At 8:00 am, or 8:15 am, rather the Superbowl started for us here in Japan, and it was indeed live in the US. It's a championship game and important. And since Noboru loves football. He absolutely loves it! Granted he's not obsessed mind you, but he does appreciate watching a good football game. And I was raised with American football always around or on the TV, and I enjoy it myself. I grew up being a Broncos fan, and I went to many games growing up at Mile High Stadium. So, it was pretty much obvious that we would be watchng the Superbowl game today! It was superbowl 42, I think. And it was quite the game. The New England Patriot's versus the NY Giants!!! Noboru and I both were rooting for the Giants. And they were the underdog going into the game. The Patriots were expected to.... on all accounts, wipe them out! But we did not care. We rooted for the Giants anyway. And Noboru was in the football pool at work and had money riding on the Giants. His win, should the Giants win? 10,000 yen. Ichi-man yen, which is about $100.00 US. Noboru said, if he wins he will be taking us out to dinner courtesy of his superbowl winnings. We didn't hold our breath though. So, we watched the game. The patriots were ahead a great deal of the game. You could hear shouts from our house.
"Oh man"...."They were robbed" meaning an unfair play. : ) "Go go go go go!!!". Screaming at the top of our lungs! Clapping and many "ohhhhh man's" were all heard from our home today. The fourth quarter changed it all!!! And, after a touch down, by the Giants, that was so unbelievable! And a bit more play. the Giants indeed won! We cheered, like utter maniacs. My husband and I looked at each other and smiled. What a perfect match, we truly are, I thought to myself! Our team won! And heck, my hubby actually even won that long shot pool, he wasn't planning to win! Before he left for work this afternoon, I mentioned jokingly. "Hey you owe us some dinner now" You're still taking us out to dinner to celebrate right? He chuckled and said, "yes I am, a promise, is a promise" Where do you wanna go? I told him, let me think about it! We'll probaby go out to eat this coming weekend, who knows. And Noboru doesn't gamble and neither do I. And this was just a 1000 yen ($10.00 US) bet to get into the pool, he really is surprised he won 10,000 yen from it. : )
Anyway, fantastic, game NY Giants! We cheered you on, from the start! : )
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