Well, as many of you know, yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday. For football fans across the nation, this is the holiest day on the calendar. Parties stocked with soda, pizza, wings, salsa, and other foodstuffs strategically places around the TV so no one misses the action, not just of the game, but of the famous Super Bowl commercials as well. If you went to the bathroom and missed the Doritos Time Machine commercial, well, sorry about your luck.
Though my mom loves football and my boyfriend is an ex football player, I hate the sport. I think it's needlessly dangerous with more and more NFL players and former players coming out with reports of brain damage from concussions. I also find it impossible to understand the game. Garrett, my boyfriend, teases that I need Dr. Sheldon Cooper, main character of the hit TV show The Big Bang Theory, to explain the game to me. In my own defense, before he quit football this past year, I understood all of the downs and many of the flags and calls. I know what a two-point conversion is - sort of - and I certainly know touchdowns are worth 7 points. Much of my previous knowledge of the sport has been lost due to the fact that I no longer need to have interest in it since Garrett no longer plays. That being said, I have only been watching the Super Bowl since 2011 because the guy I was "dating" at the time is a huge fan of the Packers. So I watched. And when Garrett and I started dating later that year and watched our first Super Bowl together, we made it a tradition. So now, I am a religious watcher of the Super Bowl - possibly against my better judgment.
My family had our first "Super Bowl party" yesterday. Party used loosely as it was me, my mom, my two sisters, Garrett (whose practically family he's at my house so much), and my sister's friend, Mitchell. We did have food like it was a party though. Ha! My littlest sister made Broncos decorations and told everyone at least twice, "We're rooting for the Broncos because Peyton Manning is in the NFL and played for the Colts. He's....defense.....and a quarterback." Well....she almost got it right. We did root for the Broncos because we like Peyton Manning.
Now, I can stand watching football when the game is good, which is why I agree to watch the Super Bowl. You expect the game to be great when the best offense plays the best defense, but no. This was probably the worst game I have ever seen and my high school's team was 0 and 10 my freshman year. From the first snap, everyone knew the Broncos were going down.
At least the commercials were good, though I will say that I was disturbed by the Go Daddy commercial at the end of the Super Bowl. Just as I was about to cry from the adorable, heart melting Budweiser commercial with the puppy, I see half-naked, bulky, unattractive man. Eww. But many of the commercials had us all snorting with laughter, one of the best being that glorious Doritos Time Machine commercial. The Turbo Tax commercial was also a hilariously genius stroke of marketing brilliance. We also enjoyed the Pistachios commercials, particularly the second one, the McDonalds commercial, and the pre-game Super Bowl commercial. Great commercials this year. Much better than last year. I would also like to give an honorable mention to the Coke commercial. Beautiful show of what America is about with America the Beautiful in different languages. I loved it.
Finally, I would like to say Bruno Mars rocks. He was fantastic. The show, the camera angles, the tribute to the troops, AND he played my jam, Runaway Baby! Fantastic halftime show after years of what I think were disappointments.
I hope you all had your own fun Super Bowl parties with good food that would put all of your New Years Resolutions to shame. I hope spending time with your friends and families made up for the terrible game. I hope you laughed until you cried until you laughed at some of those commercials. And I dearly hope you didn't go to the bathroom during the Doritos Time Machine commercial.
Thanks for reading! Happy Monday!
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