Editorial

Front Page - Friday, February 18, 2011

A Day in the Life

Rebecca Brockman

I was recently called out for being a fraud. And not just any kind of fraud, but one of the worst kinds: a football fraud. My husband was the one who pointed the finger in my direction and basically called me out. The whole ordeal took place while I was talking on the phone with my mom and I was telling her about the Super Bowl.
Parish overhears our conversation as he walks in our bedroom to grab a pair of socks. He looks at me, smiles and says, “You don’t watch football all year and now you are talking about the game like you know what’s going on!” I started laughing, because, one, it’s true and secondly, my mom was doing the same thing.
Of course being the mature individual that I am, I repeated Parish’s accusation to my mom. Then my mom shouted, “You tell Parish to be nice and tell him you do know what you’re talking about!” I delivered the message with my chin high in the air and closed the door behind my scolded husband.
The main reason I don’t watch a lot of football is because I don’t understand the game – at all. I’ve tried asking Parish questions during the game and at first he ignores me and then he turns his head and says, “I love you, but you are asking way too many questions right now.”
Of course, I storm off and plop myself in front of another TV to watch something more relatable like “Strange Addictions: I sleep with my hair blower.” I might not understand how someone could sleep with a running hair blower, but at least she is speaking English and not throwing yellow flags.
I usually like watching the Super Bowl because of the commercials and half-time show. The latter left a lot to be desired and completely erased the image of Christina Aguilera botching the national anthem. I like to listen to the Black Eye Peas when I’m working out – the music has a good beat – but their show at the Dallas stadium was awful.
Thankfully, the commercials and most of the billions of dollars that were spent on them were good and some were even great. My top three for the evening were: Bridgestone Tires – the first one where the employee rushes all over the city to destroy computers, laptops and smart phones after he thinks he hit ‘reply all’ to an email.
Second place went to the Doritos commercial where the roommate uses Doritos crumbs to revive a fish and a plant and finally the ashes of the other roommate’s grandfather. It was a little odd, but I thought it was creative.
Third place belonged to Bud Light, a company that always steps up to the Super Bowl entertainment challenge.
When I asked my dad which commercial he liked best, he said he really enjoyed the Bud Light commercial with the dogs. In the beginning of the ad, a man is leaving another man to watch his dogs. He tells the dog watcher that the dogs will do anything you ask. The next scene shows a dog standing on his back legs, holding a tray of Bud Light and answering the door. I had no trouble recalling that commercial, which is always a good thing.
OK, so I might be a football fraud – but I’m not a funny fraud. I know funny when I see it!

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