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I usually watch the Super Bowl with a buddy of mine, but he's going to be busy that day (he is having some friends in for a Super Bowl party) so I'll be watching alone, on my RCA CTC185 XL-100 19" table set which is on cable. This set is a decade old, but still has a nice bright sharp picture -- and now that all TV is digital it looks even better than analog, to me anyway.
As to who wins the SB, it really doesn't matter to me. If the Cleveland Browns would have made it I'd root for them, of course, since I live near Cleveland...well, about 35 miles east of the city. I'd have watched the Pro Bowl yesterday (last Sunday) as two of the Browns' best players made the Eastern team, but the game was on ESPN and my cable service (Time Warner basic, what I call bare-bones basic--broadcast channels only) doesn't carry that channel. It would have been nice if the management (E. W. Scripps) of Cleveland's ABC affiliate would have seen fit to show the game here as well as on ESPN (this would have allowed folks without cable or satellite [or just bare-bones basic cable] to see the game as well), but unfortunately it didn't happen that way.  I finally wound up getting the game's final score on the 11 o'clock news, and on the front page of the local newspaper the next morning.BTW, that "Superb owl" thing was great -- I liked it. I knew that the poster who came up with this meant to type "Superbowl" as one word, but he must have accidentally tapped the spacebar on his keyboard and unwittingly put a space in there, between the b and o. The joke about the so-called "Superb owl" being some mysterious bird from another galaxy that would swoop down on anyone who dared turn an old TV cabinet into a bookcase or bar, or install a modern flat-panel in there and do away with the original chassis, was and is priceless, IMHO. My hat is off to the A/VK member who came up with this. Bravo! 
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That was Moi. I remembered reading in one of the "Star Trek" behind the scenes books that Roddenberry was sometimes referred to as such. Apparently, Ol' Gene could be a handful to work for/with sometimes...
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Jeff, that was wa2ise that came up with the "Superb owl"
 And a big thank you to him for the good laugh Anyways, anyone hear about all the bs that the NFL is starting about people using the name Superbowl? Sheesh.....I don't watch much sports and I really suck at playing them but Football used to be fun to watch. Now it's replay after replay after flag after flag.. Things just 'aint what they used to be But I've always been a Bears fan, I know, BOOO! but I still hold onto hope that someday, it will be like '85 for them again.....I'm not holding my breath.
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Wow; I'm excited now!!!! I'll be somewhere in the middle of the New Mexico desert when the game starts. All alone, FAR from the nearest TV set
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I haven't watched a football game in years. I'll be watching VHS movies on my '72 Zenith 20CC50.
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02-04-2010, 06:27 PM
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What'll you be up to out there, Charles?? I'd say bring a Watchman or something but...well ya know...
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 A big thanks to you too!
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02-06-2010, 02:38 PM
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Well, I am not a sports fan, and wll be paying little attention to the Superb owl. My wife grew up watching football with her father, and will watch a bit of the game on the old 17 inch '53 Philco that her parents used until they got a color set in the early 70s. Her childhood Philco still works pretty well, with only minor repairs over the years.
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I didn't get a pic of it and I don't have internet at home at the moment but I watched the Superb Owl on my 1959 RCA CTC-9 this year and it was good.....
Anyone else watch it on an old color set?It also made me think, did someone watch Superb Owl 1 on this thing? It's very possible as it was definitely in use at that time. It got a new CRT 4-15-68 so it saw lots of use during the '60's.
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i watched first half on zenith chromacolor set with 25vdmp22 sylvania crt.second half was on rca ctc 9.very enjoyable and the roundie with the packers playing was like the first superbowl.we watched that on a philco roundie
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I sort of watched it on a '79 GE 12" B&W, connected to a digitalstream DTV converter.
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Holy Thread Bump!!! I see this is the 2010 SB.
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