THE DAY AFTER SUPER BOWL 60

This is Part 2 to my Super Bowl 60 experience yesterday, which you can read.  Nothing much is happening around the world, so after football, I'll move on to Winter Olympics 2026 highlights, and top events of today.

I left you after I had two (hot and cold) Chinatown Fortune  Cookie Martinis with fruits/yogurt for my Super Bowl breakfast.  Then came lunch.  As 15 Craigside gave away boiled peanuts and tortilla chips (plus Miller, but no Budweiser beer), I skipped the chinese roast duck and had these snacks with Bloody Mary and Bloody Maria.

Then those tortilla chips were converted to nachos.

Johnny Walker Blue Label on rocks for the game.

One of my 15 Craigside Super Bowl pool numbers was 23, meaning if the total score of the Seahawks and Patriots added up to that number, I would win.  I purposely picked a low number, in fact, the lowest. of those competing.  Thus, if the final total was 23 or lower, I would win all the money.  At halftime, the score was 9-0.  I was in great shape.  Then came Bad Bunny, I remember the early part, but must have fallen asleep in my recliner, for I don't remember much until the game was over, and the final score was 29-13, a total of 42.  A second number I had was 40, but I won nothing because one person had that number, and five had 41.

About Bad Bunny, there were some who hated it, like President Donald Trump, who said it was one of the worst ever.  My recollection was also not being impressed, when I provided the ultimate insult....I fell asleep.  Turns out that most of the internet and MAGA people gave Bunny awful reviews.  Top Democrats, like Gavin Newsome, loved the performance.

After the game I finally got around to having my New England Clam Chowder, with veggies and the rest of the tomato juice drink.

For Super Bowl fans, here is a video of game highlights.  Now that the game is over, CBS said these were the best and worst commercials, according to Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

• Stakes were high, for advertisers paid as much as $10 million for a 30 second ad.  Of course, some ads already cost them millions just to make.  Matthew McConaughey, for example, was paid $5 million by Salesforce for their 2022 super bowl promotion.
• AI-related  products dominated, maybe 25% of them.
• Coinbase, with Backstreet Boys and karaoke, failed.  I agree.
• Winner for kindness and warmth, Rocket commercial featuring Lady Gaga singing Mr. Rogers' theme song, Won't You Be My Neighbor.
• Bosch ad featuring Guy Fieri as "just a guy."
• Go to link above for others.

Now, on to the Olympics, as I said before, it's okay to be a super patriot during the Olympics.  On that note, here are Team USA's best moments from what is called Day 2 of Winter Olympics 2026, or for February 8, Sunday.  A particular highlight was the USA beating Japan 69 to 68 for the figure skating team gold, with Italy earning the bronze.

• USA entered the final day with a large 5-point lead, which evaporated to a tie, when Ilia Malinin, known as the "Quad God," did indeed pull of five quadruple jumps to seal the win.  His backflip, I think, was the clincher.
• Also key contributors were Pairs skaters Madison Chock/Evan Bates and Ellie Kam/Danny O'Shea, plus Amber Glenn and Alysa Liu.

So what's now happening?

• The USA mixed doubles curling team of Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin beat Italy today, the past gold medalists in Beijing, to get to the gold medal game against Sweden.  Tomorrow, Tuesday, 2PM ET, or 9AM Hawaii time.  That game against Italy was particularly interesting, because the USA had lost to Italy in the final game of the round-robin session yesterday.  Then, today, Italy jumped out to a 4-0 lead, but the USA overtook them at the end, 9-8.
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  Four years ago I featured Eileen Gu, who was born in San Francisco of an American father and Chinese mother, and chose China as her competing country.  She was 18 years old and headed for Stanford University, too.  What happened to her?
• She was spectacular in Beijing, becoming the youngest Olympic champion in freestyle skiing after winning gold medals in big air and halfpipe, plus a silver medal in slopestyle.  Watch this video!
• She then became a Buddhist.

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  Did go to Stanford after the Beijing games.
• Has taken leaves of absence because of skiing.
• Is an international relations major, but takes courses like quantum physics.
• Joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
• Studied abroad at the University of Oxford.
• As of this month, has only completed two years towards an undergraduate degree.
• Plans to return to Stanford for her junior year following the 2026 games.
• So far this year in Italy has won a silver medal for women's freeski. (photo above)
• The USA Women Ice Hockey team is at this moment leading Switzerland 5-0, and will play Canada tomorrow, Tuesday, at 2:10 PM ET or Hawaii 9:10 AM.

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