Tom Brady, Tom Petty, Tomfoolery...

Tom Brady on screen as interns watch

Hey, no one said we had to be all holy and spiritual all the time! Today, we were all invited to the house of our pastor at the New London Bridge (Scott Evelyn) to watch the Super Bowl and just hang out in general. I'm not a huge football fan, but I've gotten to like watching sports more, and at the very least, there's great commercials to be seen. Boy, were we in for a treat! Normally, we don't get to see the Super Bowl commercials in Canada, since the coverage is syndicated. Canadian networks put on their own commercials, and usually they're not so great. The baby that had a man's voice talking about buying stocks and stuff constituted two of the best commercials this year. Bud Light had some great ones, as was to be expected. Coke's weren't too bad either...

The game itself, however, was not too exciting until the last quarter. It sure picked up then! Listening to Matt Mummert (San Diego, CA) cheering in an anyone but New England fashion was rather amusing; it reminded me some of my little brother Caleb. Lucy Nelson (Belmont, MA) is clearly the most vocal of the girls in the internship, but especially when it comes to sports. She loves her Patriots! Unfortunately for her and the other Pats fans in the house, that was not meant to be, as New York played very well at the end, in combination with the Pats playing not so well, to take the Super Bowl.

I enjoyed being with everyone in a not as religious setting for a while. How Sharon Felder (South Carolina) and some of the others could leave with 10 minutes to go in the game is beyond me, but hey, if it don't float your boat, I guess it makes sense. Oh, and note to Tom Petty: in the future, avoid having a moving light replica of an electric guitar that looks suspiciously like noodly appendage...