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February 07, 2005
Stupor Bowl Review
Watched most of the Super Bowl yesterday as I do every year. Once again, I amazed myself by caring even less who won this year than I did the year before. I had to ask Mike who was playing this year. All he said was that we hateses the Pats and that was all I needed to know.
It's not that I don't understand the game. I do. I even know what a blitz is. It's a slightly more refined version of what my cousins & I used to do when our moms made us let our crybaby sissy cousin play football with us. 'Kill the man with the ball' we called it.
Pro football isn't nearly as interesting.
But I like to watch the Super Bowl commercials. And since all the hootchie mamas were banned this year, the ad people actually had to be creative....a nice change. These were my favorites. I think we've all had jobs like that, haven't we?
Even the half-time show was reasonably good. I stopped watching that when it became littered with dances that, as Mike put it, would've cost you $30 in one dollar bills to watch just a few years ago. Didn't miss the absence of crotch grabbing either. I've never understood that one. Is it some kind of artistic statement, an attempt to reassure oneself that it's still there, or just the beginnings of an I-need-to-pee-pee dance?
Not that I don't understand crotch grabbing as a statement. I was sitting in the square by the Duomo in Florence in the summer of '93, people watching, when I noticed an elderly gentleman get into an argument with a middle-aged guy. I have no idea what the argument was about since I didn't speak Italian at the time, but it grew more & more heated. They kept getting louder & louder, and their hand gestures got more & more animated. Finally the elderly gentleman grabbed his crotch, turned his head & spat, yelled one more sentence and with a dismissive wave of his hand, turned and walked away.
That statement I understood perfectly.
Posted by Rita at February 7, 2005 08:08 AM