So as y’all know, the Seahawks won the Super Bowl! And while I’m not a football person, Dara and Paul DO enjoy watching the Hawks. And all three of us wanted to check out the festivities the city had this past Wednesday, throwing a huge parade in honor of the team. My workplace even gave us sanction to be out of the office to be on hand, so we figured, what the hey! Historic street party? SIGN US UP.
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So yeah, I am entirely clueless about football. But Dara and Paul like it, and they do watch the Hawks, so we did indeed watch the Super Bowl today. And we had our friends Kathryn and Erik over, with their kids, to watch with us. While the kids (ages 7 and 3) gave exactly zero damns about the game, they were VERY eager to join in on the Sportsball cheer with us every time the Hawks scored. Which goes like this: “OUR TEAM DID THE POINTS! OUR TEAM DID THE POINTS! OUR TEAM DID THE POINTS! GOOOOOOO SPORTSBALL!”
And taking under consideration that I am indeed football-clueless, I’m pretty sure 43-8 is good. ;D In fact, the reaction of the room at large was “Wait? What? We actually won the Super Bowl? That’s good, right?” And, “wait there’s a trophy ceremony after this thing? We had no idea! How will we know when to turn off the TV? Usually we’ve turned off the TV in disgust by now!”
I hear that the Denver coach has been quoted as saying “we ran into a buzzsaw”. To which I have to go “aww”. I want to give the poor guy a hug. And possibly a beer.
Me, not being an actual football fan, mostly I’m just pleased that the city gets to have this to cheer about for the next several days. I just hope all the actual Hawks fans don’t destroy downtown tonight. I gotta commute through there in the morning!
And on Wednesday there’s going to be a parade to welcome the Hawks home. I suspect a lot of the city’s population will be taking suspiciously long lunches on Wednesday. And I daresay there will be a morale event at work about this!
Anyway: GO SPORTSBALL! For those of you who actually do regularly follow the Hawks, congrats to you all! To those of you who follow the Broncos, commiserations!
We were mostly pleasantly surprised by the commercials. The racism and sexism quotient wasn’t completely down this year, but it was surprisingly low. Favorite commercial amongst those watching was definitely the Radio Shack commercial. And my two personal followups for favorite were the Budweiser commercial with the puppy and the Clydesdales, and the Highlander one with the Muppets, and the British Villains commercial with Tom Hiddleston. Because all things are made better by puppies, Muppets, and Tom Hiddleston.
Honorable grudging mention also has to go to Axe for a surprisingly non-gross commercial about kissing for peace. And to GoDaddy for the commercial about the spray tan salon. Yes, I know, Internets, I’m shocked too!
Honorable actual mention to Coca-cola for the commercial about America being sung in different languages. That was really nice.
Also, here are my favorite bits of reaction from Twitter, as well:
I don't know anything about American Football. So question. Are the dudes in the orange allowed to score points or no?
— O D E T T E (@ODeadInside) February 3, 2014
Denver, be honest: did one of your players refuse to aid an old woman who turned out to be a sorceress in disguise?
— Theresa Couchman (@theresa_lauren) February 3, 2014
PEOPLE ARE RUNNING THROUGH THE STREETS OF SEATTLE RELEASING SOFTWARE PATCHES ON EACH OTHER'S COMPUTERS THIS IS CRAZY
— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) February 3, 2014
I'M ON THE STREETS OF SEATTLE AND THINK I JUST SAW TWO DUDES THROW THEIR ZUNES THROUGH A WINDOW
— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) February 3, 2014
SEATTLE'S GOING NUTS RIGHT NOW. COFFEE & FLANNEL EVERYWHERE. FIXIE BIKES. POLITE SMILING. EVERYONE’S STARTING A BAND TOGETHER. THIS IS CHAOS
— Rob (@demonbaby) February 3, 2014
And here is some local coverage: