It\u2019s Sunday morning, February 5, 2012. My husband and I turned on \u201cThe Road to the Super Bowl.\u201d It got me thinking about my road to the Super Bowl. We are not a sports family; although my husband gets together with friends to watch the Daytona 500. My daughter asked him if that\u2019s the Super Bowl of NASCAR. Interestingly, the Daytona 500 is the kick off of the season, where as the Super Bowl is the culmination of the season. Quite honestly, I don\u2019t really care about either of them. But I am fascinated by the fascination with football and specifically the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
We discussed having the TV on during the Super Bowl just for the commercial value. I\u2019m not embarrassed to admit I really don\u2019t know when the actual game starts and I thought I knew who was playing because I saw Jay Leno\u2019s Super Bowl predicting dog. The dog had a penchant for popping balloons, so they put him on the floor with half Eagles\u2019 balloons and half Jets\u2019 balloons and the last one standing would win. But as I was reading this to my daughter, she informed me it was the Patriots and the Giants. So needless to say, I don\u2019t remember which team the dog predicted.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Road to the Super Bowl\u201d may be the most interesting part of the day for me. People\u2019s stories keep me engaged and most of what this pre-game program talks about are the players and how they got to be where are. They don\u2019t talk about all the players, only some of the most special players. The names are familiar to me because every talk show, radio show and news program mentions these players, similar to the gossip of TV reality shows I don’t watch.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I do know the basic rules of football. I went to my high school games because I grew up in a small town and there was nothing else to do. I stood on the sidelines as a member of the service club and we kept stuff off the field and picked up all the paraphernalia afterward.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
My husband and I go to our daughter\u2019s high school home games. She\u2019s in the pep band. We do watch and enjoy the games; appropriately getting excited when there\u2019s action. But when we\u2019re filming or taking pictures the camera is pointed at the band. Our team\u2019s players have a lot of heart even if they don\u2019t often win. But for us the fact that the team doesn\u2019t do well is only a side effect, because the band is always awesome.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
So here we sit, watching the pre-game shows, fascinated by the fascination with this violent sport, wondering how the players can make it off the field in one piece and trying to sort out unfamiliar facts. How can a new player be a \u201chalf a sack\u201d short of getting some rookie award? Isn\u2019t someone \u201csacked or not?\u201d How can they be \u201chalf sacked?\u201d Is it like being half-fired? My husband jokingly mentioned they must\u2019ve gone to the grocery store and came home half a sack short of groceries.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The day after the Super Bowl, I usually hit the internet to see the funny commercials that have replaced talk of the actual game. Some commercials are better than others, like last year\u2019s Dorito Ninja and Betty White playing football in the mud.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s the best part of Super Bowl Sunday \u2013 there are no people out and about. We have often gone tubing at Snoqualmie pass on this day, we\u2019ve gone to Seattle Center, or even just to a movie where we encountered few crowds. It\u2019s just too bad we don\u2019t live near Disney World.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
My planning was off this year, though, because I am not usually aware of when the Super Bowl is played. I made plans to have my mother over today to help my kids\u2019 make costumes for their anime convention in April. Maybe it\u2019s time they made this day a government holiday, with Monday being a day off so everyone can recover. Then I would be more aware of when it happened so I\u2019d be sure to plan accordingly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
So this year, as we sit here and watch \u201cThe Road to the Super Bowl,\u201d reported by former Super Bowl players (get the experts), we are considering joining the sixty-something percent of men and women who watch the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
But who am I kidding? I don\u2019t have a Super Bowl Road, unless I hit the road on this rare, warm, sunny February day.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Gretchen Leigh is a stay-at-home mom who lives in Covington. She is committed to writing about the humor amidst the chaos of a family. You can read more of her writing and her daily blog on her website livingwithgleigh.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s Sunday morning, February 5, 2012. My husband and I turned on \u201cThe Road to the Super Bowl.\u201d It got me thinking about my road to the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}