Any excuse for a party, right?
I don't watch NFL football very much and only care about a few teams, particularly the Tampa Bay Buccaneers because I was living in Tampa when the team was launched and lost its first 23 games. That kind of streak will separate the real fans from the posers.
So tonight the mighty New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts will square off in the Super Bowl.
A Nielsen survey showed that 51 percent of the estimated 98 million people who will be watching said they tune into the Super Bowl for the commercials while 49 percent said they watch it for the football.
(The commercials sell for $2 million to $3 million for 30 seconds. Kind of hard to fathom how that makes sense in this depression era.)
I think for most people it's a day when friends and family get together and have a good time.
At this point I think I will be rooting for the Saints because of what the city went through with Katrina and also because the team has never won a Super Bowl.
Also, how can a Christian root against a team whose nickname is the Saints?
Just kidding.
The Colts are a good team but since Tony Dungy retired as head coach there's nobody on the Colts I really care about. And I still think they should be in Baltimore... Showing my age here.
Dungy, incidentally, will be speaking in Toledo at Central Catholic High School in March. I might go see him.
So have a fun time tonight and don't eat too many nachos.
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Watched a movie recently called "Serenity," and was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the writing and the sci-fi action. It was written and directed by Joss Whedon and I was trying to place that name... thanks to IMDB.com, I found that Whedon was the guy who wrote Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I never really watched that show but I have some friends who love it and I know it was intelligently written. "Serenity" had some terrific dialogue and I loved the characters, who were witty and had depth, especially the ship's captain.

Summer Glau played a big part as a pschotic government research project who shows surprising powers. She was great as a terminator in the Sarah Connor Chronicles TV series.