Unlike other geeks I don't feel that my geek status is threatened by watching sports, so I watched the Super Bowl. The game itself was a little disappointing, as it conjured images of Dallas stomping the Bills, San Francisco embarrassing the Broncos, or Washington blowing out the Broncos... the game was effectively over by halftime.
The halftime show was moderately interesting. Shania Twain lip-synched (snore), No Doubt played (though they played "Just a Girl" from like eight years ago), but the best was Sting doing "Message in a Bottle" with No Doubt playing behind him, including Gwen singing. As one person noted, though, even Sting had trouble harmonizing with Gwen, who is notably bad at singing ON KEY. Still, it was better than last year's show with 'N Sync, Aerosmith, and Brittney Spears.
Better than ALL of that, though, was the menu. We had big ol' hamburgers, hot links, polish sausage, lots of chips and dips (french onion and chili-cheese). Rachel and Tito came up for the weekend as well, and Tito and I played nine holes (in shorts!). (I ended up, uh, bending my nine iron, so I'm just not going to play again until I can get a set of clubs that isn't older than I am.)
Also, we went to a Kings hockey game on Saturday night. It was a really good game that ended with about a minute left in OT when the Kings scored on a slapshot from their blue line. All in all, a lot of fun.
One last thing: I am completely hooked on The Score by Fugees. I've had this album for years, but never listened to it. Now that I've started, I can hardly stop. Good stuff!
Posted by pcg at January 27, 2003 1:54 PM