Feb
5
That was a fun Super Bowl, wasn’t it?
- I spent almost two weeks believing myself and telling others I couldn’t give two shits about the game, because NINERS OBVS. Boy, was I wrong.
- Super Bowl squares were $5/square; I bought four. One ended up being the 7-7 square, which I got to be excited about for all of 15 minutes until that safety happened.
- Montana > Brady. We can stop having this conversation.
- Eli > Peyton. Peyton’s statistically better, but Eli’s got something his brother doesn’t: moxie. Peyton cost his team at least one championship; Eli’s only shined in those opportunities.
- If Gronkowski had somehow caught that deflected ball at the very end, not only would it have been the greatest Super Bowl ending in history, it also would have sealed his season as probably the greatest of any one NFL player, ever.
- I was more entertained by the halftime show than I thought I would be. Watching Madonna’s half-speed dancing was hilarious; seeing her perform the Party Rock routine with LMFAO was honestly kind of awesome; and as played out as Nicki Minaj and Cee-Lo Green are, I got a pretty big kick out of seeing M.I.A. (as well as Cee-Lo sneaking into a mumu right after the entire party asked why he wasn’t wearing one). After the aberration that was the Black Eyed Peas last year, it was admittedly pretty cool to go back a couple decades for some 90s nostalgia that didn’t involve Aerosmith.
- That’s what, a run of eight straight Super Bowls that have been exciting from start to finish? The last one I can think of that was wrapped up by the 4th quarter was Super Bowl XVII between Tampa Bay and Oakland. Hopefully the streak can continue.
- And here comes the saddest part of Super Bowl Sunday: Realizing there won’t be any real football for another six months. Fuck.
