football
 Illinois native Scott Wiese is a devout Chicago Bears fan and pledged to legally change his name to 'Peyton Manning', quarterback to the Indiana Colts, if the Bears lost at Super Bowl XLI.
Well, the Bears lost to the Colts, 29 - 17, and Wiese is going through with the name change.
"I think I kind of represent all Bears fans," he said. "Not that I'm saying they're all idiots like me, but I represent their passion because I really care about my team, you know?"
While he pledged to take on the new identity, Wiese didn't make any promises about how long he would keep it.
Previously: Chicago Bears, The Super Bowl Shuffle, Super Bowl XLI Commercials, all the ads in one spot
 Even though the Bears didn't win Super Bowl XLI I still have to post this little piece of Chicago Bears history -- The Super Bowl Shuffle [wiki].
Riding the wave of football mania that gripped Chicago in 1985, the "Super Bowl Shuffle" reached #41 on the Billboard charts, #75 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, and earned a Grammy nomination for best Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance—Duo or Group, the first (and undoubtedly only ever) nomination for a sports team. (They lost to Prince and the Revolution's "Kiss".) Although some found the lyrics boastful, profits from the song and its accompanying video were given to charity, backing Payton's claim that the they "are not doing it because [they're] greedy, the Bears are doing it to feed the needy."
Check out the music video here. We won't be hearing a sequel to The Super Bowl Shuffle this year. (It wouldn't be the same without "The Fridge" anyway.) Football extra: "Wildcats" rap
 In preparation for Super Bowl Sunday, I've put together some classic Super Bowl commercials. Seriously, who really watches the Super Bowl for the football?
In 1984, Apple put together a legendary ad based on the classic George Orwell novel 1984. This commercial introduced the Macintosh.
E*Trade commercial that came out around 1999. "He's got money coming out the whazoo."
 Here is another Apple ad (1999) in which the topic was Y2K. Taken from the classic sci-fi flick 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL2000 explains in his eerie voice how in the year 2000 computers began to misbehave due to the Y2K bug. "Only Macintosh was designed to function perfectly saving billions of monetary units. You like your Macintosh better than me don't you, Dave?"
All of you have probably seen this Sprint commercial a million times, but it still makes me laugh. Sprint phones include crime deterrent.
Here's a little snippit of Super Bowl 2007. GoDaddy.com has yet another banned ad this year. Check it out. I thought it was funny.
Go Pack Go! Oh, whoops! It's the Bulls vs. the Lakers, right?
Colleen Pavelka induced her labor two days early so her die-hard Bears fan husband could attend last Sunday's NFC Championship game, Bears versus the New Orleans Saints.
As husband Mark attended the game, Colleen stayed in the hospital with her newborn son wrapped in a Chicago Bears blanket.
[via CNN]
For any of you who follow sports, more precisely football, distinctly MN Vikings, it's been a rough season but there may finally be some hope... for next season. Brad Johnson has been the QB this season and while he is a veteran and well-experienced, his time may be over. At the game this past weekend, he was booed off the field for not performing up to the fans expectations. His replacement, the rookie Tarvaris Jackson, received a standing ovation when he took the field late in the 3rd quarter. While I felt bad for Brad as he was being booed off, I did join in the excitement as Jackson took the field.
Tarvaris Jackson
Ingredients:
- 1 DVR device of sorts
- 1 NFL football game, recorded/recording (at least 2/3rds through)
- 1.5 hours of time (to watch a 3.5 hour game)
This recipe is best used for anyone that enjoys watching football, but maybe can't dedicate the usual 3hrs. to the ritual. Especially if the team is not your team, but you suspect it may be a game worth watching. It's also useful if you don't particularly care for the inter-play dialogue supplied by the "color commentary." Believe it or not, I enjoy Sunday Night Football on NBC (gasp!) more than Monday Night because as lame as Madden can sometimes be, he and Michaels are brilliant compared to the guys on ESPN.
 If I'm ever caught in front of a television on Super Bowl Sunday, it's probably because I got suckered into watching a clever advertisement or was peeling my eyes in hopes of a wardrobe malfunction.
In case you missed a few, Google Video has all the Super Bowl XL ads up, and they were even kind enough to include the "unapproved" GoDaddy spots. My favorite so far is this one where Leave It To Beaver-ville discovers the comfort and style of the biohazard clean suit.
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You can view all the ads from Super Bowl XLI 
