Sports

Super Bowl Sunday… it is the best day for a nap. Everyone is in one room, completely preoccupied, and I can lounge unbothered anywhere I want (as long as I’m not the kitchen or living room). Despite my always desperate need to catch up on sleep, I’m too much of a social creature to nap when there is a crowd in another room. So, I’ll be crammed on the couch with my roommate’s family of football fanatics, loved as if I actually cared who the Mannings are. Maybe I can pretend to be interested and feel like a normal native of New Orleans for once. I could get all excited when a player breaks away, dashing towards the touchdown line thing. Last time I was in this house and I cheered for football, I was loudly rooting for the wrong team… This game, I know which team is which (I think). Since a friend of mine has money on the line, the Giants are who I will yelp for when I periodically glance up from my computer.

See, my family has always been pretty much nonchalant about this weekend. They always will be. It’s just regular Sunday. The only occasional screech that comes from the living room is my little sister harassing my little brother and vice versa. However, I am in the midst of a family that breathes football, (Saints fans since they too hail from New Orleans). Some of them practically bleed black and gold. I bleed red like most people, but it helps that my dad is from Michigan. You just wait till the Stanley Cup Playoffs begin… that’s like a whole week of Super Bowl Sunday excitement in my house. Red Wings is the team that will get me screaming at the television. Hockey. There is a game worth leaping off the couch for. But, I think I’ll wait till next week to faun over my favorite sport.

Like everyone, I am looking forward to Super Bowl commercials. In particular, Budweiser’s because they have been my favorites every year. *rant* I think it’s a really lame for Miller to make those commercials about the Budweiser Dalmatian switching from Bud to Miller. I mean, come on! Is Miller that starved for decent advertising? It seems that they can’t come up with their own clever commercials unless they defile Bud’s. Example: Budweiser was advertising that they were the “King of beer” to which Miller eventually responds “America is a democracy - vote for Miller to be the… president of beer”? Wow Miller, create your own ads and quit leeching off of a rival company. *end rant* I actually loathe the taste and smell of beer so I have absolutely no devotion to Budweiser (with the exception of their beautiful Clydesdales). I just think Miller needs to be socked for the lame blows Budweiser.