I was rooting for the Chiefs (silently) because Hoovies Garage is in Kansas and because the City of San Francisco is being run by morons.
There was one interesting play. The quarterback laterals the ball a short distance and then that guy threw it back across the field to another guy. Reminds of some movie about some underdog football team coming up with a bunch of goofy plays to beat their arch nemesis. Kicks were going pretty far. Kickoffs were going past the end zone and a couple field goals were more than 50 yards. Some kickers kicked soccer style, some kicked straight on.
Among the tsunami of ads there were a couple that were pretty funny. One starred Christopher Walken with a succession of people imitating his odd way of speaking. Another had Arnold Schwarzenegger saying 'neighbor' while they are trying to film an ad, but Arnold says 'nay-bah' and the director wants him to say 'nay-ber', and then we get Arnold telling him that's what he's saying. Yeah, and they just carry it to absurd lengths.
Taylor Swift and Kelce got flashed on the screen periodically. Taylor is a pretty woman, I'll grant you. Her music doesn't do anything for me. It's like even less affecting than elevator music. It's like nothing. And while we are talking about music, Usher was the half-time show highlight. It was a spectacular show, but it did nothing for me. It was kind of like Las Vegas itself, now that I think about it. (The game was played in Las Vegas.) All sparkle and flash but absolutely no substance.
The TV signal kept getting interrupted, the screen would go black and we'd get a spinning wheel in the center. It might go a whole quarter without flaking out, and sometimes it would happen half a dozen times in the space of a couple of minutes. Sometimes it would just last for a few seconds and sometimes it would go maybe 30 seconds and then stop and ask if you want to retry. Press OK and the game comes back on.
The Budweiser Clydesdales made an appearance, and Disney might be trying to make amends.
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