Reflections on a Super Game and Event

Time flies when you're having fun, or so I've heard. Yesterday's Super Bowl was fun, and the game went by too fast. Surely they could let it last longer than the three hours or so it took. I mean, how many times were we interrupted with boring commercials, and halftime show of old rockers that barely know their own songs? The game was Super though, and Ifelt bad for Peyton at the end, but also good. I mean, after all, his dad helped that franchise for so many years! Maybe he threw that last past TOO the Saints player and not to his man...HMMMM. Do you see a conspiracy here?

Our family did what we have done all season, got together for the game. Me, Dorothy, Jim, Debi, Aunt Debbie, Akkadian, Osiris, we all piled into the living room. The dogs played on the floor while we ate on the couches and fed them leavings. We laughed, we trash talked (Debi and Jim were for the Saints, the "Adults" were for the Colts, the dogs were, well, dogs.) At half time while The Who lip-synced their way through their hits, we ate Italian Beef from Portillos of Chicago. (it was sent to us by Aunt Debbie's ALMOST daughter in law, Erin....Come on Nick, get off the fence.) At the end of the day, I was five pounds heavier and I had a tummy ached the size of Rhode Island....

I really think that the NBA could learn from the NFL. Instead of all this best of 5 and best of 7 stuff, have a REAL TOURNAMENT. Let the top eight or twelve teams into the tournament, play all the games as losers go home, market the dang thing like a big party, and get it over with! ONE and DONE! There should be no time to lose. Play the games in large domed stadiums and get it done! In the NBA, the season is over in April, and the playoffs last to JUNE! We are well into baseball.

Now you know why I love HS basketball and college basketball. All their tournaments find true champions, those players that put it on the line, not slough through 5 or 7 games, then turn it on for one final game. All the games they play are finals.

Here is a hint also to the NCAA...DON'T EXPAND MARCH MADNESS. It is not always about the money.

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