This was amazing. I can honestly say I wasn't nervous, until the game started. I was going crazy, lets get the game going. I played the Super Bowl four or five times on Madden to kill the time and maybe nerves. When our defense held them, I was thinking okay we got something to build from, got the ball, even score, and we get it back to open the 3rd. I was thinking every possession was going to be critical.
The first touchdown, I jumped out of the couch, pumping my fist shouting YES ... YES ...FUCKIN YES!!!! Keiana came around the corner, peaking, saying "ahh.. daddy... everything ...okay?" in a soft whats going on kind of voice. I said PACKERS SCORED!!
She was a little excited, sat next to me on the couch, placing a pillow between us. I asked what the pillow was for, she said "last time i sat by you, you squeezed my leg
REALLY hard daddy". I grabbed her knee last week and said "We're going to the SUPER BOWL!".
During the 3rd quarter, you'd think I had lost my will to live. I remember thinking, great season, very proud, ... wait ... its the 3rd quarter it is NOT over yet ... believe... BELIEVE. Punt after Punt, I kept saying, we are still leading, still got points on them. The last touchdown, I don't know what came over me, but I was never more confident in anything when I said "the Steelers will NOT score a TD". I believed it with every bone in my body.
I watched the Packers returning to titletown and there were two times where my eyes were completely glazed over to the point if I blinked, a drop would have trickled down my cheek. I don't know if grown men are supposed to allow a sports franchise to mean this much to them, but I've never seen the Packers as JUST a sports franchise. It's an extension of family.
Super Bowl XLV Champion Green Bay Packers, it sounds so ... right!