By the Numbers: Cold Super Sunday Edition
5,000 - Approximate number of calories I consumed on Super Sunday.
3 - Number of hours of pregame coverage I watched. I did have to take a 30 minute break in order to watch Bob the Builder, because my boy doesn't yet have his priorities straight.
7.5 - Approximate total number of "on the couch" hours spent on Super Sunday.
2007 - The year my calendar says it is.
1987 - The year I thought it was when I saw Prince performing at halftime. Thanks again, Janet and Justin, for ruining halftime forever.
2000 - The last year where the team I wanted to win the Super Bowl actually won the Super Bowl.
5 - Degrees Fahrenheit (-15 C) it was in Omarville when the Super Bowl finished.
3 - Degrees Fahrenheit (-16 C) it was when I took the garbage out this morning. (The weather channel was wrong about one thing, though. They said it "feels like -16," (-26 C) but in fact, it felt like PAIN.)
Comments
elasticwaistbandlady said:
My 9 year old son thought the Superbowl was a bowling event. Seriously. That's because my Papi doesn't have any interest in the Superbowl unless Miami and Dallas are there, and that ain't gonna happen for awhile.
I'm from a town 3 hours outside of Chicago in Indiana. I didn't really care who won because both teams represent hometown turf for me.
jazz said:
three of us ordered a HUGE plate of nachos, a plate of sliders, fries, mozzerella sticks and fried calamari.
ugh. still feeling sick.
cadiz12 said:
thank you, omar, for rooting for chicago. i think we were a serious minority this year.
i spent the superbowl in front of the television knitting a sock and getting ever more depressed. prince was a little bit scary.
Sarah said:
Go Colts and all 54 degrees of my day!
Becky said:
well, since i care not about the nfl, i am usually more of a commercial-watcher when the big game is on. but i went to high school with a couple of the guys who play for the colts, so that's the only reason i rooted for them. one of them is really (REALLY) good, but the other is a doof, so i'm not gonna say who they are, because it would sound like i was name-dropping if i singled out the first one, and it would lower my cool-quotient if i named the second.
prince is lame. his androgeny makes me uncomfortable.
haboob, haboob, ha-janetjackson's-boob.
Rhonda said:
So what year did you think it was when Billy Joel sang the national anthem?
And don't blame Justin, he didn't know anything about it! ;)
P.S. I was at that Super Bowl...sitting next to Carl Banks. It rocked!
Rhonda said:
P.P.S. I was rooting for Chicago too. Peyton is a big baby...I took great joy when my crappy ass Texans beat the Colts in December. That had to be shameful.
Radioactive Jam said:
3 degrees above zero... Why does that ring a bell in my mind? Wait, I know:
BS
MS
PhD
0
(wait for it...)
seventeen syllables said:
1 = The number of Superbowls the Bears have won.
42 = The number of Superbowls Bears fans in "Chicagoland" (part of Indiana) act like the Bears have won.
As a Hoosier I rooted for the Colts (WOO HOO); it's my duty to my state. Those communists over in Chicagoland are practically in Illinois with their Bears and their central time zone and whatnot.
cadiz12 said:
converting those in other states? wow, who knew we had such power.
i have to agree, seventeen, we do act as though the '85 bears won 42 superbowls, but that's just how awesome they were. this year's team was decent and did pretty well for themselves, but nobody could possibly live up to that earlier hype.
wendela said:
Well, at least 3 of us were for Chicago! I was outnumbered here at home, that's for sure.
Prince: That guitar's gotta go. Ahem.
I first saw Prince open for The Stones around '81 and he was booed off the stage.
By the way, with temps like that in Omarland, I'd think the vole is no more.
Mr. 5000 said:
I was rooting for a good game, that’s all. It was good (in a sloppy bad kinda way) for the first half, but then things got ugly. I could go on quite an angry rant about how annoyed I was with some Chicago fans for bashing Rex (even if your QB isn’t the greatest, when you go 13-3 and make it to the Super Bowl, you just shut your mouth and enjoy it. Last time I checked, the best way to handle an inconsistent QB is not to constantly tell him how bad he is) (ok, I’ll cut that rant off before I really get going) but instead, I’ll use this time to make others angry and rub in the fact that I watch part of the game outside on my friends deck because it was sunny and in the low 70’s on Super Sunday here in SoCal. It wasn’t all fun and games though, we did have to put on sun block to make sure nobody got burned. Safety first kids… safety first.