Honestly, I have not watched an entire Super Bowl from beginning to end in, well, who knows how long. Somehow, for some strange and doggedly annual reason, I find myself seldom available to sit down and watch the game. I usually use the excuse that I am preaching, or something lame and insignificant as that.

Well, this year, someone asked me who my picks were for the Super Bowl and I made the wisecrack that I really didn’t think anyone would be very interested in this game. Two Yankee teams, one of which had a whinny Quarterback overshadowed by his superior brother and the other team who cheated their way to an unprecedented undefeated season. Who cares? No team of any significance (i.e., America’s Team) was present for this year’s bowl and the obvious ending seemed inevitable. Who cares? I further indicated that while I wanted the Giants to win (almost never said or thought from my lips or mind, seeing how they are division rivals to America’s Team), I did think that they possessed the momentum and had the abilities to give the Patties a run for their money, but in the end the Patties will win.

It seems I was wrong. The news article I read this morning, heralding the New York Giant’s victory, indicated that it was possibly the most watched Super Bowl if not the most watched TV show ever. Astoundingly, I suppose not everyone went to church last night. Furthermore, the article indicated that the Giant’s defense virtually stopped and destroyed the Patties and their renown QB. I was so very wrong. Not only did a ton of people watch the game, but the Giants made an undefeated season for the Patties absolutely worthless. Wow. Now this, and due to my pride it’s not often, is when I really enjoy being wrong.

And yet, my pride loathes being wrong so desperately, that I found a glimmer of hope in the final line of the news article I read. You see, I didn’t think that anyone would watch the game – who could really care about these two teams? I may have been wrong about who would win the game, but maybe I was right about estimation of the public’s interest in Yankee teams in the big game. The article I read this morning concluded with a comment about the famed Super Bowl commercials saying that TiVo indicated that more people actually watched the commercials than watched the game. Ah – perhaps I was somewhat right.