^^^I saw her perform live on Ellen and was very disappointed in how off key she was… 
I would expect her to mostly lip synch and wouldn’t be disappointed. Even highly produced, her voice is nothing to write home about. It’s about the candy coated spectacle of it all. I am kind of interested to see how Lenny Kravitz is after all these years, though.
Regardless of what the public may think of Tom Brady’s I-know-nothing performance yesterday, his peers ain’t buyin’ it:
busdriver, yes, we are delicate little flowers, and aren’t you glad you have Roger Goodell looking after your best interests?
I wonder how much the Pat’s organization pay the equipment guy to somehow take the rap for Brady, as if an equipment person could or would do such a thing on his own?
I am going to be surprised and disappointed if Katy Perry lip syncs and I think she’s going to give a solid performance.
- Pete Carroll gave a hilarious response to Lane's comment about Gronk: “Jeremy just hasn’t watched film yet." Really? You mean the team isn't preparing for the game at all? I love silliness.
- I think the ball thing is silly. It's as much about the fabled integrity of the game as everything else people do, from linemen spraying their bodies with non-stick spray, to receivers using illegal adhesives, to players - often linebackers and d-linemen - getting implements (casts, etc.) that aren't medically necessary but give them a club. I see Cleveland is being questioned because there were text messages sent to the sidelines in violation of NFL rules. It may be the owners wanted the coaches to do certain things but, you know, it's against the rules so therefore it's cheating. Silly. When players say they would be given drugs by teams, what I see is a culture of cheating across the league, one that makes the players take the fall because the teams won't admit they have drug programs.
- I doubt Belichick lied. When the taping thing came out, he owned it right away. I've never heard him lie. He isn't even good at being evasive; he tends to shut down and not answer rather than say "Jeremy just hasn't watched film yet" or something better. The line "We're on to Cincinnati" became a thing because - as I heard him say - he couldn't think of anything else to say and didn't want to answer the questions so he repeated it like 12 times.
- Maybe Brady lied. I don't know. He was very specific. I've heard Tom be extremely diplomatic but I've never heard him lie about what he does, meaning I've heard him minimize things, evade questions, etc. but not lie.
- Maybe it was something as basic as the way the footballs were filled. We think of footballs as inflated things and you adjust the air pressure but the NFL game balls arrive as empty shells that have to be laced and then filled. Maybe the laces weren't tightened enough. Maybe Brady likes the laces looser so they stick up a bit more. Maybe the ball guy squeezes the balls on the sideline knowing the laces are looser and that lets out air. I don't know. I do know this is stupid: the Patriots beat the living crap out of the Colts.
- I've become more and more convinced that Roger Goodell wouldn't pass muster as a real CEO. This is crazy. This is their big game. They could have said: we'll look into it after the Super Bowl. But to say we'll be done in a few days was dumb and then even dumber when they weren't done. Did they expect someone to raise his hand and say "me, me, me"? Idiotic leadership.
“busdriver, yes, we are delicate little flowers, and aren’t you glad you have Roger Goodell looking after your best interests?”
I’m thinking that I don’t want him looking after anything whatsoever as far as my interests go. Just keep em playing, and stop harassing our players with fines for trivia. I wonder how much they’re going to fine Lynch this week for not talking. Thank God the season is almost over.
But aren’t you looking forward to the commercials?
Obviously Seattle has watched film (Monday) and installed their full game plan by Thursday. Pete was lightheartedly saying that Lane was just freestyling it and his words don’t represent the views of the defensive coaching staff or game preparation. Pete doesn’t throw his players under the bus in public and probably not in private either.
I see the ball issue the same way I see a baseball player corking a bat or a pitcher scuffing or doctoring the baseball.
if Katy Perry lip syncs and I think she’s going to give a solid performance.
I read the NFL requires performers to lip sync to presubmitted tracks because they don’t want any surprises.
I also read that Brady was trolling during his interview, and using " balls", every chance he got.
I’ll have to look for it. 
the jokes just write themselves!
I’m almost thinking the NFL put the Pats up to it, in order to divert the media from more serious scandals.
I did not know that word was banned.
It’s the same thing you do when fishing for bass.
The more I look words up, the more I’m amazed any of us understand each other whatsoever. And this is just English!
On another topic (football though), what is the general thought about Johnny Football? Is next year his year?
Interesting article I read today:
Ek, D sent me a TV screenshot of that Brady press conference with the caption on the bottom of the screen, “Brady: when I felt the balls, they were perfect.” Wish I could link to it, but it is a Tumblr page. Here is a good summary of that interview by TMZ:
The biggest on-field problem with Johnny Football is that the offense that he ran at A & M was based around him just improvising. He was never used to running set plays or checking into set plays after reading the defense. One retired QB sports radio commentator that I heard (forget who now) said that on many of his Houdini scramble plays (both college and his few pro attempts) he created the drama by missing open receivers and not going to his check down guy, then tried to do his “magic” to get back out of a self inflicted bad spot.
I think that was after he got waffled by J J Watt. The guy was comparing QBs who bail out of the pocket early or are always looking to run vs guys who scramble to throw. They were discussing Newton, Kaepernick and Wilson also.
Manziel is also just really really young, not very big, not very fast and is being chased down by grown men. Newton and Kaepernick are big, fast guys and can outrun some of the defensive guys coming after them. They still need to work on their decision making but they are legitimately dangerous athletes even at the NFL level. I predict that Manziel will get injured early season again next year. He is not humble/smart enough to try to avoid hits like WIlson and not built to take them like Newton and Kaepernick.
It really puts the Browns in a bind though. I can’t see Hoyer wanting to stay (has anyone heard what he’s doing yet) and it will be hard for them to get a good guy to want to wait in the wings. Either they cut bait and draft another QB or they bring in an older guy as an insurance policy.
ek, you’re not the only one who noticed that Brady used the word “balls” every chance he got.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/tom-brady-talked-balls-laughed-article-1.2088706
Okay, that is hilarious about the balls. That is going to be great material for years to come. Reminds me of one of my favorite SNL skits with Alec Baldwin, NPRs Schweddy balls.
Everybody loves my Schweddy balls…
Manziel does not have NFL-caliber football IQ. The best QBs are really smart that way, and the best young QBs are the ones who can study and understand a playbook quickly, and translate those smarts to the field (Wilson, Luck, etc). He doesn’t have it, or has never had to use it. Scrambling and improvising on the field is great, too, and fun to watch, but you can’t only have that going for you. If he can get those college-type skills down now (study, Johnny! Stop partying and go to the library, lol!), then maybe. But I doubt it.