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Even though only a paltry 34% of Houston's television-watching households watched yesterday's Super Bowl -- the second-lowest amount out of 56 other cities -- those 34% were in for a delicious, sleazy treat in the form of this commercial for the mysteriously-named Ashley Madison Agency:

Tomorrow is the biggest day in professional football: two sets of grown men in protective padding, brain buckets and tight pants will go head-to-head to see which is the best team in the nation. Whether you feel this to be the most spectacular sporting event, a good excuse to party like a rock star or you care less about it, but, you dig the commercials, most of the nation will be glued -- beverage in one hand, nacho in the other -- to the television.

Need entertainment on the cheap? Here's what Houstonist is doing this weekend:

After a brief hiatus to undergo a lengthy bout of detox due to excessive margarita consumption, we’re back and better than ever! The next stop on the road to unearth Houston’s best margarita was Canyon Café, positioned in a strip mall near the corner of Post Oak Lane and Westheimer.

Former Houston Oilers linebacker John Grimsley was found dead in his Missouri City home this morning. After receiving a 911 emergency call from the Grimsley household, police rushed to the scene at 9:00am only to find a lifeless body.

The Houston Rockets are seemingly transitioning into the New York Giants of the National Basketball Association. No, they haven't just won a championship. No, they haven't defeated arguably the best team in league history. No, they haven't snapped an opponent's 18-game winning streak. OK, so maybe they're nothing like the NFL's Super Bowl winner.

It's a struggle not to talk about how awesome the Super Bowl was last night, but since we're here to talk about Houston teams first and foremost, we'll have to stick to our mission. But how 'bout those commercials, huh? We went and looked at the GoDaddy.com Danica Patrick one online; who knew that she could put both legs behind her head while playing "Smoke On The Water" on kazoo?

Darrell Green, a product of Houston's Jones High School, was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this past weekend. Green, who was selected No. 1 overall in 1983 by the Washington Redskins, played 20-years with the same team, an NFL co-record with the Rams' Jackie Slater.

From local Houston headlines, we bring you these weekend news bits...

It's an American tradition, just like representative democracy and childhood obesity: the Super Bowl. Even people who aren't football fans usually find a way to watch the game (or the commercials, depending on your priorities) and the die-hards view Sunday as some combination of Christmas, graduation, and the non-lame parts of the Olympics all rolled into one. If you don't have plans for the big game already, here are a few options around town:

The Super Bowl is on Sunday, and naturally we'll be watching the game (and the commericals), but the real news around town is the up-and-down season the Rockets are having. They win with T-Mac, they win without T-mac, they definitely lose without Yao. If Rick Adelman can get everyone on the same page,they could still be formidable in the playoffs. Otherwise, we're looking at another five-and-out in the first round. On to the links:

This weekend, there's a movie coming out called Charlie Wilson's War; the eponymous Wilson was a congressman from Lufkin (actual motto: You'll Love Lufkin!) who funneled arms and money to the Afghan rebels fighting against the USSR in the waning years of the Cold War. Wilson took up the fight because the Afghans were underdogs and when they were pissed, they'd hurt the Commies in ways that red-blooded Americans of the time only wished they could. The Texans are underdogs this week against the mighty Colts, and they've got a very large pissed off man who just got snubbed for the Pro Bowl on their side. Evil Empire, meet your mujahideen.

Houstonist proudly names 2007 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee, Bruce Matthews, the first of a series of great Houston athletes to be honored. Matthews, who was drafted ninth overall in the 1983 NFL draft, could possibly be the last of the Houston Oilers to be inducted. Matthews was a rare specimen. He played 19 seasons with one franchise which included 296 games, a NFL record for lineman and sixth best in NFL history....

Football is back! Those may be the three sweetest words to every sports fan's ears. NFL teams around the nation are huddling up for training camp this month in preparation for the 2007 season. In our very own backyard the Houston Texans kicked things off by having rookies report to the Methodist Training Center on July 22, quickly followed by veterans on July 29. The Houstonist will be keeping you informed as to the goings-on...

With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing-- what's going on in the World of the -ists? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama's unpaid parking tickets, their Governor's latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had everything in twos: two views on having the Olympics, losing two members of their Super Bowl team, and two music festivals. DCist put their noses in legal books as...

Good morning, Houston. We have two words to brighten up your day: obese squirrel. The squirrel in question got stuck in a hole in a tree in East Oak Cliff, Dallas, on Sunday — its head was inside the tree, but its rear end was left hanging. Wildlife rescue technician Joe Warner got the unfortunate animal free by sawing a hole around the squirrel, a process that took 45 minutes. All of which makes...

Good morning, Houston. With everything that's changing in today's world, it's nice to know that abbreviated rock star Prince can still make headlines. Today, the world — or at least a very small, sorta interested portion of it — is trying to figure out whether a silhouette of Prince, guitar in hand, projected during the Super Bowl halftime show was naughty. See, Prince was holding the guitar at an angle that made it look...

During last night’s Super Bowl, you may have seen the commercials for the upcoming Grammy Awards, where Justin Timberlake is given your average, everyday person a chance to sing with him on stage at the event. Secretly, we thought to ourselves, it’d be fun to win that contest and get Justin to bring sexyback to some old, I don’t know, maybe John Denver, while JT gets his groove on the stage. Well, a local girl...

Good morning, Houston. We're still a little foggy from yesterday's Super Bowl parties — and from the point in the second quarter when we started thinking about when we might see the Texans in the big game (don't try it — it'll make your head hurt, trust us). If you got your no-more-football party on, this might not be a bad time to kick back, down a hangover cure and catch up on some...

Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little 'ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal (even getting their editor on TV) only to find their scandal dwarfed by the even bigger scandal caused by their Mayor boffing one of his aides' wife. We're not...

This weekend will be both glorious and depressing for Houstonist and any other true football fans. February 4th will provide the most anticipated game of the pro football season, Super Bowl XLI.(The crowd goes wild!) Unfortunately 2/4 will also be the last day of football until early September.(BOOOOO!) For the record, unless you attend in person, the Pro Bowl doesn’t count. So to celebrate/mourn this auspicious/ominous occasion, we have found not one, not two, but three libations for this year’s Super Bowl Sunday. Please, please, no applause. Just send money.

First Saturday in the Heights & Yale Street Arts Market Heights First Saturday is a day full of shopping, activities, and food designed to bring people from all over the city to the Heights area. This month, in addition to their usual self-proclaimed "small-town cool," will be featuring sign-up for spring classes at HITS Theater, a Heights area food pantry drive, and Buchanan's Blood Drive. Their website features more information about drop-off places for the...

Super Bowl Shuffle - video powered by Metacafe Houstonist is not picking sides on this weekend’s Super Bowl (well, at least not publicly), but we do feel the need to show the Chicago Bears Shufflin’ Crew’s “Super Bowl Shuffle” from the 1985-86 season for several reasons: 1) The Bears are in the Super Bowl this year, 2) The video is so campy, it’s funny 3) We have to support our fellow –ist site in the...

As the world holds its breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated the SXSW band listings and got called "punk rock" for their efforts by MTV. And an ice storm swept through the area. Bostonist said goodbye to John Kerry's plans...

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into...

The shot from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor mrp1001.

Houstonist is bleeding Cougar red these days — yeah, we know, it's actually the color we always bleed, but given UH's winning the Conference USA football championship Friday, it seems appropriate. At any rate, we were excited to hear that the city's throwing a celebration for the Coogs downtown today. The rally — with head coach Art Briles, the team, the UH marching band and Mayor Bill White — will start at noon at Hermann...

You probably don't need us to tell you this, but your Houston Texans lost to the Eagles yesterday 24-10. Things began with a bang, with the Texans then waxing mediocre for the remaining three quarters. Note: we said "mediocre," not "abysmal," so there is progress in the air. Those hoping for the playoffs, though, had better clean the tint off their glasses if they don't want to spend football season waylaid by disappointment.Our on-site operative reports that "a fair amount of fans at the game were surprised at the outcome;" Houstonist tried to warn you otherwise, even if we were secretly hoping for the sizable upset. The harsh truth, though, is this: Mario is not quite ready, the line remains porous, without D Double the running game is anemic, and in case you didn't hear, that kid Reggie is no bust. What remains to be seen is if the Texans can get on solid enough ground to make us forget all this, or at least put up with it for the foreseeable future. With the Colts, Redskins, and Dolphins coming up, it's high time we started measuring these Texans against themselves, instead of in terms of scoring and victory. If they can build on this one quarter of competitiveness, it'll be something to get behind — even if it's in a losing effort. Of course we'd all like to see this team win its division, but it doesn't have to be all or nothing. Plenty of other cities have losing football teams that they still respect, and that's probably the most realistic goal at this point. There's a lot of middle ground between 2-14 and the Super Bowl, and the majority of NFL fans get perfectly amped to stomp around on it for months on end.Oh, and Vince? Brief appearance for the Titans, just long enough to log a pick that one writer compared to "a wounded quail."

Thanks to the dual miracles of sports talk radio and the interwebs, it's now possible to know virtually everything about your hometeam team on a second-by-second basis. The slightest tweak in a back-up tight end's tooth becomes a code red emergency, leaving the fan base gasping in disarray. Unfortunately, this can sometimes lead to a gap in information involving, you know, all those other teams in the National Football League. In hopes of rectifying this...

The NFL regular season isn't set to kickoff for another 3 weeks, but for many pigskin fans, the season begins today with the release of Madden NFL 07. Maddenoliday, the marketing brain-child of Electonic Arts and Freestyle Interactive, officially marks the day when gamers everywhere forego any semblance of a social life to lead their virtual franchise to the Super Bowl.