Sunday has become a special day for me. I rest my body.  No exercising. Usually I stay at home to relax. This Super Bowl Sunday will not be much different, but I'll eat and drink more, maybe to excess. In past Super Bowls, I've sometimes hosted, many times gone to parties, and remember one Sunday when I missed the game.  This was in 2010 when I was in New Delhi, India. The following day,   my posting  said: Let's forget yesterday. I'm appalled that I said " India Sucks. "   Today, though, was not much different, but my attitude has re-adjusted and returned to my normal self. To begin, can you believe there are 82 HD channels, and at the time of the Super Bowl, there were 6 soccer matches, 2 rugby, 2 badminton, 1 tennis, 1 golf, 1 auto racing, 3 cricket and, on ESPN, a SEC gymnastics competition. NO SUPER BOWL in Delhi. Anyway, I couldn't have caught all of it as at 6:15AM I was picked up for my Taj Mahal encounter, the primary reason why I'm on this t...

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What makes a good Super Bowl commercial?  One viewpoint : A good commercial does four things well: It’s funny, it’s memorable, it compels you to buy the product, and it leaves you with a more favorable view of the brand . Read that article, it says that GM: No Way Norway , with Will Ferrell, Kenan Thompson and Awkwafina as the best.  Said Amy Schumer's Hellmann's Mayo  was the worst.  All of them can also be seen in this article .  Frankly, I don't agree.  Here is a top ten video .  Also not my choices. A highlight was a pre-game poem by Amanda Gorman .  A Super Bowl first.  She is definitely changing the game of poems. But the Super Bowl was also more than ads and poems:  About those propositions: The national anthem took 2 minutes 16 seconds. Anyone who took my advice and picked KC to win the coin toss and deferred would have won $5 on a $100 bet, or 5 cents if you could have bet $1. If you bet Blue as the Gatorade color at the end of ...