{"id":282,"date":"2008-02-03T20:46:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T03:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/category\/mythoughts\/giant-upset-for-new-england"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:35","slug":"giant-upset-for-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/giant-upset-for-new-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Upset for New England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/super-bowl-ring.jpg\" title=\"Not this year\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\" alt=\"Not this year\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\" align=\"left\" \/>Tonight could have been NFL history but instead was just another upset in the Super Bowl&#8217;s 42 year history.  New England lost the championship in the last minutes of the game.  I&#8217;m sure there will be many many blogs, news posts, and columnist that write about this game for the next few weeks &#8211; I&#8217;m not one of them.  My wife was born in Boston and my In-Laws are all Patriot fans &#8211; &#8216;Upset&#8217; doesn&#8217;t really describe the mood.<\/p>\n<p>On another note, the commercials  were not that impressive this year.  Only a few of them were remotely funny and several of them were truly offensive with blatant sexual themes and some with gory content.  In one commercial, a woman&#8217;s heart bursts out of her chest and rolls off her keyboard leaving a bloody trail.  In another a man is sucked into a jet planes engine.  I asked a friend of mine tonight &#8211; Am I becoming more sensitive, or are they really getting worse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight could have been NFL history but instead was just another upset in the Super Bowl&#8217;s 42 year history. New England lost the championship in the last minutes of the game. I&#8217;m sure there will be many many blogs, news posts, and columnist that write about this game for the next few weeks &#8211; I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}