So, the Colts won over the Bears (who I was cheering for by default, since everyone else at the party but one was cheering for the Colts, and I love underdogs). It started off pretty good for the bears, but the QB apparently lost it in the second half, throwing a number of interceptions and basically giving the game away.
Oh well, it’s not like I watch the super bowl because I actually enjoy pro football, I watch it for the halftime show and the commercials (and the money I always make in the score pool, which I’ll explain shortly)
The commercials this year were… well…meh. Bud Light had the best commercials (as usual) although none of them topped the first one, where two guys were gonna RPS (rock, paper, scissors) over the last beer in the cooler and on three one of the guys just threw a rock at the other guys face and took the beer. Coke just recycled some commercials from the movie theater, and godaddy.com just had another blatantly oversexualized ad.
As for the halftime show, I’ll admit it…I enjoy Prince performances. Not enough to buy or download his cd’s, but he’s a fine musician and has more #1 songs (as either the songwriter or performer…or both) than any other artist in history. Last night’s performance was no exception.
As for the score pool… what you do is take a 10×10 grid, and sell squares for X amount, whoever buys a square puts their initials in it. After all 100 squares are full, you take 10 playing cards, ace through ten, and randomly determine the value for the rows and columns. At halftime, whoever’s initials are in the square matching up to the end digits of the scores gets half the pot, and the rest goes to the person who’s there for the end of the game. Last night we bought squares for 50c each, and I won both times, having bought 12 squares. A nice little 800% profit.
