matt

Watching the Super Bowl reminded me of the first time I ever watched the Super Bowl. My family really doesn't watch sports in general, let a lone football. My dad, coming from another country, never watched any football and my mother was brought up on baseball. So it was much to my surprise when one year when I was around 10 years old or so that our family was invited to a Super Bowl party thrown by one of my sister's friends family.....and we accepted. It was a real shock to me because I don't think I had ever seen a football game to that point. I was totally nervous that our family would stick out like sore thumbs because we'd act like neanderthals because we wouldn't know the difference between a touchdown and a patdown. Well, it turned out all we did at the party was socialize and knowledge of football was secondary.

The commercials this year I felt were quite dumb. The Budweiser ads are just getting old hat...we get it already, animals are funny but after years of the same thing, these animal ads are just dumb and usually end up with you saying "oh.....that's cute". It's time to come up with something else.....like, funny. Aside from the commercials, the game ended up actually being good. I started watching right at kick off and really wanted to go play a game or something, but I forced myself to watch. But by the 3rd quarter, the game was quite good and the ending was just unreal. I thought when Arizona went ahead in the 4th quarter it was all over but when Pittsburgh scored again I was totally blown away.

Aside from the Super Bowl, I spent my weekend with Marissa in the parks and seeing friends. We ate at Mama Melrose and Biergarten and both were quite tasty. We also did the new Kim Possible "thing" at Epcot, which was mildly entertaining. I think I need to do another quest or two before I render a final verdict.