{"id":489,"date":"2008-02-04T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/02\/super-bowl.html"},"modified":"2008-02-04T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T16:15:00","slug":"super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/02\/super-bowl.html","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not generally a big Super Bowl watcher.<\/span> There have been a couple games over the past few years that I didn’t watch at all. Two years ago, my wife and I were in in Las Vegas on Super Bowl weekend and we watched the game while making our way down the strip. So I saw various parts of the game on big screen TVs in the sports-betting corners of about six casinos. Kind of a fun way to do it, if you don’t have any money on the line. And if you don’t mind the smoke. Or the incessant ching-ching-ching-beep-boop<\/span> of slot machines.<\/p>\n

But this year I watched the entire game with friends while our kids played in a different room. And it was pretty nice. I actually got to, you know, watch<\/span>. The game. And see the commercials. (A pretty uninspired crop this year. I thought the Pepsi\/Justin Timberlake one was clever<\/a>, despite the lowbrow JT-gets-hit-in-the-crotch comedy. (JT called it at the beginning: “It’s childish and immature.”) The Will Ferrell\/Jackie Moon one<\/a> made me laugh, too, mainly because it was, well, Will Ferrell in an old-school basketball uni talking about “delicious alcohol.” Best one of the night was, by far, the balloon one for Coke<\/a>. By the way, Slate agrees<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

It was a good game…to make an ridiculous understatement. Probably one of the best ever. Other than that, if you’re just aching to know my additional thoughts on something related to the game — especially regarding the mind-boggling catch made by David Tyree that set up the Giants’ go-ahead touchdown — you can read those thoughts here<\/a>. Thanks to Bryan Allain at Prayers for Blowouts<\/a> for letting me guest-blog about sports, which I don’t do very often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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