Super Boring (My first Super Bowl experience)

I'll first start by saying, this was my very first Super Bowl experience. I've gone to a number of Super Bowls, but never actually inside the game. Well this year, I could finally afford tickets (I'll post later about the ticket market crash).

The first thing that struck me as different was the "die hard fans".....or should I say.........lack thereof. The biggest game in the history of the NFL and there was dead silence. Silence all around. No tailgates, no horns blowing, no painted faces, no car flags, no yelling, no beer, no screaming.......it was all too "civilized" for the preceding hype. Then inside the game, it was more of the same. There was little cheering, no team chants, no human body "waves", no passion, just pure silence and fake clapping. I could not believe it. I was in the very same stadium one year earlier for the Boise State Fiesta Bowl, and it was a completely different experience. I should have known what to expect when everyone was sitting in their seats during the first quarter. (You don't sit for big games. That's football fan 101.)

The first 3.75 quarters of play was probably the most boring football I've ever witnessed live. After reading all the news about the record breaking numbers (97.5M viewers), I would have liked to be in bar in NYC... with beer spilling all over and high-five cacophony and boisterous yelling.......you know.....a real football crowd. It was certainly a football that I was not accustomed to watching. I felt ambivalent the majority of the big game.

I will say, however, that the best part of going to the game live was watching the faces of the incredulous fans. That goes for Pats fans and Giants fans alike. There were a number of NY Giants fans LEAVING the stadium after the Randy Moss score. #@!*ing idiots. You come all the way to AZ and pay thousands of dollars only to skip the last 4 minutes so you can save time avoiding traffic. To those fair-weather fans, I'm glad you missed history. Hope it was worth it.

While I was bored out of my mind (literally falling asleep in my seat) during the first 55 minutes of play, the last 5 minutes was absolutely ridiculous. I wish I could have taken a photo of all of the Giants fans with 4 minutes left. They were in disbelief.....some sad, some shocked, and some down right mad. The Pats fans on the other hand were laughing and smiling.....they could sense history in the making. And then:



You should have seen the Giants fans lift their heads from between their legs and start to cheer.....with 2 minutes left in the game. At the same time, the Pats fans were devastated. You just had to be there and witness the extreme spectrum of expressions.

In a matter of seconds, everything changed. The score, my opinion of Eli, my opinion of Brady, my expectations for next season, my feelings about the "boring" Super Bowl..........everything changed.

Here's to change!