fumbling football
kelly | 5 February 2007 - 5:53pm
Last evening Rob and I went to my parents' house to watch the Super Bowl. We don't follow football at all, but we're also not about to pass up an excuse to stuff ourselves with subs and chips and soda and then sit on our asses in front of the tv. Besides, to miss such an opportunity would be un-American.
When my brother asked me, the day before, which team I was going to cheer for, I said I was going to cheer for the Bears because Chicago is one of my favorite cities. My brother, who was not going to cheer for the Bears, was dismayed to hear this. "What about Rob?" he asked.
"Rob? You cheering for Chicago too?"
"Sure, sounds good," he responded indifferently. Like I said - we don't follow football at all.
So yesterday before we left, Rob came out of the bedroom saying, "I'm wearing black for the Bears!"
"Ooh, good idea! I'm gonna wear black for the Bears, too! The rivalry with [my brother] is ON."
We showed up at my parents' house soon after, and as soon as I saw my brother, I proudly announced, "We're wearing black for the Bears!"
"Um, okay," he said. "But you know their color is navy blue, right?"
"Oh," I responded, crestfallen. "But whatever. We can pretend it's black. So what's the color for the other team, the Phillies?"
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Football is the F-word in my house. I went to derby practice instead.
The PHILLIES???
You should not be allowed to watch the Superbowl for the next ten years! (says the blogger from Indiana...)
This made me laugh. I too am not that big of a sports fan would have made this mistake. I have always loved football though so I would have known this. I see where you may have been confused. The other team was the colts which means a male horse under the age of four. A Filly (philly) is a female horse under the age of two. Basically both are young horses. So in a backwards way you were right.
HA! William beat me to it. I was thinking of the plural for filly too. :-)
I guess I was un-American. Didn't watch it. Read papers for a class and a book instead. ;-) I suppose if we'd been invited somewhere, we probably would've gone. But we weren't, so we didn't.
I watched it, but only because not watching it would have meant interacting with family. I'm not a big fan of American football, but the Super Bowl amuses me, if only for the wretched excess.
I don't follow football at all, either. I went to Wal-Mart Sunday afternoon and just happened to be wearing a t-shirt supporting our local high school football team (it's a comfortable shirt, and the first one I grabbed out of the closet); the cashier asked me if I was "ready for the football game." I responded, "Huh? Oh...no, I just wanted a comfortable t-shirt to wear." She paused for a few seconds before she said, "Um...I meant the Super Bowl."
"Oh, is that today??"
Heh.
Wow, k, wow.
One thing you can be sure of is that the Phillies will NEVER end up in ANY championship game, so you can go ahead and eliminate them from your sports repertiore (sp.?).
And what was un-American about the whole thing was that you did not have a vested interest in seeing good-ole-boy Peyton Manning finally get his Superbowl ring.
P.S. FYI, I changed my blogspot to phillychaos.blogspot.com