XL -- not so Large

Congrats to Valerie, Jodi and Travis on the STEELERS' win last night in Super Bowl XL! If I missed any other Steeler fans, please forgive me, as I only know 3.

Last night, the gang went to Uncle Jed's to watch the big game. Sean and Val traveled to Pittsburgh to be with other Steelers fans, so it was just Freddy, William, Mike, Henry, me, Johnny, Lena, Jake and his buddies, Oscar and Javier. Some of them arrived at the bar around 2:00 to watch the Maryland game. They passed the time between the games by playing cards and challenging one another to various trivia games via boxes of Trivial Pursuit questions and Biography "Who Am I?" cards.

I love a good block pool... makes the game more fun when you have no actual preference in the outcome of the game. John and I had 3 squares with the following numbers:

Seahawks - Steelers
0 - 0
9 - 0
3 - 6

We were sooo close in the first quarter and were hoping it would go scoreless. We also had some hope the Seahawks would score a touchdown to go 10 - 0. On paper, the numbers looked pretty good, but after the Steelers scored two touchdowns, it was pretty much impossible. Mikey did win one quarter with the 3 - 7 score. He bought the table a round of Black 'buca shots. I'm not a fan of licorice, but I drank it. And boy, did it F me up for about 20 mintutes!!! This was on a full stomach too! Johnny and I left before the 3rd quarter ended and caught the last 4 minutes of the game at home.

I was surprised the bar wasn't more full. It's usually so packed for other games. I guess this is the one event where people host parties and go to parties. It was actually kind of nice that we were able to put a couple tables together and most of us had bar chairs instead of stools.

Hope everyone enjoyed a safe and fun Super Bowl event (hope you feel better, Chris!) and I hope to have some pictures to post soon! William took some good ones with his camera phone.