Superbowl Monday

Let me start by saying that last week a fishing boat let down it's anchor in the middle of the red sea and cut the Internet lines for India, and parts the middle east and north africa including the Sandbox of course. If some guy on the street told me that a fishing boat was the reason why the entire country was left without Internet I would have laughed but this was on Al Jazeera and on the street so I believe it. Even now it's still not quite back to normal but it's good enough so I'm not complaining.

So the superbowl was last weekend and I'm sure all of y'all enjoyed some good commercials. One of my friends has the fancy satellite package that includes showtime sports and the schedule said that they would rebroadcast the superbowl on Monday night at 9pm...they even sent the guy an email making sure he knew that would be showing the superbowl.

Being the good Americans that we are we of course had to make a party!! So we all gathered the drinks and snacks and were at our friend's house by 8:45...it was gonna be a late night but it would so be worth it. But at 8:45 the schedule had cut the superbowl and said that kickboxing would be on at 9.

We refused to believe it. Surely the schedule was wrong...and at 9pm kickboxing came on. 15 minutes of flipping channels proved unsuccessful so we watched kickboxing, enthusiastically I might add. Some of us had loaded up on the caffeine to stay up late and couldn't help but be enthusiastic about whatever was on, still refusing to give up hope that maybe the game would come on at 10. We ate our snacks and watched.

And then at 10 a monster truck rally came on. By this point we had all given up hope so we made a little fun of monster trucks but it wasn't nearly as enthusiastically as we had made fun of the kickboxing. We checked the schedule and it then said that they would rebroadcast the game on Tuesday at 9pm. It's not like the guy read the schedule wrong...it clearly said Monday, as did the email and then they changed it after 9 when the game was supposed to start, to say Tuesday.

And we went home...disappointed. Remember I posted another time about the cowboys game and how they said they would have it but then they didn't? I don't know why I got my hopes up about the superbowl. I guess I thought that for sure those Arab guys who run the satellite company would somehow know how special this game was and would be sure to show it.

To be optimistic, I guess if they weren't going to play the superbowl like they promised on the schedule, at least they filled that time with something all-American like monster trucks, right?

Although I have a theory about this new form of terrorism. They get together and figure out the things that Americans would really want to see on television, convincing us to get our hopes up and all gather together in expectation of a really exciting evening...and then they cancel it at the last minute b/c they know that we will all be severly disappointed. I guess it's more like torture than terrorism but still, it's a conspiracy!!!