Super Bowl Day

This is the day that everybody starts talking to you about football.  But while it is more historically significant (and since off the top of my head I know every Super Bowl winner, loser, and MVP, I obviously care about it in a geeky way), I find every other weekend of regular season and postseason football more fun, interesting, and exciting.  It's good fun to see who finally wins the championship, but we go from a weekend of following the exploits of several teams to a weekend of watching two.  If you're a die-hard fan of a particular team, this weekend is also less exciting than other weeks (unless your favorite team is playing this game, then it must be the most exciting--and tense, dramatic, emotional--fan experience possible.  But I haven't experienced that yet).

Now a bunch of casual fans and non-fans start talking about football a lot, but for serious fans, the Super Bowl is merely a delicious cherry on top of what was a filling, luscious, magnificent sundae.  The cherry is good, even necessary, but what I really liked was the sundae.