Sports Spencer on February 4, 2008 06:02 am
(Not So) Super Bowl XLII
So, last night was the Super Bowl… la di da. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to pay attention as much as I would have liked as Connor is really keeping us on our toes now with all of his crawling and pulling himself up on things. Even more unfortunate is that I don’t seem to have missed anything. From what I saw, outside of the 4th quarter the game was boring and none of the commercials were all that great.
First, the game. I was routing for the Patriots; partly because I do like them, but mostly because I think the 1972 Dolphins are insufferable and I’m sick of hearing how they are the only perfect team and all of their pomp and circumstance around that. I hope the Giants enjoy their cases of champagne that the Fish will send them. I am, however, happy for Eli Manning. I used to not think much of him as he seemed in his past to not work very hard. This year, it was evident that he worked much harder on becoming a good quarterback and while he still has room for improvement, I was impressed with him the 2nd half of the season. That pass in the fourth quarter to put them ahead for good after a scramble was Elway-esque and made me happy for him.
Now the commercials were just as pedestrian as the game itself. I only have a few to judge from but in my opinion the first Diet Pepsi Max commercial was the best of the game. Taking it’s play from a classic 90’s SNL running skit (Night at the Roxbury) was pretty clever and the cameo by Chris Kattan at the end really added to the whole thing. Other than that, nothing really grabbed my attention enough away from everything else going on.
Overall, I would rate the Super Bowl experience this year a D+. Nothing worse than a D+. How do you dress it up? “It wasn’t a D, it was a D+!” If there are any commercials that you liked that I should check out, please let me know. I know you can see all of the commercials on MySpace and I may check them out with recommendations.
on February 5, 2008 at 1:18 am 1. danielle said …
I agree whole heartedly with your oppinion of the SuperBowl! I had to work so I also missed a lot of the game/commercials.
I am also a Patriots fan (this I am finding out is a dangerous thing to admit if you are living outside of NE) and I am very sad that they did not win-they deserved 19-0, but it doesn’t matter how you played all year it only takes one game, one mistake or one hail mary pass by Eli Manning to ruin it! I think the Giants did all the right things and the Pats had an off night…but I will still route for them next year, I can’t help but still think of them as the underdogs I remember as a kid/teen!!
commercials to check out: Bud fire breathing one–funny, Pixar Wal-E–cute and endearing, Plantars ugly woman wearing “Plantar” perfume–pollitically incorrect yet entertaining (breifly). I agree about the Pepsi max one that was pretty funny!
I like the blog! 🙂 Now you just have to set the woman of the house up w/one!!
on February 5, 2008 at 7:47 pm 2. Spencer said …
That’s the next major step. An entire family news and information site, inspired by theCarbonneaus.com but hopefully different in some ways. 🙂
on February 7, 2008 at 7:50 am 3. B.J. Stanton said …
I can’t get past Belichick’s early departure from the field. And don’t get me started about his video spy tactics. Who knows what other intel-gathering techniques have not yet come to light.