Projo Offbeat Blog

It would have been a lot easier to get up early this Monday morning if the Patriots had won.

But don't fret, folks, Tom still has Giselle, and we still have the Red Sox.

Now that Eli Manning has won a Super Bowl, will we have to see this other Manning brother in every other commercial?

Still, no matter how tired you get of seeing Peyton Manning, it's a lot more enjoyable to watch him yuk it up, than it is to watch a fat guy clamp jumper cables to his chest.

And I could also have done without seeing a heart jump out of a woman's chest, grow legs and run around her office. (If you're a glutton for punishment, you can watch the Super Bowl ads here.)

But neither commercial was as tough to watch as the Giants' game-winning drive, especially when the Pats seemed to have Eli Manning sacked only to have him break free and complete a 32-yard pass to essentially win the game.

Or when that Manning pass slipped through Asante Samuel's hands.

Did Patriots' owner Bob Kraft make a bad decision at some point during his business career and buy a company with a warehouse full of those blue shirts with white collars?

I used to marvel that Tom Petty seemed ageless.

Maybe the worst part of the Pats losing in the Super Bowl after going 18-0 is that we'll have to listen to those old guys who played for the 1972 Miami Dolphins crow about still being the only undefeated team in NFL history.

It might be nice to see a couple Patriots linebackers pop the Dolphins' loudest mouth, former running back Mercury Morris, but he'd probably wriggle free of the tackle and run 32 yards to set up the game-winning touchdown.

At the end of last night's game, as confetti fell on the field and the Giants celebrated their Super Bowl win, my 21-month-old son, too young to understand the magnitude of the Pats' loss, was nevertheless crying at volume 10. As the tears flowed down his cheeks, he was inconsolable. We adult Patriots' fans know exactly how he felt.

Maybe we should all just be relieved that Tom Petty didn't have a wardrobe malfunction.

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