Length of shower: 9 min.--Today is a special day to almost all sports fans. Today is Super Bowl Sunday!! This is the most important day in the American calendar that isn't a holiday...or at least not officially a holiday. And while I would argue that this day needs to be made into a holiday, I will save that argument for another time. Instead, I am going to talk about today in a way that most sports fans refuse to accept, but definitely feel, about this special Sunday in February. Superbowl Sunday is bittersweet, my friends.
See, today marks the final event of the sports calendar. The sports calendar begins with March Madness, the final two weeks of March, and ends with the Superbowl on the first Sunday in February. All the great American sports run between those two pillars of strength. College football, major league baseball, the NBA finals, the NHL finals, the PGA tour, and even every 4 years the Summer Olympics. But unlike New Year's Eve which is followed directly by the beginning of another year; the sports calendar enters into a period of vague nothingness starting tomorrow and not picking up again for almost 6 long weeks! So, while this day is wonderful in that it is the climax of all things great in sports happening for an ecstatic 4 hours of beer drinking, yelling, screaming, texting to get your pool numbers, and high-fiveing with friends; it is followed almost immediately by the 6 longest and boringest weeks in all of sports. Oh, I know that during those weeks there is still NBA and NHL regular season games going all. And that College basketball is happening every few days also. But all of those are in the middle of their too long seasons and there is no "playoff push" happening yet and so therefore no drama...which is why we all watch sports to begin with. So much like the male orgasm, the entire sports year leads to this one, wonderful game between two of the best in a truly American form of violence and beauty. And while the lead up and the game itself is so very often worth it, don't forget that the let down can last a long time. So, live it up tonight America...the slow painful aftermath is waiting on the other side, and it can drag.
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