Super Sunday is Here

It is Super Bowl Sunday and my beloved Patriots are shooting for their fourth ring. My facebook page abounds with posts from Giants fans in ALL CAPS. Twitter is in a tizzy. TV is crammed with Super Bowl related news stories and ads.

Later today, during the game, folks will be posting statuses and whirling around online during the game, blogging, facebook updating or tweeting throughout the entire game.

But not me. Not today. There will be no updates from me accompanied by photos of the chicken wings and guacamole I am eating or my philosophical take on the last commercial.

Nope, it's gonna be a low tech, old school Super Bowl today. Snacks, beer, football game- the way God meant it to be.

Blog Your Blessing Sunday LXXXIII

Today is Superbowl Sunday! Even though my beloved Patriots are not playing, I still enjoy the game and will be indulging in chicken wings, guacamole and Sam Adams. GO CARDINALS!!! I will try not to overindulge....

Isaiah 5:22

Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine
and champions at mixing drinks

Where's the Beaver?

Now that I can actually say "Super Bowl" without getting TOTALLY depressed, I thought I'd share some more lovely videos of the other good thing about the Super Bowl: the commercials. This year's crop was pretty tame compared to year's past, if you ask me. FOX TV, that bastion of morality, decided a couple of Go Daddy's commercials were too hot for their viewer's tender eyes. They wouldn't allow the following commercial to air at all.


They let this commercial air. Check it out and then watch the next one to see what they cut out.


Here's the same commercial without FOX TV's moral filter.


I am so glad FOX TV is protecting me from offensive advertising. If you ask me, the commercials for Viagra and Cialis featuring a bunch of middle aged limp dicks popping pills so they can go shag their obviously over acting partners while warning about "erections lasting more than four hours" are far more offensive. Besides, beavers are kinda cute.




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I Can't Believe They Lost!

I just can't f___ing believe the Patriots lost the Super Bowl. Even though they went undefeated during the regular season, they couldn't win the big one. I am shell shocked.

Oh well, pitchers and catchers report in a few weeks. Time to crank up the hot stove for THE RED SOX! (they were pretty good last year if you recall).

Perfect Patriots

Readers of the Hot Dog Truck site KNOW I am a huge Red Sox fan. It shouldn't surprise anyone that I am also a New England Patriots fan. I just haven't written about them much on this site-I don't want to rub it in! This team is certainly the best team in New England Patriots history, if not in the history of the NFL! If they win the Superbowl this year, They WILL be considered the best NFL team EVER!

I know a bit about New England Patriots history. I was a season ticket holder from 1986-1992, known by some in these parts as "the dark years." The team was AWFUL. Actually, with only a few exceptions, they were pretty much a joke of an NFL team for most of their existence. They never sold out, so you couldn't watch home games on TV (the NFL blacks out games in the local market if the stadium doesn't sell out). The stadium was disgusting too-I've been in better HIGH SCHOOL STADIUMS. If you had season tickets, you couldn't GIVE them away. If you wanted to go to a game, it was a VERY EASY TICKET.

New England Patriots history all changed when Robert Kraft bought the team. James Orthwein had owned the team prior to Kraft-he brought in Bill Parcells which gave the franchise instant credibility. The year Parcells came to town was the last year season tickets didn't have a huge waiting list. When Kraft bought the team he paid around 180 million bucks and everyone thought he was nuts. (the New England Patriots are now worth over $1 BILLION) Kraft, who is a local businessman and life long season ticket holder, said he wanted to do three things: "bring stability to the franchise, build a new stadium, and bring a championship to the fans of New England." MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, Bob! He will be forever loved by the fans of New England because he did exactly what he said he was going to do. If only the politicians in this country could take a lesson from Mr. Kraft!

Now, after years of suffering as the NFL's worst joke, the New England Patriots franchise has a chance to make history. I have watched every game and I have never seen a team with an offense like this. It's almost boring, you just know Tom Brady can lead the team to the end zone at will whether they're up by 30 points or down by 10. I almost feel sorry for my kids, they think the New England Patriots have always been this good. I made them watch the Miami game with me and I kept telling them "the Dolphins are what the New England Patriots used to be!"

With a somewhat improbable showdown with the San Diego Chargers coming up this weekend, I am merely waiting for the coronation on Superbowl Sunday. The New England Patriots will play either the Green Bay Packers or the New York Giants in the Superbowl and they will beat either team handily. I'd personally like to see the Packers because I like Brett Favre and I'd like to see the New England Patriots avenge their loss to them in Superbowl XXXI.

GO PATRIOTS!!