I don't enjoy them at all, honestly. The ones they lose are brutal, of course. But even the ones they win are torture until after the game. Maybe I'd enjoy one if they were up 28-0 in the second quarter.
Agree entirely. I hate them. I mean, I love that our team is in them, but watching them sucks. About the only time that I have had a feeling of anything but absolute angst during the super bowls:
XX: About mid-way through the third quarter, it became crystal clear we were absolutely finished. By perhaps the late 4th quarter I was starting to get over it, so may actually have managed a weak smile at some of the commercials late in the game.
XXX: Momentary elation when Martin scored to make it a 6-point game, but of course the next play took care of that. Watching the Patriots unable to move the ball past the 30 for the fourth quarter was the opposite of fun, I would have to say.
XXXVI: I think it's fair to say I was absolutely miserable for this entire game. I perhaps would have had a brief moment of joy when Tebucky Jones had the 97 yard fumble return, but the reality was that I was so nervous that before the 4th down play, I couldn't watch so I went outside and told my wife to get me when the play was over. By the time I got back, the hold on McGinnest had been called. I think technically Vinatieri's kick went through the uprights a second or two before there were zeroes on the clock, so there may have been 2 seconds of this game that I actually enjoyed.
XXXVIII: This entire game, except maybe the last 4 seconds, felt like getting hit with a stick. Brady's red zone pick was the most deflating football moment I can remember not involving XLII. The second half of the game was so crazy, that even during the kickoff at the end I couldn't relax and expected one of those crazy multi-lateral type kickoff returns.
XXXIX: This is a game that should have been fun in the fourth quarter. The Patriots, inexplicably, refused to let that happen. When Bru picked McNabb late in the game with a 10-point lead, I would think I cautiously started celebrating. So, perhaps there were about 3 minutes where I felt pretty good. That was, of course, undone by the immediate three and out, where the Patriots used only about a minute of game clock and didn't force the Eagles to use any time outs. The rest of the game was anything but comfortable. There was the TD, the onside kick, and even after we recovered the onside kick, since the Eagles still had 2 time outs, you knew they would get the ball back with just under a minute and down by 3. The last 17 seconds of the game, after the pick, were awesome!
XLII: There is not a second of this game that I enjoyed.
So, that's about 24 hours worth of games. I'd say that in total, I enjoyed about 4 minutes and 20 seconds.
