Halos Heaven

the place sold out in a hour

DAD OF VLAD - January 22, 2012 reply

The place was STILL AVAILABLE was my point

Casey, the 9ers have the best fans in the world,

and you can’t measure that in ticket availability.

So go NINERS!!!!!!!!!!!

RexTookMyStash - January 22, 2012 reply

Every fan base says they have the best fans

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Angels have the worst fans

talking about football in January and everything

Rev Halofan - January 22, 2012 reply

Angels have the worst fans

I’m one of them

My baseball brain doesnt start working until

mid February

DAD OF VLAD - January 22, 2012 reply

Pujols signed

No baseball to speak of. I still spend the first 5 minutes of my dreaming of Pujols hitting third.

hauldog - January 22, 2012 reply

If I wasn't totally broke, I would have driven up for the game

if they win the city will be crazy

going to be home with the kids

DAD OF VLAD - January 22, 2012 reply

i just wanted to say...good luck, we're all counting on you!

Niners & Ravens

K3YEROUT - January 22, 2012 reply

OC sports bars?

OK HH crew… I’m about to drive up from San Diego to OC to meet up with my brother, bobbinhead25. He’s coming down from the north. Looking for place to watch the games in the Costa Mesa/Irvine/Newport Beach area. Suggestions?

Captain Thailand - January 22, 2012 via iPhone app reply

Fox Sports Grill - Irvine Spectrum

Only because the Spectrum is the easiest place to find, being right off the freeway and all, and there is a buttload of parking around for a Sunday afternoon. Plus, being a Fox joint, you know there will be no argument as to whether your screen will have football or the Australian Open.

Where the hell is there an argument over that?

Show me, so I can burn it down.

One of my past lives was bartender.

You would be amazed at the stupidity of some people, coming into a bar and pulling the “customer is always right” bullshit to try and force the screen off of the obvious, even when there were already a dozen people all over what was already being shown.

I had demands for Mexican soccer, weak-assed golf exhibitions, figure skating, political talking heads, cartoons for their kids, you name it.

There are three acceptable sports to show in any sports bar:

basketball, football, and baseball.

If none of the three are on, I’ll allow for boxing if it’s a big fight.

My priority list was something like:

1. Anything Angels
2. Anything Rams
3. Baseball over football
4. Football over anything else
5. NCAA basketball
6. NBA
7. screen off

Pretty much agree Stirrups

I think you were bartending around the same time as I was in OC.

If I were doing it here now (in the UK, clientele first)
1) Whatever “football” soccer match is on
2) Angels baseball
3) Rugby union
4) Angels baseball
5) Cricket
6) Angels baseball (on alternate screens)
7) Any sort of baseball
8) College football or basketball
10) Golf/Tennis (big tournaments)
11) NFL
12) NBA
13) NHL
14) Angels baseball highlight show
15) Snooker
16) Darts
17) Chess
18) Equesttrian events/showjumping
19) Keep my laptop on the soft porn channelsand switch it over when the likely lads come in.
20) zzzzzzzzz

highlandhalo - January 22, 2012 reply

I hadn't thought of that.

If I were bartending today, in the era of DVD’s, I could totally see myself loading up the 2002 WS DVD set that my son got me for my birthday. It would probably require March Madness or NBA playoffs to usurp Halos-Giants.

(FYI: my days behind the bar were 1978 – 1982)

thanks!

Captain Thailand - January 22, 2012 via iPhone app reply

Rudy's in Newport

Dono Romantico - January 22, 2012 reply

Thanks... may head to Newport.

Captain Thailand - January 22, 2012 via iPhone app reply

Go whoever is playing Satan's Friends (SF)

Satan’s Friends, the evil empire before Brady’s team became an evil empire.

Unclearnie - January 22, 2012 reply

Puff Puff Pass to Ricky Williams

Dono Romantico - January 22, 2012 reply

Did the Patriots' defense

ever get notice that the lockout was lifted?

WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US? NOBODY!

hauldog - January 22, 2012 reply

Offensive face mask penalty!!

The officials totally missed it.

Watch the replay - one hand with the football acroos the goal line, the other grabbing the defender's facemask.

Did the announcers even mention it? If so I didn't hear.

max peter - January 22, 2012 reply

They did not - tunnel vision on the ball and the pylon.

the king of CERA - January 22, 2012 reply

Go Giants, Go Ravens

Erick Danielsen - January 22, 2012 via mobile reply

just checking in to say

F*ck Boston

Go Home Ravens!

All that buildup and one missed kick seals it

blast21dave - January 22, 2012 reply

What kind of tard play calling was that?

2nd and 1 and you throw the ball twice? Pick up the goddamn first down with Rice, idiots.

Thanks for handing the Patriots an easy win with that epic 30 second choke job window.

Quoth the Raven, `Nevermore.'

the king of CERA - January 22, 2012 reply

Well damn.

Not a Cleveland Ravens fan, but I can’t stand anything bahstin. C’mon Niners, beat NY!

halofolife - January 22, 2012 reply

Ravens should have won that game. Oh well.

highlandhalo - January 22, 2012 reply

hey again

F*ck Boston

I was going to go off on a really long, bitter screed about how much I hate (all) Bay Area sports

and how, as a media and fan market, I think that they are a close third behind the BoSux and the Yankers, blah blah, etc, ad nauseam.

Instead, I am going to say that I can’t wait for baseball, and for the Halos to get back to being the class and envy of the MLB.

- Halos fans will never forget.

GO HALOS!

that should have been..

- Halos fans will never forget.

ok.. for some reason sb nation doesn't want to cooperate with me..

Number 34 – Halos fans will never forget.

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ah, thank you

it has been a long time since I have done a lot of posting on here.

sheisalovelyladyandmyapologiestoher - January 22, 2012 reply

i did not

know that
at all

Rev Halofan - January 22, 2012 reply

Joe Buck got more excited about that Giants touchdown

than he has ever been calling any World Series game.

not surprising

Jim Harbaugh is well on his way towards becoming the biggest ass in football.

Hard to do in a sport that employs the Ryan family.

I haven't been paying much attention to the game...

Why is Harbaugh an ass?

5thStarter - January 22, 2012 reply

I have no idea why he is an ass. Nature versus nirture?

I meant, what specifically did he do during this game that earned him the insult?

5thStarter - January 22, 2012 reply

Just jokin' with ya.

Typical sideline behavior for him. Just google
+"jim harbaugh" +ass
and begin your journey of discovery.

Finally.

That miserable event has concluded as sloppily as the previous 4 hours of sufferage were endured.

Definitely going to go to a movie in two weeks

My two least favorite teams in the Superbowl…

Rev Halofan - January 22, 2012 reply

Don't see The Artist in anything but a vintage movie theater.

We got one down here in Newport, The Lido. Totally adds to the experience. And Pina looks interesting, as does A Separation.

I've been to the silent movie theater in Hollywood a couple times. Its neat.

But having seen silent movies, I feel like I can skip The Artist. I have only heard things in regards to the silent gimmick, not so much that it’s story particularly exceptional.

Mayheminthehood - January 22, 2012 via mobile reply

The story is, indeed, somewhat primitive. But that is the point.

As an homage to the movie making of the time, the story is ummm…errr…shallow…and predictable. It’s even shot in 4:3, which some might consider a similar waste of screen space. But in totality, it was quite fresh.

Perhaps, though, what’s speaking for me is just my love for Keaton and Chaplin and how their works towered over the mainstream movie making profiled in The Artist.

the king of CERA - January 22, 2012 reply

I was always a huge fan of the Three Amigos movies.bb

My favorite was probably Those Darn Amigos.

Mayheminthehood - January 22, 2012 via mobile reply

Just watch the puppy bowl on animal planet

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

It's on, dude.

Just throwing this out there

even a Pats win is not even close to revenge.

Giants have little to lose, I’m already ecstatic.

I won't think of it as revenge.

It will be Pats 1, Refs 1, Giants 0.

Still on that?

Til Death Do Us Part.

speaking of refs...

… what’s your take on the 01’ snowbowl worst call of all time im mean “tuck rule” game?

Erick Danielsen - January 22, 2012 via mobile reply

I call that "Justice for December 18, 1976"

Erick Danielsen - January 23, 2012 reply

at least you don't deny that the "tuck rule" was the biggest crock of shit ever...

… the roughing the passer call against the pats in the 76 division game was not even in the realm of bad calls in comparison. whatever though, I just thought it was funny to see a Pats fan bring up refs in a bad light.

My problem with the Tuck Rule is that it is a bad solution to an uncommon problem.

We may all THINK that this kind of QB fumble happens a lot, but the Tuck rule is rarely invoked so, in fact, it is uncommon. The rule itself had been in existence for years prior to that game, and the NFL thought it over after the 2002 season and determined that it liked the rule as written. It is still in effect. But that doesn’t mean it had to make sense to us fans. Anymore than “a football move” makes much sense to us.

By the rules of the game, that was the correct call. The rule makes no provision for HOW the QB can lose the ball while bringing it back in after an abandoned pass attempt. It doesn’t matter if he drops it or if it knocked out of his hands (as was the case).

The call on the field was correct. The rule itself has always been lame, and remains so to this day. But it is not the only lame rule that has caused inexplicable grief to somebody in playoff games.

As for me, I just chalk it up to a balancing out of the cosmos. But, actually, that roughing the passer call is in a lot of Top 10 All-Time bad playoff call lists. And that game also includes a famous non-call on pass interference, which rarely goes mentioned. But there is an infamous wire photo showing the ref looking straight at an Oakland defender tackling a Patriot receiver with the ball still in the air, which would have put the Pats at something like 1st and goal instead of settling for a FG. If I can find that photo, I will post a link to it.

Stirrups - January 23, 2012 reply

I know of the game because my dad referenced it the night of the snowbowl

I wasn’t even born yet and this really is the first time I can recall it being mentioned since that night. I won’t get into a back and forth over a rule we can both agree is ridiculous. And for all the reasons you mention I would probably agree since I feel the same about balancing of cosmos and what not( ie; angels/redsox playoff rivalry).

I just will never get over it because the call was so horrendous, and I really feel the league learned from it regardless of whether the rule is still the same. They league got so hammered for that call (and still does to this day) that every play since then that has even resembled it slightly has been clearly called a fumbled. And for that, its an even worse pill to swallow now because my team had to be the guinea pig for one of the leagues all time worst fuck ups, regardless of the rule. Everybody, the media, fans, the entire patriots sideline knew that was a blown call. I just gotta hope the cosmos align for my team again someday, even if those chances are as slim as they seem in Oakland

Erick Danielsen - January 23, 2012 reply

Some decade in the future, the Raiders will learn to get out of their own way.

Only then, will the league start granting them the occasional benefit of doubt. Personally, I would prefer that this miracle start immediately, becuase I tire of the silliness that surrounds Tebow, and the mouthy whininess that is Phillip Rivers.

For my part – and I have shared this multiple times here on HH – I have been worshipping the Patriots since 1973, long before most current Pats fans were born. I have suffered much in that time and I bask in this short window of sunshine. And, for the record, I despise contemporary Pats fans just as much as you do. It’s a lot easier to be a long time Pats fan in California than you think.

Stirrups - January 23, 2012 reply

I knew you were a long time Pats fan, I completely respect that.

And like you, cannot stand the contemporary Patriots fans. Same as newbie Sox fans.

Erick Danielsen - January 23, 2012 reply

And we get to see NE and NY in the Super Bowl.

While i’m sure the people in Bristol and the commissioner’s office are thrilled, I doubt i’m going to watch. I can’t wait for ST and the baseball season to begin. How many days until catchers and pitchers report?

halofolife - January 22, 2012 reply

;_;

joeyz34 - January 22, 2012 reply