Having a Ball

Sweet Super Bowl Sunday!

SUPER BOWL LXIV

We're not football fans. We're not Colts or Saints fans. We're not even fans of beer or Doritos.

But we LOVE the Super Bowl...and all the silly ads and snicky-snacky treats that come with it.

It's like a friend on Facebook said, "It's a cultural event -- an American iconic moment -- etc., etc. Heck, I don't like football and even I watch it and graze accordingly!"

'Zactly.

So feast we did. And enjoy we did. We even understood and followed the game.





The silly ads....

Hmm...

Some were not so good. We had to mute many of them. And/or switch the channel.

So much for a "family time."

Still, another "fun time was had by all." *wink-grin*

One of my favorite-most Super Bowl ads:

Bowled Over with Superness

Take two parents completely NOT interested in football...add in their two kids totally turned on to watching the Super Bowl and a singing 4-month-old baby.

What do you get?

Super Bowl Sunday at the Foote house.

Okay. Okay. To say that Stuart and I were wholly uninterested in the Super Bowl is a bit of a stretch. We do enjoy the ads...usually.

Well, that was last year.

What a game! At some points you weren't sure which team to cheer for. Both teams played extremely well.

I grew up in a Steelers household. My parents -- for reasons unknown to me -- were HUGE Steelers fans. You knew when the Steelers played on TV because the volume of cheering (and other vocalizations) went up dramatically.

I didn't pay much heed to the game though. It was too slow for me. The guys huddled too much. The play stopped so often that you could get snacks and use the bathroom and still get back in time to see the end of another beer commercial. Like a soap opera, you could miss some of the action and still keep up with it all. (I'm more of a real football fan. You get lots of action in soccer. And they never huddle or stop to measure stuff.)

But not yesterday.

The game started out normal enough. 1st down, 10 yards. 2nd down, 6 yards....and so on.

The Steelers scored. The Cardinals scored. The teams seemed very evenly matched.

The Cardinals were poised on the edge of their endzone, ready to score another big one...and a player from the Steelers intercepted the ball and ran 100 yards to score for his team.

I stopped breathing during the play. It seemed incredible. It seemed impossible. And, yet, it was happening. Right in front of our eyes.

Our kids were ecstatic. Their first real experience watching the Super Bowl was certainly turning out to be a treat for them.

The ads were so-so...but the football action was fantastic. It was anyone's game. And, even better, the kids were rooting for the Steelers and they won...in the last minute of the game.

Does it get any better than that?

Friday Funnies

Some Friday funnies in honor of Edward's intense love of all things "football."

Enjoy some silliness!