Football for Dummies Anyone?

Growing up in a South American country watching soccer, I realize that no matter how much time I lived in the United States, no matter if I read Football for dummies or how many times someone tries to explain the rules to me, I will never understand that game. Why it has to be so confusing? Why are they always falling over each other? What kind of “ball” is that? Yards? I have to say that throughout the years, I have only watched the half time show, the commercials and of course ate wings, chips with salsa or guacamole to keep up with the Super Bowl Sunday party. We have to admit it; the commercials are the best part of the Super Bowl, every year, companies paid millions of dollars for a 30 seconds advertisement. A remarkable one, that people will continue talking about until the next year. My favorite last year was the M&M one, which was an awesome commercial. The brown M&M singing “I’m sexy and I know it”, hilarious! That was a commercial hard to forget but I cannot remember the teams that played last year.

When you have to write about something you have no clue about, Google becomes your best friend. I just went ahead and typed Super Bowl 2013 and a banner show up saying “Sunday, February 3, The NFL Super Bowl 2013”. Now I know when it is, a day to remember. The location for this year Super Bowl is the city of New Orleans- the Mercedez-Benz Superdome; that is where the craziness sporting event is going to take place. The next step is to know what teams are playing. On one hand we have the San Francisco 49ers, and on the other hand there are the Baltimore, Ravens. Again, thanks to Google and Wikipedia, I discover that 49ers have won the Super Bowl 5 times and not since 1994. On the contrary, the Baltimore Ravens have won the Super Bowl only one time. Somehow according to the people I asked and some sport anchors comments, the favorites to win the Super Bowl are the San Francisco 49ers. Nonetheless, I read a curious article on ABC news about a clairvoyant Camel at a zoo in New Jersey that has predicted the Baltimore Ravens as the Super Bowl champions this year. Should we believe the statistics or the clairvoyant Camel? Anyhow, it is really hard to picked a side, since I’m so naïve about the topic. I will try this year to understand the game somehow; I’ll do my best.

According to the countdown kickoff as I finished writing this blog there are 9 days, 17 hours 2 minutes and 30 seconds left for the game to begin! It doesn’t matter if you are not an expert, just enjoy the Super Bowl party you are going, enjoy the company, the music, the food and the commercials, after all, all you are going to hear about the following day is the Super Bowl, be ready!