Go Steelers!

rffrydr · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:28 pm Post subject: Go Steelers!

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/do-pittsburgh-steelers-hold-key/story.aspx?guid=%7BFB06EF8B-82C2-4463-B31F-B1D937E9BDE9%7D
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rffrydr · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:53 pm Post subject:

Superbowl XLVI first streamed to cell phones.

Good viewing....maybe we are becoming Japan?!
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rffrydr · Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 9:42 am Post subject:

Last three years moving to physical humor--dumbing down while going global? Or, just dumbing down.
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rffrydr · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:29 pm Post subject:

Groupon's flameout:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/business/media/08adco.html

SavetheMoney will save it but what a thread these billions in market-cap hang! MySpace, 2nd life anyone?
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rffrydr · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:18 am Post subject:

Biggest (US) viewership in television history. As mentioned in another thread: the more we have to choose from the more we need to choose what others choose.

Still I predict this goes down as jobs start to fill in the years ahead.
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rffrydr · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:15 am Post subject:

Nice reaction off our stealth buying event. --With one little hitch:

http://www.examiner.com/pop-culture-in-cleveland/groupon-tibet-super-bowl-commercial-angers-china-video

This probably doesn't break the newly minted détente with china but it doesn't help matters. I don't think they "get" our cheap sellout humor. For, china, Tibet is not a one-off cheap grab for attention. It doesn't have to be for us either. Embarassed

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rffrydr · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:25 pm Post subject:

Superbowl goes from national touchstone in '08 season to buying binge in '10:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-04/super-bowl-fans-to-splurge-on-6-million-wings-4-5-million-tvs.html
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rffrydr · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:36 pm Post subject:

Farmers buying unbuilt NFL stadium for a Los Angeles, a city without a team. Branded stadiums are back!
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rffrydr · Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 8:08 am Post subject:

Allstate having a little fun with the numbers....except they forgot: people believe, both in their sign and in their insurance company's ability to raise rates. The research has since been pulled from their site.

http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2011/01/driving-habits-written-in-stars-allstate-data-show.html
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rffrydr · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:04 am Post subject:

Can we go back-to-back-to back? This ol' canard paid off bigtime year after year and remains one of the best "indicators" of the year ahead. Statistics and damn statistics...... Twisted Evil

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rffrydr · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 2:48 pm Post subject:

Thank you again, Pittsburgh....we could not have left this Greatest of Recessions without being able to at least put our minds into an old collective grove. Now we the prejudice towards champs, that winning begets winning--in short, the momentum trade--has some basis in science:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=697121
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rffrydr · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:00 am Post subject:

rffrydr · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:45 pm Post subject:

2010....we can't loose Very Happy

http://www.valueexpectations.com/blogs/vecom-tidbit-–-super-bowl-indicator02052010
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rffrydr · Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:16 am Post subject:

What goes around comes around...on lucky St. Patty's day too:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=apdparBE.6aU&refer=home
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rffrydr · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 10:50 pm Post subject:

Tiwtter count:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/02/02/sports/20090202_superbowl_twitter.html?ref=technology
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rffrydr · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 2:36 pm Post subject:

Where's the M&A? Here's some: and look how it changes "christian values," stability "passion not profit"....

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1024205667&play=1
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