Super Snackcoma

 I was never really a sports person. I guess a lot of that stems from the lack of television in the house I grew up in for the first 18 years of my life. That means in modern times I am generally doing something else besides sitting inside watching a sport game on television. But for many years, I watched various games on television in social settings to ... well be social, and so I have come to appreciate certain aspects of what the majority of the population does on certain weekends. I suppose that is why, my immediate family and I did watch the Superbowl and randomly cheered on the losing team (Bengals) while eating ourselves into a snackcoma and paying attention during the halftime show and commercials. 

We don't do this every year, but this particular year we had nothing better going on and so my wife and I spent the weekend making various appetizers. I made a 7 layer taco dip and pigs-n-a-blanket while my wife prepared hamburger sliders and a vegetable tray with homemade hummus. Our daughters contributed pretzel bites and chocolate covered strawberries and to some extent, all of us helped in making the crab rangoons. All were delicious and we worked on them starting at noon and then throughout the evening as we watched the game.

While the food was a highlight, the game was pretty ho-hum for me. The halftime show was a sleeper and I suspect there will never be one as good as Bruno Mars again. The commercials likewise weren't very memorable. I suppose one could call the game exciting if you were a Rams or Bengals fan but being neither, for me it was just one teams hired thugs playing another teams hired thugs. But it livened up a Sunday night that probably would have been spent reading in front of a fireplace until falling asleep at a ridiculously early time. We can always do those things next weekend.