Super Bowl Moments

The mixture of rabid sports fans, indifferent spouses of rabid sports fans, and children creates the potential for mass chaos during a Super Bowl party. It also creates the opportunity for comical moments.

Randy and Chellee Hill were kind enough to have Robin, the kids and I, along with some other families over to their house for the Super Bowl...and following are a couple of the entertaining things that went on...

A "Sandlot" Moment The younger kids were getting bored watching the game and decided they actually wanted to PLAY football. So the disappeared downstairs. A few moments later Macy, Randy's four-year old daughter, yells up to the crowd, "Daddy, we're going to play football outside." Randy responds, "Okay.......hey, wait a minute! Where did you get a football?"

"From your office," came the reply.

"Bring that football up here," Randy howled! A crowd of kids are heard stomping up the stairs with Elijah in the lead holding the prospective entertainment device...a football that just happened to be autographed by Dallas Cowboy legend and Pro Football Hall of Famer Bob Lilly.

So the kids wound up playing "House."
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Man, am I old! Derek Hood's 12-year old daughter was actually interested in the football game...and spent a good amount of time watching the game upstairs with the men. A few minutes before halftime Al Michaels reminds the viewing audience to stay tuned for The Rolling Stones. To which Derek's daughter asked, "Who are the Rolling Stones."

All of us looked at each other with the painful realization that we were quickly ascending the ladder of old age. No one even bothered to explain who The Rolling Stones were...as we were busy searching for our false teeth and Metamucil.

Once halftime started our young 12-year old audience member was still perplexed. However she finally realized she knew exactly who The Rolling Stones were. As the familiar guitar riff of "Satisfaction" cranked up, she jumped up from the couch, pointed at the TV, smiled at all of us and cheerfully exclaimed, "I know them -- that's my ring tone!"
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Indifference at its peak. There are 6 minutes left in the fourth quarter. The Steelers are up by 11, overcoming a halftime deficit on Willie Parker's record-setting 75-yard run on the second play of the third quarter...and Antwan Randal-El's touchdown pass to Hines Ward. Excitement is brewing as Seattle is mounting a drive down the field.

I run downstairs to throw some trash away. Circled around the dinner table are our lovely wives who claim they've been watching the game. There is little evidence to support this...as I start to head back up the stairs, I hear one wife say, "Hey, the Steelers are ahead now."