{"id":186420,"date":"2014-01-25T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/25\/my-thoughts-on-this-years-superbowl\/"},"modified":"2014-01-25T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T17:15:00","slug":"my-thoughts-on-this-years-superbowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/25\/my-thoughts-on-this-years-superbowl\/","title":{"rendered":"My Thoughts on This Year&#8217;s Superbowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I do not watch the Superbowl for the Football.<\/p>\n<p>When my team, Washington is playing, I do not watch.<\/p>\n<p>The least time I did was Super Bowl XXII.&nbsp; I watched the first quarter, and Denver was leading 10-0, so when some friends came by suggesting dinner, I turned off the TV, and we left the hotel, (I was at a Boskone) and went put to eat.<\/p>\n<p>I returned an the start of the third quarter, and the Redskins had <b>scored 35 unanswered points<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I then realized that Washington had lost whenever I watched, and won when I hadn&#8217;t, so I do not watch them in that game.<\/p>\n<p>You can call me superstitious, just don&#8217;t call me late for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>So these days, I watch out for the ads, if I watch at all.&nbsp; (I saw Apple&#8217;s 1984 ad when our originally aired.)<\/p>\n<p>However, there are some exceptions to this.<\/p>\n<p>If the Buffalo Bills play the Minnesota Vikings, I&#8217;ll watch.<\/p>\n<p>Another exception is if the Superbowl is played outside in inclement winter weather, as the Football gods intended.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the game will be played at the stadium formerly known as The Meadowlands, in North Jersey, so there is a distinct possibility of <b>real<\/b> Football played in <b>real<\/b> Football weather.<\/p>\n<p>So if the mercury is below -10\u00b0C, our of there is some serious snow, I well be watching.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Posted via mobile.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I do not watch the Superbowl for the Football. When my team, Washington is playing, I do not watch. The least time I did was Super Bowl XXII.&nbsp; I watched the first quarter, and Denver was leading 10-0, so when some friends came by suggesting dinner, I turned off the TV, and we left &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,1057,1185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-sports","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}