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Super Bowl XLII

February 4, 2008 10:28 AM

s I've said, I'm new to the whole "caring about football" thing. Still, last night's game as awesome. Or, well, the fourth quarter was awesome. And, actually, the rest of the game was much more exciting than the score might suggest.

I was rooting for the Giants for a few reasons. First of all, I hate the Patriots. I hate the Patriots because the fucking media seems to be unable to stop themselves from felating Brady and Co. They are an amazing team, Brady is an amazing quarterback--even I can see that. But do we really need to mention it at every possible turn? It's unacceptable. Second, I love seeing cocky assholes fail at perfection. While I recognize that having an undefeated season is definitely something to be happy about, I found it extremely annoying that no one seemed to take any of the Patriots' opponents seriously and that everyone took it as a foregone conclusion that they'd go 19-0. Seeing them fail to do that put a smile on my face. Finally, I was rooting for the Giants because everyone seems to forget that this is the season where the Patriots were caught blatantly cheating. Everyone responds that "everyone does it." Well, that may or may not be true, but even if it is, the Patriots were caught. They were fucking caught doing something that is clearly against the rules. How anyone can take any of the Patriots' accomplishments this season seriously frankly baffles me. The entire season is tainted, as far as I'm concerned. And besides, who doesn't like rooting for an underdog? So I was glad to see the Giants win in such spectacular fashion.

Of course, there are always two other things to discuss after the Super Bowl: the commercials and the half-time show.

In this case, there were a lot of mediocre commercials, and a few standouts in either direction. I think the funniest one was the FedEx one involving the pigeons. I also really enjoyed most of the Bud Light ones, especially the one claiming that Bud Light gives you the ability to breathe fire. There were also some terrible ones, including the ones for CareerBuilder.com, which were just gross and disturbing. But the absolute worst one was the post-apocalyptic Under Armor one. That one was just overblown and stupid.

As for the half-time show, I'm torn as to whether I liked it more than last year's. While I greatly prefer Tom Petty's music to Prince's, Mr. Petty's performance was extremely boring. It was lethargic and lazy. There was absolute no energy. It sucked the life right out of the room I was watching from. It made everyone tired. That's not good. The songs themselves were superior, but mid-tempo ballads are hardly the thing you're in the mood for in the middle of an exciting football game. Still, Prince sucks really hard, so I'm going to say this one was better, but marginally.


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