I hope the Patriots win but I think this one is way too difficult to call. It should be exciting for Pats/Giants/Indy fans because of all the substories, and all around the country there are Superbowl fanatics who watch religiously just because it's the Main Event.
But I'm not nearly as much a Pats Fanatic as I am a RedSox Fanatic, and truthfully I just wish this season would end so that I can rescue the poor Pats gnome out in my yard from further abuse! You see, my sister-in-law Deb and nephew Tony are HUGE Pats fans and both very superstitious. Her husband Bill/Tony's dad is neither. In their house the same Pats Santa figure has had a spot on the TV stand for the last five years or so - it comes out of hiding every September and doesn't get put away until the Pats season is done, and the thing drives Bill absolutely insane. It would me, too, the thing is ridiculous. :rofl:
A couple years ago I got a Pats gnome and put it in the Yankee Swap for Christmas, fully intending that Deb and Tony would support my effort to add another kitschy thing to their Pats shrine and drive Bill more crazy. Well, Deb and Tony wanted to play but Bill snuck that damn gnome into my garden the following September and Deb and Tony forbade me to touch it. They do the same with it now that they do with their hideous Santa.
Right now the gnome is face-planted in the garden because the wind knocked it over one day, and Bandit has peed on it every day for more than a month. But nope, they won't let me touch it AT ALL. Sunday night as soon as the game's over that thing is going in a bag in the garage, and next September it's going up in the tree on Bill's front lawn. I'm putting it right where the spotlights will shine on it, and I'm using industrial-strength twine to anchor it there. Ha - that will teach Bill. :hysterical:
