What's Detroit like this time of year?

[annathepiper]

DUDE. O.O I am experiencing a strange sensation. It feels like... interest in football.

I only just realized this afternoon how well the Seahawks had been doing. I mean, I'd been hearing about how well the Hawks had been doing over the last few weeks, and spazzkat has been making jokes about wondering when the team had been replaced by alien replicants who could actually like, y'know, PLAY BALL, but I hadn't really clued in about how far along they'd gotten. And when I realized that whoever won the Seattle/Carolina game would be playing Pittsburgh at the Super Bowl, suddenly I went, "... whoa."

Normally solarbird is the only football watcher here at MurkNorth, but today? We ALL watched the game. I was almost as amused by the crowd as I was by the sheer sight of the Hawks mopping the field with the Panthers--just all these thousands of people going absolutely batshit all throughout the game. And I'm sure that things are going to be equally batshit downtown all night!

Looks like we're going to have to watch the Super Bowl. I know exactly... what's the word? Oh yeah. NOTHING... about football. I am not a football fan. And for all I know Pittsburgh may eat the Seahawks for breakfast.

But I'll still cheer on our team for actually GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL! Awright! ^_^

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[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

We watched the game!

[annathepiper]

Whee! We watched the Pittsburgh/Denver game beforehand, too. And I kept giggling every time I heard the Denver player "Rod Smith" mentioned. ;)

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

*laugh* We watched the drunks at the bar during the games too. It was funny, funny.

[annathepiper]

We're tuning into the local channels here now to see if we can see exactly how batshit it's getting downtown. We've already found at least a few shots of guys being Drunk and Loud and Stupid. Hee. :D

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

Stupid, drunk antics can be a lot of fun to watch from a safe distance.

[annathepiper]

Yeah. Hee! It's nice and quiet here in Kenmore, anyway. So all our amusement value will come over the local channels. :)

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

Boy, do I know THAT feeling. :)

[annathepiper]

We're all over here going, "Whoa, guess we're watching the Super Bowl!"

And we can, just barely, hear the stadium noise IN KENMORE. It's very faint and mixed in with distant traffic noise... but it's there! O.O

[solarbird]

What's Detroit like this time of year?
Terrible, like always. ^_^

[smeehrrr.livejournal.com]

Even Diana is watching the game. Darrell Jackson bought a house down the street from us, so now she feels personally connected.

It's just a bizarro world universe where the Seahawks are actually good, much less good enough to go to the Super Bowl.

[annathepiper]

Now see, that's an indicator of how little I know about football--I don't even know who Darrell Jackson is. :)

But yeah! When did the portal to the bizarro world open up?

[solarbird]

When the aliens opened it—duh.

[smeehrrr.livejournal.com]

I think it started right around when the Red Sox won the World Series.

[annathepiper]

Ah! Of course, it all makes sense now.

[smeehrrr.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Darrell Jackson is #82, he caught a touchdown tonight.

[annathepiper]

Okay! Cool. :)

[boxer-ferret.livejournal.com]

Detroit is shit at this time of year. Lots of brown slush on the streets and they put down lots of salt on the roads to eat away at your car. There's no rust spots on cars out here in California unless it's a car that's moved here from the rust belt.

Detroit has to be the worst city ever to get a Superbowl and the only reason they got one is payback for them building a nice shiny new stadium. Our city is beautiful and perfect for the Superbowl but we've been threatened that we won't get any more unless we build the Chargers a new stadium.

[annathepiper]

Yeah, we've had our share of "give us a shiny new stadium or we'll move" up here, too. The Seahawks did that, actually, and so did the Mariners. That kind of thing is part of why I don't usually follow sports.

But hell, this time I'll make an exception. :)

[fleurdelista.livejournal.com]

I was very surprised at the Seahawks. They've snuck up on me all year. I do think they'll be eaten alive by the Steelers, but I was wrong calling Carolina the winner today, so I wouldn't be surprised if this predicton was wrong too.

It's awesome when your local team wins something -- Syracuse won the NCAAs three years ago and it was BEDLAM. And I loved every minute of it.

[annathepiper]

Hell, most of my friends who know anything at all about football are being very surprised by the Seahawks. ;) See previous commentary re: spazzkat wondering when they got replaced by aliens who can PLAY!

I think this quote off an entry on the blog for a local alternative paper really kind of sums up how I react to the atmosphere around here right now:

"When I got to Rite Aid on Broadway, which I don’t like to go to because its employees are always surly, I confessed to the cashier that I was actually excited about Seattle going to the Super Bowl, that it made me happy that everyone was happy, that I wished we could invent more reasons for everyone in a city to be instantly, goofily happy, and she said she was happy about it too, and then she smiled, which was amazing, because historically this woman has had the personality of a garbage truck."

I.e., I'm not all that committed about the actual game, but I'm really kind of happy that the city is so happy. I like that a lot. :)

[howlinhobbit.livejournal.com]

I've never been much of an athletic supporter (ahem) but I confess it's a bit exciting that the Seachickens are heading for the big one.

I live right downtown (corner of 4th and Bell) and people driving by honking and screaming was my first clue that we'd won. I happened to be at a news site at the time and when I clicked back to their home page it'd already changed to indicate the win.

I happened to be driving back through Portland, OR (where I was raised) back in '77 when the Sonics took the championship and the entire city was off the hook.

So, while I'll be rooting for the Hawks in two weeks I'll be doing it with the doors to the street firmly closed.

Of course, I won't be able to watch as we still don't own a TV.

HH

[annathepiper]

It was pretty quiet in Kenmore, thankfully, though it was kind of weird to step outside and get ever so faint traces of distant stadium noise wafting up to us across the lake. And really, I'm almost more entertained by seeing all the fans go nuts than I am by the Hawks actually being in the Super Bowl to begin with. Also, solarbird and I were very amused to see that the blog run by thestranger.com had posts urging Seattleites to have proper riots without any hand-wringing or soul-searching afterwards. *snicker*

I checked seattletimes.com the minute the game was over, and there in large type was the headline SUPER HAWKS. Hee.

I guess we'll have to buy beer and chips or something for the watching of the game. I understand that's traditional. ;)

[raise-a-jar.livejournal.com]

I didn't get to watch either game yesterday ~pout~ as I had to spend the day at the theatre and dinner with the parentals. But I do have to say, Go, 'Hawks! Good for them. :)

Ought to be an interesting match-up in two weeks!

[annathepiper]

Theater and dinner are good things!

Heh, a friend of mine said that her S.O. (who's a Steelers fan) was asking, if Seattle's gone this nuts for actually just going to the Super Bowl, what'll happen if the Hawks actually WIN? I figure Mount Rainier may erupt, the Alaska Way Viaduct will crumble, and Safeco Field will implode so we'll have to rebuild the Kingdome. ;)

[ravyngyngvar.livejournal.com]

Congratulations from me, too.

I do know the feeling, from back when Norway beat Brazil in foot... soccer during the World Cup qualifications. I have hardly any interest in the sport, but then I suddenly had to follow our team.

I checked out my listings to see if any TV channel showed the Super Bowl. I didn't even know what sports channels I get -- that's how disinterested I am. But I just discovered that the game you're raving about starts up as a rerun right now!

And I'm off to bed, but I've started my VCR.

Happy birthday, by the way. I sent you something from Amazon on a whim. Having thought it through, it might not be to your taste, in which case you can do what you like with it, but I got the idea back when I visited you.

[annathepiper]

Thank you! Heh, I mostly kept giggling listening to the stunned comments that the announcers kept making about how loud it was in the stadium. But it was kind of fun to watch it all in general.

And re: birthday, thank you for thinking of me! ^_^ I'll look forward to seeing what's on the way!

[ravyngyngvar.livejournal.com]

Oh, drat. At the same time as your reply, I got a message from Amazon that the estimated delivery date was February 2nd. Sorry, I guess I should have paid a little more on postage.

[annathepiper]

Heh! No worries! :)

[ravyngyngvar.livejournal.com]

Well, sorry. I'm watching it now, but I don't have a clue about the rules of the game. Zilch. Nada. I see the "SEA" score going higher and higher, but that's my only indication of how the game is going. Sorry, I'm not a convert to your kind of football.

Maybe it is not meant to be watched alone.

By all means, I wish your team the best of luck at the Super Bowl, and I may even watch it -- taped like I do now -- but I wll probably forget the whole thing afterwards.

[annathepiper]

*giggle* If it's any consolation to you, I know zilch about the game myself. I know just enough to grasp extremely basic concepts, but mostly, for me, it's "a bunch of big guys trying to prevent another bunch of big guys from getting the ball to their end of the field". ;) Mostly, I'm tickled just because all the local fans are so happy, and it pleases me to see so much excitement around me. :)