Hm… gosh… what to make this week’s Weekly Question Of The Week about… Ummmm…. Jeez…
If only… if only there was something happening today… something that’s a big, national event here in the US that people had to pick sides over… then… then I’d have something… Hmmmm… Oh, wait, isn’t there some sort of televised sporting match today?
Basically, you have one of three options to root for today:
Patriots.
- Advantage – Brady and Belichick
- Disadvantage – As a kid, living on the west coast, when learning geography, inevitably you’d spend frustrated time trying to figure out where the state of New England was on the map. The image of all those distressed kids, crying over their blank little maps has to weigh pretty heavily on them.
Giants
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"Oh God! Those guys are coming right at me! Hit 'em with the bat! Guys??! Hit 'em with the bat!""
Advantage – beat the Patriots once this season on the home turf. Also, Manning.
- Disadvantage – Frankly, I don’t know how the San Francisco Giants got in this thing, but I just don’t see how they can expect to hold up. I guess they do have bats.
Puppy Bowl
- Advantage – Puppies. Also when one of them poops and they call a foul?? I don’t care who you are. That’s adorable.
- Disadvantage – Trying to get people to change the channel. (suggestions: 1. “Hey, my friend’s dog is in the Puppy Bowl and I promised to watch for just, like, an hour or two” 2. “You know what’d be ironic and funny of us? To watch the Puppy Bowl right now. Wouldn’t that be hilarious? Wouldn’t it?” 3. “Oh my God! A terrorist is on the phone and he says if we don’t watch the Puppy Bowl he’s going to blow up the Internet!”)
So.
Who are you supporting this Super Bowl Sunday: Patriots, Giants or Puppy Bowl?
The Byronic Man 
February 5, 2012 at 4:23 am
I like the Mets.
February 5, 2012 at 7:54 am
They’re a dark horse, certainly, but I wouldn’t count them out today.
February 5, 2012 at 5:33 am
Neither. I have better things to do.
February 5, 2012 at 7:57 am
Better than puppies?? They’re puppies!
February 5, 2012 at 5:38 am
Puppy bowl!! But, when our next door neighbors ask, we’ll say “Patriots”. They’ve invited us to their Super Bowl party, and they have awesome food. Go Patriots!! (go puppies!)
February 5, 2012 at 8:01 am
Now you just have to try to get them to change the channel.
February 5, 2012 at 11:49 am
Good call, Lenore. For a sec there, I thought you might give the wrong answer. Whew! I’ll still be your friend now.
February 5, 2012 at 6:07 am
Definitely Puppy Bowl….I’ll watch with Shelby.
The commercials are always the best part of the SuperBowl, and now you can see those ahead of time on the internet.
February 5, 2012 at 8:02 am
Isn’t that weird? Why would they put the ads out ahead of time when there are a number of people who watch exclusively for that reason?
February 5, 2012 at 8:18 am
Saves me hours of football watching, though, so I’m not complaining.
February 5, 2012 at 7:52 am
Raider Puppies!
February 5, 2012 at 8:02 am
Them’s are some tough puppies.
February 5, 2012 at 1:00 pm
….I heard Bechham has an underwear add….
February 5, 2012 at 2:21 pm
I’m supporting the folks at NBC who need to figure out how to clean up their satellite signal. And I’m supporting the Indianapolis Children’s Choir, from which 45 kids are singing the National Anthem with Kelly Clarkson. I used to belong to that choir, 20+ years ago. Best experience of my life. I’m so proud of them for getting this gig!
I am NOT supporting the people who decided to do these “love story” vignettes on the players. Blech. I love love and all, but this is football. If I see Tom Brady and Giselle Bundschen, I’m gonna throw things.
February 5, 2012 at 2:32 pm
Now that I know there’s a Puppy Bowl, I’d be all over that–if, that is, it didn’t correspond with Get Our Taxes Done for Free by A Friend Of The Family Day! 😀
February 5, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Really? You’ve never seen the Puppy Bowl? It’s hypnotic.
February 5, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Puppy Bowl. How could you not?
February 7, 2012 at 6:12 am
It’s easy to ignore… until the moment you see three seconds of it.
February 5, 2012 at 2:47 pm
If I am forced to choose, it will be puppies. I’m still bitter GB didn’t make it, so I’m boycotting the super bowl on principle. See? I won’t even give it proper noun status. Today is just another Sunday, but there are fewer options than usual.
February 7, 2012 at 6:14 am
See, I thought a sense of disapproval was hanging in the air.
February 6, 2012 at 4:05 am
Puppy Bowl would be even more enticing if they used a real live mouse instead of a ball. I’m just sayin’…
February 7, 2012 at 6:30 am
It’d be hilarious… then horrifying… then, new mouse! Hilarious! Ugh, horrifying… etc.
February 6, 2012 at 8:21 am
Why is it that when I poop when I’m playing, no one says it’s cute? No one.
February 7, 2012 at 6:28 am
They don’t want you to get egotistical.
February 6, 2012 at 8:35 am
Well, I was rooting for the Giants, of course. But, when things started getting too antsy for me, I left the room to come play games on the computer… until… the last three minutes plus of the game.
I ran back in and stood there practically holding my breath!!!
OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!! Will they? Won’t they? Oh, my gosh!!!
Then… ahhh… yes!!!! Hip, hip, hooray!!!
February 7, 2012 at 6:28 am
That is a down side of football for me – long stretches of nothing. But the couple minutes here and there are pretty intense.
February 6, 2012 at 11:54 am
The Puppy Bowl was off the hook this year. I mean, did you SEE Fumble??? Case closed.
February 7, 2012 at 6:27 am
I couldn’t believe they didn’t call against that Corgi. That little guy was just all over the place.
February 7, 2012 at 12:36 am
Use a puppy for the football and boom you have a super puppy bowl. You’ll need replacement puppies.
February 7, 2012 at 6:26 am
Actually, I suspect the action might grind to a halt while everone “aaawww’s” over the pup, then refuses to pass or share.
February 7, 2012 at 4:24 am
Now. I just said if your next post was any cuter than the last… Lying down now.
The Puppy Bowl is amazing. That combined with watching girly movies while my husband went to a Super Bowl party? Gooooo San Francisco!
February 7, 2012 at 6:20 am
I’m trying for the “cute” demographic.