The Super Bowl hysteria is in full swingy in my Tampa Bay area. Drunken Steeler fans are fighting and puking all over themselves, strippers are making 2K a night, and celebrities are having parties in the most obnoxiously trendy bars.Since the home team failed again to make the playoffs I don't have a dog in the fight, but I've decided to root for the Cardinals for the most stupid reason; their quarterback, Kurt Warner, is a GenXster. Back in 2000 when he won the Super Bowl with the St. Louis Rams I could never imagined I'd be pulling for this guy. The media seized on his pre-NFL human interest story of having to bag groceries for a living and then he fell in love with a woman that lived in a trailer with a barking dog and a crying baby. It was incredibly lame and, in my eyes, he couldn't have dropped off the Earth fast enough. But now that I've grown up to be an oh-so-mature Latchkey Man I've changed my mind and wish him the best on Sunday and beat the Steelers with the Millenial QB.
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Does that mean you have the barking dog and crying baby?
Wow.
Kath
Hate to be such a northeasterner, but I'm pulling for the Steelers. I wanted to say I was going to go with Tomlin as the Gen X coach, but I see Wisenhunt was born in ’62, making him a Gen X'er, too, so there goes that approach.
At a quick and completely unscientific glance, this could be the first time two Gen X coaches face each other in the Super Bowl. In fact, looks like Jon Gruden might be the last (and first?) Gen X head coach in the Super Bowl.
Of course, Warner's bagging-groceries-to-riches story is still a good one — unfortunately, the way our retirements are looking, bagging groceries may very well be our retirements, but I digress.
Gen X will prevail. 856 CDT. Score 20 to 23: It's not looking good for the Steelers. Ha!
No barking dog or crying baby for me. Although I do have a pet turtle.
Ice- well you got your wish.
Jen- we didn't get ours'.
Happy about my Super Bowl team. (Go Steelers!) Not so much for my retirement prediction.
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