OMG, What A Dramatic Super Bowl!

Watercooler

By Nads | Monday, February 2, 2009 | 1:15 am | 7 Comments
Posted in: Watercooler

troy polamalu hair

I’m not the biggest football fan in the world…I’m more of a social fan (drinking beer, eating wings, dippin’ chips), but can I say OMG was yesterday’s game dramatic or what? It was like a good episode of The Hills without the hair extensions and skinny jeans.

Here’s my quickie breakdown of the game:



What I liked:

I loved loved loved Bruce.

I loved the Cheetos commercial.

I loved the Doritos commerical.

I loved the hope and even the heartbreak of the game.

What I didn’t like:

I hated the Steelers fan sitting at the bar next to me calling them: “his boys”…seriously dude, you’re not on the team.

I hated that I lost 50 bucks

And here’s what I hate/hated the most:

I hate Troy Polamalu’s hair. Don’t people pull on it? I know he keeps his hair because of his “heritage”, but I don’t go around sporting a uni-brow and wearing a burka everyday. Troy: CUT YOUR HAIR, it’s just plain gross.

Until next season…

About

Although comedy is her profession, Nadine has accomplished a lot in her young age. She is a national champion black belt, a world-class soccer player, and an avid snowboarder. She started playing soccer at the age of 4, and continued playing through college where she majored in Biology, but quickly realized her destiny was to tell jokes, not to wear a lab coat. So she decided to be funny while finishing her Bachelors Degree in biology and continued on to get her M.B.A. Nadine’s comedy style is much like her athleticism, fearless. She’s made her way up the comedy ladder very quickly, and has become a club favorite at many of the country’s top comedy clubs, including the Improv chain. Performing in the Boston Comedy Festival and being noted as the “one of the youngest and brightest up and comers” and traveling to the Middle East to entertain the troops are just a few of her notable accomplishments. These days Nadine splits time between the stage, a radio studio, her computer blogging, and a television studio. Nadine’s TV, Radio, Writing credits include: national commercials, talking head roles on E! Entertainment, Showtime’s Hot Tamales Live, The Skinny: Fat Free News, The Sunny Side of The Truth: Real World Hollywood, TVgasm, Zazreport, Daddy’s Girls, Jerseylicious, celebrity interviews on Mania TV, a weekly half-hour television show that syndicates to colleges across the country for National Lampoon and a nightly radio show on XM Satellite Radio.

7 Comments

  1. 1
    Pegster
    Posted February 2, 2009 at 7:10 am

    Why is heritage in quotes? It’s not his fake heritage.

    Troy keeps his hair long because of his Samoan culture, and I respect that. Plus, he kicks ass.

  2. 2
    Nads
    Posted February 2, 2009 at 11:15 am

    i put heritage in quotes because i think he uses it as an excuse to keep his hair like that. it was not meant to be racist, i truly can’t stand looking at his hair out of his helmet. and it’s not just him, it’s every football player with long hair that comes out of their helmet.

    i was not judging his character or his ability to play, i was just stating my opinion on how i don’t like his hair. that’s all. no need to get bent out of shape pegster. all is good, and i’m sure he’s a very nice man.

  3. 3
    kristy
    Posted February 2, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    Wow. May not have been meant as racist but a very ignornant comment none the less.

    Yes, his hair is long. He has not cut it since his freshman year of USC. It is part of the Samoan culture and he has also stated that he likes long hair because “all warriors have long hair”. But comparing something religiously significant to a unibrow? Idiotic.

    By the way, at least one other player has pulled on his hair to try and tackle him after one of him numerous interceptions. He got up, laughed, and said he would do the same thing.

    Troy has done a lot for Pittsburgh since he has been here, and yes, he is a good person. This past summer, he took the time to pray with a 21 yo football player who had just come out of remission from leukemia. The kid’s mother had died of liver cancer a few years earlier and his father died three months earlier of lung cancer. Said boy died New Year’s Day of this year but admitted to feeling more at peace after praying with someone so devout. He also takes time to make weekly visits to the local Children’s Hospital as well as other community service.

    Maybe you should criticize a whiny, spoiled football player like Plaxico Burress or TO. The Steelers and Cardinals are classy teams so I doubt you can find someone to pick on in either city.

  4. 4
    Nads
    Posted February 2, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    omg, people, it was a bad joke. i was NEVER criticizing his character. And it was not ignorant, it was a joke…i’m very well-traveled and very aware of respect and culture. i just don’t like it when football players have long hair, that’s ALL!

    And your comment kristy, “But comparing something religiously significant to a unibrow?”

    –I will break down that statement…his hair is not religious, it’s cultural. Where my family from it’s sometimes customary to not wax (unibrow, etc) until marriage…so by your terms your comment was ignorant and rude. don’t go there, i was making fun of myself when making fun of troy. it was a light-hearted joke.

    And what does my comment about his hair have to do with his weekly hospital visits? this has gone too far. end of discussion…i just don’t like his hair…i never said i didn’t like his character or what kind of person he is. he sounds like an exceptional human being, and he’s no doubt a great player.

    GEEZ girls! all is good, i swear.

    This has just gone too far!

  5. 5
    lagitha
    Posted February 3, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    “But comparing something religiously significant to a unibrow? Idiotic.”

    Perhaps. But when Nads compared it to her not wearing a burka because she acculturated in American culture (Nads, I assume that you are religiously Muslum but culturally American? ) she made a completely relevant and strong religious/cultural comparison.

    For what it’s worth, my dad came from the Poland Ghetto, but I try very hard not to wear plaids, dots, and stripes together…

  6. 6
    Nads
    Posted February 4, 2009 at 12:18 am

    THANK YOU LAGITHA! I LOVE U for understanding what I was writing…and yes my family is of muslim decent (don’t tell anyone though…haha)!!

    rotfl on your plaids, dots and stripes! all good separately, never together! hahahahahahha.

  7. 7
    oywhatnext
    Posted February 4, 2009 at 5:11 am

    I know I’m late to the dance here but I’m 1/2 Jewish and 1/2 Italian. If I can’t get it wholesale, I steal it. That being said everyone is overlooking the most significant event of the superbowl and that is the complete selling out of Bruce Springsteen!!! His performance was great right up to the time he changed the words of Glory Days. How frikkin cheesy!!

    I wouldn’t be surprised to see the “Bruce Springsteen Hot Summer Happy Hour” as a Summer replacement show on CBS. This weeks special guests…Wayne Newton….Waylon Flowers and Madame…and of course, the E Street Dancers!!!

    Gimme a break Bruce. You broke my NJ heart.

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