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I don’t want to sound negative here… but I just didn’t think the Super Bowl commercials were as good this year as some of the previous years… maybe I just ate some bad onion dip…

I guess I’m cranky today.  I usually link to USA Today for their coverage of the Super Bowl commercials on the day after, but… I just went there, and they have put so many moving advertisements in the way, I couldn’t even get to where I wanted to go… and then they wonder why the online-newspaper industry is having a tough time…

So… here are all the Super Bowl commercials… on YouTube… click (here)…

MSNBC rates the commercials, click (here)…

LETTERMAN/OPRAH/LENO COMMERCIAL… pretty good surprise during the Super Bowl, it was kept top secret… The New York Times has the news on how it was put together… click (here)… although, I thought it looked like Leno had been placed in the commercial through special effects…

THE LAST FOOTBALL GAME OF THE SEASON…

I’m not sure if I can legally say it here… the NFL has a serious lock-down on the use of the “S” word for the final game… forcing restaurants, bars, car dealers, travel agents, beer distributors, and salsa makers to say “The Big Game” or another clever phrase for the game…

On the other hand, I could use the publicity of a cease-and-desist order from the NFL, so…

SUPER BOWL PICKS FROM… THE VOICE!… yes, THE VOICE gives us his SUPER BOWL predictions exclusively in print here at BrianSmithRadio.com… and his SUPER BOWL predictions on video (from his secret underground bunker) over at DoingItLocal.com…  SUPER BOWL… SUPER BOWL… SUPER BOWL…  to read THE VOICE’s picks, as well as all his other observations and opinions and insight from other sports, like ARENA FOOTBALL, NASCAR, THE NBA, TENNIS, and of course, more CHEERLEADERS… then click on “SPORTS PICKS” over there on the right side of this page, or just click (here)… and good luck with your SUPER BOWL picks and SUPER BOWL parties…

… welcome to BrianSmithRadio.com… and it’s me, Brian Smith, formerly of 99.1 WPLR and WICC 600AM… I have a Facebook page, but I’m upgrading it… if you want to email me, here’s the address… unless you want to sell me Rolex replicas or Viagra from Canada… otherwise, here’s the email address…

MORE CHEERLEADERS… a wrap-up of the NFL season sideline action… click (here)…

CT/NY WEATHER…

for more Connecticut weather information, click on CTWeather.com…

POWERBALL… no one won on Wednesday night, so Saturday night it is worth… $114 MILLION

MEGAMILLIONS… no one won on Tuesday night, so tonight it is worth $20 MILLION

CONNECTICUT LOTTERY WINNING NUMBERS… not a prediction… these are yesterday’s, click (here)…

ONE MORE STORY ABOUT THE CLOTHING-CHALLENGED… you know in Washington state, there are a lot of roadside coffee stands featuring coffee-brewing baristas in bikinis… today we find out a few of the ladies are under arrest for serving more than hot drinks in the drive-thru… more on the story, click (here)…

AUSTRALIA: BANKER CAUGHT LOOKING AT MODEL PICS ON NATIONAL TV… during an interview on national television in Australia…  a worker in the background was seen looking at pictures of Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr… a campaign to keep him from being fired has saved him… for the video and the story from CNN, click (here)… and read the story from The Daily Mail, click (here)…

NINE BIGGEST RIP-OFFS IN AMERICA… text messaging fees are just one of them… CNN has a list to make you think and fume… unless you are profiting from these items… click (here)…

THAT LONG ISLAND DUMMY… the story this week of the woman driving in the carpool lane on Long Island… I think that dummy should have her own Facebook page… story from the New York Post, click (here)…

and…

SLIPPERY PANTS… a man was arrested in Springfield, Massachusetts for stealing body lotion… 75 bottles of it stuffed in his pants… police chased him and caught him because he could hardly move… story, click (here)…

Enjoy your SUPER BOWL weekend… and drive safely… thanks for listening -Brian

The never-ending story of a high-school basketball prank gone… good… more below…

but first… welcome to BrianSmithRadio.com… and it’s me, Brian Smith, formerly of 99.1 WPLR and WICC 600AM… I have a Facebook page, but I’m upgrading it… if you want to email me, here’s the address… unless you want to sell me Rolex replicas or Viagra from Canada… otherwise, here’s the email address…

CT/NY WEATHER…

for more Connecticut weather information, click on CTWeather.com…

POWERBALL… no one won on Saturday night, so Wednesday night it is worth… $107 MILLION

MEGAMILLIONS… one winner Friday night (Katy, Texas… $144 million), so TUESDAY, it is worth $12 MILLION

CONNECTICUT LOTTERY WINNING NUMBERS… not a prediction… these are yesterday’s, click (here)…

Mega Millions is now on sale in Connecticut… Powerball and Mega Millions will now be sold in the same states throughout the country… story, click (here)…

All of a sudden it seems like there are more award shows and pageants than ever… and why are there no award shows for award shows?… (although watching one may make you grow hair on your palms…)

25 WORST MOVIES EVER… but, so bad you have to see them, according to a new list from the website Rotten Tomatoes… click (here)…

How about let’s have a bad movie festival?… I would be willing to put that together…  just think of the liquor sales alone…

Speaking of movies and festivals…

FREE!…ALICE’S RESTAURANT… THE MOVIE… you can check out the movie “Alice’s Restaurant”… the Arlo Guthrie movie that goes along with the song… free screening Tuesday night, February 2 at the Fairfield Theater Company… more details, click (here)…

AND…

BASKETBALL PRANK GOES BIG-TIME…  this story just keeps on going… let me try to explain briefly…

A high school girls’ basketball coach at Olathe Northwest High School in Kansas… was set up at half-time… he was told if he could make a half court shot… blindfolded… the kids would give him free tickets to the Final Four…  HERE’S THE PRANK PART:  The kids told the crowd to cheer wildly after he made the shot to make him think (while blindfolded) he had put the ball through the net… NEVER THINKING HE WOULD MAKE THE SHOT… well, he did.  The kids didn’t have Final Four tickets, but they did buy him a gift certificate to a Mexican Restaurant… here’s the story and video on that, click (here)…

BUT… THE STORY DOESN”T END THERE… no no no…

THE NCAA HEARD ABOUT THIS STORY… well, it was tough not to… it was all over ESPN and ABC the last few days… so… thanks to the NCAA… now the coach and his family have tickets to the Final Four in Indianapolis… in fact, the NCAA is picking up the tab for the whole trip… (you can’t BUY that kind of publicity)… here’s the story on this part of the story… click (here)… and another report (here)…

AND ONE MORE… a television news reporter… doing a report about this story… was standing at half-court and threw the ball over his head while reporting… AND MADE THE SHOT AS WELL… for the video of this one, click (here)…

Hope your weekend was a good one… thanks for listening… -Brian

I just got in this morning from a quick business trip to Phoenix (where it was 65 degrees last night) to JFK airport (where it was 18 degrees this morning)… a cruel meteorological joke and I’m not laughing, as I sit here, freezing my nutmegs off in Connecticut.  The woman at my airline ticket counter pulled up the weather forecast for me and laughed… said I should stay a few more days in Phoenix… I thought she was being compassionate, but she kept laughing.  Even as I walked away she called out “15 degrees!”.  Odd humor in the desert.

While I was plotting out the future of the radio and television business with other disgruntled, displaced, and… unemployed associates, THE VOICE was jotting down his Superbowl analysis… IF it is possible to put such genius on to mere paper… and placemats… napkins… even his shirt sleeves…

THE VOICE checks in with his latest picks for The Superbowl… The Pro Bowl… The NBA… the Australian Open Tennis Tournament… news on Arena Football… and of course, the CHEERLEADERS… read all about it, and prepare yourself for the wisdom of the sage’s sage… the prognosticator’s prognosticator… the … well, you get it… read the predictions from THE VOICE, click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right, or just click (here)…

and don’t forget… see THE VOICE deliver his predictions… go to DoingItLocal.com and click on his videos…

MORE FOUND MONEY… MAN FINDS $3,100 IN PICTURE FRAME… guy in Florida finds a picture of the space shuttle… he was going to put it into a different frame and found cash stuffed in the back of the photo… story, click (here)…  SO… this guy finds a picture of the space shuttle… in the trash, and likes it so much he wants to put it into a new frame?… and THEN finds money?…  that’s gotta be one great picture…  something odd about this story…

2010… twenty-ten?… two thousand ten?… two oh one oh?… Remember the question a few weeks ago about the best way to pronounce the new year?… A teacher in Hartford weighs in with the twenty-ten vote… and more… click (here)…

It’s been quite the busy week on Earth, hasn’t it…?

Late-night television careers… Massachusetts political assumptions… the health-care bill… and portions of Haiti... all came crashing down in response to their own unique struggles with different gravity…

THE VOICE dealt with his own gravity last week, as well… he spent the first part of this week trying to get juiced again after his beloved Chargers lost their spark to the Jets… but he promises to come back stronger than ever this week with his famous predictions, pictures, and words of wisdom… all the bigs are covered here… 3 GAMES LEFT for the NFL this season… NASCAR… the NBA… insights and reasoning… and of course, CHEERLEADERS… read the latest from THE VOICE… click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right, or just click (here)…

and see THE VOICE…and leave him some comments and love… go to DoingItLocal.com…

POLITICAL SKIN… SCOTT BROWN… the newest senator from Massachusetts… not only did he pose naked in Cosmopolitan magazine back in the 80s… but his wife, Gail Huff, (who is now a news anchor in Boston)… was a bikini-girl in a 1980’s music video… click (here)…

AND… someone has been sending around a picture of him and his daughters from Facebook… for the story, click (here)…

FOUND MONEY… you know those “unclaimed assets” announcements you hear from the state?… maybe you forgot about a tax refund, or a savings account you had when you were a kid?… sometimes they pay off… here’s a guy in St. Louis… who had forgotten… and claimed… a stock holding worth… $1.6 million dollars… click (here)…

FEELING USELESS?… buy one of these… a video of The World’s Most Useless Machine… click (here)…

Do you still listen to the radio like you used to?… drop me an email and let me know what fills your ears these days…  it’s been 7 years since I was on WPLR… and my 1 year anniversary of the WICC layoff is coming up… and I’m getting sentimental….

Middle of the month already… this decade is flying by…

THE VOICE continues to give us better sports picks and inside insight than anyone else out there in the business… this week he is working a little slower behind the counter at The Prognosticator Grill and Cafe as he realizes… there are just 7 NFL games left… but he checks in with his picks and pictures… including his famous CHEERLEADERS… and you can find out all… just click on SPORTS PICKS on the right, or just click (here)…

Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and NBC were having a great time with their ratings-boosting bickering… until the earthquake hit in Haiti… kind of makes the concern about a couple of millionaire entertainers not so gripping, doesn’t it…

Speaking of millionaire entertainers… what’s up with Rush Limbaugh? Even the people I know who enjoy listening to his comedic rants are not liking his anti-Haiti support today… but remember, he does have to try to keep his ratings up, and the headlines about the fake heart attack in Hawaii can only last so long… click (here)…

Remember, when it comes to radio and tv and politics… it’s not about what is right and wrong or political… it is ALL about the ratings and the money…

…and Happy Friday…

Just a quickie here today as I get ready to run outside and warm up the car… or give up and hibernate…
THE VOICE has turned the heat up as we head toward the NFL playoffs… and he checks in with his weekly picks…  will the Jets do it again against the Bengals this weekend?… only THE VOICE knows… check out his picks, predictions and wisdom, oh, and CHEERLEADERS… visit SPORTS PICKS on the right, or just click (here)…

SEE THE VOICE… don’t forget to check out THE VOICE on video, as well as other news and videos at DoingItLocal.com…
Ok… I hear snowplows and they are sounding ominously close… gotta hide… see you next week… -Brian

So, are we saying “Twenty-Ten”, or “Two Thousand Ten” for this year?  Email me your votes. Maybe “Two-Oh-One-Oh”? And for some of us: “Since I gave a damn plus thirty”.  I get stuff like that, you know.

THE VOICE is with us for the New Year festivities.  The Voice never rests.  While everyone else on the planet was questioning their ability to hoist a glass without spilling it by midnight, The Voice was bringing in the New Year by putting together his uncanny predictions for the final week of the NFL regular season (one of The Voice’s most bittersweet times of the year)… You’ll find it all, wrapped up as a late Christmas present… The NFL… College Bowl predictions… Sports from All Over… and of course, to cure the Auld in your Lang Syne, the CHEERLEADERS… just click on “SPORTS PICKS” over there on the right, or just click (here)…

AND SEE THE VOICE… yes, another video mysteriously transmitted from his secret underground bunker… directly for your viewing pleasure and informational download… at DoingItLocal.com… click on The Voice Week 17 in the video gallery on the front page…. start by clicking (here)… and happy viewing… (unless you are using Mac Safari, then you have to try something else)…

So, were you caught up in the impossible chronological physics of the holidays this year like I was?  Trying to be in two or more places at THE SAME TIME over and over again?  I really have to learn to use my calendar more wisely.  Someday, yes, someday I hope to be as organized as those guys who put together the Major League Baseball Schedule, or the train schedules out of Grand Central, or even… although it is the zenith of organizational aptitude… an almost impossible to obtain nexus of time and space coordination… I wish to try to be as organized as a soccer Mom or Dad… I don’t know how they do it.  I can’t.  Party hats off to those of you who kept all your appointments and celebrations on time this season.  I surrender… and collapse… into a smoldering heap of cheap booze, ripped gift wrap paper, and broken sugar cookies… -Brian

AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR from all of us at BrianSmithRadio.com, and DoingItLocal.com…