This is the New England Patriot’s eighth Super Bowl and they’re 4 1/2 point favorites. The plucky Eagles, without their elite quarterback Carson Wentz, face a tough struggle today. Most Bills fans instinctively root against the Patriots. This game might have been truly compelling if the New Orleans Saints were in it instead of the Eagles. My heart will be rooting for the Eagles, but my head says the Patriots will win. Again. What do you think will happen at the Super Bowl today?
Enjoy!
Hope you’re all well prepared, enough food and drinks …
I confess again that I’m not a sports fan but I know some people in Germany and Hungary too who will stay up late to watch it – the game starts past midnight Central European Time …
And I found this:
https://www.snopes.com/2018/02/03/super-bowl-myths-legends/
Wolf, I plan to make a pizza for the Super Bowl. Local pizzerias estimate they’ll sell over 10,000 pizzas today…and a couple of tons of chicken wings!
George, browsing the US news I found this:
A 30-second ad in this year’s Super Bowl costs an average of $5.05 million, compared to $40,000 in 1968, per Ad Age.
Big money!
and
fans are expected to eat 1.35 billion chicken wings, an all-time high.
The other numbers are also fantastic:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/super-bowl-numbers-13b-beer-cider-224m-chips/story?id=52778761
Wolf, the cost of eyeballs has really gone up!
Probably won’t watch it. I am from Philly, but I haven’t followed the team in years. Certainly they will be my favorite.
Patti, I’ll be watching the Super Bowl commercials.
I can’t remember the last time I had so little interest in the outcome of a Super Bowl. As a Giants’ fan, I naturally hate the Eagles, but how can anyone root for the Patriots to win again, especially after they were almost literally gifted their last two Super Bowls, by Seattle and Atlanta.
I don’t know anyone who thinks the Eagles will win. I hope the Patriots lose, but I don’t think so. I’ll start watching and see how it goes. I’m not even expecting much in the way of good new commercials.
Jeff, companies are paying millions to show their Super Bowl commercials. I used to assign “homework” to my students in my MARKETING classes: “Watch the Super Bowl. Pay attention to the commercials, not the game.”
I have my usual bet down on the Dallas Cowboys.
Dan, there’s a case before the Supreme Court right now about allowing states to legalize gambling on sports. I think it will happen. Next year, everyone can be betting on their iPhones during the Super Bowl!
Well the Cowboys let me down again.
I’m assuming the Patriots will win—but I’m not overly-invested, so I’ll keep my iPad and kindle handy. We have several pounds of chicken wings to prepare and I have stuffed grape leaves and the ingredients to make Caprese salad (what can I say—we’re trendbuckers).
Deb, I love Caprese salad! I’m making a pizza just in time for the Super Bowl kickoff. Diane is excited about Justin Timberlake’s Half-time Show!
I agree with Jeff, no real interest in who wins. The patriots have won enough, but don’t care much for the eagles. I also wish the Saints had gotten in there!!
one of our “human interest” columnists in our paper had a column yesterday about the commercials. Due to the Me Too and Times UP movements, there are probably going to be less commercials featuring scantily clad women/bimbos. Subaru has already been airing 3 new dog commercials, which I love, so I hope there is a new , great Clydesdale commercial from Budweiser.
Maggie, the Super Bowl commercials might be the highlights of this game!
I love fresh mozzarella and tomatoes, Deb. We often order it (with a house salad) at our favorite Italian restaurant, but since Jackie doesn’t eat tomatoes, I have to eat them all.
I take back what I said. A local sports columnist in the Palm Beach Post is picking the Eagles.
Jeff, the Eagles have a shot at beating the New England Patriots, but they need to get to Tom Brady early and often!
The food sounds nice – pizza and mediterranean style salads are also among our favourites.
But what weill you have to drink – will it differ depending on who wins?
Here in Hungary a glass or two of pálinka (fruit spirits: plum or peach usually) is de rigeur.
Wolf, years ago my physician advised me to drink a glass of red wine each day (for heart health). I’ve followed his instructions and feel great!
Good for you, george!
Totally OT (might have written about this already):
Near Niagara on the Lake are some good wineries – visited one here. We were totally surprised.
So on your side south of the border there also should be wineries.
Which red wine do you prefer?
Wolf, I drink a sweet red wine called Ruby produced by a local winery: http://www.schulzewines.com/our-wines/
For the first time in decades, I don’t think I’ll watch. I hope the Patriots win, they are the better team and so deserve to, and excellence should be rewarded. Barbara went to a Buffalo Wild Wings yesterday (it’s a long drive) and got some regular wings with mild sauce. I’ll heat them up and have some. Boy, were they expensive! We were shocked that a dozen wings, an order of chicken tenders – 4 of them – and some onion rings was over $30! Next time we’ll get a pizza.
Enjoy the hame, everyone, and the commercials, and tomorrow you can say “only 7 months until football starts!”
Rick, you should talk to Art Scott about making your own yummy chicken wings. Art has it down to a science! And the cost is reasonable.
George. I don’t follow (or understand) sports at all but, after learning from your blog twenty seconds ago that the Patriots are in the Super Bowl, I have become a die-hard Patriots fan. Of course they will win! Probably with a hat trick out in left field for a double bogie — or something. Go Pats!!!
Jerry, the Patriots are wearing white jerseys. They are 3-0 in the Super Bowl when they’re wearing white.
Never watched a Super Bowl yet. Have no vested interest in either team. And since the Detroit Lions have never come close to being in a Super Bowl…
Finishing my binge watching of Babylon Berlin on Netflix. Loving it. Will probably start Altered Carbon tonight.
Steve, I finally found my copy of ALTERED CARBON. I read ALTERED CARBON when it was first published in 2002. I plan to reread it before I start watching ALTERED CARBON on Netflix. Glad to hear that BABYLON BERLIN is good. That’s on my list to binge watch during the Olympics.
Every place we went to today seemed to be selling one thing and one thing only – yes, you guessed it, wings!
I wonder how wings came to be so associated with the Super Bowl?
Rick, I think chicken wings became a Super Bowl food when the Bills played the Giants in Super Bowl XXV.
Jeff, wings have become the new Comfort Food!
Not watching! I hope the Eagles win but I’ll find out what happened eventually! Either way, it doesn’t change my life! Commercials are commercials; I have no interest in them! The dweeb doing the halftime show doesn’t interest me in the least! All in all, I big nothing!
Bob, you missed one of the best Super Bowls ever! The Eagles pulled off the upset! And the action was unrelenting! Good commercials, too!
Wow. Great game. They finally got to Brady. It was just enough to win.
Jeff, I was amazed that there were no SACKS…until the Eagles finally got to Brady and made it fumble. That was the turning point of the game!
The European media are full of reports how the Philly fans destroyed their home city and clahed with the police – here we call those “fans” hooligans.
Makes me really sad or rather angry!
Wolf, sadly alcohol and sports sometimes leads to violence. Happens everywhere.
I was happy to see the Patriots lose, happy nick foles did so well. I had heard that the Philly police discovered something better than Crisco to grease the light poles with. I’m guessing the drunken violence will make more news than the game in some places. Hope the Eagles refuse to go to the White House
I liked many of the commercials, but I thought there were fewer really funny ones. I can’t believe some companies ran old ones.
I watched the dog bowl and have the puppy bowl on tape, so will see the new Subaru dog ones (One reason I got a Subaru!!).
Maggie, I liked the AMAZON Alexa commercial a lot!
BAH! Too bad the officiating decided the game, instead of the players. One Philly TD was clearly an incomplete pass (out of bounds at the back of the end zone). Barbara says the halftime show was pathetic, which is no surprise to me. The thing that surprised me the most wasn’t how well Foles did (and Philly will have an interesting choice come May), but how poorly the NE defense played.
Rick, Bills fans are hoping for a trade to bring Nick Foles to Buffalo.
Oh, and I thought the commercials, the ones I saw, anyway, were generally lousy.
Rick, there was a lot of push-back against the Dodge RAM commercial that featured Martin Luther King’s voice.
I guess I missed that one. I did see the one with the Vikings towing their ship, sailing, with truck in tow, to the game, then turning around when they discovered they weren’t playing. I thought that one was pretty good.