What's So Super About The Super Bowl?

I know I have touched on this before but its Super Bowl week so let’s talk about it some more. I am pretty sure every other story on the net and in the news will be about the Super Bowl this week, so what’s one more take on it.

The 45th Super Bowl is coming up in Dallas this week-end and here is my recollection of the past 44 that have taken place. Maybe two were really great games and another three or four were good. The rest have been mediocre at best, either one sided or just plain boring. Let’s face it; the biggest thing to happen in 44 years at the Super Bowl was Janet Jackson’s right tit.

Here is what it cost to take in the Super Bowl in person. The lowest priced ticket available on Stub Hub, an online ticket exchange service, on Sunday was $2,194 although you can soak up the local atmosphere watching on a big screen in the Party Plaza for $340. Parking is running as high as nine hundred dollars to fifty dollars. Well hell, I think I’ll take the whole neighborhood.

How about the TV commercial with the guys who have been to every Super Bowl? Especially the hump who says he has missed weddings, special occasions and kids being born. I know his family is proud of him.

While we are on this subject let’s talk about the World Series, an event that only features teams from the United States and Canada. At best you could call it the North American Championship, but World Series is a pretty big stretch. It’s not like nobody else plays baseball either, it is played all over the world. They just don’t have the supply of steroids like we do.

The closest to a World Series is the World Cup which has soccer teams competing from 32 countries around the world. The big problem with soccer is that we didn’t invent it.

The Miss America pageant has contestants from all 50 states, not just the Southwest or Northeast. Unlike the Miss Universe contest which only features entries from one planet. I’ll bet the ladies from Saturn are stunning and you know the women of Mercury are hot. I mean really hot.

The real Super Bowl of course is the WTBA Tenpin Bowling Championship. It’s held every two years and bowlers from all over the world compete. I think it is in Topeka this year at the Bowl-O-Roma. Of course it doesn’t have cheerleaders, TV or multi-million dollar commercials, thousands of sports pundits, analyst, commentators and fans and I will admit that picking up a seven ten split in the 8th frame just doesn’t have the same tension that third and long with a minute left in a tie game carries, but they have great shoes.

Here's today's good read is Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto. This is a pretty dark tale but very well written.


Stay tuned for future adventures.