It's that time of year again... Super Bowl.
Oh, man, and is it ever gonna be a doozie! To tell the truth, I don't really follow football until I know who's winning and may go to the big game. I happen to live in a city who's got the fever... "Bear" fever that is. That's right, for those of you who don't know (or care) the Chicago Bears are in. And boy, I can't wait 'til Sunday! Mostly because of all the damn media coverage will be over! I mean EVERY DAY, there is an onslaught of coverage of NOTHING! If one of the Chicago Bears' piss comes out clear, I have to hear about it--in the morning when I wake 'til the late in the evening. It's ridiculous. I even heard someone on the morning show today say they were getting a bit tired of it. I'm thinking plenty tired is more like it. Dear God... Imagine what it will be like if they WIN. Sweet Jeebus, forget about trying to go to work on Monday. I know people who already have taken that day off. I heard one business owner gave his employees the day off on Monday so they could come back "refreshed and ready to serve customers". I wish I had that privilege for Martin Luther King Day.
"Sorry. I got really hammered celebrating Dr. King's Birthday. I won't be coming in on Monday." Yeah, right.
I know many Chicagoans are really excited about it because they haven't been to a Bowl game in 21 years, but COME ON... it's just not that serious.
I do have a bit of a bias, being originally form Detroit, the Lions have never been to a Super Bowl. So I keep praying for that shining day when they won't out-and-out suck.
I, of course, will watch the game mostly for the ads. Being a girl and a design-oriented person, I tend to lean closer to the commercialism side of the Super Bowl. One of my coworkers says the season really ended the last game of the Playoffs, so the Super Bowl is nothing but a big commercial. Bring it on, I say. They just better be good.
You have no idea how nuts this city is over the Bears. There is Bears paraphernalia everywhere. I've included some pictures also. You can see how crazy Chicago has gone with this stuff. It's amazing how the city has turned into one big idiot.
(by the way *cough*, "go Bears")
You can also read this hilarious article about the 'Monsters of the Midway' in the Onion. There always making fun of people, like me... I love 'em!
See you after the game.
