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`This past weekend was Super Bowl XLIV. It was full of confetti, Betty White, cut-off jean shorts, and I think a football game too. The game was fantastic, especially when the Toyota Camry, with the stuck throttle, crashed through the grandstands and propelled itself through the entire CBS sideline reporting staff.
I’m kidding, of course. It was a Prius.
The pre-game scene outside the stadium was celebratory to say the least. It was in the mid-50s, semi-sunny, and the fans were “excited.” Now I am using “excited” to mean “have been fairly intoxicated since about noon.”
Colts and Saints fans alike were mulling around the crowd, foam fingers in hand, and beers attached to every type of clothing accessory imaginable. “Who Dat” could be heard, I’m sure, every few milliseconds.
I believe that the Saints fans use this “Who Dat” system as a type of sonar which helps Saints fans locate
each other by sound when they are too “excited” to see.
Colts fans, on the other hand, decided to go with a more visual approach by painting their faces blue like a group of smurfs who had developed heavy drinking problems and acquired a taste for slightly charred tail-gate burgers.
The halftime show was really well done. They assembled an elaborate make-shift stage, they turned out the lights, darkness followed.
And then, in one of the evening’s most dramatic moments, the spotlights came on to reveal, in the middle of a swirling cloud of smoke…Janet Jackson’s, star toting, nipple.
Woah,woah,woah. Hold the fun bus. Nope, sorry, that was Pete Townshend, but from a distance, a surprisingly close distance, it was easy to mistake one for the other. Townshend, the guitarist for the legendary rock band The Who, performed a medley of its greatest hits, and have been rockin’ the world since they first came out during the time when England was still ruled by Rome. The crowd went crazy, especially when Roger Daltrey, in the climactic finale of “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” broke his hip and tried to throw out butterscotch hard candies to his fans.
Also there was a football game, I am pretty sure, which I thought was a clever, innovative and, to be honest, totally unexpected way to cap off Super Bowl week. In conclusion, I think that next year the NFL should bring back all the festivities of this Super Bowl and possibly the game itself, if there is enough money.