PennyDaisy

Well, the Super Bowl is over and (almost) gone.  I heard that the last party/thing is tonight.  How weird to have the Super Bowl in your hometown, and just watch it on TV like every other year.  I kept saying, “Guys, this is thirty miles away from here!”  When the helicopters did the fly-by after the National Anthem (which, by the way, was better than I expected), one of the guys said, “You know in a few minutes we can go outside and see them fly in to land (at Ellington).” 

It would have been fun to go to the game, except that no one can hear me yell at a stadium.  It’s like being a little fish in a big pond.  I want to be heard!  Besides, they didn’t really open up that many seats to the public, and I hate the anxiety of trying to get tickets to something.  I’ll just wait till I’m rich and/or famous with connections in every city.  *grin*  I was in Galveston with my best friend Friday night, and one of the shop owners on the Strand told us about a big party they were doing somewhere down the street.  They were bringing people in by the bus-load.  Security was already staking out the area as we walked back to our car.  I kinda wish we could have hung around.

It was a great game, as football goes.  Carolina didn’t get their heads in the game until late in the second quarter.  But that 85-yard pass was beautiful.  Great call, perfect execution.  If only they’d played like that for the entire game…

I didn’t really care who won.  I joked that since the Patriots’ quarterback is single, I’d have to root for them, but he’s already got a Super Bowl ring.  Delhome doesn’t, and, honestly, I think he’s the better quarterback.  If the Panthers had played better over all (and earlier on), I think they’d have gotten it.  I also can’t believe Brady got the MVP.  One stinkin’ touchdown pass!  And it was the kicker who won the game for them (after missing everything else)!  But he did throw for 350-something yards.  I guess that’s impressive.

Okay, that’s my vent on the game.  Oh, one more thing…where did they get those refs???  Somebody needed to show the sideline ump a replay of that touchdown he called out-of-bounds.  That was totally rotten.  But at least they made bad calls for both sides.  Still, that’s the wrong game to make mistakes on–this time everybody’s watching.

Oh, and I hope all of the guys I know were protected from watching the half-time show.  I read that the NFL will probably never ask MTV to do the show again.  Good riddance.

A few advantages to having the Super Bowl come to town…the city works real hard on some of our road repairs.