21st Century Super Bowl

Firstly, the game we all wanted: hard fought, exciting (nail-biting even), and Pittsburgh wins in the end!

My festivities started out slaving in the FIJI kitchen (filthy) with my boys Max and Ben. Our menu:

Pineapple-Mango Salsa and gaucamole (with yellow corn and red hot blue corn tortilla chips)
Mozzarella, tomato, pepperoni, olive, cream cheese dip with garlic bread sticks
bacon wraps filled with cheddar cheese, scallions and hot peppers
double layered nachos
suicide (hot pepper basted) buffalo wings (ordered from Buff Joe's)

All the food went over well. Like a musical concert (or at least mine from high school), mistakes are to be expected, as long as the audience doesn't pick up....The bacon wraps were hilariously schizophrenic in their 'done-ness', half under-cooked, half over-cooked. the nachos would have been better adorned with sauteed vegetables and hot peppers and chili powder.

Where my night turned futuristic was at about the start of the fourth quarter.

My friend Jeremy, studying (ha!) for a semester in Tel-Aviv appears online. I quickly surmise he as returned from the bar where had been watching the game because a 13 point deficit had scared this fair-weather fan to bed. I inform him that Fitzgerald had just streaked down the field for a TD, making the game a 'game!'. Jeremy (eight hours ahead of Chicago I think) was pissed, although not enough to go back the bar I believe.

It get's better. My friend Jesse signs onto g-chat from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, where he is studying (really) and requests a favor. Now I would do a lot of crazy things for Jesse, so I was ready to let it all out. The rabid sports fan he is, requests a video feed from my webcam viewing the game to his Skype feed. I automatically oblige and before we know it, Jesse is watching the super bowl probably about 3 seconds delayed at a funny tilt 13 hours into tomorrow with myself typing commentary upside down on the keyboard.

For the next 15 minutes I frantically commentated on the pertinent aspects of the game (first downs, official reviews) as well as the trivial (Brenda Warner, Dan Rooney), while also reliving all the sports games Jesse and I had watched in person before we were tragicaly seperated by college and communism (he is in Vietnam...)....

Here's a fantastic picture of Jesse and my mom:
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