SuperBowl Round-Up

I multi-tasked my way through the SuperBowl, watching it in spurts, napping early through the first quarter, showering, rediscovering the Beach Boys and minimizing the main event to my small TV during Big Love.

Things that stood out to me:

1. I was in no way pumped up for this game. Much like last season, it was just an event in which I had passing interest but no real rooting stake. This is probably why I stayed home, didn't drink, and dozed off during the first 10 minutes of the game.

2. Between nods, I caught some of the early ads. Guess what? GI JOE the movie is going to SUCK. Hard. When you really think about it, there's a ton of potential in the JOE franchise to make a kick-ass movie. Look at Transformers. You know, The Moviegoer has a GI Joe trilogy treatment that I'd love to see made...

3. Star Trek, however, will not suck. I'm not a Trekkie (er?), but I've seen most of the films (at least the original cast) and enjoyed them for the most part. This throw back to the origin is going to be tuff.

4. That late interception was HUGE. I don't think it was an exaggeration when Al called it one of the most important plays in SuperBowl history. The Cards were threatening late, looking to exploit a Steelers mistake, and then James Harrison returned an INT a billion yards for a score.

5. We all got to see the longest play in SB history. Suck it, Warner.

6. The Boss rocks - nuff said.

7. The Career Builder Ad was by far my favorite. That poor, intellectual Koala...

8. Don't eat at Denny's on the free food day. Hordes of poor people - gross.

9. Why would the horse still have a Scottish accent if he's third generation American? That's ridiculous. C'mon Budweiser, you're better than that.

10. Judging by the secondary play here in the fourth quarter, I'd say that all the DB's took the over.

11. Big Love was intense, as well. While the game raged on the little TV, an awesome episode of Mormon moral ambiguity unfolded, including:

1. Teenage pregnancy

2. attempted murder (of the marital variety)

3. Government infiltration

4. attempted suicide

5. Gratuitous use of Alphaville's Forever Young; Which, oddly enough, is used
in Napoleon Dynamite, which co-starred Tina Majorino, who also stars in Big
Love. I wonder if it's in her contract.

11.a The Big Love theme song encouraged me to delve into the Beach Boys' entire discography. I fattened out Jinx's Rhapsody library with all manner of Beach Boys tunes.

Cabin Essence is a trippy fucking song.

12. Santonio Holmes: in. Touchdown. Ball game.

13. I skipped a mention of the Cheetos/pigeon commercial. I loved it - this new dirty, old-man Chester is kind of funny. He's like a trickster character from an absurdist fantasy novel.

14. Kurt Warner got showered and changed into a suit very quickly. Why the rush? You're the QB of what was called the worst post-season team ever and you took it to the last 6 seconds. Plus, you might not be back next year. Drink it in, man.

Also, your wife's kinds ugly, so the more time in the locker room, the less time you have to spend with...

15. Congratulations to the Steelers. Omar Epps...err, I mean, Mike Tomlin has done a great job. Cheers.

16. This episode of The Office is going to be AWESOME!

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UPDATES

1. I was right: That episode of The Office was, in fact, awesome.

2. For a much more insightful, football-centric breakdown of last night's big game, check out what the man, the myth, the online dynasty commish, LTDx, had to say.