By Blaidd Drwg
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last 2 weeks, you know that the Super Bowl is this weekend and is a rematch between the Patriots and the Giants. As outlined here, I will be rooting for the Giants and to make the game interesting, I have a bet on the game (straight up – I have the Giants) with a friend of mine, Big Mike, who is a rabid Pats fan. If I win, I get lobsters shipped from Massachusetts (and maybe a reimagining of a lobster dinner I did a couple of years ago). If he wins, he gets a Northwest goodies basket.
I really don’t have a great deal of interest in the game and I really just want it to be over. I am tired of the 2 weeks of analysis of every aspect of the game, I am tired about hearing about Tom Brady and Eli Manning and frankly, I am tired of Patriots fans in general – they are obnoxious, sore winner, even worse losers; essentially the Yankees fans of the NFL.
If you aren’t much of a football fan or just want to watch something other than a 50+ year old Madonna doing a pre-recorded halftime show, switch on over to Animal Planet – they are running their 8th annual “Puppy Bowl”. What is Puppy Bowl? It is several hours of puppies running around, playing and generally looking cute to raise awareness for shelter animals. It is really just puppy overload. If that isn’t enough, you also get the kitty halftime show, which is a bunch of kittens playing, and, new this year, is the piglet cheerleaders. Overall it is just going to be hours of animal cuteness. Animal Planet runs it on a loop pretty much all day, so you can see pretty much any time you want. You can see more pics of Puppy Bowl here.
If for some reason you really want to watch the game, Volkswagen has 2 great Star Wars themed spots for this year’s game. If you really care to see them in their entirety, they are below. The first one is brilliant, the second one is just laugh out loud funny.
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