Green and Yellow Green and Yellow

The following is an account of my Super Bowl Sunday, February 6, 2011. As Ice Cube would say, "Today was a good day."

3:49: With two flicks of match heads against one another, I start the grill.

3:55: Ahhh, nothing like the smell of a charcoal grill in mid-winter.

4:40: Brats go on. Sizzzzzzzzle. With a Hinterland Pale Ale in the snowbank, snausages on the grill, and the Pack in the Super Bowl, life is good.

5:07: Brats come off the grill and immediately get dunked in Corona. Ahhh mamacita.

5:10: Dinner's almost served, woah, Sam Elliot (check), of Lebowski notariety, is doing the pre-game intro montage voice-over!  One thing dude...do you have to use so many cuss words?

5:12: Green and Yellow Green and Yellow.

5:15:  OUCH.  MOFO.  I put a huge knife through the tip of my thumb and leave a flap of skin as the tip of my finger.  Oh well, they just showed Christina Aguilera for the first time and she's lookin' h-a-w-t. Thumb hurts, but I'll live.  Hopefully no blood got on the onions.

5:26:  Food is served, wow, what timing.  Brats, soft pretzel bread, potato salad, cole slaw, pasta salad, chicken wings, shrimp, and taco salad.  Yeeeeee-yah, what a spread.

5:28:  Christina Aguilera. Yum. "Home of the"...what? Uh, pretty sure she messed up the anthem, but I can't stay mad at her for long.

5:43:  My mom inadvertently consumes a "hot" chicken wing because she thought it was a regular. Hilarity ensues.

6:02:  There is a score, and it's green and yellow!!! 7-0 Pack.

6:05: Harrison Ford, Cowboys vs. Aliens, really?  REALLY?

6:07:  Nick Collins INT for touchdown.  More high-fives all around!! 

6:08:  Ohhh, foolish Nick Collins.  As Lombardi would say, "Act like you've been there before."  Regardless, 14-0 Pack.

6:09: Eminem, "That's why I don't do commercials." And that's why you should continue to not do them.

6:12:  I am stuffed. And I only ate one brat!  Ugh.  There's like 3 lbs. of chicken wings left too, and we haven't even cracked the taco dip yet.  Nobody's touched the pound of shrimp, either.

6:17: I don't think I've L-O-L'd during one commercial so far.  BE. MORE. FUNNY!

6:23: Stillers are on the board. Nice to see the Packers D solidify and hold Pittsburgh on a 3rd down. I think I need some Mountain Dew, waking up at 5:01 a.m. today is starting to catch up to me.

6:33: The VW/Little Kid in the Darth Vader costume commercial takes the cake so far.  That'll be a tough one to beat. Another score from GB would be nice to put us at a comfortable lead, but at least the Steelers don't look too threatening at this point.  Holding penalty, thank you.

6:35: Did Troy Aikman and Joe Buck both intentionally wear purple ties today?  What are the odds that they didn't?  They had to coordinate that, otherwise there was some sort of crazy prop bet about what color tie they'd wear today, and both Buck and Aikman placed bets on their own tie color selection.

6:42:  Rapelisberger throws his 2nd interception. Pittsburgh, and especially Rothlisberger, do not look especially impressive so far.

6:45:  JENNINGS.  Green and yellow green and Yellow!  21-3 Pack with 2 minutes and change left in the first half, lookin' good so far!!

6:55:  The Pack are dropping like flies...Sam Shields and Charles Woodson head to the locker room within 5 minutes of each other...with the Steelers driving, a hold before halftime would be nice.

6:57: Hines Ward makes a somewhat impressive catch. Boo Steelers.  21-10 Pack.

7:00:  It's halftime.  Good thing, because we don't have any more D-backs to spare in the first half. Enter Black Eyed Peas.

7:11: Let It Go > Boom Boom Pow.  The sound of this halftime show is perhaps the worst sounding musical production ever.   > Sweet Child O' Mine with Slash. As sweet as it is to see Slash playing guitar, Fergie's singing is atrocious and well, you can't really hear Slash anyway since the mix is so terrible.  Ugh, Fergie, really, stop singing. 

7:22: Hmmm. Tough to not be too harsh on the ol' Black Eyed Peas, but that was probably the worst halftime performance I've ever seen. Since when is it cool to play literally 13 seconds of each one of your songs?

7:31:  Charles Woodson is out with a collarbone injury. Shields and Driver return to the game. Hopefully we can get it done without Woodson, but it'd be a little more comforting if #21 were on the field.

7:37: James Jones drops a pass that could have easily resulted in a 75-yard touchdown. Lost opportunity, indeed.

7:42: Steelers march right down the field for a TD. 21-17 Pack, but the momentum is shifting out of the Pack's favor.

8:31:  JENNINGS TD.  The game has simply been too tense to blog.  My dad is getting into his verbal "coaching the TV" behavior, I'm on the edge of my seat and my mom has said, "I can't watch!" about 9 times in the past 30 minutes.  Tense times.

9:12: Ladies and gentlement, your World Champion Green Bay Packers!  Game is over. The last 40 minutes have been tense.  Tense, tense, tense. The Packers' D prevailed, holding Big Bad Ben and the Steelers on a 4th and 5. Phew. I'm exhausted, and all I've done is eat all night.