Just went to Google and typed in the
words “Super Bowl 2015,” and there were “About 209,000,000 results in 0.21
seconds.”
This year’s Super Bowl XLIX is noted in
Roman numerals once again, to show even the most cynical of critics, the
importance of this special event. Does anyone, except a Latin major, know what
that translates to in the Arabic numerals we use to designate most everything?
I told my wife that I weighed CLXV this morning, the exact weight I was at in
high school. She just frowned.
Wikipedia devotes fourteen,
ready-to-print pages of coverage, including forty-three listed references, more
than those found in many doctoral dissertations.
The game will be broadcast on NBC-TV in
the States, and in at least sixty other countries including such football hot
spots as Macedonia, Albania, Moldova and Bulgaria, along with the Arab world.
If you hurry, you may be able to catch a
flight and make it to the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona
where the game will be played. There are even some last-minute seats available
at the bargain price of $8,700.
NBC is charging $4.5 million for one
30-second commercial, a price that’s up $500,000 from the record set for last
year’s game. The projected television audience should exceed last year’s 112.3
million viewers, however I won’t be one of them.
Sunday’s weather forecast for here in
Santa Cruz is for sunny skies and a high of 73, so we will either be walking on
the beach or biking during the pre-game narishkeyt
(nonsense). When the game begins, we will easily find a good seat at a local
movie theatre, followed by a great meal in a nearly empty restaurant. It will
be one that doesn’t have four, huge television sets mounted on all of its
walls. It won’t even have one.
In case you are wondering, this is Super
Bowl 49. However, such a designation sounds too mundane for such an important
cultural event, and who would pay $8,700 for a ticket to attend?
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