While Big Daddy Drew over at Deadspin is upset there is a bye week before Superbowl Sunday and pissed there is not going to be any football on Sunday for the first time in ages, I, for one, am not excited about seeing this year’s Superbowl. Here’s four reasons why:

4 Reasons Not to Watch the Superbowl
- Another week of Tom Brady’s boot - Because of the Superbowl bye week, not only did I have to hear about Tom Brady in and out of his walking boot for this entire week, but now I have to listen to all of it AGAIN next week.

It’s not like there is any new information coming out. Brady is going to play. Is anyone really questioning that? If this was Nate Kaeding, San Diego’s kicker who played 5 games with a broken leg, no one would have noticed him walking to a girlfriend’s apartment with flowers or whatever Brady was doing with girlfriend Gisele when the paparazzi leeched onto him

- Does anyone doubt the Patriots are going to win? - I mean really…anyone? They already defeated the Giants once, and the Giants played nearly their best game. They converted 60% of their third downs. They rushed for 4.2 yards per carry. And Eli Manning played one of his best games (22-32, 251 yards, 4 TDs, and only 1 INT).

I think it’s unrealistic to expect the Giants to play better than they did (in particular, Eli playing anywhere close to the same game) and the Patriots to play below their normal level.

- Eli doesn’t deserve a Superbowl - Eli Manning doesn’t deserve to be in the Superbowl in my opinion. Instead, he should have been playing against the Patriots last week with the Chargers. No professional player deserves the right, not even Lebron James (who it was apparent would be a future Hall of Famer even in high school), to choose his own team.

I don’t care who his daddy or his brother is. Who is he (and his daddy) to say the San Diego franchise isn’t good enough for him? If you are the best, then prove it by taking the previous season’s worst team and lead them to the promised land.

- Cheaters are going to win - Now what kind of message are we sending to or youth when we let cheaters win. Aren’t the bad guys and cheaters supposed to lose? Darth Vader lost (despite his cool voice that almost reminds me of Field of Dreams for some unknown reason). Satan was thrown out and hasn’t won yet. The bad guys always lose in Disney movies.

In fact, the only place the bad guys win is in the WWE. Well except this time…

But at least a stabbing of an awful host has some humor in it (he healed…he’s fine…he even got shot by a paintball gun in a later season…pure humor), if the Pats win…no humor. Instead, Belichick and his cutoff-sleeved, nappy sweatshirt gets the last laugh. I’d rather be hungover puking.
BUT, ALAS, I will be sucked into watching the Superbowl, if for no other reason than for the commercials. I mean who doesn’t love the Superbowl commercials. Anyone? Yea, that’s what I figured.

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