Friday, January 30, 2009

Super Bowl XLIII Edition

This week end people here in the US are enthusiastic about the Super Bowl (American football). They call it the biggest day in sports, I don't know about that, but for sure it is a big event. It takes place on Sunday in Tampa, Florida. There are all kinds of tailgate parties with many celebrities who are rushing down there! This year the finalists are the teams from Arizona- the Cardinals and from Pittsburgh, Pa - the Steelers. Last year I was more involved thanks to New York - Giants, who actually won the championship! This year I don't care who's winning, everybody though is betting on Steelers, including Hussein. What I will watch is the half time show featuring Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, the commercials - it is a tradition that during the game to run nice, unique, funny and very expensive commercials (around $3 millions for 30 seconds) - and the festivities at the end of the game, including the famous Gatorade bath! Coni probably not even that , because on Saturday evening, he intends to go to a club in Queens with 3 other guys to play tennis, from 8pm to 1am, and by the time when he'll be back, around 3am, Australian Open will be starting. Because of time zone, here the hour is very odd +16 hour(with Romania there are +7). The match between Nadal and Federer will be a good one and it's worth the effort, though ! So, after such an eventful night he will be slipping all Sunday long.
Corina and Kevin are watching the game from their place. They are not going anywhere either - next day, on Monday morning they go back to work and for sure the game will run late. Besides they were partying on Saturday! So this Sunday everybody is lazy, in spite of the weather which will be nice for the first time this year .
PS - posted Feb 2 : Steelers won the Super Bowl and Rafa Nadal for whom I was rooting , won the Australian Open. Congratulations !
Bruce Springsteen was OK , I liked especially the end song "Glory Days"-brought back nice memories of my glory days!
The commercials were pretty lame - Snow Globe, a Doritos chips commercial was voted #1 - Corina liked it; I liked a more traditional one, Pepsi's Forever Young commercial featuring Bob Dylan.

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