A baby-name website says "Plaxicxo" means "peaceful" in Latin. It's been a while since we've read much Virgil, so we'll have to take their word for it. Get the shirt here. Don't wear it with sweat pants to a nightclub. The bouncers will not be amused.Much as we hate to admit it, the Super Bowl isn't really about football. Sure, for NFL freaks like us, the game is history in the making. But most people don't go to Super Bowl parties because they've followed Larry Fitzgerald since he played in high school. Super Bowl parties are about food, drink, spectacle, gambling and, maybe, the chance to see a halftime performer's boob flop out. (Unfortunately, this year's halftime show stars Bruce Springsteen. )
The game is also about TV commercials; an unofficial awards ceremony for the advertising industry and, as the inevitable post-game analysis of ads will tell us, some obscure kind of social barometer.
Spoiler Alert: The biggest Super Bowl advertiser is once again, Anheuser-Busch. The beer company will air three spots with the Budweiser Clydesdales and one starring Conan O'Brien, which lets Conan know where he stands. Coke is a big player. Coke Zero has an ad with the Pittsburgh Steelers' Troy Polamalu that humorously revisits (i.e. tarnishes the memory of) the famous Coke ads from with Mean Joe Greene. DreamWorks has a 3-D trailer (whatever that means) for the new movie "Monsters vs. Aliens." But if we could bet on which ad would be most popular, and this being the Super Bowl we probably can, we'd put our money on actor Jason Statham's ad for Audi. Vroom.
Micah Grimes, coach of the Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0, has been fired. Covenant, a private Christian school, posted a statement regretting the shutout of Dallas Academy; a school with only 20 female students that specializes in kids with learning problems. But the coach disagreed with the apology. He was quoted as saying "Running up the score is regrettable, but we have to do it for the poll voters." Kidding. He didn't say that. He did send an e-mail to a local newspaper saying he would not apologize "when my girls played with honor and integrity," which may have had something to do with him losing his job.
Here's our question. We can see how it's possible for a good girls' basketball team to score a hundred points. But how could even the worst basketball of all time not score a single point for an entire game? Not one lay-up. Not one ten-foot jumper that bounced around and fell through. Not even a free throw? Where were the refs in this thing? Did Covenant go an entire game without committing a single foul, or could Dallas Academy not make a single throw from the charity stripe? You would think that anyone, even the most developmentally disabled kids, could make one lousy shot -- if only from raw luck. We say the fix was in.
