The Deep End @ The Sounding Board

"Boy, I sure wish there was a football game tonight!" I said to my wife.
Looking confused she said, "But honey, the Super Bowl is today isn't it?" I
laughed and sat my wife down and started talking to her, like a grandfather
surrounded by the grandkids listening to war stories and how bad the Johnson
years were. I told her there was a time where 2 teams, one from the AFC and
the other from the NFC, played together for the championship of the NFL. For
a time it was called the Super Bowl. It was the main focal point for the day.
But not anymore.
I went on for about an hour or so, and before I realized it she was
sitting in a corner, all crawled up in a ball, a thumb in her mouth, and
whimpering like an abused puppy. So I figured I should wrap it up in about 5
minutes.
Seriously, has the Super Bowl just gone too far? Have commercials and
their money just took over this game? Other sports, like say the World Series,
just play ball. The same with NBA, NHL, Final Four, and even the dreaded
national championship of NCAA football. Why can't we just play the game and
see who wins? I don't want to see a 24-hour pre-game show which shows how
tough the streets were for the backup nose guard for the Rams when he was
growing up, or how the hot-dog vendor in the Super Dome prepares for the big
game. I don't want to see stupid Pepsi commercials with girls sucking
themselves into a bottle or the frogs in a Budweiser 60 second, 3.4 million-
dollar flick thinking they are funny (which they never have been and never
will be). And the worst is the 2 hour-teen star studded-pop music
extravaganza half-time show, sponsored by Doritos. I want to see the two
best teams at the end of the year play for the championship. That's it. Will
it ever be that way? Don't ever count on it. Why? Money! Pure and simple.
It's an event that the whole world shuts down to watch. With the exceptions
of pizza joints and convenience stores for the occasional beer run, everything
closes. Even other television networks schedule Alf reruns because they know
nobody is going to watch.
I think one of the main points is not having the event at a neutral site.
They should have it at the team with the best record�s home field. That way
they don't have time to schedule and plan three years in advance for all the
extra crap. One week apart from the conference championships, too, instead of
the two week gap that we have most years.
Anyway, this Super Bowl will not be a great one, so don't get your
hopes up Patriot fans. Get yourself prepared to be 0-3 in the big game, and pray it
won't be a replayed SBXX rout when someone named Refrigerator stomped your ass. Oh, you weren't supposed to be in that Super Bowl either. I think a Bears-Dolphins game would have been much better, but thanks anyhow. I would complain about the Pats winning the AFC Championship this year, otherwise known as the "coach�s challenge bowl," but I'm not because you shouldn't have even have been to that game!
Why couldn't it been the Raiders and the Steelers playing for the crown of the
conference? Wouldn't that be much better, like old times? Noooooo, couldn't
have that. So, have fun Boston Pilgrim fans or New England or whatever the hell
you are, have fun, because Warner and the Greatest Show on Turf boys will have
a field day with you. You fans drive me nuts! Makes me want to denounce my
Celtics. Yeah that's it! I'm going to root for a NBA team more close to
home, Go Cavs! .........................uh.............humm............OK
maybe not. Go Celts. And as for the Pats.... go to hell. It's called the Super
Dome. Bring your asbestos suit, because you'll need it.