A Funny Thing Happened

Well, OK, this thing is most likely to happen to me. But it even surprised me that it did happen.

The backstory is I have been off cable TV and streaming for over a year now. I like it. Am used to it. Very little advertising. No current TV news. And no sports. I have felt a reduction in blood pressure and anxiety since I began streaming TV programs. I am not alone in this outcome!

OK, so now comes Super Bowl 2024. I haven’t watched a football game in ages, so I looked forward to the hype and advertising of the big game this year. Pam and I agreed to watch it at her place following a very nice, homemade supper.

We got situated in the living room, TV on, streaming tuned for live TV, and we found the super bowl. We settled in. Good early play. Low scoring at the beginning. A little slow but streaming removed us from the onslaught of advertising. It was still there, but not the live ads. We were treated to the streaming ads, and boy, were we disappointed. No award-winning ads, just run of the mill stuff we get from time to time on streaming. We were underwhelmed and commented on it.

An odd thing occurred to me. Avid watchers of Wheel of Fortune, I thought I remembered them having a contest this past week for the winner on Friday receiving a trip to the Super Bowl 58. I kept thinking about that and watching the Roman numeral LIV on the screen. I mentioned to Pam that reads 54 while I thought this was the 58th annual game.

Later, our curiosity grew, and we checked online about the game. The teams were the same – 49-ers and Chiefs – and the scores were similar. But the Roman numeral was the biggest clue. LVIII was the correct one, 58. LIV was a four-year-old game in Miami, and we had been watching the wrong game.

I know I am a nerd and not a sports person, but Pam? She is more up on these things than I.

We had a good laugh and turned off the game. Back to Brit Box and a Death in Paradise streaming. Ah. Back to normal viewing. It felt good. We even chuckled from time to time about our mistake.

Much later, I learned the Chiefs won the game in a long overtime session. Good outcome, the one I had wanted. But I was happy I was spared the agony of an overtime game. I hate the drama of those games.

Oh. The right bad guy did get arrested for the murder on Death in Paradise. So, the outcomes to both shows were comforting.

February 12, 2024

 

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