{"id":493,"date":"2011-02-06T15:58:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T21:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/02\/06\/110206_superbowlrules\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T17:16:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T22:16:36","slug":"110206_superbowlrules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/02\/06\/110206_superbowlrules\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl Live-Blogging: The Ground Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of sounding like I know what I&#8217;m doing, I need to lay out a few ground rules so you&#8217;ll be able to recognize when things inevitably start to go south and we descend into uncontrolled chaos.<\/p>\n<p>First, it&#8217;s important to be able to quickly recognize the team I&#8217;m writing about. There&#8217;s nothing worse than thinking I&#8217;m talking about the ugly shoes of the Pittsbay Stackers, when in reality I&#8217;m dissing the Greenburgh Feelers. So, to make things more clear, I&#8217;ll refer to the latter as &#8220;those guys&#8221; and the former as &#8220;the Cheese Whiz Heads.&#8221; Note: If the game gets crazy, I may inadvertently reverse the references; in that case, just go by the context and you&#8217;ll be fine.<\/p>\n<p>Second, we use an elaborate rating system to judge the ads, a rating system developed over years of analyzing the best data I could make up. It&#8217;s called The Ant System\u00ae and it goes something like this: it&#8217;s a sliding scale of 1-5 ants, with 5 ants represented by something like Coke&#8217;s &#8220;Teach the World to Sing&#8221; ad, and 1 ant represented by anything produced by GoDaddy.com. But how, you might ask, will I recognize the rating? Good question. Watch carefully for the subtle clues:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong>Ant Rating: <\/strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/antratings\/1ant.gif\" alt=\"Rating: 1 Ant\" width=\"22\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ant Rating: <\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/antratings\/2ants.gif\" alt=\"Rating: 2 Ants\" width=\"47\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ant Rating: <\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/antratings\/3ants.gif\" alt=\"Rating: 3 Ants\" width=\"73\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ant Rating:<\/strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/antratings\/4ants.gif\" alt=\"Rating: 4 Ants\" width=\"99\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ant Rating:<\/strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/antratings\/5ants.gif\" alt=\"Rating: 5 Ants\" width=\"125\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Third, you should always feel free to weigh in with your own observations, opinions, recipes, paranoid delusions, and predictions, keeping in mind of course that by leaving a comment you&#8217;ve confirmed my suspicion that you also didn&#8217;t get invited to a Super Bowl party.<\/p>\n<p>OK, I think that about covers it. Any questions?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I almost forgot. If you want some insights from someone who actually cares about the game itself (what a concept!), check out <a href=\"http:\/\/archaeotex.blogspot.com\/\">Jeff&#8217;s place<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of sounding like I know what I&#8217;m doing, I need to lay out a few ground rules so you&#8217;ll be able to recognize when things inevitably start to go south and we descend into uncontrolled chaos. First, it&#8217;s important to be able to quickly recognize the team I&#8217;m writing about. There&#8217;s nothing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/02\/06\/110206_superbowlrules\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Super Bowl Live-Blogging: The Ground Rules<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-sports","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9181,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/9181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}