went to Buffalo to watch the Steelers. I tried to explain that the Buffalo natives weren't taunting them them, but wooing them.

While their Pittsburgh svelte 190 lbs figures were fine for Western PA, Buffalo men need them to be at least 225 before they could be introduced to the parents.

Randall Tex Cobb

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> Whafuck's a weck?

Chief Wahoo

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @UpstateUnderdog: No trip to buffalo should be complete without a buffalo chicken finger sub.

MitchKayak

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @GreatOdensRaven: He also bought a Kordell Stewart jersey from the same rack.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> Even Stompin' Tom is tired of hearing "The Good Old Hockey Game", that is if he was still alive.

parker91

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @Jehovahs Witness Protection Program: And have you ever noticed all food in Buffalo will kill you within six hours of eating it? That's what makes it so tasty...

Jehovahs Witness Protection Program

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> It was fun to watch, but the hockey was lousy. Slowing down Crosby, Malkin, Maxim afino, et al, is not what i would look for in a hockey game. Looked more like a Devils game.

And the sight of Mike Milbury made me want to chuck the remote at the TV...

crazyjoedavola

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @kayceebk: @afino: @twoeightnine: Please add me to the pile of folks from Western New York (Buffalo.)

That game was so awesome but I was about 1/2 a mile from the ice.

Jehovahs Witness Protection Program

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> After a rousing rendition of O Canada and God Bless America, replete with giant flags (I'm a sucker for giant flags!), the game got underway.
Did they not play The Star Spangled Banner?

/LISTENING TO THE FUCKING SONG!

Chicago Jones

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @'S.U.S.S.--: Yeah, he played track and field in college.

Tuffy

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @afino: 315's Syracuse, not Buffalo.

kayceebk

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> 'Duckface'? Take off, ya hoser. There's no place to be talkin' like that if you're from Buffalo, eh? There's a reason the song goes, "Buffalo gals, don't you come home tonight, don't you come home tonight, sweet God Almighty don't you come home tonight."

Well, it *should*. Goof.

Tuffy

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @Mmole:

Paul "Eskimo" Clark would win every time.

theWolf

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @MrMoustache:

And neither of them holds a candle to Bariaga.

theWolf

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> You know what sporting event would benefit from being played outdoors, on ice, in a snowstorm?

The World Series of Poker.

Mmole

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @FThat: Barry Melrose would love to talk about how much he enjoyed the game on the air but he is currently bound and gagged in the new generator building.

Weed Against Speed

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @Brazil Thrill: Sure. There's the one guy who got the Stu Barnes jersey off the clearance rack.

GreatOdensRaven

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> "Ritch even wore a Patriots hat the entire day and only got called a cocksucker about half a dozen times. At a Bills game that would get you pelted with rocks."

Rockchucker?

Matt Sussman

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> So, were there any Pens fans who did not wear a Crosby jersey?

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> ESPN keeps dumping on this game, with Salisbury saying this morning that the game should have been held in February, and Scott Burnside warning the NHL not to over-exploit what was a success. Next will be Mike and Mike telling me that the NHL is inferior to arena football.

alftime

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> Ariaga is pretty good, but he's no Ariaga II.

MrMoustache

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> No 289 Is The Balls tag? That's horseshit!

I Party With Smoot

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> We did get a Soulja Boy reference in my section though.

Someone told Brian Campbell to "Soupy-man that ho!"

Afino

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> I'm actually in the 585 (nee 716).

twoeightnine

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @UpstateUnderdog:

And a bucket of BBQ wings.

@Barry Lutz:

They should have used the snow from the Zambonis. They had a 10-foot pile by the end of the game.

And 289's from Shortsville? My family's from Phelps. 315 represent!

Afino

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> Testing because Nibbles hates me.

Afino

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @suedevsleather: And for a few hours (minutes) I cared (was intrigued) for a meaningless bowl game. And now I return to regularly scheduled hockey. Go Caps!

Encouraging Referee Pitman

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> The best part was when Crosby tipped the puck up in the air a couple of times and then NBC proceeded to replay it about 47 fucking times like he had just completed hockey's version of the immaculate reception.

theWolf

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> This match will determine once and for all which city is the greatest in America: Buffalo or Pittsburgh!

throwbot

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> Ow, fuck! Little kids playing hockey on the pickup rink hurts my ovaries!

Clare

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> @Tebow2007: He's playing hockey with the kids.

GreatOdensRaven

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> no trip to Buffalo is complete until you've had a beef on weck.

UpstateUnderdog

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> And for a few hours (moments) America cared (was intrigued) for Hockey again... and now we return to the regularly scheduled Bowl games.

suedevsleather

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> They had to "truck in" the snow around the rink? Now I feel ripped off about how cool I thought it was yesterday. That better be in the NHL Mitchell Report this year.

Barry Lutz

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> well done, but the thing everyone wants to know is where is the Hockey Monkey?

Tebow2007

]]> <![CDATA[Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl]]> You'd think people from Pittsburgh wouldn't be so eager to announce it, but then again I'm from Buffalo and I advertise that fact like a John Mellencamp commercial, so what the hell do I know?

This is ouuuuuuuur shithooooole...

KoSuKe Fuk-U

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