BCS Championship deja vu

OK, team runs the opening kick back for a touchdown and loses the game. Where have I seen that before?

The rain kept the score closer than I thought, but other than that, no surprises really. It did mean the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince had to sing Purple Rain in the rain at halftime, but he really didn't seem to mind, and there was an All Along the Watchtower reference thrown in there, so I was entertained.

I watched the game at a neighbor's house with several families and all our kids in tow. It was still easy to follow the game, but the commercials got lost in a haze of "Daddy can I..." and "Mommy can you get me..." so I missed most of them..OK, really all of them. I don't think I saw one all the way through, but it was still fun. From today's informal office opinion poll though, I didn't miss anything. The general consensus is this was an off year for Super Bowl commercialism.

We did the obligatory betting squares for score at the end of each quarter and as usual...well, always, I lost. When it comes to gambling for money, I never win and this is one shining example, because it's about the only form of betting I'm still stupid enough to participate in. In more years than I can remember of playing the little square game, I have never won a dime. Still, it's a social thing. Every time someone scores, the person organizing the matrix of numbers figures out who will win if the quarter ends without another score. It's one more subject for conversation. Somehow though, the name on that square come payout time is never mine. Lady luck couldn't pick me out of a lineup.

Still, we begin another year after football, filling the void with other stuff, and that's not so bad. I'll be jonesin' by July though.