Super Bowl XLIII

OK,

Despite being someone who generally doesn't care at all about football, I still manage to watch the Super Bowl most years. That said, I typically have high expectations for the game since it's supposed to be the best, right? Well in my experience, it seems like this:

If you've seen one football game, you've seen them all.

Let me give you the rundown of what I see in every football game I see.

1: The guy kicks the ball off, and the other player runs with it. Everybody starts getting really excited at this point and starts yelling. This makes you think that something special is happening, so you get excited. Then the guy running gets tackled at the 25 yard line. It's very anticlimactic.
2: They run at each other a while, and sometimes someone gets past the other guys, and scores. Hooray.
3: They go into halftime. All football scores are huge so it always seems really close. A bunch of middle aged balding guys shout at each other, even though they all agree.
3A: In the Super Bowl there's the half time show. Typically the people performing used to be good, and you're surprised that they're still okay.
4: The second half starts. It's just like the first half until the end, lets say the last five minutes. The scores are close. The announcers voices are starting to go coarse because they've been yelling at each other for such a long time.
5: One team scores, and they get really excited because they were losing and now they're winning with only a minute left.
6: The team that's losing is really good all of a sudden, and they get inside the ten yard line, or they're thirty yards away. Either way there's five seconds left and it comes down to one play for a touchdown, or a field goal.
7: The team that has the ball converts whatever play they have to make and they win the game. For some reason the announcers get really quiet all of a sudden. Maybe it's because they've been shouting all game. Maybe it's because they plan to shout some more during the post game show. Who knows?

Super Bowl XLIII went down just like this. Football is still boring.

Here's why.

The salary cap is such that all of the teams are basically just as good as all the others, with only a few exceptions. Also, they only play 12 games a year unless they make the playoffs. How do people seem to get so excited in such a short period of time?Because they only play on Sunday, the day of rest! Of course, there are some exceptions to this rule, they also play on Christmas and Thanksgiving, because Football players are too tough for holidays (that's why they do it of course).

I'm aware that football can be fun to play. Sometimes games are fun to watch too. But it's completely ruined due to it's becoming a media spectacle. Any sport has to do advertise a bit, but come on, this is just ridiculous. They don't even try to cover it up. Pathetic.

Oh, and will someone please explain to me why Bruce Springsteen said "I'm going to Disney Land" at the end of his performance?

Sincerely,
Lucas Biespiel