mimicry. why the patriot players bothered to mock TO's flapping wings touchdown celebration is beyond me. why admit that the best celebration you can come up with is to make fun of a lesser team's? why not come up with your own patriot themed touchdown celebration? it just looks stupid for you to be doing the wing flap without wings on your helmet. nobody believes you're a bird without the wings, we're not stupid you know.



gene and galvez came up with a drummer boy, military salute, rifle shot, fife player celebration. genius. if only g&g were the ones on national tv scoring the touchdowns. but then again, if they were the ones in charge of scoring the touchdowns, the patriots might not have won. but the potential celebrations would have been so much better. tough tradeoff.



do super bowl "parties" always seem like a bit of a letdown? i mean, football as a television event is an acquired taste. there are too many pauses punctuated by only a few seconds of (in)action. it's easy to lose your concentration and do something else while a game is going on. for a spectacle game like the super bowl, i'd imagine that casual fans are sort of wondering what all the hype is about. the commercials are getting worse and worse, the halftime show is an entertainment farce, there's really nothing exciting about the super bowl aside from the game itself. which could be quite boring for the non-football initiated.



and so, if i get to choose where i watch a super bowl, i always want it to be with diehard football fans. sure, maybe a few playmates here or there, a few bowls of chili and dip would be nice. but in lieu of all that, nothing beats watching a game with people who can appreciate football humor. or people who can appreciate the weird fashion sense exhibited by cris collinsworth. or people who even know who cris collinsworth is.



for the casual fan, the best way to make the super bowl exciting is to have some money on the line. bet the spread, bet parlays, bet scoring boxes, bet on weirdest commercial, whatever -- just bet on something. once you have something to cheer for, the game gets that much more intense. otherwise it pretty much just comes down to "do i want to cheer along with everyone else or root for the other team?" as a means of creating artificial interest. or i guess, there's always napping. which admittedly, i've done during a few super bowls. football games are long okay? even for the super fan.



pretty much, if you put money on anything, it can be exciting. there's a life lesson to be learned here.