February 4, 2007
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Great game!
Was that a great football game or what? OK, truthfully, I wouldn't know much about that anymore, but I had a great time watching. I used to be into football before I met my husband. After listening to him grumble about what a useless game it was the first year we were together, I kind of got out of it. I have managed to watch 3 or 4 Super Bowls in our 15 years of marriage without listening to too much grumbling from him.
Today, he watched most of the game with me, outside of a couple of catnaps he took in the recliner. I thought it was sweet of him to watch with me. He'd say things like, "The quarterback for the blue team looks so young. I can't believe they put someone in with so little experience..." referring to all the crappy passes that were intercepted. Or when I'd come back into the room from checking on dinner, and I'd ask what happened, he'd say something like, "The white team is going to kick a field goal," or "The blue team has finally started to figure out that the white team really only has three basic plays."
I did have to listen to a little bit of his old mantra about grown-ups getting paid so much money to play a kid's game, and how they should make it a law that you should have to play the sport for every hour you watch of it. Finally, tonight, he came up with they should put pedometers on people and you can only watch so much television for every mile of walking or running you do in a day.
When I thanked him for watching the game with me, and I mentioned that I quit watching football a long time ago because he didn't like it, he did say that we have more than one television in the house. That may be true today, but it wasn't 15 years ago when we first got married.
I loved the halftime show, although Prince didn't exactly play his guitar in time with the music (i.e., he was playing air guitar). I was a little surprised that he performed so many of the old school songs, too - you know, the ones from my college days in the '80s when I was so much in love with him and went woozy at his concert - but that's probably why I enjoyed it so much.
I think my favorite commercial was the Budweiser ad with the stray dog that got a hero's treatment once he got splashed with mud and looked like the firehouse dalmation. It was cute. I also liked the one with the rabbit and the guinea pig trying to click the mouse (owning a computer store, of course, I would be a little partial to that one).
Which was your favorite Super Bowl commercial?
Comments (3)
Your husband sounds like my brother-in-law. I'm glad you got to watch it, though! I don't have a favorite commercial, 'cause I really didn't see any. We didn't get home from church until the beginning of the fourth quarter, and then we had to fix something to eat, so I was busy during commercials. I hope to see some of the commercials today.
We watch a lot of football at my house, but we used to argue bitterly over it, because the Budman is a huge fan and I am not. However, I am (on occasion) a huge fan of the Budman, so I watch. I was not as attentive to the game yesterday, though, because I was at Eden's house and watching her more than the game, so I wasn't even aware of the commercials. (which is pretty sad considering the amount of money spent to produce them just to make me happy.) I did see the one about the two computers with the "connectile dysfunction" which I thought was funny... Thanks for your comments!
missed the game, missed TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsPrinceAndIsNowKnownAsPrinceAgain (Tafkapainkapa) playing air guitar, missed the whole dang thing!
But I do know Da Bears lost. (dangit)
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