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The Real Super Bowl
Today is Super Sunday. The NFL and hundreds of businesses have made a lot of money using that phrase. To me, especially since retirement, every Sunday is a super Sunday. Get up when I want, do what I want, invite over to my house whoever I want. And, best of all, eat and drink what I want. If that's not a super Sunday, you tell me what is!
But I guess the fact that it's the final NFL game of the season makes it super. Usually the game itself is not the best game of the season, although in the past five years there have been some good ones. In 2004 and 2005 the Patriots won by just three points each time.
In last year's Super Bowl the Steelers (remember the Steelers?) and the Seahawks combined for just 31 points, the fewest points since 1975 when the Steelers (remember the Steelers?) beat the Vikings 16-6. More often than not, the winning team scores more than 31 points.
I've never been big on attending Super Bowl parties. I probably should be. I like people and I'm pretty friendly. For some reason, though, I have always preferred to stay home and do other things, like fold laundry and sort baseball cards, while half-heartedly watching the game. Maybe it's because the extra commercials and forever-long halftime show, puts you in front of the television set for about seven hours for the sake of about an hour of actual football action.
And when it comes to Super Bowls, I'm probably more interested in super bowls of popcorn, wings and soup. Ask anybody, and they'll tell you that the Super Bowl is the best excuse of the year for hammering down your favorite liquid refreshment and filling up on your favorite snacks. I'd like a penny for every chicken wing consumed in the United States today. Okay, give me a penny for every chicken wing consumed in Plattsburgh today.
So, today, I'll watch the game for awhile with some great friends over at Bill's house. We will say funny stuff, eat some good food (I wonder if he's deep frying a turkey again?) and I'll drink a few bottles of soda. For the most part the women will ignore the game, talk about whatever they talk about in the kitchen, and miss the Colts' fourth quarter drive to win the game.
The Colts will win by a handful of points because of two players: Peyton Manning and Adam Vinitieri. Manning will manage enough yardage against that tough Bears' defense to get them close, and the sure-footed Vinitieri will split the uprights enough times to provide the margin of victory.
Don't bet your house on it, but that's the way I see it. The only bowl prediction you can be sure of with me is that I'll have a big bowl of food in front of me at halftime!
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Hey Foxy, it's your newly acquired friend from Missouri! Just wanted to say that I totally agree with you about Super Bowl parties. I think I have attended one in 23 years. My "party" usually consists of watching the game with my dad, while my mom lays out the chips and dip. And, since our Sooners are never in the game, we never really care who wins. I will say that this year was a little different because I had that beautiful girl from Plattsburgh sitting beside me, but I would still hardly call it a party! Anyway, just wanted to say hello from the Midwest! Hope you had a good time last night, and I'll see you soon!
(Foxy's note: Aaron is a great sports fan from MIssouri, who did a lot of searching to find the right woman in his life, and, wouldn't you know it, he has discovered that North Country girls are the finest! We've got a new regular for the On the Sly blog club!)
Posted by: Aaron | February 5, 2007 8:56 AM
Since the Pats are not playing, the best part of the Superbowl today will be the commercials and the billion calories I will be consuming!
I will take full responsibility for the collapse of the Patriots! I JINXED THEM! On the Friday before the AFC Championship game, a friend and I made a pact to go to Miami, at any cost, if the Pats won the the game. By Saturday evening I was so sure the Pats were going to win that I had made arrangements for flights and a place to stay. JINXED.
So while I am dripping of hot wing sauce, salsa, and "soda" (Good one, Fox! wink, wink). I will be cheering for the................
PATRIOTS!!!
Posted by: Kern | February 4, 2007 3:47 PM