The Super Bowl, wellllll.

Since I don't really have a "dog in the fight", I will watch it sort of sideways/over my shoulder as I do other things and let it play in the background. I didn't feel like going to any of the parties I was invited to, one was too far away, and another one included another guest I'm not comfortable around. I'll just stay home, boil up some polish sausage in beer, and feast on kraut, sausage, cheese and brown mustard by myself. I have a couple of different flavors of home-brew waiting in the fridge, a red ale and a Vienna lager for quenching my "thirst".

When Madonna comes on I'll hit mute most likely, I'm not a real fan of the half-time whoopla no matter who is starring in the show. Which reminded me to post this 'toon I found the other day about her being on.

 

Nope, that game is for the less than tiny percentage of players who make it to the NFL, and the smaller bunch who rise to the top of that little group.

After High school ball, about 9000 become college players, and 215 of them become NFL players. Statistically of the 100,000 high school seniors who play football every year, only 215 will ever make an NFL roster. That is 0.2%! Even of the 9,000 players that make it to the college level only 310 are invited to the NFL scouting combine, the pool from which teams make their draft picks.

Not too old to play the college game, just much better than the average college player is the answer. I know you were being "sarcastic" Jeff, but I don't dislike the game as it has evolved for the quality of the players, but the commercialism of the dang thing. Sometimes there are good games, but even then the length of time spent selling stuff, and putting on the 'BIG SHOW" leave me cold.
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Well could watch it just for the commercials like my wife and her friends do!

 

Only if Bruce Dern can find a Blimp!

 

Tough to pull off at the enclosed stadium don't you think?

 

There is a naysayer in every crowd Is it just me or was Madonna starting her own religon at halftime?

 

I wouldn't know, didn't watch or even listen to her show at all. I not only hit mute, but went away online looking at the best commercials of all the Super Bowls, my favorite, or at least likely to ever be repeated is the 1969 "I'd walk a Mile for a Camel" ad that made it look like there was a "spy" walking through a city, watched by other guys in trench coats, and then he just goes in a buys a pack of Camel studs and lights up.

Goto:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/03/super-bowl-commercials-early-ads_n_1253496.html?ref=media

Probably my second favorite is the McD's ad with Jordon and Bird playing a game of 'horse" for Michael's bag of fries and Big Mac.

Goto:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1shK-j_u6LI

 

Actually this is turning into a dang fine game for a Super Bowl. I'm actually watching more of it than I thought I would.

 

sorry to the pats fans out there but; Giants Win!!!!!!!

 

Super bowl and Madonna, oh my, how can you explain that to Saint Peter when it's time?

 

Like Clint, I had no dog in this particular fight. The game was a good one to watch...no high scoring -lack of defense game interrupted with 20 or 30 tape reviews. I too opted for a re-run of the Simpsons even at halftime. I understand the act was so classy it contained a middle finger display. I guess no one ever accused Madonna and her ilk of being Ladies that is for sure.

My two nit-noys..Singing "America" before the National Anthem. It should have been part of a better/classier half-time show.
My regular complaint about Pro football players: Don't any of them know how to respect the flag during the playing of the National Anthem?? "Patriots" and "Giants" sidelines were both guilty of that.

 

Texson wrote:

A terrible shame that they cannot show more respect.

Half time show - went to the store. Could not have cared less.

 

In 1968 I went to an open try out for the SD Chargers, I had been a "big fish" in a little HS pond - I found out real fast how right you are, I had no business being on the field.

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Sorry fellows, but as an Australian resident, and a rugby playing Pom to boot, I see little in the game of Gridiron thats really athletic. Too many stops, time-outs. Too many 'specialists' whose only role is to play on a special team. If the game lasted 45 minutes per half, I would rather see some action for forty five minutes, rather than twenty minutes of action, interposed between 25 minutes of deciding what to do in a 'huddle'. There is not much free form play, and if you took off all the padding and helmets, then the players themselves could show us just what they are made of. As it stands, it's rather tedious to sit through three hours of it. No wonder food and drink are so important to the spectators, they are there for far too long. As for half-time shows, would'nt it be better by far to just get on with the game? Could care less about entertainment of that kind.....the spectators are there to watch an athletic contest, so stick to the game rather than all the advertising and razzamattaz.

 

Apparently you've never watched a cricket match.

Actually there's quite a bit about the game that is quite athletic but the game has become rather mired in all of its technicalities. There are some amazing feats of athleticism that occur during any of these games, though it's hardly a constant motion game like hockey, for instance.

That aside, I'm probably one of the few Yanks who isn't that big of a football fan. Oh, the big games like the SB or whenever my alma mater is playing will hold my attention, but I'm not just not a fanatic about the sport.