Called Uber soon as I finished breakfast. Thankfully, no trouble there, though it did take me a while to get rides both times. It took me almost 15 minutes at quarter of 11 and 11 minutes at 3 PM to get Uber drivers. Thankfully, I called early enough that I got to work just in time. No traffic or trouble either way.
Work was a mess today, though not to the degree that it was on Super Bowl day last year. For one thing, the Eagles barely made the playoffs this year. The Seahawks and the Patriots were playing. For another, it was literally freezing. I don't think it hit the 20's, and that blustery wind just made it feel even colder. I would go outside and push carts for 20 minutes, then go inside and use the bathroom or wander around when it got too cold to be out there. Thankfully, the Sunday morning bagger was there to help out and take the inside chores. Another guy took over for him when he left, and they recruited still another college student to help me with the carts when they started to vanish.
With two younger guys pushing carts, I spent the last half-hour of my shift inside, putting away the few loose items around. I found a broken jar of onion dip on a shelf near the pharmacy and tried to clean it up, but I didn't realize how badly the jar was broken, and the dip went everywhere. It took me forever to figure out how to clean up that mess!
When I got home, I changed, finished Jazz at the Olympics, and spent the rest of the night watching the Match Game marathon. There were so many football-related questions on the show, this one started at 2 PM! Football was at its height of popularity on the networks when Match Game ran. If questions didn't joke about forward passes, husbands who were so obsessed with watching games that they'd call terminology even while doing other things, and just what players do when they're in a huddle, they were making fun of then-popular sportscaster Howard Cossell. Cossell, his toupee, and his big mouth were famous in the 70's and 80's when he was one of the announcers for Monday Night Football. As several panelists pointed out over the years, if you were stuck for an answer, you could write down chest areas, relieving oneself, or Howard Cossell.
Two real-life football players turned up as panelists. Big, sweet Rosey Greer was on first, in April 1974. Alex Karras appeared over a year later in September 1975. Despite Karras not being much of a player and seeming bored for most of the week, he turned up on two memorable episodes anyway, when all the panelists changed seats, and when the winning contestant was woman wrestler Lola Kiss, "the kiss of death."
Celebrate the Super Bowl with these touchdown-worthy questions on this extra-long marathon featuring two gridiron greats of the 1970's!
Oh, and I didn't watch the game this year, due to it being on Peacock (and my not having that streaming service or NBC), but I did check the score. It was even more lopsided and less interesting than last year's game. The Patriots apparently got steamrolled by the on-fire Seahawks 29-13.
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