TNT pulls the “Push Button for Drama” bit again, this time in the Netherlands
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Posing with a trophy before you earned it
I’ve noticed a new trend in championship games where the network will have players pose with the championship trophy so they can use the footage before commercial breaks and other segments. I’ve never liked it for two reasons, you can jinx things, and you should earn the right to actually pose and touch it by winning the championship game.
Today I came across this article, and whatever you may think of Ray Lewis regarding his past, his pregame dancing, and how at times he can make Tim Tebow look like a Buddhist monk, his play on the field and his leadership role of his team is top notch.
Lombardi Trophy was at Ravens’ building, but players give it hands-off treatment at Ray Lewis’ request
CBS, which is broadcasting the game, brought an authentic Vince Lombardi trophy to the Ravens’ complex Wednesday, intending for the AFC champions to pose with it for pregame video building up to kickoff.
However, Lewis wanted nothing to do with the trophy until it’s earned on the field at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome against the 49ers.
“I told my team, ‘Don’t ever take pictures with nothing that’s not yours, nothing that you haven’t earned,’“ Lewis said. “When we hold that Lombardi, whoever holds that Lombardi next Sunday, you’ve earned it when you touch it. And don’t fool yourself and try to trick yourself, ‘This feels great.’
“Don’t go through that. I don’t believe in jinxes and all that. I just don’t believe in don’t set yourself up for something. Just really work for it.”
Lewis’ no-nonsense, all-business approach follows a tradition akin to hockey’s Stanley Cup by treating the Super Bowl trophy as the equivalent of forbidden fruit before the winner of the championship is actually decided.
And that hands-off policy from the 37-year-old defensive icon has been adopted by his younger teammates.
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America’s Most and Least Bible-Minded Cities
Top Bible-Minded Cities
Regionally, the South still qualifies as the most Bible-minded. The top ranking cities, where at least half of the population qualifies as Bible-minded, are all Southern cities. This includes the media markets for Knoxville, TN (52% of the population are Bible-minded), Shreveport, LA (52%), Chattanooga, TN (52%), Birmingham, AL (50%), and Jackson, MS (50%). Other markets in the top 10 include Springfield, MO (49%), Charlotte, NC (48%), Lynchburg, VA (48%), Huntsville-Decatur, AL (48%), and Charleston, WV (47%).
Least Bible-Minded Cities
The least Bible-oriented markets include a mix of regions, but tend to be from the New England area. Easily the lowest Bible-minded scores came from Providence, RI (9%) and Albany, NY (10%). To put this in perspective, the most Bible-minded markets are five times more likely to have residents who qualify as Bible-minded than is true in these two Northeastern cities.
Though these two cities are the most extreme, none of the cities in the bottom 10 break 20%, where even one in five people could be considered Bible-minded. The New England area is home to most of the markets in the bottom 10 Bible-minded cities, including Burlington, VT (16%), Portland, ME (16%), Hartford, CT (16%), Boston, MA (16%), Buffalo, NY (18%) and New York, NY (18%).
The remaining markets in the bottom 10 are primarily in the West and include San Francisco, CA (16%), Phoenix, AZ (17%), and Las Vegas, NV (18%). Cedar Rapids, IA (18%) being something of an outlier.
Texas: As part of the traditional “Bible belt,” Texas stayed fairly true to trend, with most of it’s major cities ranking in the top half of Bible-minded cities. Dallas / Fort Worth ranked as the top Bible-minded city in Texas (38% Bible-minded, ranking at 27th) over San Antonio (36%, rank: 33), Houston (32%, rank: 39) and Austin (29%, rank: 48). Notable exceptions to the Bible-mindedness of Texas cities were Harlingen / Weslaco / McAllen / Brownsville (28%, rank: 56), Waco (27%, 59), and most significantly El Paso (23%, rank: 80). These exceptions are likely a result of these markets having a higher percentage of Hispanic Catholics, who are less likely to engage the Bible.
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Bag of Randomness
- If there are any Gangnam style commercial during the Super Bowl, that advertising agency deserves to be fired. And can we go a year without a talking baby or animal?
- I requested more pain pills yesterday thinking I would only get about a half or quarter the amount I was given after surgery, but nope, I got the full amount.
- While at the grocery store yesterday I saw a guy wearing a “Our Coach Is Hotter Than Your Coach” shirt using pink letters, with new Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury on it.
- Serena Williams has one heck of a swollen ankle and she tweeted a photo of it.
- Build a Homemade Cell Phone Jammer
- In case you ever wanted to make a 3D model of your face in chocolate.
- Manly gift baskets – Broquet
- 10 top-paying companies – I never heard of EOG Resources, but they’re here in Texas.
- If a U.S. Google employee passes away while working for the company, the surviving spouse or domestic partner receives 50% of the deceased’s salary, no matter how long or short his tenure, every year for the next decade.
- New employees at QuickTrip’s headquarters in Tulsa are given a tub of candy on their first day to place on their desk so colleagues can stop by and introduce themselves while grab a snack.
- Dolce & Gabbana Makes A New Fragrance…For Babies
- For over 30 years, this Mexican family have literally lived under a rock.
- A woman broke free from the Westboro Baptist Church and is living a much happier life
- A Christian island paradise
- Brazilian designer takes revenge on thieves by putting them in advert