Well, just in case you are not from the United States, today is the day we call Super Bowl Sunday. It is the day when a major US sporting event happens. We call it the Super Bowl. It is the sport we call Football. However, those of you from outside the US may refer to the sport as American Football. The sport you call Football is probably the sport we call Soccer.
Anyway, it start in 1967. It was for the biggest championship in the National Football League (NFL). Call the Super Bowl Championship. And event that started out as just a typical championship game became a virtual holiday. In fact people may be shocked to hear that the first two Super Bowls did NOT sell out. Now, every ticket sells out in a matter of minutes. Even being charged at a bare minimum of of $15,000, they CANNOT keep a single ticket unsold. But the phenomena got bigger in the 1970's. More and more people were watching the Super Bowl and celebrating the Super Bowl. People we even have their own Super Bowl parties at their houses. I mean, grocery stores, pizza parlors, taco parlors, sports bars, they are all JAM PACKED!! It seems that virtually everyone wants to see the big game. For the last four years each Super Bowl had a bare minimum of over 100 million viewers on television. I don't think anything is going to be any different this year. I mean the even is a pretty much a holiday in American society. Sitcoms would a Super Bowl episode the same way they would do a Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Halloween episode. I mean the Super Bowl is THAT big! The winners even get a congratulatory phone call from the president.
Oh and let's also not forget about those fancy commercials during the Super Bowl. Oh, yeah you just gotta LOVE those Super Bowl commercials. Some commercials make their debut during the game. For some commercials, it may be the only time you will see this commercial in it's entirety. Others it may be the only time you see the commercial AT ALL! People always LOVED those those Super Bowl commercials and always will.
For the grand championship both of the NFL conferences, the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC) collide in this game. And of course the winner of this game gets the NFL's most prestigious championship, the Super Bowl Championship. So, there will be one team to represent the NFC and another to represent the AFC. There will be a tournament before to see who will be their conference champions and represent their conferences in the Super Bowl. This year, the Seattle Sea Hawks won the NFC championship, that means the Seattle Sea Hawks will represent the NFC in the Super Bowl. The Denver Broncos won the AFC championship, so they will represent the AFC. Who will win, well we'll find out tonight.
For this game, I personally favor the Seattle Sea Hawks. That is the team I'm cheering for. People say the Broncos are favored by a nose, but I think I want the Sea Hawks to win. For two reasons. One, my favorite team in the NFL are (of course) the Carolina Panthers, the Panthers are in the NFC. So, I have to admit I am partial to the NFC for that reason. As well, as my LEAST FAVORITE team in the NFL, the New England Patriots are in the AFC, that is more points against them. Even though, the Denver Broncos DID make sure the Patriots DIDN'T make it to the Super Bowl, I guess that could be some positive points for the Broncos.
But there is another reason to why I favor the Sea Hawks, they have a running back named Derrick Coleman. He wares #40. Did any of you out there know that Coleman is DEAF?! Yes, you read it right, HE'S DEAF! It cannot hear ANYTHING! It's AMAZING how a man like him conquered such a major handicap and managed to make it to the big game. I almost feel that he DESERVES to win! I man who made this far to just deserves to have Super Bowl ring. Well, I don't know. But I have LOTS, AND LOTS of RESPECT for Coleman! Come Coleman, win this game for the handicapped people of the world!! So, I say GO SEA HAWKS!! I will be watching this game tonight with my girlfriend. It should be fun.
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