The Good, The Bad and The Misunderstood

I am not a football fan. I'm actually not really a sports fan. There isn't any particular team I get excited about on an annual basis. I can feign interest if I'm invited to attend a live sports event, but that's just being polite.

Last night, after my Wonderful Husband spent the entire weekend installing hardwood floors in our living room, he took a much-deserved break to watch the Super Bowl. I sat next to him, flipping through back issues of People magazine, only stopping to look up when the commercials came on. Following are my thoughts...

1. I don't understand why it takes 4 hours to introduce a football game. Sure it's the biggest game of the year, but did the pre-game show have to start at 2 p.m.?

2. Jordin Sparks did a lovely job with the national anthem. And the fact that she's the daughter of an NFL player was a nice touch.

3. The whole reciting of the Declaration of Independence by important people in football was confusing to me. Sure, football is a great american past time, but watching these people try to articulate historic statements of freedom just seemed a little off.

4. The little guy dressed up as a transformer who kept jumping up and down when they went to commercial was silly. I later figured out he was promoting the Terminator TV show when he was repeatedly clobbered by a cyborg, but it got old. Fast.

5. The outfits. Particularly the Giants. The white tops with red stripes and grey pants with blue and red stripes and blue helmets didn't work for me at all. Couldn't they do better? Someone needs to seriously consider a uniform (and logo, for that matter) redesign.

6. The Patriots Offensive Line. One. Huge. Disappointment. Nuff said.

7. My favorite commercial of the night was the FedEx Pigeons commercial. Hilarious.

8. I also enjoyed the beer commercial about the wine and cheese party. "Gotta make a cheese run!" That was some good marketing.


9. The halftime show - well done Tom Petty. He sang well, he sang the songs we wanted to hear and there was no risk of him being inappropriate with his clothing on TV.

10. The anti-climactic, "let's do this again" hussle out to the center of the field after everyone had to clear the field with one second left to have one more play. Why? Was that really necessary? Couldn't the higher ups at the NFL just have let that one second go and allowed the celebrating to ensue? Guess not.