I watched the live telecast of super bowl for the first time. Well it's the first time I watched football match - an American football that is. I am not a big sports TV viewer but I do love watching Tennis matches when my whole family spend (wasted) their entire weekends watching cricket. Even my periammas born in 1930’s watched cricket like teenagers. I hate to see the entire family in a grumpy mood whenever the Indian team lost the match. I never liked cricket when I was young but understood the spirit of it .
I decided to join my husband yesterday since I had nothing to do (well there is always loads of work to do but I wasn’t in a mood to do more work on Sunday evening). Yesterday was the first time we watched TV program together when NR was awake. He too joined in and tried to get my attention as much as possible. So I read him books while watching the match. CB explained the rules of the game.
At my previous work place, we used to have friendly but hard-core rivalry during the civil war matches between Beavers and Ducks. Most of them went to OSU and some of them to UO. The rival team members would sabotage each others office with their team’s logos. Our office cabins had huge glass walls facing the interior hallway. The PM who had an office just opposite to mine was Beavers fan and my Manager who had an office next to me was a “Ducks” fan . During one such the civil war season my Manager's windows got a big “Ducks Crossing” sign thanks to his rival Beavers fans. My colleagues talked proudly about their son playing quarterback position in school/college teams.
Yesterday, I realized the reason behind the well coveted, glamorous “Quarterbacks” position in the game. That was also another reason I decided to watch the game. The Greenbay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers went to Whitford Middle School in Beaverton, Oregon the city where we live since 99. And our local TV news station kept talking about Aaron and his Beaverton connection, which made me more curious.
Overall I liked the game. I felt little uneasy watching 200+ lb players forming a human pyramid falling over each other like a pack of sardines. And one more item checked off from my list of things to know/learn. Can somebody teach how to play poker and Texas hold’em?
My son’s first time seeing us watch TV for more than 15 minutes when he was awake (we do regularly watch BBC and news for 10 -15 minutes during the weekends when he is around) . And I couldn’t wait for him to grow up, so things would get back to normal phase of life for us.
BTW, can somebody please explain to me?
- Who came up with the name “football” when players use only their hands 95% of the time?
- Why on earth they call super bowl a world championship game when they only play against US teams?
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