Super Bowl Fever

Ever since the NFC Championship Game, I have been unable to channel my attention to anything other than the Super Bowl for more than about 3 minutes at a time. I set a record this morning though, I managed to slog away at an appraisal for a whole 8 minutes before I got caught up in the firestorm that is the Finley tweet regarding the team photo scheduling in Dallas, which I proceeded to get sucked into for a good hour.

I think ESPN, Fox Sports, and the Press Gazette have done a pretty good job so far providing content every hour on the hour for a game that is still 9 days away so I think it’s up to me to provide some insight into the lighter side of Super Bowl coverage, in numerical order for your reading pleasure.

1.) I think it is fine when the local DJ’s superimpose Packer radio highlights onto existing songs but I am just not a real big fan of dedicated Packer novelty songs. To me, they are just an insult to Robert Brooks, who perfected the Packer novelty song in 1996, thus rendering all future Packer novelty songs obsolete. Why eat hamburger, when you can eat steak?



2.) I think the same could be said about Reggie’s Prayer, the 1996 (what a time to be alive!) hit film starring Reggie White, MC Hammer, and Mr. Miagi. Why does Hollywood continue to make movies when they already have this:


As scary as this sounds,this is only the SECOND greatest acting performance in Brett Favre's film career.

3.) I just posted this clip on my Facebook profile but I think it is worth repeating. Look closely for the smoke bomb used to make the scene look more like 14th century England and less like a shitty park in some suburb in America.

4.) I’ve made my first step towards a chronic gambling addiction by signing up with one of those overseas betting web sites. I did for the sole purpose of making a proposition bet that B.J. Raji will score in some capacity during the Super Bowl. Maybe another pick-6, maybe he’ll get a TD as a fullback, hell maybe they’ll throw him in as a kicker, I don’t know, but the fact that he will score is a LOCK, a LOCK I tell ya.

5.) Let’s hope Mike McCarthy doesn’t adopt a Homer Simpson style of playbook strategy and roster management. If I see Jordy Nelson run a play where he spins around in a circle and falls to the ground, I’m going to punch someone in the face.