We had an exciting Sunday. The whole country went completely wild for the Superbowl!! Even though I know jack about football I decided to root for the Carolina Panthers because they have a theatrical quarterback called Cam Newton. I don't really understand the rules of American football.
These are the basics: Using the down system, the offense has four downs (essentially four
plays) to go 10 yards. If the offensive team advances the ball at least
10 yards in four tries or fewer, the team receives another set of four
downs.
If the offense has failed to advance 10 yards after three tries, the team usually
punts
the ball on the fourth down (a punt is a kick to the opponent without
the use of a tee). The other team then begins with its own set of four
downs, traveling in the opposite direction.
But I don't really know what any of that means. If you listen to the commentary they talk a lot about tight ends. Are they referring to the posteriors of the players? It's all double dutch to me.
The game stops and starts every few minutes so that it seems like it was invented to show as many adverts as possible and that's OK because adverts are specially made for the Superbowl and they are really good so no complaints there.
Since I could not easily follow the game I stuck to doing what I am best at: stuffing my face at a superbowl party with chips, hotdogs, guacamole, pizza and other artery thickening delights.
Have you ever watched American football and do you like it? And what is a tight end?
In the end the Carolina Panthers didn't get anywhere (the Bronco's whipped their asses) but I felt like painting a big cat so I did this Jaguar (available at
Redbubble)
It's great to find admirers of your work on the web. I was thrilled to read a great review of my shop over at
Life with Peanut. So do go check it out!!
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