when our daughter and her boyfriend declined our invitation to watch the Superbowl here since they had made other plans. Now we don't need to watch it at all. Woo-hoo!!

now you can do something worthwhile...

I am not going to my regular sunday evening meeting because they are using it as an excuse to watch the supper bowel... without me, I refuse.

go outside and watch the aurora or something.

Cheers,
Agony

It's a beautiful day here.

although for the first time in my 60 years of life, i WILL tune in for the half time show.

I like crazy puppies.

definitely a shoo-in for MVP

I would imagine that the long tradition of college 'bowl games' influenced the decision to use 'bowl' in the title of the professional championship game.

And the game played that year was the first "Rose Bowl Game".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bowl_(stadium)

But the Yale Bowl was completed in 1914.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Bowl

So it only the "Super" that came from the toy.

I was so excited, I went outside and bounced it in the street. On its very first bounce, it went high in the air, and then landed in a neighbor's bushes. I searched frantically the rest of the day for it, but I never found it

I found a chicago alley that was recently poured. (ie no chicago styled potholes) and stood between two garages. I threw it back and forth, with spin, without spin, and had it hit both doors, one after another. I never thought about the tiny dents I was leaving in the metal garage door. The wooden one was just fine.

A bunch of us do it every "Super Sunday" and have for years. Even the cops are in the station watching the game

gonna play Monopoly or something!

The Super Bowl and football in general, is boring and holds zero interest for me. I grew out of that nonsense years ago.

I have to admit, if the Tampa Bay Bucs or Miami Dolphins were in it, I might be tempted to watch.

But there's good stuff on Showtime tonight.

We'll be making a nice dinner and watching a movie tonight.

It will be at our neighbor's house. Her husband was a really beloved guy by many and today would have been his birthday. He LOVED a good party. He was also a football fan. We lost him less than a year ago.

Nobody else much cares about the game or who wins, but in his honor, it will be on.

We'll all be partying and mostly ignoring it.

But to avoid the hooting you'll have to do if your apathy causes constipation, try a dose of milk of magnesia instead of watching the game...

You know, the Famous Supper Bowl made of mashed 'tater-like product, chicken thingies and canned corn...topped with "gravy."

Way more fun for everyone involved.

no, really. a coffee table.

which was a "test of concept" piece for the larger coffee table.
(the "test" was ultimately given the stamp of approval from my wife)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1158162

that football is a brutal sport that wrecks the bodies and minds of the players and we should not be enabling it in the form it is played today. There is little difference from gladiator, to the death, combats in ancient Rome. It's just we don't have to watch them die in the arena.

a serious drinking problem. That's his reward..sad.

and we'll watch it together. He'll hip me to all the details/data/trivia and I'll happily feign interest

We tried to watch for the first time in 15 years whenever the Packers were last in it. We didn't even last until kick- off. All the damn ads, the glorification of the military, the nationalism, blech!

Sometimes I feel like we've been living in an 80's dystopic SF novel ever since the 2000 election.

Someone remarked that it was two teams from the northeast playing in a stadium in the upper midwest. Makes as much sense as pro sports ever does, I guess.

However, after June we'll all be watching football (soccer) in Spanish just to avoid the toxic sludge spewing out of our screens thanks to Citizens United.

I haven't known the teams playing in the super bowl for years.

and get off of the internet.

count me in the majority.
Once upon a time I cared about sports. Not so much any more.
240 minutes of mostly commercials interrupted by about 15 minutes of actual playing.

MOST VIEWED TELEVISION PROGRAMS IN HISTORY (total viewers):



1. Super Bowl XLIII 151.6 million NBC 2009
2. Super Bowl XLII 148.3 million Fox 2008
3. Super Bowl XXXVIII 144.4 million CBS 2004



Tonights game could come close to 160 million viewers. This means roughly half of everyone in the country watched the game. Yes... it is that big!

asleep

and you know what????


the world did not end.

plan to sleep thru this year as well

Should be ready in about 7 more hours.
Fresh local cut from a reasonably local family ranch that uses one of the only humane slaughter operations in the area to process their livestock for market. Heathy, free-range-of-the-place pig that had plenty of good food and wallowing area.
And later this evening I will be making my famous rub-spice pickled cole slaw with carrots, red cabbage, and jicama and home-made sauce to go with it.
The smoker is made from two flower-pots, an old hot-plate, and a grill sitting on cinder-blocks and an old cutting-board -cost about $46 total made from the Alton Brown episode on grilling and smoking unlike the $700 it would have cost for a similar "big green egg" smoker at a BBQ place.

And that's what we're going to be doing instead of the superbowl.

Haele

But even my football loving friends dont give a rip about this years game.

No roaring planes in the sky. No cars on the road. This day and Xmas are the two days when it's nice to actually go outside. I just got back from a great bike ride.

I'll take the Tour de France, please.

it would be absolute TORTURE to have to watch the whole game.

I plan to post, do some laundry, and take a nap!



Oh, and I will check Oliphant out, thank you!

or anybody at my house.

on Iowa Public Television! I don't even know what time the football game starts. I only watched football in college because I had to...was in the Panther Marching 100. Go UNI Panthers???

I am so unworthy.

GO GIANTS!

Go Giants!! (and they did!)

HUGE Niner fan checking in.

although hubby has told me a couple of times. I'm oblivious to the whole thing. It's not that I don't like it; I just don't care. It will be on in my house, but I'll probably go shopping during it.

The only thing I care about is the score at the end of each quarter, and the 4 squares I've got in the office football pool.

Having a "who gives a shit party" here too. Lots of traffic still out on the road at 6:30 PM still.

...where we can all watch our corporate masters sell us stupid bullshit in between episodes of *insert overpaid athletic conglomerates here*.

What an awesome tactic. Too bad it didn't work.

No matter which team won, I left saying "So, what?".

How could I miss all that amazing on field excitement and all those funny and "cute" super bowl commercials? This is unforgivable...

The season ended, for all practical purposes, with the Niners' scrub punt "returner" fumbling. Twice.