CNN's Post Superbowl Coverage

Last night, we walked across the street to watch the Superbowl with a group of neighbors. One of them came up with the bright idea of doing one of those chessboard lotteries or whatever they call them-you know fill in the spaces with your name at 50 cents a space.  I wasn't too keen on it, but went along anyway. I wound up winning 50 bucks.

Much as I hated to do it, I decided to pull for the Ravens since I didn't want the 49ers to get that 6th ring. (I'm a Steeler fan.)

Anyway, the story of the evening was the blackout. CNN (the most trusted name in news) is featuring a collection of funny tweets on the cause. (I'll get back to them later.)

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/04/tech/social-media/super-bowl-funniest-tweets/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Personally, my theory is that somebody was late in the monthly pay-off to Ray Nagin.

CNN's Don Lemon was tweeting throughout the game with a series of sweet nothings (I'll spare you all that). Worse yet, during the post-game "coverage", he chose to poke some fun at CBS and the way they handled the sudden event. Lemon told us, chuckling, that the announcers were dancing around because "they didn't know what to do". Actually, the power was out in the broadcast booth, so they couldn't do or say anything. That's when they went to the sideline announcers, who still had power. I thought Steve Tasker did a credible job performing a narrative that wasn't part of his job description. Certainly better than Lemon (who normally is a competent talking head). He and his correspondent,  Terence Moore, who was on the scene, made me wonder what we need CNN for as Terence told us that someone told ESPN that a fire marshal told someone there had been  fire in the Superdome (sorry; Mercedes Benz Superdome), and there were reports on the Internet, blah blah blah, woof woof woof, quack quack quack. "Should they have evacuated the Superdome", asked Moore

Guess we'll have to check around the blogosphere, Terence.

Meanwhile, as all that was going on, someone handed Don a note (a'la Chuck Hagel) informing him that  while he and Terence were speculating about a fire, they had missed Jim Harbaugh's (the losing and pissed off Harbaugh) post-game press conference, in which he fumed about a missed holding call in the end zone on 4th down in the closing seconds.

I guess that's why we have ESPN and the Internet. Maybe CNN should have checked with Drudge.