If you live in North America, chances are you’re aware that yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday (also referred to as Super Sunday). Heck, even if you DON’T live in North America, you might have heard about it. Well, I’m not sure about how SUPER it was, but I’ll concede that it was a better than usual Sunday.
It’s become a tradition for me and my friends Fab and Frank to get together to watch the Super Bowl. None of us are real football fans. Oddly enough, I’m the one who actually follows the sport throughout the season. I even check in on games from time to time. I do so because I have a friend at work who IS a football fan and it gives us something to talk about on our breaks on Monday.
But the Super Bowl is more than just watching football. It’s an excuse to get together with friends, eat junk food and just have a good time. This was accomplished last night.
For the first time, we had NEW people join us. People who knew next to nothing about football. I don’t think we converted them to football fan status, but they left knowing more about football than they did going in.
I didn’t have a horse in the race. My team (the Minnesota Vikings) were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. I nominally like the Baltimore Ravens (I like the name) but I also like the 49ers quarterback. I outwardly took for the 49ers, although inside I just felt like it was going to go to the Ravens (easy to say that in hindsight I know). Everybody else I was with seemed to get behind the 49ers and that only made me want to see the Ravens win, because sometimes it’s fun to go against the crowd (even if just inwardly).
I didn’t care for the Halftime Show. Beyoncé does nothing for me. To me, she has no synergy with the product of football and therefore has no business being there in the first place, but that’s MY opinion. I read an article on CBC News which stated the Halftime Show was one of the better ones in recent years, so what do I know?
The saddest part about watching the Super Bowl in Canada is that we don’t get to see all the nifty commercials. CRTC regulations make it so that an American signal must be pre-empted by the Canadian signal airing the same program at the same time. So even though we were tuned into CBS, we got CTV’s signal and it appears that Canadian advertisers don’t want to try to do anything special. So unless a company that was advertising on CBS also happened to pay for air time on CTV (a few did), we didn’t get to see the good stuff. At least we can look the best ones up on the internet.
Earlier in the day, I drew a Funnies strip and finished the last of my Final Fantasy IX mash-ups, so my day was productive. I also played the new PS3 game I bought, Ni No Kuni, which I’m enjoying (more on that another time perhaps). All this together is what leads me to reiterate that it was An Above Average Sunday.
Have a good week y’all!
Oh yeah! Before I forget, I’ve expanded my release schedule for the site to add content on weekends as well as weekdays. On Saturday you can expect SOMETHING I’ve written, either a new story or (more likely) a new entry from Ardebast’s journal. On Sunday, it’s Mash-ups Revisited, uncoloured mash-ups that you can print out for the kids (or you) to colour (yesterday it was the Ani-vengers).