Total Members Voted: 62
Voting closed: February 06, 2012, 12:48:30 AM
Glad to hear you didn't get pulled over on your way home
Seattle won't be in it so he doesn't have to worry.
No back-to-back-to-back & belly-to-belly-to-belly ?
Russell Wilson says he wants 6 rings like MJ. Hope gets the HSN.
View this email in your browser · Missed one? Visit the Archives The Super Bowl is this weekend so I'm sharing a story that I originally wrote in 2015. I suggest playing the game described below if you're not interested in football; you'll find it to be a very hard thing to do, regardless. And be sure to read the "From the Archives" story, too; it's a great piece of Super Bowl trivia, and it has nothing to do with football. -- Dan Outlasting the Super BowlThe Super Bowl is, easily, the biggest American sporting — and television — event of the year. Over 110 million Americans watched the Super Bowl in 2013, a record for any TV program. And that doesn’t include viewers in the more than 150 other countries. Many people are watching because they like football; others just happen to catch a glimpse while eating wings or chips at a friend’s party; and still others tune in to check out the $4 million dollar, 30-second long commercials. Regardless of your motive, many, many people watch the game, and news about it travels fast. The big game is unavoidable.Or is it?In the late 1980s, a guy named Kyle Whelliston decided to test that out. A sports fan whose interests mostly centered on college basketball, he nonetheless skipped watching the game — or, at least, the end of it — and tried to avoid all the news about the game afterward. The challenge — a self-challenge, but a challenge nonetheless — was to see how long he could go without learning who won. Even in the days before ubiquitous media (thanks, Internet!), this proved difficult, and eventually, the information found its way into Whelliston’s brain.But the challenge must have been fun because, over the years, Whelliston repeated the challenge. At one point, he decided to blog about it on his now-defunct but popular basketball blog, the Mid-Majority. (He deleted the site after ten years of writing it.) His blog post about his challenge found a following, with many of his readers participating in the information-avoidance game in subsequent years. Eventually, it mushroomed, finding hundreds if not thousands of participants. On February of 2011, one of the participants — a Colorado man named Brendan Loy started a blog dedicated to the challenge, then called “Last Man,” chronicling the game, its participants, and its stories of information permeation. Oh, and the website also housed the rules of the game. That website is also gone, but those rules are below:Rule 1. The object of the game is to avoid, for as long as possible, learning a) the winner and b) the final score of the Super Bowl. This data is called The Knowledge.Rule 2. Don’t flee the country. Leaving America means immediate disqualification.Rule 3. Always play honestly.Rule 4. If you receive information that might constitute The Knowledge, but you aren’t certain (e.g., if someone might be “messing with you” by telling you a false winner or score), you can opt not to believe the uncertain information and keep playing. However, if it turns out that the uncertain information was correct, the game’s end point is retroactive to when The Knowledge was, in fact, known.Rule 5. Nobody ever wins. It’s a game you play against yourself, so it always ends in a loss, eventually.The vast majority of participants don’t last more than a day or two, but according to Loy, at least one of the 2012 participants made it at least a year without learning the game’s final score. That’s quite the accomplishment; in 2013, Loy told Business Insider how difficult it is to avoid “The Knowledge:”It changes day to day, and I’m only on my second day here but on Monday, you have to be very careful with newspapers, because every newspaper is going to have it on the front page. So you have to be aware of, newspaper boxes, convenience stores, anything like that you have to be sure to be sort of thinking ahead to okay, I know there’s newspaper boxes so I cant look there, I know there’s a break room in my office, and there’s the Post on my table so I have to be careful not to look at that, stay away from the break room. Also, you want to like stay away from human interaction as much as possible, because people talk a lot about it the day after. I had my door closed all day.If that sounds like a good time to you — and watching the Super Bowl sounds like a snore — you can join the Last Man challenge by following @findthelastman on Twitter, by tweeting out that you’re playing #lastman (use the hashtag!), or by just avoiding the news — remember, you’re playing against no one but yourself. And don’t worry — Monday’s Now I Know won’t be sharing the score of the big game.Now I Know is supported by readers like you. Please consider becoming a patron by supporting the project on Patreon. Click here to pledge your support. (If you do, in gratitude, you'll have an ad-free Now I Know experience going forward.)Bonus fact: One person who won’t be participating in Last Man? Dion Rich. Who is that, you ask? Rich is just a regular guy with a weird hobby. Until 2002, he successfully snuck into every Super Bowl (except Super Bowl III, which he skipped to go skiing instead). In Super Bowl XII, he even managed to get on the field to help hoist Tom Landry, the coach of the game-winning Dallas Cowboys, up into the air, as seen here. Since 2002, Rich has still attended the games, but due to security crackdowns, now does so legally — but he does manage to find cheap tickets or, when possible, press credentials. [It's unclear what he'll do this year, given the pandemic, but he'll probably not be at the game this year. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune's Facebook page, it looks like Rich hung up his non-cleats at some point.]From the Archives: O Say Can You Sync?: If you only watch the start of the Super Bowl — you can still play Last Man this way! — you’ll hear the National Anthem. It’ll be pre-recorded. Why? Blame Garth Brooks.Like today's Now I Know? Share it with a friend -- just forward this email along.And if someone forwarded this to you, consider signing up! Just click here. Share ShareTweet TweetForward ForwardArchives · Privacy PolicyCopyright © 2021 Now I Know LLC, All rights reserved.You opted in, at http://NowIKnow.com via a contest, giveaway, or the like -- or you wouldn't get this email.Now I Know is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Some images above via Wikipedia.Now I Know's mailing address is:Now I Know LLCP.O. 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They should rename it the Bradybowl
Quotes in a signature is annoying, as it comes across as an independent post.
They should rename it the Brady-always-has-a-great-defense-when-he-wins bowl
Afraid to give him credit?
No, I have no problem crediting the defense (or lack of KC protection).
What does he need to do to find favor in your eyes?Win it playing for the Browns?