Legobowl created by my 12 year old.
I don’t normally watch football. I understand it, but I don’t normally watch it because it stops too much for me. The whistles, the flags, the commercials, commercials, commercialsss. I know the teams have to get back into formation and move from an offensive team to a defensive team and the kicker needs to come out and
…blah, blah, blah…
This all equals a game that ends up being entirely too long.
All of the above hold true for the Superbowl, but there are 8 additional things which make it special (and tolerable).
- the palpable excitement
- watching history in the making
- the football finger food
- feeling extra American
- the winner gets a cool trophy
- seeing grown men cry
- it’s the last game of the season
- leftovers!
For these reasons, I watch the Superbowl. Well… I’ll say that I have the game on the television in the background of whatever else is going on in my house.
This year?
This year, the Ravens were in the Superbowl and I am originally from Baltimore ~ so, I had the game on and I paid attention.
That’s right, I was a double threat this year.
So, what happened? A leisurely fun time watching the biggest game of the season with my home team on fire?
No!
Truth is, I was a stressed out mess from the time the lights went out in the beginning of the 3rd quarter (was anyone else flashing back to Katrina with me?) until the last 2 seconds of the game. Which in the real world, would have only been 30 minutes. In football time? It was at least double that.
Hence my problem with football.
In the end, the Ravens won and I ended up with a stomach ache.
But
I got to
- be excited
- watch history
- eat good food
- feel extra American
- watch the trophy be awarded
- see grown men cry
..and enjoy the leftovers ~ so it was all worth it.
Are you a regular season football watcher? Did you watch the Superbowl? If you are in another country ~ do you follow the Superbowl?
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Legobowl Action Shots:
We’re in NoVA, but originally from New England. Once the Redskins and the Patriots were out of the running, the Ravens became the default team to cheer for. (I rooted for the 49ers just because I figured *someone* in our house should go to bed happy with the result).
My husband and older son watched the game, but I am way to nervy for that. I floated in and out, and then spent the second half upstairs in my room, with my laptop, away from the madness.
That’s a good word for it, Rabia ~ madness!
No, I do NOT follow the superbowl! In fact, the only reason I knew it was on (and what in fact it is) is due to the mad facebooking of certain people… I was sufficiently intrigued to watch the beginning of a replay on TV here.
Hmmm. I don’t really get it. My impressions were mainly that the ball gets thrown and the guy catching the ball then prances around looking proud of himself for having caught it and the crowd cheers while the whole game stops and… nope, totally don’t get the game.
BUT, I do get the whole cultural significance you refer to, because we have a similar event here. It’s call the AFL (Australian Football League) Grand Final. The game is Australian Rules football, which is completely different, but the celebrations and sense of occasion sound similar. Even if I don’t watch I game of ‘footy’ all year (which I don’t) I’ll probably sit down with the family, eat meat pies with tomato sauce (an Aussie institution) and watch the AFL Grand Final. It’d be “un Australian” not to.
You have basically got the concept right ~ ball gets thrown, ball gets caught, player does funky dance or proud peacock walk, everyone cheers. ..and was that me crazy posting? Sorry about that ~ ha! I’m telling you, it completely grabbed me this year
Right, it kinda feels like if you don’t watch, you are betraying your country in a bizarre way ~ lol!
I love that your football is called footy ~ that just makes me smile
Is Australian football similar to British football/American soccer?
It always did make more sense to me for something called football to be played with the feet..