I can actually watch the Super Bowl
again this year, should I so wish.
If you've been reading these for a long
time (and on a side note, thanks, if that's the case), you know of my
loathing of a certain NFL and a certain quarterback for said NFL
team. Tom Brady & the New England Patriots have caused a lot of
heartache for this Colts fan over the years, and whenever the team
made it to the Super Bowl (which has been way too often, like the
past two years) I've had to forego the game and the commercials and
the hype, lest I be driven insane by the fact that the stupid team
was about to win another championship.
But this year? I'm in the clear.
When I woke up this past Sunday morning
and saw that the Patriots had been defeated—at home, no less—by
Tennessee, I had to smile & show the score to Loraine, who knows
only too well the angst the team has caused me. In fact, it was she
who suggested a couple of years ago that we not watch the game and
watch “Star Wars” movies instead, which turned out to be a great
idea even though the Patriots lost that particular game.
At least I didn't have to spend four
hours wondering if they WOULD win it.
Now I don't have to worry about even
that. This year, should I choose, I could watch the game and cheer
for Baltimore or San Francisco or Kansas City or whichever team seems
to be the most interesting or the most fun. About the only team I
couldn't bring myself to cheer for, should they make it, would be the
Packers, if only because my dad raised my as a Lions fans and booing
the Packers comes along with the territory.
Or, should I so desire, I could just
not watch the game at all, DVR'ing it like I did the past few years.
Until you don't actually watch it live, until you see the game with
the ability to scan through the boring parts, do you realize just how
many boring parts there are in a Super Bowl. There are moments in a
regular NFL game that are slow & unnecessary; there must be at
least twice that number in a Super Bowl. In fact, if I were to guess
(and this is even with viewing the commercials) you could watch the
four hour game in an hour and a half or two hours, tops. That's how
many replays, stoppages, and boring parts there are to the game.
I don't know what I'm gonna do yet this
year; I still have two and a half weeks and six teams waiting to be
eliminated before I decide. But either way, I know that I'll be
happy with the end result.
Because the New England Patriots won't
be anywhere in sight.
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